Piotrowski, A., N. (Ed.). (2010). Salem Health: Psychology & Mental Health. (Vols. 1-5).
Hackensack, New Jersey: Salem Press.
Salem Health: Psychology & Mental Health is a five
volume encyclopedia published by Salem Press in 2010. The encyclopedia itself is a revision of
Magill’s Encyclopedia of Social Science: Psychology, which was published in
2003 as a three volume set, by the same publisher and editor.
This updated encyclopedia offers more than 500 entries,
covering a wide variety of the field of psychology, and offers three indexes to
guide navigation of the five volumes. The second index is an alphabetical
subject index, while the first index is separated by category, breaking the
field into about sixty different categories, like, childhood, adolescence,
depression, coping, personality and women’s psychology. This second index allows a student to see a
large overhead of different focuses within psychology in order to narrow down a
specific interest. In addition, there is also a personage index that lists the
entries for every major person covered, and their relevant pages.
Entries in the encyclopedia cover substantial territory in
researching psychology, the range of which includes the history of the field
itself, as well as different disciplines within psychology, such as
behaviorism, cognitive psychology, and psychoanalytic psychology. The encyclopedia is also a good starting
point for different key figures in each field which describes the individual’s
life, death, and research areas.
Major entries on disorders can be up to eight pages in
length, and each are broken up into different sections that include
introductions, possible causes, treatment approaches, various approaches taken
by different forms of relevant therapy (i.e. speech therapy for an entry on
stuttering), recent technological advances (such as research conducted using
MRI), see also references, and sources for further study.
The encyclopedia’s editor is Nancy A. Piotrowski, from
Capella University and the University of California, Berkeley. Piotrowksi holds a Ph. D. in general
psychology and addiction psychology and has written extensively on addiction
psychology.
Salem Health: Psychology & Mental Health, is a recent
enough publication as to not be dated. It is also part of a series that has
undergone revisions since it first appeared in 1993, this duration of revisions
should be indicative that it has been considered reliable and trustworthy
enough to warrant three heavily revised
sets. This encyclopedia set is expansive enough in coverage to be useful to
anyone beginning their research in the field of psychology.
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