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This book shows how teachers can help students develop stronger learning skills by ensuring that their literacy moves from modeling and guided practice to collaborative learning, and independent tasks

A timely text that outlines the basics of solution focused therapy then applies the approach to a range of multicultural populations

This book shows how to increase student academic achievement in the classroom by implementing 21st Century skills and themes, using a clear set of guidelines or best practices referred to as Digital Age Best Practices.

By presenting the differences as well as the underlying commonalities of institutional theories, this book presents a cohesive view of the many flavours and colours of institutionalism. It evaluates and clarifies developments in both theory and research while identifying future research directions.

This book details the evolution of domestic violence during the 16-year marriage of author Beth Sipe. Insightful commentaries written by experts in the field follow Beth's story and deepen our understanding of the causes and process of spousal abuse, why battered women stay, and the dynamic consequences of domestic violence.

Encapsulates the broad ideas of the series by presenting the evolving theory behind the construct of academic language, a definition and examples of each of its components, and a template for direct classroom application.

Examining current research on group counseling and psychotherapy, this is an essential resource for advanced students and researchers alike. Major topics in the field of groups are included: history; best practices; settings; groups across the lifespan; special topics; multicultural groups; as well as critical issues and emerging themes in group counselling and psychotherapy.

Advanced Handbook of Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare

This volume on globalization in business deconstructs the myth of global management universalism, explores the problems of universal strategies and the role of local values, and presents new approaches to the study and research of management and organizations.

Providing an overview of this rapidly expanding area of media and communication studies, leading contributors offer a range of perspectives on the relationship between the process of globalization and international communication.

This work demonstrates the link between individual, clinical work and its wider social significance, and shows how society's problems inevitably find their way into the private "confessions" of counselling clients.

Demonstrating and showcasing theory into action, this book provides perspectives on the study of rhetoric and rhetoric's ability to affect change in society.

How do you decide whether a self-administered questionnaire is appropriate for your research question? This book provides readers with an answer to this question while giving them the basic tools needed for conducting a self-administered or mail survey. It also includes coverage on web-based questionnaires, and literacy and language issues.

Based firmly on research, The Internet and Health Communication provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in human communication and health care resulting from the Internet revolution. The contributors, representing a wide range of expertise, provide an extensive variety of examples to vividly illustrate their findings and conclusions.

The Handbook of Social Work Direct Practice discusses the context of practice, its theories and frameworks, approaches to change, fields of practice, research and empirical issues, and professional issues.

This nonjudgmental, inclusive, and far-reaching text focuses on the diverse patterns of family structure prevalent in our society today. Family Diversity presents empirical research on the internal dynamics, social environments, support factors, prevalence of discrimination, and common stereotypes that account for the issues surrounding current family relations. By examining the history and nature of foster and adoptive, single-parent, lesbian/gay, step- and grandparent family units, Pauline Irit Erera is able to challenge both the idealized family prototype and the hegemony of the traditional structure. ''

Designed to fill a gap in the literature on professional ethics for psychologists, this book covers topics typically neglected in existing books, being more radical and controversial than much of the literature in this area

Editors Jan Currie and Janice Newson consider globalization as combining a market ideology with a corresponding material set of practices drawn from the world of business. Issues of managerialism, privatization, and accountability - central values in business - have become primary for universities and their administrators as well.

Already a bestseller in previous editions, this practical guide provides students with the essential guidelines for dealing with issues that arise when treating culturally diverse clients.

This book bridges the gap between educational psychology theory and classroom practice. Specific objectives give teachers and teacher-trainees access to current advances in research and theory on human learning, teaching, and instruction in an easily understood and usable form.

Going beyond the simple process of assessing needs to the implementation of solutions for resolving them, this sequel to the best seller, From Needs Assessment to Action shows you how the results of needs assessments can be transformed into action plans for an organization and the procedures for facilitating that change. Unique to this book is a detailed glossary of needs assessment terms.

This book explores a variety of graphical displays that are useful for visualizing multivariate data. The basic problem involves representing information that varies along several dimensions when the display medium is inherently two-dimensional. In order to address this problem, Jacoby introduces and explores the concept of a `data space'.

Will a one-child policy increase economic growth? Does globalization contribute to global warming? Are unequal societies less healthy than more egalitarian societies? It is questions like these that social scientists turn to quantitative macro-comparative research (QMCR) to answer.

A collection of essays by feminist scholars on feminist sociology, reflecting the cultural and historical context in which feminist scholarship has taken place.

Educators across grade levels and content areas can apply the concepts of Marzano's New Taxonomy to turn standards into concrete objectives and assessments to measure student learning.

This title summarizes what is known about the multiple causes of men's violence against women, and stresses the importance of identifying men's risk factors.

This book provides recent real-life case studies, and offers practical guidance and recommendations for assessing the risks of workplace violence and preventing it. Substantial appendices cover: zero tolerance policies; sample survey and audit instruments; post office violence;the results of an important US national and local survey;state and federal guidelines on violence.

A comprehensive, case-study rich first year introduction to comparative politics.