New PsycBooks
The PsycBooks database in EBSCO added 4 contemporary titles and 20 classic titles to its database in December. The contemporary titles are described below. A full list is accessible here
The Adolescent Brain: Learning, Reasoning, and Decision Making 2011 Edited by Valerie F. Reyna, PhD; Sandra B. Chapman, PhD; Michael R. Dougherty, PhD; and Jere Confrey, PhD
“This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading scientists to examine how the adolescent brain develops, and how this development impacts various aspects of reasoning and decision-making, from the use and function of memory and representation, to judgment, mathematical problem-solving, and the construction of meaning.”
Interdisciplinary Research on Close Relationships: The Case for Integration 2011 Edited by Lorne Campbell, PhD and Timothy J. Loving, PhD
“This book brings together different perspectives on close relationships to explore how such relationships develop, function, and interact across a variety of contexts. Prominent scholars contribute theory and empirical research rooted in developmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology, as well as evolutionary science, individual differences, and psychophysiology. Both early and adult relationships are examined, along with parent–child relationships.”
Multicultural Care: A Clinician's Guide to Cultural Competence 2011 By Lillian Comas-Diaz, PhD
“This book offers a comprehensive, practical approach for enhancing your understanding of clients' contexts, developing a multicultural therapeutic relationship, and adapting your healing approach to your clients' needs. Each chapter demonstrates the application of cultural competence to a different aspect of clinical practice: self-awareness, assessment, engagement, treatment, psychopharmacology and testing, folk healing, and general multicultural consciousness.”
Social Categories in Everyday Experience 2011 Edited by Shaun Wiley, PhD; Gina Philogène, PhD; and Tracey A. Revenson, PhD
“Social Categories in Everyday Experience explores and expands on the construct of social categories by analyzing timely questions such as: How do members of marginalized groups cope with identity and discrimination in everyday settings like school and the workplace? How can stereotyping and discrimination be reduced among members of society's many cross-cutting categories?”
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Promises (2004)
This film follows the journey of a filmmaker who travels in and around Jerusalem, from a Palestinian refugee camp to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, where he meets seven Palestinian and Israeli children who exist in separate worlds, divided by physical, historical, and emotional boundaries although they live only 20 minutes apart. Explores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of these children and tells the story of a few children who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors.
Multicultural counseling - issues of ethnic diversity (1992)
Provides a stimulus for counselors to increase their awareness, understanding, and skills in multicultural issues in counseling.
Susceptible to kindness: Miss Evers’ boys and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1993)
Examines the ethical issues raised by the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (1932-1972). Includes excerpts from David Feldshuh’s play Miss Evers boys and comments by nurses; physicians; government officials; James Jones, the author of Bad blood; and others on the issues raised by the play.