Routledge Research in Psychology
About the Book Series
This series offers an international forum for original and innovative research being conducted across the field of psychology. Titles in the series are empirically or theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic and timely issues and emerging topics. The series is aimed at upper-level and post-graduate students, researchers, and research students, as well as academics and scholars.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Vilija Stephens: [email protected] – Editor, Australia & New Zealand
Katie Peace: [email protected] – Publisher, Asia
COVID-19 and Psychological Distress in Africa: Communitarian Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Yamikani Ndasauka
May 06, 2025
This timely book draws on unique African experiences to explore the intersection between mental health and African communitarianism in the context of COVID-19, giving voice to the perspectives of vulnerable populations facing pre-existing challenges such as depression, anxiety, and stress. ...
Alan Watts in Late-Twentieth-Century Discourse: Commentary and Criticism from 1974 to 1994
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter J. Columbus
April 13, 2025
This book is an anthology of commentary and criticism written within the transitional period between Alan Watts’ 1973 death and the twenty-first century intellectual horizon. Comprised of 16 chapters written and published between 1974 and 1994, with up-to-date introductions from the essayists and ...
Mixed Methods for Psychological Measurement: Using Critical Realism to Reframe Incommensurability
1st Edition
By David F. Feldon
June 21, 2024
This book presents a groundbreaking approach to measurement from a mixed methodological perspective, reframing the concept of incommensurability to harmonize qualitative and quantitative data in analyses. It draws upon critical realism, latent variable theory, and phenomenography to illustrate how ...
Unitary Developmental Theory and Organization Development, Volume 2: A Model of Developmental Learning for Change, Agility and Resilience
1st Edition
By Myles Sweeney
May 27, 2024
This book introduces Unitary Developmental Theory (UDT) to the field of organization development. The second of two volumes, it introduces the UDT model and examines its application to organization development and change management. The book presents UDT comprising seven developmental levels, ...
Unitary Developmental Theory and Psychological Development Across the Lifespan, Volume 1: A Model of Developmental Learning for Psychological Maturation and Recovery
1st Edition
By Myles Sweeney
May 27, 2024
This book introduces Unitary Developmental Theory (UDT) to the field of psychology. The first of two volumes, it introduces the UDT model and examines its application to psychological development and mental-health recovery. The book presents a comprehensive model of UDT using 15 phases, showing how...
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Representational Pluralism in Human Cognition: Tracing Points of Convergence in Psychology, Science Education, and Philosophy of Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Michel Bélanger, Patrice Potvin, Steven Horst, Andrew Shtulman, Eduardo F. Mortimer
January 29, 2024
Bringing together diverse theoretical and empirical contributions from the fields of social and cognitive psychology, philosophy and science education, this volume explores representational pluralism as a phenomenon characteristic of human cognition. Building on these disciplines’ shared interest...
Using Declarative Mapping Sentences in Psychological Research: Applying Facet Theory in Multi-Componential Critical Analyses of Female Representation in Science Fiction Film and TV
1st Edition
By Paul M.W. Hackett, Chenwei Li
January 29, 2024
Using facet theory and Hackett’s pioneering development of the declarative mapping sentence (DMS) as a qualitative methodology, this volume explains the process of formulating and applying the DMS to critically assess female representation in science fiction. Using a comparative approach to the ...
Developing a Foundation for Learning with Internationally Adopted Children: Family-Based Activities for Remedial Learning and Attachment
1st Edition
By Boris Gindis, Carol Lidz
May 31, 2023
This practice-focused guide introduces The SmartStart Toolbox as a remedial program to help mental health professionals and adoptive parents promote the educational and social development of internationally adopted children aged 4–8. Recognizing the cultural, emotional, and cognitive needs of ...
A Scientific Assessment of the Validity of Mystical Experiences: Understanding Altered Psychological and Neurophysiological States
1st Edition
By Andrew Papanicolaou
January 09, 2023
In this book the approach of the natural sciences is adopted to confront the ontological question of how far mystical experiences can be considered as reports of an objective reality rather than reports of subjective delusions. Moving beyond traditional philosophical or cultural and theological ...
Developing a Model of Islamic Psychology and Psychotherapy: Islamic Theology and Contemporary Understandings of Psychology
1st Edition
By Abdallah Rothman
January 09, 2023
At a time when there is increasing need to offer psychotherapeutic approaches that accommodate clients’ religious and spiritual beliefs, and acknowledge the potential for healing and growth offered by religious frameworks, this book explores psychology from an Islamic paradigm and demonstrates how ...
Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased: Psychological, Scientific, and Theological Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Thomas G. Plante, Gary E. Schwartz
January 09, 2023
Human Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased brings together cutting-edge empirical and theoretical contributions from scholars in fields including psychology, theology, ethics, neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy, to examine how and why humans engage in, or even seek ...
The Psychological Basis of Moral Judgments: Philosophical and Empirical Approaches to Moral Relativism
1st Edition
By John Park
January 09, 2023
This volume examines the psychological basis of moral judgments and asks what theories of concepts apply to moral concepts. By combining philosophical reasoning and empirical insights from the fields of moral psychology, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and neuroscience, it considers ...