Resources

Higher Psychology Course

As well as books aimed specifically at the Higher, those aimed as the AS level, AQA-A syllabus, have a good degree of relevant material. There are also good teacher’s resource books and books of research summaries available. In addition to books, bodies such as SFEU and SQA publish very useful resources and support materials.

Books

  • Banyard, P. and Grayson, A. (2000). Introducing Psychological Research (2nd Ed.) Basingstoke: Palgrave.
     
  • Berman, S., Flanagan, C., and Frost, A. (2004). Psychology AS – The Teacher’s
    Companion. Cheltenham: Nelson Thornes.
     
  • Cardwell, M. & Flanagan, C. (2005). Psychology AS – The Complete Companion
    (revised edition). Cheltenham: Nelson Thornes.
     
  • Gross, R. & Rolls, G. (2003). Essential AS Psychology for AQA(A). London:
    Hodder & Stoughton.
     
  • Keegan, Gerard (2009). Higher Psychology (2nd ed). London: Hodder.
     
  • Staddon, G., Duffy, A., Cherrie, R., Firth, J. and McDermott, J. (2005). Psychology
    for Higher. Paisley: Unity Publications.
     
  • Williamson, M., Cardwell, M. and Flanagan, C. (2007) Higher Psychology. Cheltenham: Nelson Thornes.

Support Materials

Videos and other resources
The following companies supply a variety of videos and other resources for Psychology:

Web sources on therapeutic approaches for eating disorders

NICE guidelines on treatment for eating disorders

Searchable journal homepages
some articles have detailed abstracts)

Self-help and professional organisations

National Resources

Scottish Qualifications Authority

http://www.sqa.org.uk