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This is a collection of 46 essays by specialists in Asian literature, who offer a wide range of possibilities for introducing Asian literature to English-speaking students. It is intended to help in promoting multicultural education.

This text introduces and integrates adolescent developmental themes and family systems theory into a coherent assessment and intervention model. Worden emphasizes the process of evaluation and intervention of adolescents and their families with typical therapeutic dilemmas.

An introduction to sociocognitive therapy, covering practical methods of assessment and change. It is designed for both students and practitioners, detailing and explaining the concept of terminal and instrumental interaction hypotheses, showing how it can be applied.

Addresses several forms of violence, including rape, intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual harassment in a contemporary linguistic style carefully crafted to avoid victim blaming. This book also describes a variety of efforts to treat both offenders and victims highlighting their importance and their insufficiency in preventing violence.

Julie Yingling considers communication and relationships through the lens of human development. Beginning with infancy and moving through adolescence to adulthood, the chapters examine communication and cognition in the various stages of human development.

Written for researchers, practitioners, parents and teachers, amongst others, this text describes the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It informs the reader about how drugs, adolescents and the social world affect an adolescent's relationship with his/her parents.

During the 1990s there was increased awareness of the limitations of standard approaches to the study of development. When the focus is on variables and relationships, the individual is easily lost. This title describes an alternative, person-orientated approach.

This volume's goal is to help readers understand how people react to career barriers and how people develop constructive ways of coping with them. The methods also suggest what managers and organizations should do to help their employees who are or may soon be facing career barriers.

This volume presents a chronological overview of Piaget's early ideas and the source of his inspiration, and reviews his research work dividing it into four main periods plus a transitional one. It also contains a glossary covering explanatory concepts which are essential to Piaget's theory.

This is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of what the author has learned from decades of research on the nature, development and functions of exploration and play in children and animals.

This volume examines both the theoretical and practical aspects of cross-cultural psychology. It takes a contextual-developmental-functional approach linking the child, family and society as they are embedded in culture. It also examines the role of psychology in inducing social change.

Designed to provide practical information to those concerned with the development of young children, this book details patterns of language development over the first three years of life; examines the impact of external factors on language development; and provides information for investigators.

This volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and learning. It develops a descriptive scheme that allows perceptual, symbolic and emotional awareness to be discussed in common theoretical terms.

The author of this book believes that cognition should not be rooted in innate rules and primitives, but rather grounded in human memory. More specifically, he suggests viewing linguistic comprehension as a time-constrained process - a race for building an interpretation in short-term memory.

Cognition is a naturally selected response by genetic programmes to the evolutionary pressure of guiding behaviours to goals. This text addresses the topic of the evolutionary rationale of cognition and the way this rationale has shaped the major types of cognition.

This volume examines the links between scientific cognition and folk ways of thoughts. It poses two questions: what is the nature of folk psychology and how is it related to scientific psychology; and what should the relationship be between the two areas?

A discussion of ethical dilemmas that can arise in educational settings, with tips on how to avoid these predicaments and how to deal with them when they do occur. There are 195 ethical dilemmas, presented as short case scenarios, and followed by detailed analysis and advice.

Provides a comprehensive overview of behavioural interventions to prevent HIV-AIDS risk-related behaviours. The book synthesizes empirical literature on individual, group and community-level interventions and provides a detailed assessment of intervention outcomes.

Computers have changed the landscape of both gathering and disseminating information throughout the world. This work is designed to show both students and professional journalists which tools are being used on a daily basis by leading news organizations and journalists.

This text contains the autobiographies of 13 psychologists who work in academic settings. It covers their diverse experiences in their specializations and in the academic institution from which they come.