5. Working with offenders
David Canter
in Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
‘Working with offenders’ looks at the settings where forensic psychologists work with convicted offenders and the types of assessment, risk management, and therapies that they carry out. ...
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3. Intellectual functioning in schizophrenia
Christopher Frith and Eve Johnstone
in Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction
‘Intellectual functioning in schizophrenia’ discusses the fact that people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia perform less well on IQ tests than they did prior to the onset of their illness. ...
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11. Treatment
Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
in Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction
‘Treatments’ considers the treatments available for anxiety disorders. The two types of treatment are psychological therapy — principally cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and medication. ...
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1. What is psychotherapy and who is it for?
Tom Burns and Eva Burns‐Lundgren
in Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction
Psychotherapy involves using an agreed relationship between a trained practitioner and a patient to obtain relief from emotional suffering. Most Western psychotherapies are based on talking ...
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2. The social mind
Richard J. Crisp
in Social Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
Social cognition is how we encode, analyse, store, and use information about the people we meet and the relationships that define us. ‘The social mind’ considers the theories that have been ...
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6. Cognitive behaviour therapy
Tom Burns and Eva Burns‐Lundgren
in Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) brings together the strengths of behaviour therapy and cognitive therapy. ‘Cognitive behaviour therapy’ identifies three layers of thinking in CBT theory: ...
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1. Clinical psychologists at work
Susan Llewelyn and Katie Aafjes-van Doorn
in Clinical Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
Clinical psychologists aim to offer psychological help to those who are unhappy or struggling with certain aspects of their lives, or those who are ill, especially when their mental health ...
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6. Helping the helper
Michael Dunn and Tony Hope
in Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
‘Helping the helper’ shows how ethics support can be introduced to shape ethical understanding and good healthcare practice using an example from a care home setting where everyday care is ...
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3. Music as language
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
in The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction
Music can feel like it is communicating powerfully. “Music as language” considers whether music is actually a kind of language and, if so, what it means and how it conveys these meanings. ...
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2. Theories of anxiety
Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
in Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction
‘Theories of anxiety’ looks at four key perspectives on anxiety. Firstly, Freud's views on psychoanalysis. Behavioural theories were led by John Broadus Watson's experiments on behaviourism ...
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6. Settlement and society
Paul Bahn
in Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
An important aspect of archaeology is determining where people lived, or what kind of settlement they lived in. Finding this out helps archaeologists to address the more complex questions ...
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4. Time-limited psychotherapy
Tom Burns and Eva Burns‐Lundgren
in Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction
For many therapists and patients, short-term therapies are now the treatments of choice. ‘Time-limited psychotherapy’ describes three time-limited psychotherapies that have emerged with ...
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3. Formal operational thought, moral development, and identity
Peter K. Smith
in Adolescence: A Very Short Introduction
Cognitive development occurs throughout childhood, and it is marked by advances in perceptual abilities, short- and long-term memory, ability to focus attention selectively, and reasoning ...
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4. Models of depression
Mary Jane Tacchi and Jan Scott
in Depression: A Very Short Introduction
Epidemiological studies of depression give important insights into populations at higher risk of depression, but not everyone in certain high-risk circumstances will develop a clinical ...
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1. A recent field
Richard Passingham
in Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction
The field of cognitive neuroscience was born in the late 1970s, but was transformed over the next two decades with the development of techniques such as positron emission tomography and ...
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1. Introduction and history
Jonathan St B. T. Evans
in Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction
Thinking is the essence of what it means to be human and defines us more than anything else as a species. The remarkable success of humans, far ahead of all other animals, is based on our ...
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6. Are we rational?
Jonathan St B. T. Evans
in Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction
Human thinking and reasoning can be compared with a ‘normative’ standard—a formal theory of right and wrong answers. The normative theories mostly applied are decision theory, probability ...
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7. From dual processes to two minds
Jonathan St B. T. Evans
in Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction
There has been a large amount of attention to dual processing in psychology, but with many different theories and much variation in terminology. ‘From dual processes to two minds’ reviews ...
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4. Is synaesthesia a ‘gift’ or a ‘condition’?
Julia Simner
in Synaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction
Is there a consequence to having synaesthesia, even beyond the obvious difference of experiencing merged sensations? Do synaesthetes also have qualities that make them different to ...
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5. Why do we do what we do? Motivation and emotion
Gillian Butler and McManus Freda
in Psychology: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Feelings provide an impetus to action. Motivations determine the goals towards which we strive and emotions reflect the feelings we have along the way. ‘Why do we do what we do? Motivation ...
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