Hayes Nicky

Is this the right book for me?A comprehensive look at psychology in almost every area of day-to-day livingUnderstand Applied Psychology shows how basic psychological processes are relevant to everyday situations and contexts. From education to occupational psychology, this book provides a comprehensive look at psychology in almost every area of day-to-day living. It covers 18 different areas of applied psychology, explaining how psychologists work in the community as a whole and how psychology is applied to working life and broader aspects of living. The book also includes well-developed but unknown areas such as space psychology and eco-psychology, showing the scope of applied psychology and giving ideas for other areas where it could usefully contribute to our everyday lives.Understand Psychology includes: Chapter 1: Applying psychologyChapter 2: Applied cognitive psychologyChapter 3: Applied social psychologyChapter 4: Applied bio-psychologyChapter 5: Applied development psychologyChapter 6: Clinical psychologyChapter 7: Counselling psychologyChapter 8: Health psychologyChapter 9: Forensic psychologyChapter 10: Educational psychology Chapter 11: Applied psychology of teaching and learningChapter 12: Occupational psychologyChapter 13: Organizational psychologyChapter 14: Engineering and design psychologyChapter 15: Space psychologyChapter 16: Sport psychologyChapter 17: Consumer psychologyChapter 18: Environmental psychologyChapter 19: Political psychologyChapter 20: Applied psychology as a profession Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features: Not got much time?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.Author insightsLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.Test yourselfTests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.Extend your knowledgeExtra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the subject.Five things to rememberQuick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.Try thisInnovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

In this book we have aimed to give you, the reader, an introduction to some of the basic theoretical concepts in psychology and to show how they have been applied in a range of professional areas. Psychology is a subject that most of us are interested in, and in this text we have tried to show what a versatile discipline psychology is and what an exciting subject it can be to study. The book is designed to show the connections between the various areas of applied psychology. For the most part, applied psychologists tend to produce specialist texts which are relevant to their own area of work. But much of the research in work psychology, for example, is rele­ vant to the applied areas of sport or health or education, and research into sport psychology has messages for health psychology too. What we is to draw out the relationships between the have tried to do in this text various areas and show how the same basic concepts may manifest themselves in different applied fields.