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A brief and practical guide to the most important aspects of supervisory leadership and personnel management.

Offers an applied and pragmatic approach to leading psychoeducational groups. This title focuses on leadership skills, and how to design and lead groups.

Includes numerous international case examples that demonstrate the use of appreciative inquiry in evaluations and several cases to help users easily locate particular types of case studies and identify the contexts in which those studies took place. This book is suitable to those who are in the field of appreciate inquiry and evaluation.

Helps students to think multi-dimensionally and to apply behavioural science knowledge to the world of social work practice. This book also provides emphasis for students on issues of diversity and populations-at-risk.

The authors present teachers' own observations and reflections on leadership to demonstrate how teacher leaders can help close the achievement gap.

Resilience is a human trait that is key to understanding how people successfully cope with crisis and trauma. This book explains the inner self-healing processes of resilient people and helps people training in the helping professions to learn to use these processes in working with their clients.

This is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstrate clearly the practical applications of social theory in helping students to make sense of the modern world.

This analysis of post-Soviet nationalism covers both its hegemonic forms, executed by dominant groups like the Russians, and its periphery forms, subscribed to mainly by ethnic minorities with diminished status. Both constitute a major obstacle to civic nation-building and democratic reform.

Organizations need to develop learning strategies to survive and develop in increasingly uncertain and changing markets. This book explores theories of strategic management and organizational behaviour to establish a link between learning processes and competitive advantage, within a variety of organizational settings.

This book provides a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice and is an essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences.

Presents an introduction to the key readings on human and close relationships. Organized into twelve thematic chapters with editorial commentary throughout, this book offers a critical reading of the major research articles in the field of relationship studies published in the last few years.

Health care is one of today's most discussed and debated topics. From issues such as accessibility to costs to quality, the debates range widely among doctors, patients, employers, and insurers. A popular topic in political campaigns and the media, health care and health care management is also a quiet and unremitting concern in the private and personal lives of individuals who worry about someday having to choose between food and prescription drugs.The Encyclopedia of Health Care Management will prove invaluable to libraries serving students and professionals in health and business. It will also be an essential reference for health providers and their employees, and students and professors in health and management for responsible and successful practice and administration in the health care industry.

Popular in the First Edition for its rich, illustrative examples and lucid explanations of the theory and use of hierarchical linear models (HLM), the book has been reorganized into four parts with four completely new chapters. The first two parts, Part I on "The Logic of Hierarchical Linear Modeling" and Part II on "Basic Applications" closely parallel the first nine chapters of the previous edition with significant expansions and technical clarifications, such as: * An intuitive introductory summary of the basic procedures for estimation and inference used with HLM models that only requires a minimal level of mathematical sophistication in Chapter 3* New section on multivariate growth models in Chapter 6 * A discussion of research synthesis or meta-analysis applications in Chapter 7* Data analytic advice on centering of level-1 predictors and new material on plausible value intervals and robust standard estimators

Presents a guide to interpretative techniques and methods for policy research.

Develops a theory of organizational survival and demise that could fundamentally alter traditional explanations of organizational persistence and systems maintenance. This title views randomness rather than rationality as the key factor in organizational survival.

Editor Alison A. Carr-Chellman examines the impact of online distance education throughout the world in an effort to understand more deeply the merits of such initiatives. Written from a critical perspective, Global Perspective on E-Learning sheds light on some of the problems faced by international distance educators.

Examining the relationship between men, masculinities and managements, this study examines the reproduction of power and gender inequality in organizations and the connections between specific managerial functions and particular dominant masculinities.

Presents an introduction to the social psychology of health and illness. This book shows how people make sense of illness in everyday life, either alone or with the help of others. It demonstrates the relevance of social and psychological explanations to questions about disease and its treatment.

In this dynamic book, today's educational leaders offer their best ideas for building school communities that are safe, smart, caring, successful, and emotionally intelligent.

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

By helping students see how communication networks must be treated within larger psychological, cultural, and mechanical contexts, the author presents ways to construct effective channels so information is transmitted to the appropriate audiences, linking policy decisions and feedback from citizens.

A guide to the 1997 British elections. It provides accounts of the new era of government in the UK. It sets the stage for the 1997 British election. It tallies the results, reflects on New Labour, comments on the Conservatives' changed role, reports on the media, analyzes the Scottish elections, and reviews the Labour triumph.

The contributors to this innovative volume extend, expound and explain the key areas of social theory long debated between Foucault and Habermas.

Substantially updated, this revised edition of Why Viewers Watch presents recent research, overlooked past studies and fresh survey data to offer an alternative perspective on the role of television and how it serves its viewers psychologically.Fowles argues that television is a `grandly therapeutic force'' - a tension-reliever of great benefit to viewers. He also examines the phenomenon of media snobbery - anti-television attitudes proliferated by those who want to feel superior to others by denigrating television viewing.

Helps to build students' confidence and ability in doing statistical analysis by moving from concepts that require little computational work to those that require more. This book emphasizes the analysis and interpretation of data to give students a feel for how data interpretation is related to the methods by which the information was obtained.

Offers coverage of the key theories, concepts and issues in social policy. This text has been designed to provide students with the essential tools to gain a clear understanding of the theoretical debates surrounding the discipline.

Offers an introduction to the study of policymaking in the European Union (EU). This book introduces the different perspectives to study of the EU as a political system, and provides a framework for the study of the main actors and institutions in the decision-making process. It is intended for students of the EU and European pubic policy.

Multiple regression is at the heart of social science data analysis, because it deals with explanations and correlations. This book is a complete introduction to this statistical method.

This text is an essential sourcebook of key statements about transformations in media culture. Focusing on questions of democracy, technology and culture, it provides theoretical approaches to past and present media transformations; and case studies of a range of media, both old media in new times and emerging new media.

This major collection explores the nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. Drawing on the work of feminists, sociologists and cultural theorists, it contains wide-ranging and accessible contributions to contemporary debates on sexuality, love and eroticism.