Published August, 2013
By Ralph L. Piedmont
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Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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The assessment of individual differences has a long history. The emer gence of the scientific method and its application to this endeavor reinvigorated society's efforts in this direction, and an abundant variety of assessment instruments consequently became available.

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Published July, 2013
By Mario Mikulincer
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Summarizing 25 years of research, the author integrates virtually the entire published literature on the phenomenon of learned helplessness, as well as some unpublished data, into a single coherent theoretical framework.

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Published June, 2013
By Joseph R. Ferrari, Judith L. Johnson and William G. McCown
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Procrastination is a fascinating, highly complex human phenomenon for which the time has come for systematic theoretical and therapeutic effort. Second, when one considers the remarkable pace of pro grammatic research by these contributors during the past decade, it is clear that they are at the healthy end of the procrastination continuum.

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Published June, 2013
By Gregory R. Pierce, I.G. Sarason, Sara Sarason and Brian Lakey
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The work of 47 contributors from the U.S., Canada, and Israel, the Sourcebook gives special attention to the complexity of the social support construct, expanding the field's theoretical base by seriously reappraising social support research in the context of findings from other fields of psychology and related disciplines.

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Published May, 2013
By Michael H. Kernis
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Challenging current notions in self-esteem literature, this volume offers new insights into efficacy, agency, and self-esteem as well as the influence of these constructs on psychological well-being.

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Published May, 2013
By R.A. Wicklund, Martina Eckert and R. A. Wicklund
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The self-knower has become a hero within many contemporary cultures. Each representative of the self-knower school has its own set of criteria for identifying the self-knowing person, and in tum, each member of the self-knower school represents certain convictions about how individuals should be evaluated.

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Published May, 2013
By Arnold P. Goldstein
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In The Psychology of Vandalism, Arnold P. He includes 169 tactics to reduce vandalism as well as ways for selecting and combining these tactics into programs. A selection of exemplary research reports evaluate diverse vandalism interventions.

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Published May, 2013
By Rebecca C. Curtis and George Stricker
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In the myth of Daphne and Apollo, Cupid fired two arrows: one causing flight from love, the other passionate attraction. Unable to evade the consequences of the arrow that wounded her, Daphne called upon the river, the creative power of both nature and time-a symbol of fertility, but also of oblivion-to help her survive when her strength was gone.

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Published May, 2013
By C.R. Snyder, Raymond L. Higgins and Steven Berglas
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" More recently (but still more than 30 years ago), Heider's "naive psychology" added attributional rhetoric to the description of self-defeat ing strategies. The notion of self-handicapping strategies, proposed by Berglas and myself a little more than a decade ago, capitalized on these homely truths while adding a particular proactive twist.

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Published May, 2013
By John Monahan and Deborah L. Dennis
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Mental health professionals poignantly discuss the tension they feel between wanting to do everything to treat desperately ill people and the need to respect the rights of these same people who want to make their own decisions, even if this means forgoing treatment.

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