Written by leading researchers and practitioners and covering topics s diverse as clinical health psychology, environmental psychology, and consumer psychology, this is an up-to-date and authoritative reference and a must-have resource for all those working in the fields of applied psychology.

This volume is identified as the first in the publisher's eponymous series, published in association with the International Association of Applied Psychology, and its origins are in the Association's 2010 conference (Melbourne, Australia), for which the idea was conceived to "track down leading authorities in each of the domains of applied psychology and invite them to complete two complementary tasks: write chapters for the Handbook, and deliver state-of-the addresses at the Congress." Arrangement of 33 articles is in sections on the profession (e.g. child, health, neuropsychology, counseling, vocational, work & human resource); substantive areas (e.g. geo-, environmental, community, behavioral economics, and cross-cultural psychology); special topics (for example traffic, rehabilitation, societal development, religion, consumers, poverty, terrorism, among others); and conclusions (the international context). The six editors are affiliated as follows: Paul R. Martin (Griffith U., Australia); Fanny M. Cheung (Chinese U. of Hong Kong); Michael C. Knowles (formerly, Monash U., Australia); Michael Kyrios (Swinburne U. of Technology, Australia); Lyn Littlefield (La Trobe U., Australia); and J. Bruce Overmier (U. of Minnesota). Annotation 2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)