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Aims to bridge the gap between the psychosocial realities of clients and the dominant clinical practices. This book combines historical, ethical, and experiential foundations for the development of social justice based practices. It also explores conceptual frameworks, clinical tools, and strategies used by social justice oriented practitioners.

Intended to be used with other mass communication textbooks, this supplemental text on PR law is intended for the mass communication law course, which is a mainstay in accredited programs in mass communication, journalism, broadcasting, telecommunications, public relations, mass media, and related curricula.

An overview of all the knowledge and skills those training as marriage and family therapists and counselors need to pass final degree program, certification or licensing examinations. It is organized into three sections: Basic Clinical Knowledge and Skills, Common Client Problems, and Career Issues.

Shows English teachers how they can expand their curriculum beyond the traditional emphases on grammar and syntax, to help their students learn about many aspects of the English language, including general semantics, regional and social dialects, syntax, spelling, lexicography, and word origins. This book is suitable for classroom teachers.

Offers a comprehensive review of and knowledge about the selected international and national standards and guidelines in the broadly defined area of ergonomics and human factors - including relevant safety and health issues. This book is suitable for professionals in HFE and other related fields including ergonomics specialists, and practitioners.

This title provides a sampling of the expanse of topics in the domain of how clinical scholars and practitioners address the timely topic of maintaining and enhancing close romantic relationships, including marriage.

This guide introduces teachers to an anthropological framework and to a research and practice base that will help them be more successful in teaching students from various immigrant cultures. The book focusses on home-school communication and parent involvement.

Working from the position that public relations is a theoretically grounded and research based discipline with the potential to bring numerous areas of applied communication together, the authors have developed this volume to open up the public relations field to a variety of theories.

Deals with the issues of Universal Design and Universal Access in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This book introduces students to the human-, organizational-, and technology-oriented dimensions that call for a departure from traditional approaches to user interface development.

In this text, Calhoun and Tedeschi construct a systematic framework for clinical efforts to enhance the processses they sum up as post-traumatic growth.

Presents the theories and assesses the impact of automation on different aspects of human performance. This book also provides both basic and applied research to highlight the general principles of human-computer interaction in several domains where automation technologies are implemented.

Presents papers which follow in the footsteps of a small but growing international community of scholars and practitioners of participatory systems design. This book provides various original European perspectives as well as American approaches.

How is sexual abuse to be defined? What are the effects of abuse? How can the victim be helped? This book covers a wide range of issues concerning the sexual abuse of children. Topics such as epidemiology, legal reforms, and child pornography are dealt with in this and the companion volume.

Provides results from Practice Improvement Collaboratives (PIC) that demonstrate how substance abuse treatment can be improved by increasing the exchange of knowledge between community-based service providers and the research community. This book is useful for alcohol and drug counsellors, and directors of alcohol and drug treatment clinics.

Viscum album has been used as a remedy for 2000 years, in the 21st century predominantly in complementary cancer therapy. This book examines mistletoes world-wide, their history, cultivation, development and processing, description of relevant compounds, pharmacology and toxicology.

Documents the United States' hidden growth crisis and shows how balanced transportation and natural resource preservation can put urban development on a sustainable path, as well as making it more efficient and equitable for consumers. This book features case studies on transportation and conservation in Florida and the Northeast.

This book provides a critical analysis of the origins, nature, development, and transformation of the state and society historically and today, examining the class nature and social basis of politics and the state in different societal settings

An exposition of the mathematical methods and main results of the Boundary Layer Theory. It explores the theory's mathematical studies and their importance to the nonlinear theory of viscous and electrically conducting flows, the theory of heat and mass transfer, and the dynamics of reactive and multiphase media.

Thought-provoking meditation on how people discover and reproduce the 'meaning' of their social life - includes the impact of electronic media.

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a semiconductor for electronic and optoelectronic applications for high-temperature, high-power, high-frequency, and radiation hard environments. This book explores the history and developments in the Silicon Carbide (SiC) field, with an emphasis on the properties and applications of SiC to electronics and optoelectronics.

Fuel cells are advanced energy conversion and power generation systems with inherent high-energy conversion efficiency and environmentally-friendly operation. This textbook on fuel cells covers the fundamentals of this topic as well as performance evaluation and applications.

Maintenance operators that can understand and properly use blueprints and schematics have little difficulty in correctly interpreting and using plant unit process drawings. This guide covers basic principles of blueprint reading and deals with principles and applications of schematics and symbols.

Presenting a mathematical analysis of problems related to the evolution of domains, this book provides various tools to handle moving domains on the levels of intrinsic definition, computation, optimization, and control. It addresses real-world engineering problems with applications to free surface flows, and fracture and contact problems.

Explains complex analysis, its geometrical interpretation of, and its application to Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems. This work presents a discussion of complex analysis, and a description of conformal mapping and its application to boundary value problems for the two-dimensional Laplace equation.

Addresses statistical challenges posed by inaccurately measuring explanatory variables, a common problem in biostatistics and epidemiology. This book explores both measurement error in continuous variables and misclassification in categorical variables. It is suitable for biostatisticians, epidemiologists, and students.

A monograph that examines a variety of phenomena in which interfaces play a crucial role. It studies developments related to the Marangoni effect, including patterned convection and instabilities, oscillatory/wavy phenomena, and turbulent phenomena.

Offers a survey of developments in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering theory. This book uses point sources combined with several far-reaching techniques to obtain qualitative reconstruction methods while addressing questions of uniqueness, stability, and reconstructions for both two-and three-dimensional problems.

Offers a treatment of the theory and mathematics of fuzzy automata and fuzzy languages. This title compares the different approaches used in fuzzy mathematics and automata and includes proofs of the theoretical results presented. It discusses applications in a variety of fields, including databases, learning systems, and pattern recognition.

Bridges the gap between the heavy computational methods preferred by some engineers and the more mathematical approach favored by others. This work provides detailed explanations of the important steps within the mathematical development, and where possible, physical interpretations of mathematical results.

Pierre Davet describes the subterranean world and the micro-organisms to be found there, then shows how micro-organisms can modify the physico-chemical environment, the microbiological equilibria and can affect the growth of plants, before discussing both interventions and the utilization of these organisms.