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Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

Find out more about our new Open Access journal Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine - the journals' editorial introduction - which asks and answers the question why we need an Open Access journal in this field - is now available online.

The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech.
Throughout, an evaluation is made of the research on patterns of typical development across languages in monolingual and bilingual children and children with speech impairments affecting various aspects of their developing complex system.

The first book of its kind to bring together a truly global spread of leading sports psychology career researchers and practitioners into one comprehensive resource. This extensive volume traces the evolution of athlete career research through a cultural lens and maps the complex topography of athletes’ careers across national boundaries exploring how social and cultural discourses shape their development.

This multidisciplinary text highlights the development of romantic relationships, from initiation to commitment or demise, by highlighting the historical context, current research and theory, and diversity of patterns. Engagingly written with colorful examples, the authors examine the joy, stress, power-struggles, intimacy, and aggression that characterize these relationships.

To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month in the US and Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK we are offering customers a 20% discount on all of our Mental Health titles purchased through www.routledgementalhealth.com.

This volume presents a contemporary and comprehensive overview of the great diversity of theoretical interests, new ideas, and practical applications that characterize social psychological approaches to stereotyping and prejudice.

The American Art Therapy Association, representing approximately 5,200 members, seeks applications for the position of Editor of Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. The journal's mission is to inform the readership of research, recent innovations, and critical issues related to art therapy. Deadline for nominations or applications is June 1, 2013. View the complete Call for Editors.

A report from our journal Basic & Applied Social Psychology provided the basis for a touching article in the New York Times opinion pages recently. The 'Best Little Boy in the World' hypothesis refers to a possible behavioral patter observed in some young gay men who use high-achievement in educational, business and other fields as protection against the prejudice they encounter elsewhere.

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Call for New Editor of Journal of Neurotherapy
Deadline for letter of application: July 1, 2013
Taylor & Francis is now requesting applications for the editorship of the Journal of Neurotherapy: Investigations in Neuromodulation, Neurofeedback and Applied Neuroscience. The new editorship will commence from the first issue of the 2014 volume and will run for three consecutive years. The next editor is expected to begin reviewing manuscripts by September 1, 2013.