In this book we have aimed to give you, the reader, an introduction to
some of the basic theoretical concepts in psychology and to show how
they have been applied in a range of professional areas. Psychology is a
subject that most of us are interested in, and in this text we have
tried to show what a versatile discipline psychology is and what an
exciting subject it can be to study. The book is designed to show the
connections between the various areas of applied psychology. For the
most part, applied psychologists tend to produce specialist texts which
are relevant to their own area of work. But much of the research in work
psychology, for example, is rele- vant to the applied areas of sport or
health or education, and research into sport psychology has messages for
health psychology too. What we is to draw out the relationships between
the have tried to do in this text various areas and show how the same
basic concepts may manifest themselves in different applied fields.