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This engaging collection of more than 40 first-person accounts and narratives illustrates key issues associated with psychological disorders through the experiences of affected individuals, their families, and their therapists. Students gain a broader understanding of the effects of psychological disorders on social relationships.


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Presenting key psychology concepts within the context of personal narratives and essays (over 60), this reader challenges students to explore the intrinsic relationships between introductory psychological principles and real-world experiences.

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A series of vivid and detailed portraits of individuals with a particular psychiatric disorder, this text is an ideal supplement for any abnormal psychology course. Students gain a deeper understanding of what life is like for people who have the disorders, and develop the critical thinking skills needed to understand diagnosis and treatment decisions.


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Lifespan Development in Context corresponds to the organization of most lifespan development and developmental psychology textbooks, beginning with issues involving birth and infancy, continuing with childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and concluding with issues concerning dying and death. Each chapter contains 4-6 personal narratives, and each narrative covers a different concept, issue, or topic within a given age period.

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This book is designed to prepare school counselors in training to become effective educational leaders, advocates and collaborators through exposure to current educational leadership and advocacy models and active involvement in relevant skill-building exercises.

  • Counseling and leadership theoretical foundations are integrated with practical principles and skills.
  • Reflective exercises provide students with opportunities to reflect on their own leadership qualities, beliefs and practices and provide students with an opportunity to practice key skills in the K-12 school setting.
  • Case examples are provided to serve as a stimulus for student reflection.
  • Students are encouraged to keep a journal of observations, key learning, and a list of student-generated topics for group discussions.

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This text introduces students to the fundamental concepts of crisis theory and practice, and provides models for single-session intervention and ongoing crisis counseling.

Students learn to incorporate assessment into intervention, using the unique ABCDE model-Affective responses, Behavioral responses, Cognitive responses, Developmental assessment, Ecological assessment. Students learn to use this holistic framework for viewing individual responses to crisis events such as sexual assault, domestic violence, substance abuse, and death.

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This text balances experimental and clinical perspectives with a survey of a variety of mental functions. In a conversational style, the author provides clear, accessible explanations of difficult concepts, making use of analogies and case studies to illustrate them. A consistent structure throughout each chapter defines a mental function and the role of each part or parts of the brain in that function, followed by a discussion of what neuropsychological syndromes say about the cognitive and neural organization of the mental function.

  • Extensive coverage of current research in the field includes over 600 new references new to the Second Edition.
  • Updated and expanded coverage of state-of-the art research techniques includes MRI, optical imaging, and transcranial magnetic stimulation, as well as information on how these methods work and new findings based on them.

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This engaging and readable text treats students as active information processors rather than passive responders. Payne and Wenger use high-interest research topics, applied experiments, and student-centered learning tools to present their complex subject matter in a way that encourages students to learn.

  • The text's emphasis on the data/theory relationship enables students to learn not merely the facts, but how facts support or fail to support theories of human cognition.

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