"This five-volume encyclopedia covers the history of psychology as an experimental and social science, as an applied health discipline, as a profession, and as a locus for the panoply of preeminent contributors in the field....Essays begin with standard information, including any relevant dates, the type of psychology, and the field(s) of study, then offer a clear and concise discussion of the topic. Entries on mental illnesses address cause, diagnosis, treatment, and impact. Entries on theories or schools examine origin, history, and current status. Entries on organizations cover history and functions. Entries on psychological tests discuss development and applications. Biographical entries focus on the life, career, and contributions of the individual. All terminology is explained for each article, and context is provided to make the information accessible to general readers" -- Publisher.

Volume 1. Ability tests - Creative reminiscence -- Volume 2. Creativity - Hysteria -- Volume 3. Identity crises - Phobias -- Volume 4. Physical development - Social identity theory -- Volume 5. Social learning - Zimbardo; Appendixes; Indexes. Volume 1. Ability tests ; Abnormality: Biomedical models ; Abnormality: Legal models ; Abnormality: Psychological models ; Achievement motivation ; Addictive personality and behaviors ; Adler, Alfred ; Adlerian psychotherapy ; Adolescence: Cognitive skills ; Adolescence: Cross-cultural patterns ; Adolescent sexuality ; Adoption ; Adrenal gland ; Adult ADHD ; Advertising ; Affiliation and friendship ; Affiliation motive ; African Americans and mental health ; Ageism ; Aggression ; Aggression: Reduction and control ; Aging: Cognitive changes ; Aging: Physical changes ; Aging: Theories ; Agoraphobia and panic disorders ; Air rage ; Albee, George W. ; Alcohol use disorder ; Allport, Gordon ; Altered states of consciousness ; Altruism, cooperation, and empathy ; Alzheimer's disease ; American Psychiatric Association ; American Psychological Association ; Amnesia and fugue ; Analytic psychology: Carl Jung ; Analytic psychology: Jacques Lacan ; Analytical psychotherapy ; Anger ; Anger management ; Animal experimentation ; Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa ; Antianxiety medications ; Antidepressant medications ; Antipsychotics ; Antisocial personality disorder ; Anxiety disorders ; Aphasias ; Archetypes and the collective unconscious ; Archival data ; Artificial intelligence ; Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders and mental health ; Asperger syndrome ; Assessment ; Assessment of the Hispanic community ; Assimilative family therapy model ; Assisted living ; Attachment and bonding in infancy and childhood ; Attention ; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ; Attitude-behavior consistency ; Attitude formation and change ; Attraction theories ; Attributional biases ; Autism spectrum disorder ; Automaticity ; Aversion therapy ; Avoidant personality disorder ; Bad-boy appeal ; Bandura, Albert ; Battered woman syndrome ; Beck, Aaron T. ; Beck depression inventory (BDI) ; Bed-wetting ; Behavior therapy ; Behavioral addiction ; Behavioral assessment ; Behavioral economics ; Behavioral family therapy ; Behaviorism ; Bilingualism ; Bilingualism and learning disabilities ; Binet, Alfred ; Biofeedback and relaxation ; Bipolar disorder ; Biracial heritage and mental health ; Birth: Effects on physical development ; Birth order and personality ; Blau, Theodore H. ; Bobo doll experiment ; Body dysmorphic disorder ; Borderline personality disorder ; Brain damage ; Brain lateralization ; Brain structure ; Breuer, Josef ; Brief therapy ; Bronfenbrenner, Urie ; Bruner, Jerome ; Bullying ; Bystander intervention ; Caffeine and mental health ; California psychological inventory (CPI) ; Cancer and mental health ; Cannon, Walter Bradford ; Career and personnel testing ; Career occupational preference system (COPS) ; Career selection, development, and change ; Case study methodologies ; Causal attribution ; Child abuse ; Childhood disorders ; Childhood obesity ; Children's depression inventory (CDI) ; Children's mental health ; Christian counseling ; Chronic pain management: Psychological impact ; Circadian rhythms ; Clinical interviewing, testing, and observation ; Coaching ; Codependency ; Cognitive abilities test (CogAT) ; Cognitive ability: Gender differences ; Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) ; Cognitive development: Jean Piaget ; Cognitive dissonance ; Cognitive maps ; Cognitive psychology ; Cognitive social learning: Walter Mischel ; Cognitive therapy (CT) ; Collectivism ; College entrance examinations and cultural biases ; Community psychology ; Comorbidity ; Complex experimental designs ; Computer and internet use ; Computer models of cognition ; Concept formation ; Conditioning ; Conduct disorder ; Confidentiality ; Consciousness ; Consciousness: Altered states ; Constructivist psychology ; Consumer psychology ; Cooperation, competition, and negotiation ; Cooperative learning ; Coping: Chronic illness ; Coping: Social support ; Coping: Strategies ; Coping: Terminal illness ; Cosmetics and beauty ; Couples therapy ; COVID-19 and mental health ; Creative reminiscence ;. Volume 2. Creativity ; Creativity and intelligence ; Creativity: Assessment ; Crisis intervention ; Cross-cultural psychology ; Crowd behavior ; Cultural competence ; Culture and diagnosis ; Culture-bound syndromes ; Data description ; Death and dying ; Deception and lying ; Decision making ; Deductive reasoning ; Defense mechanisms ; Defense reactions: Species-specific ; Dementia ; Denial ; Depression ; Depth and motion perception ; Despair ; Development ; Developmental disabilities ; Developmental methodologies ; Developmental psychology ; Dewey, John ; Diagnosis ; Dialectical behavioral therapy ; Disability: Psychology impact ; Disaster psychology ; Discipline ; Dissociative disorders ; Dix, Dorothea ; Dog psychology ; Dolphin psychology ; Doomestic violence ; Down syndrome ; Dreams ; Drive theory ; Drug therapies ; DSM-5 ; DSM-5 controversies ; Dysgraphia ; Dyslexia ; Dysphonia ; Eating disorders ; Ebbinghaus, Hermann ; Ecological psychology ; Educational psychology ; Ego defense mechanisms ; Ego psychology: Erik H. Erikson ; Ego, superego, and id ; Elder abuse ; Elders' mental health ; Electronic media and psychological impact ; Elimination disorders ; Ellis, Albert ; Emotional abuse ; Emotional expression ; Emotional intelligence (EI) ; Emotions ; Encoding ; Endocrine system and behavior ; Endorphins ; Environmental factors and mental health ; Environmental psychology ; Environmental toxicology and mental health ; Erikson, Erik H. ; Ethology ; Evolutionary psychology ; Executive functions ; Exercise addiction ; Exercise and mental health ; Existential psychology ; Experimental psychology ; Experimentation: Ethics and participant rights ; Experimentation: Independent, dependent, and control variables ; Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) ; Eyewitness testimony ; Eysenck, Hans ; Facial feedback ; Factitious disorders ; Families and behavioral addictions ; Families and substance abuse ; Family dynamics ; Family life: Adult issues ; Family life: Children's issues ; Family systems theory ; Father-child relationship ; Fear ; Femininity ; Feminist psychotherapy ; Fetishes ; Field experimentation ; Field theory: Kurt Lewin ; Fight-or-flight response ; Flying phobia ; Forensic psychology ; Forgetting and forgetfulness ; Forgiveness ; Freud, Anna ; Freud, Sigmund ; Freudian psychology ; Fromm, Erich ; Frontotemporal dementia (Pick's Disease) ; Gambling ; Games and mental health ; Gender differences ; Gender identity disorder ; Gender identity formation ; Gender roles and gender role conflicts ; General adaptation syndrome (GAS) ; General aptitude test battery (GATB) ; Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) ; Genetics and mental health ; Geriatric psychological disorders ; Gesell, Arnold ; Gestalt therapy ; Giftedness ; Gilligan, Carol ; Gonads ; Gossip ; Grammar and speech ; Gratitude ; Grieving ; Group decision making ; Group therapy ; Groups ; Guilt ; Habituation and sensitization ; Hall, G. Stanley ; Hallucinations ; Hate crimes: Psychological causes and effects ; Health insurance ; Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) ; Health psychology ; Hearing ; Help-seeking ; Helping ; Hierarchy of needs ; Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) ; Hoarding ; Holland, John L. ; Homelessness: Psychological causes and effects ; Homosexuality ; Hope ; Hope and mental health ; Hormones and behavior ; Horney, Karen ; Hospice ; Hull, Clark I. ; Human resource training and development ; Humanistic psychology ; Humanistic trait models: Gordon Allport ; Hunger ; Hypnosis ; Hypochondriasis, conversion and somatization ; Hypothesis development and testing ; Hysteria -- Volume 3. Identity crises ; Implosion ; Imprinting ; Impulse control disorders (ICD) ; Incentive theory of motivation ; Incompetency ; Indigenous psychology ; Individual psychology: Alfred Adler ; Inductive reasoning ; Industrial and organizational psychology ; Infant feeding ; Infant sleep ; Infidelity ; Inhibitory and excitatory impulses ; Insanity defense ; Insomnia and sleep disorders ; Instinct theory ; Intelligence ; Intelligence quotient (IQ) and measuring intelligence ; Intelligence tests ; Interest inventories ; International Classification of Diseases (ICD) ; Internet psychology ; Interpersonal attraction ; Intervention ; Interviewing ; Intimacy ; Introverts and extroverts ; James, William ; Jealousy ; Jung, Carl ; Jungian psychology ; Juvenile delinquency and development ; Kelly, George A. ; Kinesthetic memory ; Kinsey, Alfred ; Kleptomania ; Kohlberg, Lawrence ; Kraepelin, Emil ; Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth ; Kuder occupational interest survey (KOIS) ; Lacan, Jacques ; Language ; Latinos and mental health ; Law and psychology ; Leadership ; Learned helplessness ; Learning ; Learning disorders ; Lewin, Kurt ; LGBTQ+ psychology ; Linguistics ; Little Albert study ; Lobotomy ; Logic and reasoning ; Long-term memory ; Lorenz, Konrad ; Love ; Luninosity ; Marijuana ; Marijuana dependence ; Marriage ; Marriage and family therapists ; Masculinity ; Maslow, Abraham ; Masters, William H., and Virginia E. Johnson ; Maturity ; May, Rollo ; McGraw, Dr. Philip ; Media exposure and mental health ; Media psychology ; Meditation ; Meditation and relaxation ; Memory ; Memory: Animal research ; Memory disorders ; Memory: Empirical studies ; Memory: Enhancement ; Memory: Physiology ; Memory: Sensory ; Memory storage ; Men's mental health ; Mental blocks ; Mental health parity ; Mental health practitioners ; Mental illness: Historical concepts ; Microagression ; Midlife crisis ; Milgram experiment ; Miller, Neal E., and John Dollard ; Millon, Theodore ; Mindfulness ; Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI) ; Misbehavior ; Mischel, Walter ; Mood disorders ; Mood stabilizer medications ; Moral development ; Mother-child relationship ; Motivation ; Motivation: Intrinsic and extrinsic ; Motor development ; Multicultural disability competence ; Multicultural psychology ; Multiple intelligences ; Multiple personality ; Multiple sclerosis ; Munchausen syndrome and Munchausen syndrome by proxy ; Murray, Henry A. ; Music, dance, and theater therapy ; Myers-Briggs personality type indicator ; Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) ; Narcolepsy ; National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) ; Native Americans/Alaskan Natives and mental health ; Nearsightedness and farsightedness ; Nervous system ; Neurons ; Neuropsychology ; Neurotic disorders ; Neurotransmitters ; Nicotine dependence ; Nonbinary and nonidentifying gender ; Nonverbal communication and social cognition ; Nutrition and mental health ; Obesity ; Observational learning and modeling therapy ; Observational methods ; Obsessive-compulsive disorder ; Oedipus complex ; Operant conditioning therapies ; Optimal arousal theory ; Organizational behavior and consulting ; Pain ; Pain management ; Panic attacks ; Paranoia ; Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) ; Parenting and behavioral addictions ; Parenting styles ; Parkinson's disease ; Passive aggression ; Pattern recognition ; Pattern vision ; Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich ; Pavlovian conditioning ; Peabody individual achievement test (PIAT) ; Peak experiences ; Penis envy ; Person-centered therapy (PCT) ; Personal constructs: George A. Kelly ; Personality disorders ; Personality interviewing strategies ; Personality: Psychophysiological measures ; Personality rating scales ; Personality theory ; Personology theory: Henry A. Murray ; Pervasive developmental disorders ; Philosophy and psychology ; Phobias ;. Volume 4. Physical development: Environment versus genetics ; Physical rehabilitation ; Piaget, Jean ; Pinel, Philippe ; Pituitary gland ; Placebo effect ; Play therapy ; Porngraphy addiction ; Positive psychology ; Postpartum depression ; Post-traumatic stress (PTS) ; Power ; Prejudice ; Prejudice and stereotyping ; Prejudice reduction ; Prenatal physical development ; Problem-solving stages ; Problem-solving strategies ; Procrastination ; Profiling ; Projection ; Psychoanalysis ; Psychoanalytic psychology ; Psychoanalytic psychology and personality: Sigmund Freud ; Psychobiology ; Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) ; Psychological safety ; Psychologically healthy workplace ; Psychology and film ; Psychology: Definition ; Psychology: Fields of specialization ; Psychology: History ; Psychology of social media ; Psycho-oncology ; Psychopathology ; Psychopharmacology ; Psychosexual development ; Psychosomatic disorders ; Psychosurgery ; Psychotherapy: Children ; Psychotherapy: Effectiveness ; Psychotherapy: Goals and techniques ; Psychotherapy: Historical approaches ; Psychotic disorders ; Punishment ; Qualitative research ; Quality of life ; Quasi-experimental designs ; Race and intelligence ; Racism ; Radical behaviorism: B. F. Skinner ; Rape ; Rape and sexual assault ; Rational emotive therapy ; Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) ; Reality therapy ; Reality TV ; Recency effects ; Reflexes ; Reflexes in newborns ; Reinforcement ; Relaxation response: Herbert Benson ; Religion and psychology ; Religiosity ; Repressed memories ; Research ethics ; Reticular formation ; Retirement ; Risk assessments ; Road rage ; Rogers, Carl R. ; Romantic addiction ; Rorschach, Hermann ; Rorschach inkblots ; Rosenhan experiment ; Rule-governed behavior ; S-R theory: Neal E. Miller and John Dollard ; Sadism and masochism ; Sampling ; Satir, Virginia ; Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) ; Schizophrenia: Background, types, and symptoms ; Schizophrenia: High-risk children ; Schizophrenia: Theoretical explanations ; Schizotypal personality disorder ; School psychology ; Scientific methods ; Seasonal affective disorder ; Self ; Self-actualization ; Self-disclosure ; Self-efficacy ; Self-esteem ; Self-help groups ; Self-perception theory (SPT) ; Self-presentation ; Seligman, Martin E. P. ; Selye, Hans ; Sensation kand perception ; Senses ; Separation and divorce: Adult issues ; Separation and divorce: Children's issues ; Separation anxiety ; Sex addiction ; Sex hormones and motivation ; Sexism ; Sexual abuse: Impact ; Sexual behavior patterns ; Sexual dysfunction ; Sexual harassment: Psychological causes and effects ; Sexual orientation ; Sexual predatory behaviors ; Sexual variants and paraphilias ; Shift work ; Shock therapy ; Short-term memory ; Shyness ; Sibling relationships ; Signal detection theory ; Sixth sense ; Skinner, B. F. ; Skinner box ; Sleep ; Sleep apnea ; Sleep disorders ; Sleep hygiene ; Smell and taste ; Social identity theory ;. Volume 5. Social learning: Albert Bandura ; Social media and narcissism ; Social networks ; Social perception ; Social psychological models: Erich Fromm ; Social psychological models: Karen Horney ; Social schemata ; Social support and mental health ; Sociopaths ; Speech disorders ; Speech perception ; Spirituality and mental health ; Split-brain studies ; Sports psychology ; Stanford-Binet test ; Stanford prison experiment ; State-trait anxiety inventory (STAI) ; Statistical significance tests ; Stepfamilies ; Stimulant medications ; Strategic family therapy ; Stress: Behavioral and psychological responses ; Stress: Physiological responses ; Stress-related diseases ; Stress: Theories ; Strong interest inventory (SII) ; Structuralism and functionalism ; Stuttering ; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ; Substance use disorders ; Suicide ; Sullivan, Harry Stack ; Support groups ; Survey research: Questionnaires and interviews / Synaptic transmission ; Synesthesia ; Systematic desensitization ; Systems theories ; Taste aversion ; Teaching methods ; Teenage suicide ; Teenagers' mental health ; Temperature ; Terrorism: Psychological causes and effects ; Testing: Historical perspectives ; Testing, tests, and measurement ; Thematic apperception test (TAT) ; Thirst ; Thorndike, Edward I. ; Thought: Inferential ; Thought: Study and measurement ; Thyroid gland ; Tic disorders ; Time-out ; Tolman, Edward C. ; Touch and pressure ; Tourette's syndrome ; Toxic environments and human development ; Transactional analysis (TA) ; Transgender psychology ; Transpersonal psychology ; Transtheoretical model ; Transvestism ; Twin studies ; Type A behavior pattern ; Verbal abuse ; Victimization ; Violence and sex in the media ; Violence by children and adolescents ; Violence: Psychological causes and effects ; Virtual reality ; Vision ; Vision and color ; Vision, brightness, and contrast ; Watson, John B. ; Wechsler intelligence scale for children ; Wellness ; Within-subject experimental designs ; Women's mental health ; Women's psychology: Sigmund Freud ; Women's psychology: Carol Gilligan ; Women's psychology: Karen Horney ; Work motivation ; Workforce reentry ; Workplace issues and mental health ; Yalom, Irvin D. ; Zimbardo, Philip ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Website Directory ; Mediagraphy ; Organizations and support groups ; Category Index ; Subject Index.