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This book overviews current therapeutic models and the environments of inpatient treatment for children and adolescents with mental health needs. The authors provide guidelines for practitioners so that they can make a well-informed choice for the child and the family on how and when to use such services as hospitals, group homes and residential treatment centres.

Covering a variety of legal, moral, ethical, financial and public relations issues, this book can be used to evaluate prospective secondary school administrators train newly appointed administrators, or explore self-evaluation and alternative solutions for common situations faced by practicing administrators.

Shows you how to have outstanding volunteer programs and make your volunteers feel useful and committed.

A resource guide to curriculum materials that incorporates workplace experiences in science, mathematics, and technology education.

Focuses on teacher development, teacher research, student enrichment, and systemic programs that support improvements in science and mathematics education.

This work brings organization and clarity to a murky and disagreement-filled topic.

The authors address how to effectively communicate to parents the learning progress of their children.

This book is filled with ideas, projects, and tips from primary teachers in The United States. Designed to be a helpful resource for practicing as well as future teachers, the book is full of examples for lesson plans, calendars, classroom discussions, uses for new technology, handling communication with parents, and much more.

The author offers jargon-free language, sidebar notes, and handy chapter summaries to help teachers foster the development of emotional literacy.

This book contains a wealth of strategies for new and experienced teachers. Specific examples and advice are provided for negotiating the school culture, planning lessons, teaching strategies, multicultural classrooms, and classroom management and discipline.

This resource provides useful teaching ideas for middle and high school teachers who want to excel during that all-important first year.

This kit includes eight 45-minute audiotapes and a workbook that teachers can use to polish their skills through proven strategies on discipline, curriculum development, counseling, evaluation, and more. The workbook can also be purchased separately.

Focusing on the education of teachers in the United States, this volume addresses the areas of context, process, curriculum and communication.

What constitutes sexual harassment between staff members in schools? Between students? Between students and staff? This book examines these questions in relation to adult-to-student and student-to-student interactions.

The author includes surveys, checklists, and other assessment tools help you determine your school's preparedness for an emergency. You'll find over 30 examples of different types of plans that cover such occurrences as bomb threats, fires, floods, kidnappings, shooting, suicides, and tornadoes.

Written from extensive experience, this book describes the author's perceptions of the role of the educational superintendent in the United States. Richard C Wallace Jr conveys an image of an educational director who provides vision-based leadership to improve the quality of education for students and the quality of performance of teachers and administrators.

The authors of Confronting Public Health Risks provide case examples and specific tools for analyzing and dealing with serious health hazards. The book includes six case studies from the areas of environmental health, occupational health and the AIDS epidemic. Each case study is followed by a discussion of a key issue involved and the links that exist with other cases covered in the book.

The authors of this innovative volume alert readers to personal and professional biases that can interfere with objective judgement, thereby precluding appropriate evaluation, protection and treatment for children and their families.