This volume provides practical information concerning the functions of professional psychologists, the settings in which they work, and legal, ethical, and insurance issues affecting professional practice. This source book is suitable for both introductory and clinical courses, as well as advanced seminars dealing with professional issues in clinical psychology. It is also an excellent resource volume for practicing professional psychologists.

***Includes Practice Test Questions*** EPPP Secrets helps you ace the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive EPPP Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. EPPP Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to EPPP Exam Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; A comprehensive Content review including: Sensation, Perception, Neuropsychologists, Prosopagnosia, Spatial Maps, Visual Perception, Theta Brainwaves, Neural Correlates Of Memory, Neurotransmitters, Alzheimer's Disease, Plaques, Withdrawal Symptoms, Pharmacokinetics, Drug Levels, First-Order Drug Elimination, Signal Transduction, Second Messengers, Schizophrenia, Depression, Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, Lithium, Bipolar Disorder, Benzodiazepines, Beta Blockers, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Neuropsychological, SPECT, PET, Thermography, Somatosensory, Ultrasound Imaging, Polysomnograms, Pavlov's Work, Imprinting, Albert Bandura, Long-Term Memory, and much more...

Sport psychologists working with athletes, teams and sports performers are only as effective as their professional techniques and competencies will allow. This is the first book to offer a detailed and critical appraisal of the conceptual foundations of contemporary professional practice in sport psychology. The book presents a series of reviews of the most up-to-date academic and professional literature on professional practice, exploring issues that all psychologists face when working with clients in sport and offers important evidence-based recommendations for best practice. Key topics covered include: models of practice and service delivery counselling and clinical intervention working with teams working with young performers providing life skills training managing career transitions working with special populations enhancing coach-athlete relations. With contributions from leading sport psychology consultants in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and continental Europe, this is a comprehensive and thought-provoking resource that bridges the gap between research and application. It is vital reading for all advanced students, researchers and professionals working in sport psychology.

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O’Brien and O’Brien and their collection of international contributors introduce the historical and current theory and practice of Corporate Analytical Psychology. Uniquely and practically bringing Jungian ideas to the corporate world, the chapters discuss the increasing need for ethical corporations in the context of individuation and moral hazard, demonstrate how to manage and define complexes that inhibit creativity and productivity, and shows practitioners how to recognise and connect with symbols as an active and living manifestation of the personal and collective psyche. The book is illustrated with practical examples and case studies encountered by the authors during their 30 years of experience consulting the world’s leading companies and institutions.

"The Age of Agility: Building Learning Agile Leaders and Organizations focuses on learning agility, one of the most important trends in the business world during the past decade. Some surveys have found it was the most frequently used criterion to measure leadership potential. Despite this popularity there are fundamental questions that need to be answered such as (a) What specifically is learning agility? (b) How many facets or dimensions does it have? (c) How do we measure it? and (d) Can it be developed? It appears that much of what is known about the construct of learning agility has been gleaned from its application by practitioners. While this knowledge is an extremely useful place to begin, there is an urgent need to undergird this understanding with science. The purpose of this edited book is to systematically examine the construct through a more scholarly lens. Over 50 authors - both academic researchers and talent management practitioners - have contributed to the contents. The goal is to enhance knowledge of learning agility, distilling and synthesizing scientific evidence with best practices"--