Site Map for Forensic Psychology

Forensic Psychology:
Predicting and Preventing Criminal Behavior Using Applied Theories of Personality

Predicting Criminal Behavior
- Criminal Profiling
  1. Background
    - What it is
    - How it Works
    - Why it Works, History
    - Vocabulary
  2. Methods
    - The FBI's Crime Scene Analysis
    - Turvey's Behavioral Evidence Analysis
Preventing Criminal Behavior
- Ideals of Rogerian Therapy
  1. Unconditional Positive Regard
  2. Accurate Empathy
  3. Genuineness
- Applying Rogerian Ideals to Real Life
  1. Home
  2. School
  3. Personal Relationships
- Solving the Bully Problem
  1. Understanding Bullies
  2. Stopping Bullying
  3. Online Resources
Theories of Personality (arranged from least to most recent)
- The PsychoAnalytic Approach
  1. Freud
    - Ego, Id, and Superego
    - Defense Mechanisms
    - Parapraxes (Freudian slips)
  2. Jung
    - Interactions between the Persona, Shadow, Ego, and Self
    - Effects of the Anima/us
- The Humanistic Approach
  1. a Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow)
  2. Flow (Csikszentmihalyi)
- Effects of Culture
  1. The "Big Three" of Culture (Triandis)
    - Individualtistic v Collectivistic
    - Complex v Simple
    - Tight v Loose
  2. The Effect of Culture on Self-Construal (Triandis)
    - the Private self
    - the Public self
    - the Collective self
- The Trait Approach
  1. the Five-Factor Theory (McCrae & Costa 1999)
- Vocabulary
References
Job Opportunities and Additional Information
- FBI (external URL)
- Graduate Programs (external URL)
- Forensic Psychology Links (external URL)