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This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of risk associated with smoking. The authors agree that young smokers give little or no thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The survey data contradicts the model of informed, rational choice and underscores the need for aggressive policies to counter tobacco firms' marketing and promotional efforts and to restrict youth access to tobacco.

Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice

This Side of Doctoring: Reflections for Women in Medicine offers up an intimate collection of stories, poems, essays, and quotations that captures the joy and heartbreak of being women and being a physician. Editor Eliza Lo Chin (MD, Harvard Medical School) has gathered more than 100 voices that speak to the trials, rewards, and surprises of practicing medicine. Beginning with the writings of early medical pioneers, the anthology weaves a rich patchwork of experiences.Raw and honest, This Side of Doctoring acquaints us with worlds we could otherwise only imagine. Throughout these pages you'll find the expressions of courage, doubt, fatigue, perseverance, frustration, and triumph that make up the lives of women physicians. These are the stories of choosing a life in medicine and the many roadmaps that women follow in living that life.

This book provides an easily accessible overview of the process and problems in the evaluation of programs serving abused women.

The book introduces conceptual models from the psychophysiological perspective and describes specific clinical tools and interventions. It provides overviews of the best documented cognitive-behavioral approaches and alternative therapies to common disorders of primary care, and gives recommendations as to necessary education for practitioners in each of the mind-body disciplines.

A collection of eight public administration cases that aims to help students practice the decision-making skills they need in their jobs as public managers. Each case includes background data such as budgeting priorities, political imperatives and zoning issues.

This book provides one of the first clear-headed assessments of information technology and organizational transformation. Its virtue is not so much in its recognition of the importance of the subject; speculations on this topic have been rampant for more than a decade. Rather, it is unusual and unusually useful, because it avoids speculation in favor of conceptually coherent accounts grounded in empirical study of actual organizations. The chapters contained in this volume move beyond the superficial glorification of information technology as an extraordinary instrument of social change, and straight to the heart of the mechanisms of change as they play out in everyday organizational life. In the process, they reaffirm that the real story of information technology in organizations is more about people than about technology. Taken together, they provide an important contribution to the intellectual foundations of one of the most interesting developments in decades.

Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology is the first book to offer the theoretical background, practical knowledge, and training strategies needed to achieve multicultural competence. Focusing on a wide range of professional settings, editors Donald . Pope-Davis, Hardin L Coleman, William Ming Liu, and Rebecca L Toporek provide a compendium of the latest research related to multicultural competency and the hands-on framework to develop specialized multicultural practices.Promoting an appreciation of cultural differences, this innovative text includes} a review of major measures of multicultural competency } an analysis of popular empirically supported treatments within the schema of multicultural competency } information on multicultural competencies and accreditation } an overview of ethical implications } teaching strategies to achieve multicultural competency Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding and integrating multiculturalism in all areas of professional practice. Offering directions for growth and development, the editors and a distinguished group of contributors explore emerging issues within the field. An indispensable resource for psychologists, social workers, school counselors, and teachers, this Handbook is also an ideal supplementary text for students in counselling and clinical practice courses.

"New Faces in a Changing America is a comprehensive, penetrating, authoritative, and provocative examination of what it means to be multiracial in this country. With contributions by the leading thinkers, activists, and researchers on the subject, it admirably links theory and the powerful lived experiences of mixed-race people. This book will be the most important reference source on the subject for many years."-- James P. Allen, California State University, NorthridgeNew Faces in a Changing America examines the multiracial experience, its history and the political issues and consequences surrounding biracial and multiracial identity, bringing together top names in the field to give readers cutting edge views and insights gained from contemporary research.

A team of research and evaluation consultants present seven evaluations of community-based health promotion initiatives funded by The Colorado Trust, a U.S. grantmaking foundation. An introduction provides an overview of community-based health and the particular initiatives. Final chapters explore t

This book undertakes the difficult task of assembling an objective and holistic picture of human aging, including the physical aspects of aging, chronic disease, and health promotion in the later years, for students and professionals. The authors provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary coverage of the demography of the aging population, theories of aging, and physical aging, including normal age-related changes, disease-related processes, and promotion of optimal aging. They also cover psychosocial aspects of aging, including mental health, stress and coping, and spirituality, as well as care giving in later years.Features:- a comprehensive approach, with coverage of psychosocial factors that affect physical health in addition to biological aspects of aging, thus providing integrated coverage of information from the fields of biology, psychology, and the social sciences- coverage of issues in healthcare systems- case studies in each chapter to augment student understanding with real-life examples- discussions of methodological issues in some of the research presented to help students become more critical consumers of research and data.

Useful for health-care providers and mental-health professionals who encounter clients struggling with depression, this book offers a discussion of treatment issues and guidelines for psychotherapy, including ethical, practical, and training issues. It includes annotated "Suggested Readings" and references guiding readers to in-depth resources.

Mary Jane Collier brings together essays that address issues such as how culture and discourse are related. It examines how people with varied cultural identities draw their boundaries and create distinctiveness through their communication with one another, and presents timely and relevant research on cultural difference as a contemporary social problem. The contributors to this volume represent a variety of cultural groups, and their discussions reflect a diverse array of perspectives on discourse analysis, ranging from localized, situated interpretations of group members' in-group dialogues to informed analyses of public images and texts. The content of this work demonstrates that research on discourse and culture is relevant to the dynamic global and sociocultural environment.

Mary Jane Collier brings together essays that address issues such as how culture and discourse are related. It examines how people with varied cultural identities draw their boundaries and create distinctiveness through their communication with one another, and presents timely and relevant research on cultural difference as a contemporary social problem. The contributors to this volume represent a variety of cultural groups, and their discussions reflect a diverse array of perspectives on discourse analysis, ranging from localized, situated interpretations of group members' in-group dialogues to informed analyses of public images and texts. The content of this work demonstrates that research on discourse and culture is relevant to the dynamic global and sociocultural environment.

This volume brings together a selection of the most influential current thinkers in the area of visual perception. We are often confused by our visual systems, for example size distortions, but there is an underlying "intelligence" to our visual system, even in the face of what would seem to be short-circuits within our sensory processing. This book explores varying views of this "intelligence".

Offering a theoretical understanding of research issues, this book presents the critical issues in psychological research. It addresses various steps of the research process: from formulating a hypothesis, to specifying variables, to creating a research design, to collecting and analyzing data, to drawing conclusions, to reporting the results.

This book summarizes and integrates theory and research on adolescents from a diversity of ethnic, economic, and geographic contexts. The book aims to present a more balanced picture of these understudied and misunderstood adolescents by focusing on positive, healthy development.

Examines some of the major precepts of what some refer to as the 'Los Angeles School' of urban theory. This book defines an alternative agenda for urban studies. It is the final part of a trilogy that has attempted to shift the axis in urban thought away from the Chicago School, and toward an LA School.

Intimate Relationships in Medical School offers helpful suggestions and insights to assist the busy medical student who is married or in a committed relationship.

African American children develop a duality for their existence. To be fully functional, they must develop the skills to do well simultaneously in two different cultures, both black and non-black. This volume explores the meaning of this duality in four distinct environments: socioeconomic, parental, internal, and educational.

Family Ethnicity provides information about the various cultural and social elements that are fundamental to family identity in the US today. Unique family customs, proverbs and stories are passed on for generations allowing families to differentiate or link themselves to other families.

This Reader presents a selection of articles from Economic Development Quarterly, the premier journal for practitioners and academics of local economic development. The pieces chosen cover both the breadth and the cutting edge of real world economic development practices.

Provides a 'mini-library' of research into interdependent aspects of dealing with child maltreatment.

The Right Price is a concise, practical guide to the real cost of a medical education in the United States and how to finance it.

This text is the first in a series sponsored by the "Administrative Science Quarterly", designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science which have most profoundly shaped the development of organizational theory and behaviour.

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The Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research & Practice is intended to take the reader from program development theory through program activity analysis and selection, to immediate impact studies, and intermediate and long-term program outcome measurement.

This book discusses causes and precursors of violence, explores the psychological characteristics of perpetrators of violence, and describes and evaluates potential responses to it.

Presents leading political scientists' forecasts of the 1996 US presidential election, and methodological analysis.

This major reference work provides short articles on key people, events and ideas that have shaped the history of women in the United States. Of interest to women's studies researchers and students everywhere, this Handbook is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary view of a fascinating field of study.