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Responsible Gambling and Its Stakeholders: An Overview
Howard J. Shaffer, Alexander Blaszczynski, Robert Ladouceur, Peter Collins, and Davis Fong
in Responsible Gambling: Primary Stakeholder Perspectives
Robert Ladouceur and Alex Blaszczynski convened this working group and established the early agenda and direction for the International Group on Responsible Gambling and our scholarly ...
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Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook
Kelly D. Brownell and Mark S. Gold (eds)
Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook brings scientific order to the issue of food and addiction, spanning multiple disciplines to create the foundation for what is a rapidly ...
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Public Health Interventions to Facilitate Positive Embodiment: Implementation and Future Directions
Rachel F. Rodgers, Debra L. Franko, and Alice S. Lowy
in Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment: Constructs, Protective Factors, and Interventions
Public health approaches constitute a potentially powerful avenue for universal prevention and efforts to promote positive embodiment and body image. A small number of public health ...
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Overcoming Stigma II: Media and Mental Health Professionals
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change
The focus of Chapter 10 is public media, as well as attitudes and practices in the mental health professions, in the reduction of stigma and discrimination of mental illness. ...
The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy
Margaret C. Stevenson, Bette L. Bottoms, and Kelly C. Burke (eds)
The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy is the first volume to review the intersecting implications of psychology, public policy, and law with the ...
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Preventing Bullying in Schools
Amanda B. Nickerson and Timothy Parks
in Fostering the Emotional Well-Being of our Youth: A School-Based Approach
Bullying is a problem that can impact perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in terms of their mental illness and mental wellness. In this chapter, the authors first define bullying and ...
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Public Attitudes about Addiction as a Cause of Obesity
Colleen L. Barry
in Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook
This chapter examines public attitudes about food addiction as a cause of obesity. It is vital to understand beliefs about this issue since public opinion can greatly affect policymaker ...
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Community Psychology, Public Policy, and Children
N. Dickon Reppucci
in The Roots of Modern Psychology and Law: A Narrative History
This chapter describes the author’s early development as an “accidental” community psychologist who contributed an ecological/community perspective to the field of law and psychology, ...
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The Legacy of Racism for Children’s Interactions with the Law: Exploring Themes with Psychological Science
Margaret C. Stevenson, Bette L. Bottoms, and Kelly C. Burke
in The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy
Psychological research and theory are needed to understand how laws and public policies contribute to racial disparities affecting children involved in the legal system. This chapter ...
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Responsible Gambling: Primary Stakeholder Perspectives
Howard J. Shaffer, Alexander Blaszczynski, Robert Ladouceur, Davis Fong, and Peter Collins (eds)
This volume reflects the perspectives of a diverse group of primary stakeholders interested in responsible gambling activities and programs. It also marks a watershed moment in the ...
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The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change
Stephen P. Hinshaw
Mental illness tops the list of stigmatized conditions in current society, generating the kinds of stereotypes, fear, and rejection that are reminiscent of longstanding attitudes toward ...
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Indicators of Stigma From Everyday Life
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change
Chapter 6 shifts focus to broader forms of evidence for stigmatization, through indicators such as linguistic practices, accounts in public media, attitudes displayed by the mental health ...
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Lessons from Drug Policy
Robert L. Dupont
in Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook
Chapter 64 considers lessons that can be learned from drug policy, including the epidemic nature of the public health threat, defining the problem and seeking solutions, the power and the ...
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How Social Policy Impacts Private Practice
Catherine Gaines Ling, Sarah Huffman, and Patrick H. DeLeon
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
All aspects of clinical private practice are influenced by public policy. Public policy can be neutral or it can promote or inhibit practice. This chapter addresses how social policy shapes ...
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Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
John C. Cavanaugh and Susan Krauss Whitbourne (eds)
This title presents an overview of gerontology appropriate for beginning, graduate and advanced undergraduate students. The text includes seminal chapters on theory, methodology, ...
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The Shifting Political Winds: LGBT Students, Educational Policy and Politics, and the Dilemmas Confronting Street-Level Bureaucrats
Catherine A. Lugg and Jason P. Murphy
in Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling: The Nexus of Research, Practice, and Policy
This chapter teases out how shifting currents in US educational policy and politics vis-à-vis LGBTQ students conflict by employing a lens from the politics of education literature: ...
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