Published October, 2014
By Zeev Winstok
Publisher: Springer (Springer New York)
Series: The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality
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This book reviews key gender- and non-gender-related violence issues and makes a compelling behavioral argument that using violence to control others is a rational choice. Promotes deeper understanding of partner violence, aimed at more effective intervention.

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Published August, 2014
By Tova Band-Winterstein and Zvi Eisikovits
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Evidence pertaining to continual violence throughout the life cycle coupled with the experience of growing old in a life permeated by intimate violence is scarce.

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Published May, 2014
By Donald H. Saklofske and Sandra Prince-Embury
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Published November, 2012
By Donald H. Saklofske and Sandra Prince-Embury
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This book recognizes the growing need to strengthen the links between theory, assessment, interventions, and outcomes to give resilience a stronger empirical base, resulting in more effective interventions and strength-enhancing practice.

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Published September, 2012
By Chi-Yue Chiu, Farideh Salili and Ying-yi Hong
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This book presents the latest developments in the major theories of student motivation as well as up-to-date research on the contextual and cultural variables that influence learning motivation in educational settings.

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Published September, 2012
By Zeev Winstok
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As domestic violence continues to be a focus of social and psychological concern, two basic contradictory viewpoints endure: one rooted in male power dynamics, the other maintaining that both genders use and are victimized by violence.

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Published September, 2012
By David Tzuriel
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This book establishes dynamic assessment as a useful approach that complements standardized normative tests in portraying an accurate picture of cognitive functioning and offering a more adequate assessment of handicapped persons and persons with learning disabilities.

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Published February, 2012
By Gerald Matthews, Aleksandra Gruszka and Blazej Szymura
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Presenting a unique approach to the subject of cognition, this volume reaches beyond the standard view of exceptional cognition equaling superior intelligence. It examines the latest findings from psychobiology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience.

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Published December, 2010
By Donald H. Saklofske, Con Stough and James D. A. Parker
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Carefully critiquing key measurement issues, leading experts present EI as eminently practical and thoroughly contemporary, and demonstrate the application of EI across disciplines ranging from psychometrics and neurobiology to education and industry.

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Published December, 2010
By Rachel Seginer
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More speci?cally, Erikson and Lewin's writings und- score the importance of future thinking for in?uencing present behavior tendencies, and point out that the ability to think about the future and realize the "scope of time ahead" increase with age, and reach a special developmental signi?cance in adolescence.

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