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Specialized and Related Psychology Background Resources
 
Includes entries for all 150 disorders classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, text revision (DSM-IV-TR). Also features entries for prescription, alternative, and over-the-counter drugs, as well as the various therapies used to treat mental disorders. [more info]
A collection of full-text reference books on gender studies. [more info]
Encyclopedia articles about issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level ... [more info]
Covers topics such as adolescence, cognitive development, education, family, gender differences, identity, longitudinal research, personality development, prenatal development, temperament, and more. [more info]
This encyclopedia presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media's interaction with children and adolescents... [more info]
Entries cover psychology, education and counseling, child development, and special education address student success, behavior disorders, intelligence testing, learning disabilities, strategies to improve academic skills, and more. [more info]
Complete coverage of current statistical methods ranging through confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, random effect/multilevel modeling, generalized linear models, computationally intensive methods such as the bootstrap, and many more. [more info]
State-of-the-art information and ready-to-use facts from the fields of measurement and statistics. [more info]
The Dictionary of Statistics is a wide-ranging, jargon-free dictionary that contains over... [more info]
Encyclopedia of Anthropology includes over 1,000 entires on cultural, biological, physical, and social anthropology.  Also contains articles on archaeology, linguistics, philosophy and sociology. [more info]
Contains 38 essays on the origin and development of our species, population studies, cultural aspects of civilization, and the socialization of humans.  Includes illustrations. [more info]
Spanning the entire spectrum of life sciences, the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) features more than 4,200 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles available in PDF and HTML format. Browse by topic or search for articles within this resource... [more info]
Topics include the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment. [more info]
From adherence to a doctor's advice, to emotions and health, to obesity treatment and prevention, to women's health and all topics in between, this A-to-Z encyclopedia comprehensively covers all aspects of what has become the dynamic domain of behavioral medicine. [more info]
Strategies to optimize human potential and build better organizations by focusing on behavior within the specific environmental, technological, and social environment of the workplace. [more info]
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