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Identifies how socially proficient molesters successfully ingratiate themselves into families and communities. This book examines their techniques and strategies, while detailing the tools for prevention. It is useful to parents, lawmakers, police, teachers, and therapists.

An anthology of Chinese writings drawn from the late-1980s Maoist revival in mainland China. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, these selections are introduced and annnotated to provide an appreciation of their historical significance and the ideological confusion in China.

Provides practical strategies based on theories of human development for working with clients recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction. An understanding of these theories is intended to help therapists and addiction counsellors to recognize stages of recovery.

Empowered by findings and insights from the wit and wisdom of the indigenous Chaga educational system, Dr. Mosha contends that an authentic educational program in Tanzania and elsewhere should be holistic in its quest to educate.

Discusses the spectrum of clinical interventions and family therapy for troubled and divorcing families. This resource presents two models that explore the dynamics of conflicted couples moving toward divorce and considers specific family circumstances that affect the entire divorce process.

An exploration of the options available for aiding minority women in some of the world's centres for drug abuse.

Part of the "Cognitive Science and Second language Acquisition" series, this volume provides an overview of the field, and proposes an integrative model of how L2 speech is produced. It examines how research on second language and bilingual speech production can be grounded in L1 research conducted in cognitive science and in psycholinguistics.

This work covers topics such as psychological approaches to the concepts of self and identity, the identity concept in sociology, and the basis of a formal theory of identity formation.

This volume offers an analysis and integration of the empirical research literature and major theories of leadership, with the purpose of understanding what effective leadership is. The ultimate goal is to provide a basis for an integrative model of leadership combining function and process.

A guide that helps improve the quality of life to the rural people in the world who are without electricity. This title provides lessons from successful programs in Bangladesh, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, and Tunisia, as well as Ireland and the United States.

This fascinating book looks at the wide ranging therapeutic, social, and political implications of the new paradigm of women's sexuality.

Looking at the experience of student teaching from the perspective of student teachers, this book is premised on learning to teach as an inquiry process enriched by collaborative conversations. Readers are invited into student teachers' dilemmas and decisions as they negotiate between their public school placements and their university coursework.

This text discusses motivating reading comprehension covering subjects such as classroom contexts for engaged reading, scaffolding for motivation and engagement in reading, the cognitive strategies of reading comprehension and science inquiry in the CORI framework.

Looks at how Virginia Woolf, as well as her husband Leonard, used the concept of madness and the profession of psychiatry to manage and manipulate their own and each other's lives. The author interprets Virginia Woolf's life and work as expressions of her character, and her character as the "product" of her free will.

This is an attempt to broach two views of recess--the perceived value of recess and the movement to eliminate or reduce the school recess period from the primary school day. The data show that students need recess to release energy and interact with each other in the unstructured recess environment in order to grow socially.

This volume on interpreting literature with children covers subjects including: literary elements in prose and poetry; talking about literature; culture and class in children's literature; gender in children's literature; and interpreting literature through writing.

Written for those who use statistical techniques, this text focuses on a conceptual understanding of the material. It uses definitional formulas on small data sets to provide conceptual insight into what is being measured. It emphasizes the assumptions underlying each analysis, and shows how to test the critical assumptions using SPSS or SAS.

Examines financial interest and syndication rules (fin-syn) of the FCC and the impact of their repeal on the structure and practices of the television industry. For scholars in media economics, programming, media criticism, media law and policy, and political economics of mass communication.

This work covers topics such as meta-analysis of effect sizes, meta-analysis of correlations and conversion and transformation equations.

There are virtually no texts available that contain coverage of phonetics, speech acoustics, speech production, and hearing. The authors have designed courses in which they have taught these elements together. The audience for this book with figures, tables, and practice boxes with experiments will be mainly students in the Speech Sciences.

Places working at the same level of attention for social and behavioral scientists and psychotherapists as other major life concerns, like intimate relationships, physical and mental health, and socio-economic inequities. This book is useful for readers in career development, counseling, and policy-related fields.

An ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. It asks whether school can be a place where children learn, question, and grow in an environment that values and builds upon who they are.

The topic of leadership has grown in importance, and how and when managers communicate is critical to their effectiveness. This book provides insight for managers to understand the feedback and open communication processes. It suggests guidelines for how and when managers should engage in negative feedback and open communication with followers.

Aims to provide a comprehensive definition of Organizational Perception Management (OPM) events and tactics. This book uses research and case studies to illustrate the application and effectiveness of OPM in context, and is useful to students, scholars, and practitioners of organizational management.

Examines prosocial behavior from a multilevel perspective that explores the diverse influences that promote actions for the benefit of others and the ways that prosocial actions can be manifested. This work addresses the evolution of altruistic tendencies and other biological explanations of why humans are predisposed to be prosocial.