Learn how to implement a team-based process that enables all members to be responsible to the safety process.In five easy-to-read chapters, behavioral-based safety expert Scott Geller explains the function of teams. He identifies and defines seven types of teams your organization can use to implement behavior-based safety and explains why two of them are essential to any organization.Geller then guides you step-by-step through the team building process. He addresses reasons...

Based on Dr. Geller's best-selling The Psychology of Safety, The Psychology of Safety Handbook, updated and expanded, provides everything required to decrease the frequency and severity of accidental injuries in any organization. He covers all areas of psychology directly relevant to understanding and influencing safety-related behaviors. The cause of many injuries can be attributed to at-risk behavior or insufficient safe behavior. The Psychology of Safety Handbook not only teaches princi...

A revolutionary new approach to policing that puts people over punishment.Experts have struggled to define the term "police culture." For most, this label means a reactive approach to keeping people safe by using punitive consequences to punish or detain the perpetrators. The result: More attention is given to the negative, reactive side of policing than a positive, proactive approach to preventing crime by cultivating an interdependent culture of residents looking...

Creating an injury-free workplace demands more than policies and procedures since it requires the engagement of every employee to actively care for their own safety and that of their colleagues. This research-based, teaching and learning workbook addresses the critical human dynamics that determine whether safety and health initiatives succeed or fail. Drawing from decades of psychological science, the authors present a systematic approach to building an actively-caring-for-people (AC4P) w...

The lead character in this realistic story, a safety professional for a large manufacturing company, is bullied by her boss, and she searches to find the courage to confront him. In her search she learns from Dr. Pitz ("Doc") the five person-states that influence one’s propensity to actively care for the safety, health, or welfare of other people. With her coworker, Jeff, Joanne entertains ways to enhance these five person- states: self-esteem, self-efficacy, optimism, belongingness, and p...

The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy: Patient and Clinician Perspectives lifts a curtain that has long shrouded the intimate alliances between therapists and those of their patients who share the same profession. In this unique volume, distinguished contributors explore the multi-faceted nature of the psychotherapy of psychotherapists from "both sides of the couch." The first-person narratives, clinical wisdom, and research findings gathered together in this book offer guidance...

A fun and super-practical guide to developing your psychic powers and using them to achieve success and fulfilment in life, offering tips and secrets from the world's most celebrated paranormalist – Uri Geller.Uri Geller would love to write a book revealing himself as a trickster. It would be an instant bestseller: people around the world would be thrilled to know that he really did fool the CIA and Mossad, and scientists at the Stanford Research Institute and the University of Lon...

A freshly funny and heartfelt novel about one woman’s secret life, the stories she tells, and the thrill and notoriety of being noticed.On the same day Bells Walker learns that her IUD has failed, her husband, Harry, is denied tenure at his Manhattan university. So Bells, Harry, their two adolescent children, and her baby bump move to New York’s Hudson Valley, where Harry has landed a job at Dutchess College in the town of Pigkill.When the farm-to-table uto...

A refreshingly honest, laugh-out-loud novel about losing the life you always wanted…and finding the life you were meant to have.For the last ten years, Agnes Parsons’s biggest challenge has been juggling yoga classes and lunch dates. Her Santa Monica house staff takes care of everything, leaving Agnes to focus on her trophy-wife responsibilities: look perfect, adore her older husband, and wear terribly expensive (if uncomfortable) underwear.When her husband...

Why are all the Christian reindeer working on Christmas Eve when they should be home with their own families? Join Hershel the Jewish reindeer as he and his friends of every religion, including a Hindu elf, Muslim gnome, Buddhist reindeer, atheist navigator, agnostic weather forecaster, and even the tooth fairy, work together to help out their Christian friends on their special night. Hershel knows that they would help him the same way if he ever needed it!

This is a behavioral economics book showing readers how money anxiety impacts consumer financial behavior and the economy. The book demonstrates the impact of financial anxiety on retail sales and bank savings. When money anxiety increases, consumers save more and spend less, which pushes the economy into a recession. Conversely, when money anxiety decreases, consumers save less and spend more, which expands the economy.

Over his illustrious career, YouTube star Jacob Geller has written and produced a sprawling collection ofvideo essays. Deftly interweaving video game analysis with complex narratives about art, politics and history, Geller’s work positions games as vital tools for understanding each otherand ourselves.You’re Not Overthinking It: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller re-examines more of Geller’s most iconic essays, brought to the page for the first time and ac...