Psychology

Our Routledge Psychology Handbooks offer state-of-the-art summaries of empirical and theoretical research across the core areas of the discipline, covering topics within cognition, developmental psychology, social psychology, and neuropsychology, as well as applied areas.  This prestigious collection combines cutting edge scholarship on established topics such as thinking and reasoning, moral development and neuropsychological rehabilitation, with exciting emerging fields such as positive aging and health psychology to offer an essential mapping of the study of the human mind and behaviour.  This subject’s full title listing can be downloaded here. As long as there are a minimum of titles available within a subject area then these titles can be purchased within a Subject Collection. New Subject Collections are created annually as new titles are added to the platform.



This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive look at personality development.
Written by an international team of expert contributors, this unique global and authoritative survey explores in full but accessible detail the basic constructs and concepts of modern sport and exerci...
The Handbook of Communication Skills is recognised as one of the core texts in the field of communication.
The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships.
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies.
This second edition reviews the new research findings and theoretical advances on fathers, families, child development, programs, and policies that have occurred in the past decade.
In the general study of speech and phonetics, vowels have stood in second place to consonants.
Personality has emerged as a key factor when trying to understand why people think, feel, and behave the way they do at work.
The Developmental Science of Adolescence: History Through Autobiography is the most authoritative account of the leading developmental scientists from around the world.
The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the development of morality.
High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals.
Dramatic societal changes have reshaped America’s families.
This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth handbook of qualitative research in the field of communication disorders.
The Handbook of Police Psychology represents the contributions of over thirty police psychologists, all experts in their field, on the core subject matters of police psychology.
This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out .
The Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis is the authoritative reference for the theory behind Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a burgeoning mathematical method used to analyze how words make meaning, w...
This comprehensive Handbook is the first to provide a practical, interdisciplinary review of ethical issues as they relate to quantitative methodology including how to present evidence for reliability...
Taking into account both traditional and emerging modes, this comprehensive new Handbook covers all major methodological and statistical issues in designing and analyzing surveys.
This handbook includes an overview of those areas of cognition and language processing that are relevant to the field of communication disorders, and provides examples of theoretical approaches to pro...
This Handbook explores the cognitive, motivational, interpersonal, clinical, and applied aspects of personal uncertainty.
Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic.
This Handbook examines the interplay between metamemory and memory.
For the first time in the history of social psychology, we have a handbook on the history of social psychology.
This Handbook contains a unique collection of chapters written by the world's leading researchers in the dynamic field of consumer psychology.
Over the past thirty years, and particularly within the last ten years, researchers in the areas of social psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience have been examin...
This comprehensive Handbook focuses on the most used polytomous item response theory (IRT) models.
Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive, accessible handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories have impacted today’s family research.
This new handbook is the definitive resource on advanced topics related to multilevel analysis.
Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research.
This book offers a comprehensive review and integration of the most recent research and theories on the role of affect in social cognition and features original contributions from leading researchers ...
This Handbook presents up-to-date scholarship on the causes and predictors, processes, and consequences of divorce and relationship dissolution.
If ever there was an area requiring that the research-practice gap be bridged, surely it occurs where thanatologists engage with people dealing with human mortality and loss.
The Handbook of Vocational Psychology aims to identify, report, and evaluate significant developments in vocational psychology and career counseling, thus providing both professional clinicians and st...
The role of culture is significant when measuring cognitive abilities during neuropsychological assessments.
This new handbook presents, synthesizes, and integrates the existing knowledge of methods, theories, and data in attitudes.
The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations...
Considered the most comprehensive handbook in the field, this rich resource reviews the biological, psychological, and social factors that affect health, health behavior, and illness.
Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions, but about which few p...
This Handbook stands as the premier scholarly resource for Language and Social Interaction (LSI) subject matter and research, giving visibility and definition to this area of study and estab...
Researchers and theoreticians commonly acknowledge the profound impact of culture on all aspects of development.
This distinctive handbook is a key reference for both clinicians and researchers working in the scientific investigation of aphasia.
Item response theory (IRT) has moved beyond the confines of educational measurement into assessment domains such as personality, psychopathology, and patient-reported outcomes.
 This ground-breaking handbook provides a much-needed, contemporary and authoritative reference text on young children’s thinking.
The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Theory provides a broadly based introduction to attachment theory and associated areas, written in an accessible style by experts from around the world.
The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions offers an introduction to therapies produced as a result of the popularity of attachment studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Assessment provides, in one volume, a detailed discussion of the formal measurement tools available to assess attachment across the age range, including with fami...
Posttraumatic growth is an area in which investigations are now being undertaken in many different parts of the world.
The Routledge Companion to Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties is a timely and rich resource with contributions from writing teams of acknowledged experts providing a balance of both a...
There is a need in both public and professional sectors for a deeper, and more complete understanding of forgiveness, as we are - in the author's own words - "on the threshold of an age of forgiveness...
This comprehensive volume brings together the best available clinical scoring systems for thematic apperceptive techniques (TATs), presented in research summaries along with practice stories and avail...
This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.
Psychiatry in Law/Law in Psychiatry, 2nd Edition, is a sweeping, up-to-date examination of the infiltration of psychiatry into law and the growing intervention of law into psychiatry.
The Handbook of Child Language Disorders  provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and remediation of language disor...
This volume constitutes the first solidly research-grounded guide for practitioners wending their way through the new maze of self-help approaches.
In The Handbook of Forensic Rorschach Assessment, editors Carl B.
The Routledge Handbook of Communication Disorders provides an update on key issues and research in the clinical application of the speech, language and hearing sciences in both children and adults.
Choice Recommended Read Critical psychology has developed over time from different standpoints, and in different cultural contexts, embracing a variety of perspectives.
The issue of psychological security within an increasingly unstable, interconnected world has become a defining challenge of modern individual and cultural life.
First published in 1997.
The Routledge International Handbook of Social Psychology of the Classroom presents the first comprehensive and integrated compilation of theory and research on topics related to the social cohes...
Evolutionary psychology is concerned with the adaptive problems early humans faced in ancestral human environments, the nature of the psychological mechanisms natural selection shaped to deal with tho...
Intraindividual variability (IIV) of human development and behavior across the entire life-span is explored in this new book.
Geographically and demographically Asia is a huge region with a large number of societies and cultures, each affected by their own unique problems including over-population, major natural disasters, p...
The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates, intersections and future courses of the field.
First published in 1975.
This book highlights assessment techniques, issues, and procedures that appeal to practicing clinicians.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art, innovative approaches to qualitative research for organizational scholars.
The third edition of the Handbook of Educational Psychology is sponsored by Division 15 of the American Psychological Association.
The Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals, 3rd Edition, builds on the authors’ authoritative first person voice on sexual matters of the previous editions.
Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment brings together two interrelated realms: psychological assessment with gender and sexuality.
The Handbook of Arab American Psychology is the first major publication to comprehensively discuss the Arab American ethnic group from a lens that is primarily psychological.
This third edition of Child Psychology continues the tradition of showcasing cutting-edge research in the field of developmental science, including individual differences, dynamic systems and processe...
This newly revised edition to The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychopath: A Clinician's Guide brings new chapters on psychopathy in women, brain imaging, assessment and treatment in schools, a...
The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical criticis...
An interdisciplinary handbook about strengths-based clinical practices, this book finds the common factors in specific models from social work, psychology, and counseling.
This book is an essential resource describing a wide range of approaches and technologies in the areas of quantitative EEG (QEEG) and neurotherapy including neurofeedback and neuromodulation approache...
Psychological resilience has emerged as a highly significant area of research and practice in recent years, finding applications with a broad range of different groups in many settings.
This handbook describes in detail different contemporary approaches to group work with children and adolescents.
This unique handbook maps the growing field of consumer psychology in its increasingly global context.
Contemporary sport psychology is a rapidly developing and theoretically rich discipline, and a sophisticated and challenging profession.
The Handbook of Humility is the first scholarly book to bring together authors from psychology as well as other fields to address what we know and don’t know about humility.
This handbook highlights present-day information and evidence-based knowledge in the field of children’s behavioral health to enable practitioners, families, and others to choose and implement one of ...
The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice will equip clinical psychologists in training with the skills necessary to complete a clinical placement in the field of intell...
The Routledge International Handbook of Sandplay Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of this therapeutic method, developed to provide a means of helping clients of all ages with mental suffering.
The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day.
The second edition Handbook of Psychological Assessment in Primary Care Settings offers an overview of the application of psychological screening and assessment instruments in primary care settings.
The Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement sets issues of death and dying in a broad and holistic social context.
Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment, treatment, and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems.
The Routledge International Handbook of Forensic Psychology in Secure Settings is the first volume to identify, discuss and analyse the most important psychological issues within prisons and secure ho...
This outstanding new handbook offers unique coverage of all aspects of neuropsychological rehabilitation.
As our global demographic shifts towards an increasingly aging population, we have an opportunity to transform how we experience and think about getting older and embrace the diversity and contributio...
The second edition of the Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology continues the mission of its predecessor, offering a comprehensive, interdisciplinary view of the field of multicultural school ps...
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the field of positive psychology has sought to implement a science of human flourishing so that we may lead happier, more fulfilling lives.
The concept of sexual addiction has gained increasing recognition in the academic and healthcare communities since the 1990s.
The ability to prioritise long-term goals above short-term gratifications is crucial to living a healthy and happy life.
The health effects of psychosocial factors are a widely discussed and controversial topic.
The Routledge International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is an authoritative reference work providing a balanced overview of current scholarship spanning the full breadth of the rapidly developi...
The Handbook of Career and Workforce Development provides educators, researchers, and policy makers with information on evidence-based programs and activities.
The Handbook of Medical Play Therapy and Child Life brings together the voices and clinical experiences of dedicated clinical practitioners in the fields of play therapy and child life.
Drawing upon international expertise, and including some of the most well-known academics and practitioners in the field, The Routledge International Handbook of Human Aggression is the first referenc...
Currently, there are over 400,000 youth living in foster care in the United States, with over 20,000 aging out of the child welfare system each year.
The International Handbook of the Learning Sciences is a comprehensive collection of international perspectives on this interdisciplinary field.
Handbook of Pediatric Psychological Screening and Assessment in Primary Care provides an overview of the principles of screening, monitoring, and measuring of the treatment outcomes of behavioral heal...
The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies weaves together the various strands of Jungian film theory, revealing a coherent theoretical position underpinning this exciting recent are...
This second edition of the Handbook of Employee Selection has been revised and updated throughout to reflect current thinking on the state of science and practice in employee selection.
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychobiology provides authoritative, cutting-edge research across the range of areas that fall under the umbrella of psychobiology.
The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society.
The Handbook of Communication Skills is recognised as one of the core texts in the field of communication, offering a state-of-the-art overview of this rapidly evolving field of study.
For over two centuries, psychopathy has stood as perhaps the most formidable risk factor for antisocial behavior, crime, and violence.
Current Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology is a series of edited books that reflect the state-of-the-art areas of current and emerging interest in the psychological study of employees, workp...
The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social ...
Attitudes are evaluations of people, places, things, and ideas.
Attitudes are evaluations of people, places, things, and ideas.
The Routledge International Handbook of Social Neuroendocrinology is an authoritative reference work providing a balanced overview of current scholarship spanning the full breadth of the rapidly devel...
Out of the broad arena of sport science and sport psychology, Roland A.
The Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory presents a collection of chapters on methodology used by researchers in investigating human memory.
Handbook of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges that clinicians face when dealing with NPS and discusses how the profile of patients and their socio...
<P>This rich resource provides a thorough overview of current knowledge and new directions in the study of the biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors that affect health, health ...
In the Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory and Psychotherapy: Bridging Psychotherapeutic and Cultural Traditions, the editors bring together a wide variety of therapeutic approaches in order to demonst...
<P>This highly anticipated third edition of the <EM>Handbook of Parenting</EM> brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understandin...
<P>This highly anticipated third edition of the <I>Handbook of Parenting</I> brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understanding ...
<P>Increasingly, it is being recognized that spirituality, defined here as "a multiform search for a transcendent meaning of life that connects them to all living beings and brings them in touch...
<P>This highly anticipated third edition of the <EM>Handbook of Parenting</EM> brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understandin...
<P>Luck permeates our lives, and this raises a number of pressing questions: What is luck? When we attribute luck to people, circumstances, or events, what are we attributing? Do we have any obl...
<P>This highly anticipated third edition of the <EM>Handbook of Parenting</EM> brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understandin...
<P>This highly anticipated third edition of the <EM>Handbook of Parenting</EM> brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understandin...
There is a growing interest in embodied approaches to psychotherapy internationally.
What impact can various research methods have on consumer psychology? How can they help us understand the workings of the consumer mind? And how can the field of consumer psychology best utilize thes...
Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders summarizes the state of the field from a biopsychosocial perspective, addressing key domains of interest to clinicians, students, instructors, and rese...
Worldwide, men have more opportunities, privileges, and power, yet they also have shorter life expectancies than women.
How do children acquire language? How does real life language acquisition differ from results found in controlled environments? And how is modern life challenging established theories? Going far beyon...
Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions for Chronic Pain provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive review of interventions for chronic pain grounded in biopsychosocial frameworks.
The International Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care offers a multicultural and international perspective on how art therapy can be of help to individuals, group...
Mental health has always been a low priority worldwide.
This comprehensive handbook provides counselors in training, counselor educators, and professional counselors with the latest information on major contemporary issues impacting the field.
The remains that archaeologists uncover reveal ancient minds at work as much as ancient hands, and for decades many have sought a better way of understanding those minds.
This book is a unique compilation of essays about the genocidal persecution fuelling the Nazi regime in World War II.
The emerging field of psychoanalytic political theory has now reached a stage in its development and rapid evolution that deserves to be registered, systematically defined, and critically evaluated.
The Routledge International Handbook of Legal and Investigative Psychology explores contemporary topics in psychological science, applying them to investigative and legal procedures.
The Handbook of Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Adversity in Children is a developmentally oriented book rich with findings related to child development, the impact of trauma on development and functionin...
The Routledge International Handbook of Women?s Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women?s sexual and reproduc...
The Handbook of Police Psychology features contributions from over 30 leading experts on the core matters of police psychology.
Military psychology has become one of the world?s fastest-growing disciplines with ever-emerging new applications of research and development.
Although integrative conceptions of development have been gaining increasing interest, there have been few attempts to bring together the various threads of this emerging trend.
The first of its kind, The Handbook of Collective Violence covers a range of contexts in which collective violence occurs, bringing together international perspectives from psychology, criminology and...
This comprehensive volume explores the set of theoretical, methodological, ethical and analytical issues that shape the ways in which visual qualitative research is conducted in psychology.
This handbook presents a thorough examination of the intricate interplay of race, ethnicity, and culture in mental health ? historical origins, subsequent transformations, and the discourses generated...
This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research.
In this comprehensive handbook, Ragin and Keenan present an all-encompassing analysis of the variety of different methods used in health psychology research.
The Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment, Second Edition, builds on the first edition?s comprehensive discussion of violence risk assessment instruments with an update of research on established tools...
This comprehensive collection equips readers with a state-of-the-art description of clinical phonetics and a practical guide on how to employ phonetic techniques in disordered speech analysis.
This handbook provides an evidence-based account of psychological perspectives on issues in music education and music in the community through the life course, exploring our understanding of music lea...
This multidisciplinary volume offers an essential, comprehensive study of perspectives on the scope and application of the best interests of the child and focuses mainly on its application in relation...
The Handbook of International Psychology Ethics discusses the most central, guiding principles of practice for mental health professionals around the world.
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness is a multidisciplinary reference book that brings together cutting-edge health and illness topics from around the globe.
This handbook brings together the relevant literature on children and their developmental characteristics, the legal venues in which they may appear, and the systemic issues practitioners must conside...
This handbook explores prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination primarily as phenomena embedded in the social organization of societies and connected to structural factors and larger societal system...
The Handbook of Posttraumatic Stress provides a comprehensive review of posttraumatic stress in its multiple dimensions, analyzing causation and epidemiology through prevention and treatment.
The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines.
The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines.
Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology is a compilation of works by leading scholars in theoretical and philosophical psychology that offers critical analyses of,...
An invaluable contribution to the area of leadership studies, the Handbook of International and Cross-Cultural Leadership Research Processes: Perspectives, Practice, Instruction brings together renown...
The Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling is a unique book that explores stories from an educational, community, social, health, therapeutic and therapy perspectives...
Cultural Diversity in Neuropsychological Assessment provides a platform for clinical neuropsychologists, psychologists, and trainees to bridge cultures and speak to each other about the ethnically div...
Cognitive Illusions explores a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives.
This handbook offers a unique critical and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of Community Psychology, showing how it can address the systemic challenges arising from multiple crises facing peop...
Featuring contributions from world-leading researchers, this book explores the relationship between visual perception and memory.
Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice argues for placing trauma-informed practice and thinking at the heart of forensic services.
This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction.
This ground-breaking handbook provides multi-disciplinary insight into Chinese morality, cognition and emotion by collecting in one place a comprehensive collection of essays focused on Chinese morali...
A Handbook of Geriatric Neuropsychology: Practice Essentials (Second Edition) brings together experts in the field to integrate the knowledge and skills needed to understand and treat older adults who...
The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the origins and development of morality in childhood and adolescence.
Presenting diverse perspectives from eminent scholars and contemporary researchers, The Handbook of Impression Formation contextualizes current and future areas of research in the social psychology of...
The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology is an international reference work that offers scientists and students a balanced overview of current research in the field of comparativ...
Youth Without Family to Lean On draws together interdisciplinary, global perspectives to provide a comprehensive review of the characteristics, dynamics, and development of youth (aged 15–25) who have...
 The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics is an authoritative reference work that provides the reader with a wide-ranging introduction to this exciting new scientific discipline.
Forensic Art Therapy is designed as an educational and informative resource for individuals from a diverse array of disciplines that engage in investigatory undertakings, interview victims and witness...
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