Peter Baldwin

Sue Morris

Jacquelyn Cranney

Leigh Mellish

Annette Krochmalik

Failed an exam, bungled an interview, screwed up a relationship, broken your diet, or stuffed up at work? Your brain is the key to getting back on track. Learn from five leading psychological educators how to ‘rubberise’ your brain to optimise your thinking using simple tools derived from solid science. Change your life for the better.

A toolkit for optimising your study, work, and life!

The Rubber Brain

Lynne Cohen

Douglas A. Bernstein

Julie Ann Pooley

Bethanie Gouldthorp

Louis A. Penner

Alison Clarke-Stewart

Edward J. Roy

Stephen Provost

Introductory texts in psychology present an opportunity to discover reasons for human behaviour and address the issues which impact upon their behaviour. This first Australian and New Zealand adaptation of the well respected Psychology 9th edition, by Bernstein et al. continues to strike a balance between classical and contemporary topics with an easy to read, comprehensive, research-oriented approach. The text takes an active learning approach with the use of hallmark pedagogical features such as Linkages, Focus on Research Methods, and Thinking Critically. Features enriching this adaptation include research, issues and examples of psychology relevant to the Australian and New Zealand regional perspective; indigenous research; graduate attributes and psychological literacy sections; other cultural and international considerations, and extended online appendices for searching psychology databases and careers in psychology.

Psychology: An International Discipline in Context: Australian & New Zealand Edition

Failed an exam, bungled an interview, screwed up a relationship, broken your diet, or stuffed up at work? Yur brain is the key to getting back on track. Change your life for the better. Learn how to ‘rubberise’ your brain, making it more flexible and resilient. Deal with challenges in an optimal way, and ‘bounce’ back from adversity. Your brain controls your conscious thoughts and behaviours, like deciding whether to study or party, or whether to get two scoops of gelato or six. And when you find yourself doing things that you wish you hadn’t done (like all that gelato), it’s likely your brain has indulged in what psychological scientists call suboptimal thinking. Essentially, your brain doesn’t always deliver the kind of thinking that leads to desired positive outcomes, such as maintaining supportive friendships, and doing well in your work, studies and social life. But you and your brain can do better. In this book, five leading psychological educators show you simple tools derived from solid science covering everything from positive psychology to goal setting, from mindfulness to CBT, and from emotional regulation to moral reasoning, to optimise your thinking. Using a model they have developed over years of study and application you can discover how resilience and psychological flexibility combine to allow you to choose ways of thinking in response to different situations that will produce the best outcome for you for that situation. Read this book and learn how to optimally tackle issues of motivation, stress, time-management, and relationship maintenance. Your mind will be clearer and your life better.

Stephen C. Provost

Make introductory psychology modern and accessible! Strike a balance between classic and contemporary topics and theory. The new edition of this text engages students with local ideas and examples, within the context of psychology as an international discipline. Rich cultural and indigenous coverage is integrated throughout the text, as well as new chapters, 'Indigenous psychology', and 'Culture and psychology'. There is also the continued, and unique focus throughout the text on graduate attributes for accreditation, careers in psychology and the professional discipline of psychology. Linkages features in the text knit together student understanding of psychology's sub-disciplines, and the research sections show the how and why of research. World class learning technology available with Bernstein includes CourseMate Express, and a new MindTap.

Australia and New Zealand

Psychology

Sherri McCarthy

K. Laurie Dickson

This book updates the information in the first two volumes of Teaching Psychology around the World, providing a current overview of teaching psychology internationally. Psychology curricula continue to become increasingly internationalised; the book includes relevant information about and research on teaching from secondary, undergraduate (baccalaureate) and post-graduate (MA, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral) psychology programs in Australia, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the US. It is a must-read for all instructors of psychology and university personnel engaged in building international programs, as well as psychologists and psychology students interested in the international aspects of the discipline. This book, like the earlier ones in the series, brings together current information on the teaching and practice of psychology collected by experts in the field from throughout the world.

Volume 3

Teaching Psychology around the World

Jacquelyn Cranney

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