Editor-in-Chief:
Charles Spielberger, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Description
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
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Audience:
Academic, medical and public libraries; professional schools, mental health reference libraries; psychiatric institutes, psychological
clinics, clincial social work departments, psychoanalytic institutes.
