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Adaption-Innovation theory (A-I theory) is a model of problem solving and creativity, which aims to increase collaboration and reduce conflict within groups. A-I Theory and the associated Kirton Adaption-Innovation (KAI) inventory have been extensively researched and are increasingly used as tools for teambuilding and personnel management. In Adaption-Innovation: In the [...]

An Introduction to Child Development provides an up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to all the major topics in contemporary child development. Thomas Keenan offers a grounding in the key concepts, theories, research methods and evidence, and current issues in developmental psychology which are essential to developing a firm knowledge of the field. [...]

This book looks at how people use cognitive skills in everyday environments. It covers visual perception, attention, memory, language, thinking, decision-making & human performance to explore how knowledge is used to influence behavior. [...]

Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) draws upon psychological, sociological and social anthropological theory and evidence to formulate a system of concepts that help explain the notion of identity. Analysing Identity is unique in its development of the integrative conceptualisation of self and identity and the subsequent applications of ISA. This innovative [...]

Ted Wragg has spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. This book offers his key writings in one place for the first time.
This internationally renowned author starts with a specially written introduction, which gives an overview of [...]

Art Therapy with Children on the Autistic Spectrum presents a new model of intervention, which focuses primarily on the communication and imagination difficulties experienced by many children with autism. The authors describe how negative behaviours and subsequent tension may be alleviated when the autistic child is involved in interactive art [...]

Attitudes - cognitive representations of our evaluation of ourselves, other people, things, actions, events, ideas - and attitude change have been a central concern in social psychology since the discipline began. People can - and do - have attitudes on an infinite range of things but what are attitudes, how [...]