ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY AND NARRATIVE Why do some individuals experience stress when others in the same circumstances do not? How has learning theory been applied to treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? What are the psychological explanations for autism? Are police officers better at detecting lies than the rest of us? How is social cognition and memory research relevant to interviewing witnesses to crime? What social psychological theories can explain computer-mediated communication? Does psychoanalysis inform our understanding of how we relate to others at work? You will find the answers to these questions and a multitude of others in Book 3, Applying Psychology, which is your final study block of the course. Soon you will need to decide which questions you are most interested in, as you are required to read only two of the seven chapters. To help you make that decision, we would here like to introduce you to the different chapters and to the volume as a whole. You will see that this book is concerned with the application of psychological theories and research methods to problems that are everyday ones for some individuals. In response to the book’s title, Applying Psychology, you may be thinking that the psychology you have already been studying in this course is relevant to all our daily lives and experiences as human beings – memory, language, identity and consciousness being just some of the examples that you have already encountered. The topics in this book, however, are more obviously linked to the practical application of psychology, and you may be surprised by the extent to which psychology can be applied to our everyday lives – in the workplace, for example, through topics such as computer-mediated communication (Chapter 6) or relationships at work (Chapter 7). In addition, the topics reveal what professional applied psychologists do in their work; for example, how health psychologists and occupational psychologists have contributed to our understanding of stress (Chapter 1); how forensic psychologists have assisted the interviewing of a child witnesses (Chapter 3); and how clinical psychologists have approached PTSD (Chapter 2). Through exploring psychology in these applied contexts, our overriding aim is to enable you to see how psychologists have drawn widely on different knowledge bases, perspectives and methods to facilitate our understanding of complex issues. In Books 1 and 2, the focus was on the perspectives themselves, and how they relate to each other. In Book 3, however, the chapters are problem-centred, and show how psychologists have worked within these perspectives to further our understanding of different problems and issues. You will realize, reading these chapters, that everyday issues are ‘messy’, and that psychologists addressing problems often need to be eclectic and pragmatic in drawing upon research and theory. You will also see how professional psychologists draw on multiple perspectives and on data using multiple methodologies. In brief, then, you will find out how the psychology you have already learned can be addressed to applied issues. 445 Pages Of Valuable Information you need to know about Applying Psychology. GET IT NOW

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