Book Description
The American Psychological Association is proud to announce the release of its first authentic wordbook—the APA Dictionary of Psychology—in summer 2006! Currently marking 114 years since its founding in 1892, the APA is recognized, nationally and internationally, as the largest professional organization of psychologists in the world, as the source of the premier electronic reference database resources in the field, and as a major scholarly periodical and book publisher. Having contributed so much for so long to the development of the lexicon of psychology, APA has long envisioned the compilation and publication of its own dictionary. Most recently in the past 10 years, APA Books has been involved in a major scholarly and editorial undertaking to bring the APA Dictionary not just to APA members, but also to psychology students, allied behavioral health professionals, and the general public. Under the guidance of an editorial board of nearly 100 scholars, researchers, and practitioners, APA reference editorial staff has worked in concert with Market House Books, Ltd.—an English firm with over 30 years’ experience in compiling reference books for both British and American markets—to bring out this invaluable addition to your reference shelf. Who needs this resource? • Academicians, researchers, clinicians • Undergraduates, psych majors, graduate students, and post-grads • Allied mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors • Professionals in education, medicine, and law • Academic and public libraries • All readers with a general interest in psychology What features will you find? • 25,000 terms and definitions encompassing such areas of research and application as personality, development, interpersonal relations, memory, motivation, perception, cognition, language and communication, among others • Coverage of psychological concepts, processes, and therapies across all the major subdisciplines of psychology—including clinical, experimental, social, developmental, personality, school and educational, industrial and organizational, health, among many others • Thousands of cross-references, directing the user to synonyms and antonyms, acronyms and abbreviations, related terms and concepts • A Guide to Use, explaining formal elements and editorial practices • Four Appendixes, each gathering entries thematically into one synoptic listing, covering biographies; institutions, associations, and organizations; psychological therapies and interventions; and psychological tests and assessment instruments |
