University Ink - A Showcase of UofL Authorship: Psychology

The second edition of this outstanding book is valuable for any reader who will be providing mental health services to culturally diverse populations. The client groups covered include African American, Native American, Asian American,and Hispanic. The book examines the range and kinds of problems that these non-traditional clients present to the practitioner, and suggests approaches to solving them. Psychological Intervention and Cultural Diversity commences with an overview of the demographics, ethnosociopolitical concerns, and clinical issues surrounding minority services. Various modes of intervention individual, group, family psychotherapy, community-based, and traditional indigenous are described in detail, enumerating the benefits of each approach in the next part. Special populations minority women, youth, immigrants and refugees, and substance abusers are the focus of part three, and the final four chapters are devoted to research and training issues. For readers interested in mental health services to culturally diverse populations.

The phenomena of effortless attention and action and the challenges they pose to current cognitive models of attention and action.This is the first book to explore the cognitive science of effortless attention and action. Attention and action are generally understood to require effort, and the expectation is that under normal circumstances effort increases to meet rising demand. Sometimes, however, attention and action seem to flow effortlessly despite high demand. Effortless attention and action have been documented across a range of normal activities-ranging from rock climbing to chess playing-and yet fundamental questions about the cognitive science of effortlessness have gone largely unasked. This book draws from the disciplines of cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, behavioral psychology, genetics, philosophy, and cross-cultural studies. Starting from the premise that the phenomena of effortless attention and action provide an opportunity to test current models of attention and action, leading researchers from around the world examine topics including effort as a cognitive resource, the role of effort in decision-making, the neurophysiology of effortless attention and action, the role of automaticity in effortless action, expert performance in effortless action, and the neurophysiology and benefits of attentional training.