Encyclopedia of applied psychology [electronic book] / editor-in-chief Charles D. Spielberger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Academic failure, prevention of -- Academic interventions -- Accidents in transportation -- Acculturation -- Achievement motivation in academics -- Achievement tests -- Advertising and culture -- Advertising psychology -- Affirmative action -- Age related issues among minority populations -- Aggression and culture -- Aging and competency -- Aging and culture -- Aging, cognition and medication adherence -- Agreeableness -- Alcohol dependence -- Amnesia -- Anxiety and optimal athletic performance -- anxiety disorders in late life -- Arousal in sport -- Assessment and evaluation, overview -- Assessment in sport psychology -- Attachment -- Attention -- Attention and concentration training in sport -- Attention deficit disorders: school based interventions -- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) -- Attitude measurement Attitudes -- authoritarianism -- Autism and Aspergerʼs syndrome -- Aviation -- Behavioral assessment in schools -- Behavioral medicine issues in late life: pain, sleep, etc. -- Behavioral observation in schools -- Boredom -- Bullying and abuse on school campuses -- Career counseling -- Cheating in academics -- Cheating in sport -- Child custody -- Child development and culture -- Child testimony -- Classical conditioning -- Clinical assessment -- Cognition and culture -- Cognitive aging -- cognitive and behavioral interventions for persons with dementia -- cognitive skills: training, maintenance and daily usage -- Cognitivism -- Collective action -- Color blindness -- Community psychology -- Compensation -- Competence at work -- Competition in sport -- Conflict within organizations -- Conformity across cultures -- Connectionism -- Conscientiousness -- Conservation behavior -- Consultation processes in schools

-- Consumer psychology -- Contracts -- Cooperation at work -- Coping -- Counseling and culture -- Counseling interview -- Cross cultural psychology, overview -- Cultural complexity -- Cultural psychology -- Cultural syndromes -- Cyberpsychology -- Decision making -- Decision making in sport -- Dementia in older adults -- Depression in late life -- Developmental counseling -- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders -- Diverse cultures, dealing with children and families from -- Downsizing and outplacement -- Driving, risky -- Driving safety -- Drug abuse -- Drug dependence -- Eating, psychology of -- Economic behavior -- Educational achievement and culture -- Educational and child assessment -- Effective classroom instruction -- Elder abuse -- Elder caregiving -- Emotion -- Emotional and behavioral problems, students with -- Emotion and culture -- Emotion in sport: an individualized approach -- Employment discrimination -- Employment interviewing -- End of life issues -- Engineering psychology -- Environmental assessment -- Environmental design and planning, public participation in -- Environmental psychology, overview -- Environmental stress -- Environmental versus individual risk taking: perception, decision, behavior -- Ethics and social responsibility -- Exceptional students -- Executive development and coaching -- Extreme environments and mental function -- Extroversion/introversion -- Eyewitness identification -- Eyewitness testimony -- Fair treatment and discrimination in sport -- Family and culture -- Feminist psychology -- Forensic mental health assessment -- Full service schools -- Gender and culture -- Gender and education -- Gender, overview -- Gender role development -- Gerontology, overview -- Gestalt therapy

-- Gifted students -- Goal setting and achievement motivation in sport -- Group counseling -- Group dynamics in sport -- Groups, productivity within -- Groupthink -- Health and culture -- Health promotion in schools -- Health psychology, cross cultural -- History of applied psychology, overview -- Hollandʼs theory (vocational personality types) -- Home school collaboration -- Homophobia -- Homosexuality -- Human rights -- Humor and well being -- Hypnosis -- Ideological orientation and values -- Indecision, vocational -- Indigenous psychologies -- Industrial/organizational psychology across cultures -- Industrial/organizational psychology, overview -- Injury in sport -- Intelligence and culture -- Intelligence assessment -- Intelligence, emotional -- Intelligence in humans -- Intentional behavior -- Intergroup relations and culture -- International classification of diseases (WHO) -- International conflict -- Internet counseling -- Interpersonal attraction -- Interpersonal behavior and culture -- Interpersonal conflict -- Interpersonal perception -- Interrogation and interviewing -- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in sport -- Intrinsic motivation and self determination -- Job analysis, design and evaluation -- Job search -- Sob stress -- Job stress and burnout -- Jury decision making -- Labor turnover -- Leadership and culture -- Learning -- Learning disabilities -- Learning styles and approaches to studying -- Legal competency -- Leisure and work, relationship between -- Lifespan development and culture -- Literacy, improvement of -- Marital therapy -- Mathematics, teaching of -- Measurement and counseling -- Mental measurement and culture -- Mentoring -- Models for transportation -- Motivational taxonomies

-- Motivation and culture -- Motivation to diet and exercise -- Motives and goals -- Neuropsychological assessment in schools -- Nicotine addiction -- Nondiscriminatory assessment in schools -- Obesity -- Occupational choice -- Occupational psychology, overview -- Occupation and gender -- Openness to experience -- Optimism -- Organizational culture and climate -- Organizational diagnosis -- Organizational justice -- Organizational participation -- Organizational socialization -- Organizational structure -- Organization development -- Organizations, careers in -- Overtraining and burnout in sports -- Pain management -- Panic -- Paralinguistic behaviors and culture -- part time work -- Pediatric psychology -- Perception and culture -- Performance slumps in sport: prevention and coping -- Personal initiative and innovation -- Personality and emotion in late life -- Personality assessment -- Personal space -- Person-environment fit -- Personnel psychology -- Personnel selection -- Play -- Political psychology, overview -- Postmodernism in psychology -- Post secondary education students, counseling of -- Posttraumatic disorders -- Power, authority and leadership -- Prejudice and discrimination -- Privacy -- Productivity -- Pro-environmental attitudes and behavioral change -- Prosocial behavior, development of -- Psychological assessment, standards and guidelines for -- Psychological rehabilitation therapies -- Psychological skills training in sport -- Psychology and the law, overview -- Psychometric tests -- Psychoneuroimmunology -- Psychophysiological assessment -- Psychotherapy in older adults -- Racial and ethnic minorities, counseling of -- Rape prevention -- Reading interventions -- Reading, teaching of -- Reciprocity norm -- Recruitment

-- Rehabilitation counseling -- Religion and mental health -- Residential preferences and attachment across the lifespan -- Residential satisfaction and perceived urban quality -- Restorative environments -- Risk taking and sexual behavior -- Robotherapy -- Robotic psychology -- Safety and risks: errors and accidents in different occupations -- School community partnerships -- School discipline and behavior management -- School environments -- School psychology, overview -- School-to-work transition -- School violence prevention -- Self confidence in athletes -- Self control -- Sexual behavior -- Sexual behavior and culture -- Sexual harassment -- Social comparison and subjective well being -- Social loafing -- Social networks -- Social skills training -- Social support -- Spatial cognition -- Special education -- Sport psychology, overview -- Stereotypes -- Stress -- Structure of interest -- Study skills instruction -- Subjective culture -- Successful athletic careers -- Suicide intervention in schools -- System safety -- Teaching effectiveness -- Territoriality -- Test anxiety -- Traffic safety assessment -- Training, cross cultural -- Traits -- Transfer of learning -- Translation -- Transportation systems, overview -- Travel behavior and the environment -- Trust -- Urban environments and human behavior -- Values and culture -- Vocational assessment in schools -- Vocational Interests -- Vocational psychology, overview -- Well being -- Womenʼs health -- Work adjustment -- Work and family, relationship between -- Work environments -- Work motivation -- Work role, values sought in the -- Work safety -- Work teams -- Writing, teaching of -- Youth, employment of.

The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology encompasses applications of psychological knowledge and procedures in all areas of psychology. This compendium is a major source of information for professional practitioners, researchers in psychology, and for anyone interested in applied psychology. The topics included are, but are not limited to, aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. The entries drawn from the above-referenced areas provide a clear definition of topic, a brief review of theoretical basis relevant to the topic, and emphasize major areas of application. Also available online via ScienceDirect featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com.

The Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology encompasses applications of psychological knowledge and procedures in all areas of psychology. This compendium is a major source of information for professional practitioners, researchers in psychology, and for anyone interested in applied psychology. The topics included are, but are not limited to, aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. The entries drawn from the above-referenced areas provide a clear definition of topic, a brief review of theoretical basis relevant to the topic, and emphasize major areas of application.

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