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Details how the growth and development of social media has influenced how people interact with one another receive news and form social bonds. This second edition features new content on fake news, disinformation, conspiracy theories, bots and trolls, social media influencers, the growth of Instagram and TikTok, and podcasts.
Provides students with a collection of engaging and thought-provoking articles that deepen their understanding of the topics and themes discussed within courses that address social issues. Designed to stimulate critical thought, this is an ideal supplementary text for courses in sociology and any other course that explores social challenges.
Provides practicing school counsellors, school counseling supervisors, school counselor educators, and counselors-in-training with the knowledge and tools they need to effectively implement and lead small groups within school contexts.
Equips students with the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to write persuasively. Utilizing an audience-centred perspective, the book shows how persuasive writing emerges organically after critically assessing the goals of an organisation's message in light of its intended audience.
Designed to help students expand their ability to think and reason. The text underscores the importance of logical thinking in professional and personal contexts. The book demonstrates how the ability to understand the arguments of others and formulate arguments can make or break negotiations, job offers, personal relationships, and more.
Challenges future educators to look inward and engage in self-reflection to better understand their own personal beliefs and identities. Equipped with this information readers can begin to locate their blind spots and biases, nuances that can affect their teaching and interactions with students.
Provides students with an accessible guide to all aspects of social scientific research methods. The book features a comprehensive discussion of qualitative and quantitative data gathering strategies, and a plethora of current examples to help readers understand the process of research and investigating issues relevant to criminal justice.
Explores the ways in which helping professions are practiced in the context of a multifaceted society. The text advances understanding that ethnic group and race categories are useful but limited without the inclusion of the intersectionality of race/culture/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientations, class, disability, religion/spirituality, and age.
Provides readers with a comprehensive exploration of body structural organisation from the cellular level to the organisation of tissues and membranes to full biological systems. The information equips students with the deep knowledge and understanding of contemporary veterinary science they need to become effective veterinary technicians.
Introduces students to philosophical and methodological traditions used to explain political phenomena, as well as standard analyses of power, authority, democracy, and authoritarianism. Students learn how analytical methods can provide insight into diverging patterns of domination and conflict within and between states.
Recognising that the health care field has undergone significant changes in recent years, Case Management Adherence Guide 2020 helps health care professionals gain and integrate skills and methods for even more comprehensive assessments of clients' families or their support systems.
Those entering a university often find themselves unprepared and lacking in the skills necessary to do well in this new environment. This book helps students to bridge the gap between their past learning experiences and the new expectations they face as college students. This text gives students the tools they need to succeed in college and beyond when preparing for health care industry careers.
Guides you on a journey of self-exploration and reflection to help you uncover the able and capable individual at your core. You'll be challenged to reflect upon times in the past when you've employed your resources, talents, and personal strengths to thrive - and how you can leverage those experiences to face new challenges, tasks, and goals.
Encourages readers to analyse social conflicts, socialized prejudices, and conditions of intolerance that arise from tension between people of different races, classes, and genders. The book provides an intersectional framework to demonstrate how participation in political, economic, and social affairs is crucial in reforming systems of oppression.
Provides students with an accessible introduction to the knowledge and fundamentals that are necessary to understand software and hardware. The text also reviews implementation techniques to familiarize students with more complex software and prepare them to take more advanced courses within the discipline.
Explores a variety of the most timely and salient challenges facing the correctional system. The text is comprised of chapters written by experts in the field who have experience as both academic and criminal justice practitioners.
Presented from the perspectives of a former FBI profiler and a forensic violence-risk expert, Profiling Violent Crime educates readers about the nature of criminal profiling including how it works, the techniques it draws on, the types of offenders it applies to, and the psychological make-ups of those offenders.
Through a collection of carefully curated readings, this text helps readers better understand cultural variations in social interaction, the development of self, the formation of families and communities, the processes that produce conformity or deviance, and the conditions that lead to conflict and social change.
Explores the intersectionality of intercultural communication and cultural studies, blending social science approaches with critical perspectives. Each chapter examines how marginality and privilege pertain to issues surrounding race, gender, sexuality, class, dis/ability, language, and inter/nationality.
Provides students with a hands-on approach to understanding the impacts and nuances of global factors such as governmental regulations, social-cultural trends, language, religion, economic activities, ethical behaviour, and decision-making on a company's strategies to do business outside of its home market.
Provides readers with an effective model for fostering DEI within a variety of contexts, including education, corporate settings, , social organisations, and more. The book equips people with a desire to advance issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion with the ability to clearly articulate their goals and then strategically move toward them.
Provides students with timely and thought-provoking articles that underscore the complexities of global politics and their far-reaching impacts on the rest of the world. This text is ideal for courses in international relations, comparative politics, international studies, and world politics.
Provides students with a comprehensive collection of significant research on human development. Created to provide future child educators with vital information and insight, Developmental Domains in Early Childhood is ideal for courses and programs in human development, child development, and education.
Offers students an essential perspective on diversity and equality in childhood studies. The anthology features a selection of carefully curated articles that introduce readers to theories, definitions, and a variety of techniques that can be applied in diverse settings.
Provides students with a thoughtful and insightful overview of some of the religions of the world, and helps them identify both the differences between them and the underlying themes and values that connect them.
Provides students with a carefully curated selection of articles that address the principal issues inclusive in the history of the discipline, including globalization, gender, race and ethnicity, kinship, language, and climate change.
Featuring a highly personal and engaging writing style, this volume equips readers with the knowledge, confidence, and competence to sustain a successful practice. It emphasizes the importance of developing a therapeutic alliance with clients and speaks to the skills and attitudes that will help them form, foster, and manage this relationship.
Enhances social sciences and counselling students' cultural understanding, sensitivity, and communication skills so they can provide competent and appropriate care for Chinese families around the world.
Provides vital, engaging readings that reposition the multiple perspectives and experiences that exist within the classroom. The goal of the book is to clarify, demystify, and increase understandings of important aspects of culture.
Contributors discuss the challenges and triumphs involved in the pursuit of integration of multicultural and social justice concerns in their personal and professional lives. They share how they remain engaged in the continual practice of self-discovery while remaining culturally responsive and humble.
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