Personality Theories
Critical Perspectives
Albert Ellis - Albert Ellis Institute
Michael P. Abrams - New York University (NYU), USA
Lidia Dengelegi Abrams - Resolve Community Counseling Center, Inc.
Features and Benefits:
- Helps students develop the scientific thinking required to evaluate current and forthcoming theories
- Encourages the reader to re-examine preexisting theories
- Provides the missing link between previously disparate disciplines of abnormal and normal personality theories, a feature especially important to students in graduate clinical programs
- Prepares the upper-level student for the growing trend in clinical programs to link human behavior, personality, and psychopathology to the neurological substrates
- Encourages more focus on relevant theories than on the biographies of those who developed them
Intended Audience:
This enlightening text will provide insight into personality theory for students in courses on personality. It should be required reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, counseling, and social work.
Student Study Site: www.sagepub.com/personalitytheoriesstudy
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This Instructors' Resource CD will contain the following components:
- Electronic Test Bank (modeled after the Counselor Exam)
- PowerPoint slides
- Teaching Tips
- Sample Syllabi
- Project Ideas
The Student Study Site will contain the following materials to enhance student learning:
- Chapter Objectives/Summaries
- Learning from Journal Articles
- Flashcards
- Web Quizzes (modeled after the Counselor Exam)
- Web Links
- References to works by other theorists
- Media Resources/Films
- Strongly based on current research
- Presents an entirely new theory of personality theory
- Written with the developing clinician in mind
- The only personality theory text to provide a chapter on personality pathology
- An excellent review of neuropsychology of personality
- Focus on theories of personality as opposed to the personalities of the theorists
- Practical vignettes provided in each chapter
- Instructor's Resources
- Companion Website