TY - BOOK AU - Walton,Gregory M. AU - Crum,Alia TI - Handbook of wise interventions: how social psychology can help people change SN - 9781462551002 (pbk.) : AV - HM1033 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - The Guilford Press KW - Social psychology KW - Social problems KW - Operant behavior KW - Change (Psychology) KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Society N1 - Originally published: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Precise shifts in the ways people make sense of themselves, others, and social situations can help people flourish. This handbook synthesises the growing body of research on wise interventions - brief, nonclinical strategies that are 'wise' to the impact of social psychological processes on behaviour. Leading authorities describe how maladaptive or pejorative interpretations can undermine people's functioning and how they can be altered to cause benefits in such areas as academic motivation and achievement, health, well-being, and personal relationships. Consistently formatted chapters review the development of each intervention, how it can be implemented, its evidence base, and implications for solving personal and societal problems ER -