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This critical examination of the origins of mass communication research from the perspective of an educational historian investigates the educational meaning of mass media, with the goal of understanding the essential connection between education and communication.

This text charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. It documents and analyses how, from the early 19th century through to the present, the combined endeavours of schools, advertising and media have led to the creation of a consumerist ideology.

This guide should be of use to mental health professionals treating religious persons. The authors detail how their manual-focused approach aims to overcome emotional distress.

Presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This book aims to go beyond individual cases and practices to examine the approaches and ideas on which they are based.

This text presents principles and methods for studying children in the varied contexts in which they live and function. It is written for people interested in how to examine and describe children as well as those interested in creating educational environments for children.

Combines theory, practice, and plenty of clinical examples to introduce an approach to case management that's based on a biopsychosocial vulnerability-stress model. This title focuses on the dynamic interplay among biological, psychological, social and environmental factors that influences the development and severity of a person's mental illness.

Offers helping professionals a thorough introduction to the neurobiological aspects of substance abuse. Presents basic information on the subject, including various neubiological theories of addiction, and places them in a psychosocial context.

Provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. This volume highlights non-traditional perspectives on health communication.

Explores the interplay of historical, traditional culture with contemporary youth culture. It also examines the relationship between individual outcome and community disorganization and illustrates how peer relationships are conditioned by gender.

Based on data collected around the world on drivers of all age groups, this work provides a picture of the realities of driving, including visual perception issues, cell phone distractions, fatigue, drugs, and the effects of aging. It explains why we crash, as well as how we achieve the amazing feat of not crashing more often than we do.

This volume documents and describes the growth of task-based research in language acquisition. It presents the origins, principles and key distinctions of referential communication research in first and second language studies, plus analyses and illustrations of different types of materials.

This study examines the complex problem of school violence using qualitative and ethnographic data from observations, individual interview and focus groups, as well as published data. The book also analyzes violence programmes and assesses their effectiveness.

This updated edition presents a civic journalism treatment of the field of mass communication. It focuses on the empirical consequences of the work of journalists and includes additional material concerning media ownership structures and their possible relationship to media content and effects.

Demonstrates how quality assurance tools and methods that have been applied successfully in the manufacturing and service industries can be applied in the testing industry. This book reviews how business process concepts can be used to improve the way in which tests are designed, administered, scored and reported so that errors can be eliminated.

Introduces the statistical, methodological, and conceptual aspects of mediation analysis. This volume intends to help the reader apply mediation analysis to their own data and understand its limitations. It also describes the estimation of mediation effects including assumptions, statistical tests, and the construction of confidence limits.

Case studies of individual language learners are a valuable means of illustrating issues connected with learning, using, and in some cases, losing another language. This volume provides an overview of case study methodology and examples of published case studies in applied linguistics.

Addresses students' ideas about time, evidence, significance, and agency, as well as classroom contexts of history education and broader social influences on students' and teacher's thinking. This book emphases on techniques for interviewing children, the impact of theory on research, and the importance of cross-cultural comparisons.

Brings together probabilistic risk assessment and decision analysis using real case studies. This book focuses on methods for making logical decisions about complex engineered systems and products in which safety is a key factor in design - and where failure can cause great harm, injury, or death.

This volume examines television families in the context of family theory and research, and situates TV family analysis in a conceptual framework reflecting the experience of family life. For students and scholars in media studies, family communication and family studies.

Exploring the psychological processes involved in demonization and their implications for the effort to effect change in relationships, psychotherapy, and beyond the office or clinic in the daily lives of families, organizations, and societies, this book is illustrated with 24 case stories.

How do findings from the neurosciences inform best practices in psychotherapy? How can one change neural structures by psychological means? What are the neural mechanisms of therapeutic change? This book links the findings of modern neuroscience to the insights of psychotherapy.