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Examines the largest clinical sample to date of male survivors of sexual abuse in childhood. Using data from his nationwide North American survey, this title reveals that such abuse is extensive, thus dispelling myths regarding the invulnerability of males.

In Treating Secondary Victims the author builds upon a foundation of both the research literature on incest victims and families, as well as her own clinical experience to provide a conceptual framework for intervention and treatment of the non-offending mother.

Learn how to set up a mentoring program for your district or school that can help administrators be more effective at each stage of their career.

`A book which will be of great interest and use to teachers and school staff' - Young Minds Magazine

Comparing Britain and Japan, this text questions the authenticity of the popular image of Japanese personnel and management development, which has been held up as a model. It addresses such topics as different systems of selection and recruitment, and contrasting approaches to management control.

This survey of social and cultural theory issues poses a challenge to contemporary cultural studies' emphasis on speculation, rather than observation. The authors invite the reader to question their participation in dominant and subcultural practices by providing perspectives on the everyday through ethnography, textual reading, discourse analysis and political economy.

Intelligent School

Using a new model for the classification of types of readings, this book shows how to read, analyze and interpret life story materials. The authors introduce four models: holistic-content reading; holistic-form reading; categorical-content reading; and categorical-form reading.

Therapeutic Work with Sexually Abused Children

Presents an introduction to personal construct counselling for counselling trainees and practitioners. Outlining the key principles of the personal construct approach to counselling and relating them to practice, this book explores ways in which counsellors can build the client's awareness of the manner in which he or she construes problems.

Combines an introduction to key theories in the field with a toolkit of methodological guidelines for analyzing and interpreting organizational life.

This book presents accessible and up-to-date guidelines on the most effective ways of helping clients with anxiety problems. It outlines general methods of working with anxiety sufferers and highlights the issues specific client group.

A new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory.

This book offers a straightforward, practical introduction to evaluation for beginners and practitioners. It shows how to identify appropriate forms and approaches, using an original framework.

A study of institutions, management, ethics and contemporary society.

'... a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. It ranges across central concerns in the fields of social theory, political theory, and science studies and engages with the ideas of key classical and contemporary thinkers' - Barry Smart, Professor of Sociology, University of Portsmouth

Advocating the fundamental need for an innovative and holistic approach to rural development, this book demonstrates and explains, whilst seeking to improve, the mechanisms for planning, managing and financing rural development at the local level.

This book demonstrates how health messages in popular mass media are important influences in our lives, and that they are not neutral, being subject to many determining influences. It demonstrates the importance of mass media for understanding the experience of illness, health and health care.

An anthropological study of the gift, that relates giving to the institutions and social structures of modern life

A first-rate introduction to the study of social networks and more than just a technical manual, this book offers a practical handbook and up-to-date review of the latest research. The authors provide a thorough grounding in the application of the methods of social network analysis.

A dynamic team of authors demonstrates how any classroom teacher can use cooperative learning techniques for lesson planning, classroom management, and improving students' collaboration skills.

Locates contemporary discourses of anorexia nervosa within their historical context, showing how practices continue to be influenced by medicine, psychology, ideology and politics. This book argues that anorexia nervosa must be considered within the political, social and gendered relationships that continue to contribute to its definition.

Analyses where a person's views, attitudes, values come from and why they change?

This reader-friendly guide provides teachers with information, games, book recommendations, specific lesson plans, and straightforward advice on 82 essential aspects of teaching.

This book addresses the role of communication in cultural change efforts within organizations, especially during periods of transition, mergers, technological innovations and globalization.

Shelby Hunt draws on economics, management, marketing and sociology to articulate resource-advantage theory. the author proceeds to illustrate how and why his theory may be used to explain and predict economic phenomena.

Offers a study of quality management that is to be linked with the principles of organizational behavior and analysis. This title bridges the world of theory and practice, making academics aware of developments to improve organizational performance and exploring ways in which these efforts both contribute to and challenge theories.