Product Description: In Critical Thinking About Psychology: Hidden Assumptions and Plausible Alternatives contributors examine the unquestioned givens of psychology and suggest other ways of looking at them. Psychologists are taught early in their careers to use their research findings to examine common myths and debunk false beliefs...read more

Critical Issues in Psychotherapy examines new and existing models in psychotherapy and presents them in an accessible manner to the practitioner in training through illustrative therapy cases and practitioner commentaries. There are many new models that have emerged in psychotherapy in recent years; however; they have not often been made accessible to front line practitioners. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in education. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading educators and social commentators, reflect a variety of viewpoints, and have been selected for their liveliness and substance, and because of their value in a debate framework...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume encourages students to engage in critical thinking by exploring the main assumptions upon which behavioral science theories are based and offering some alternatives to these assumptions. The text begins with a review and critique of the major theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, cognitivism, eclecticism, structuralism and postmodernism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Psychology has been captured by an assumption that is almost totally unrecognized. This assumption the linearity of time unduly restricts theory and therapy, yet this restriction is so common, so customary, that it is often completely ignored...read more