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Preschoolers are passionate about learning, and a high-quality preschool program offers rich learning experiences in the areas of language and literacy. This book gives teachers and other professionals fresh ideas, inspiration, and practical tools for integrating age-appropriate literacy instruction into the preschool curriculum.

Helps you understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy with African American clients. This work explores the problems and challenges facing African American communities at different socioeconomic levels, and outlines an empowerment-based approach to helping clients mobilize cultural and personal resources for change.

Intended for those involved in studying the mental health consequences of large-scale traumatic events or in measuring the effectiveness of postdisaster interventions.

Accessible and hands-on yet grounded in research, this book addresses the "e;whats,"e; "e;whys,"e; and "e;how-tos"e; of integrating literacy instruction and the arts in grades K-8. Even teachers without any arts background will gain the skills they need to bring music, drama, visual arts, and dance into their classrooms. Provided are a wealth of specific resources and activities that other teachers have successfully used to build students' oral language, concepts of print, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing, while also promoting creativity and self-expression. Special features include reproducible worksheets and checklists for developing, evaluating, and implementing arts-related lesson plans.

Brings together leading investigators who integrate two distinct research domains in social psychology - people's internal worlds and their close relationships. This book presents findings on the bidirectional interplay between internal processes, such as self-esteem and self-regulation, and relationship processes.

From the founder of the internationally known Benchmark School, this book presents a proven approach for helping struggling students become fully engaged readers, learners, thinkers, and problem solvers. It includes quick-reference charts and reproducible figures and activities that can be used in all subject areas from kindergarten to grade 12.

This volume provides unique and valuable firsthand accounts of the most important longitudinal studies of attachment.

Examining brain-behavior relationships in atypically developing children, this volume integrates theories and data from multiple disciplines. It presents research on specific clinical problems, including autism, Williams syndrome, learning and language disabilities, ADHD, and issues facing infants of diabetic mothers.

This book presents a complete anger and aggression management training program for middle and high school students.

From prominent authorities in the field, the revised and expanded second edition of this acclaimed work is an essential resource for anyone providing treatment services or conducting research in the area of trauma and PTSD.

This innovative volume delineates a developmental theory of love relationships that provides a comprehensive framwork for treating couples.

This pragmatic text helps students master the craft of copy editing - including both the editing skills and the "people skills" essential to professional success.

The Adolescent Transitions Program (ATP) has been nationally recognized as a best practice for strengthening families and reducing adolescent substance use and antisocial behavior. This book presents a multilevel intervention and prevention program for at-risk adolescents and their families. It also includes illustrative case examples.

A hands-on guide aimed to help school practitioners conduct effective multidimensional assessments of a wide range of emotional and behavioural difficulties.

This book examines the political economy of workfare, the umbrella term for welfare-to-work initatives that have been steadily gaining ground since candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 promise to "end welfare as we know it."

Presents the first empirically supported homework intervention approach to ADHD.

Provides a much-needed bridge between disparate bodies of research, examining the specific processes through which children internalize the lessons learned in social contexts.

Focuses on the breadth of issues that affect psychotherapy with African American Women, this unique volume is designed to help clinicians develop a broader understanding of what is useful and what is problematic. .

A hands-on guide aimed to help school practitioners conduct effective multidimensional assessments of a wide range of emotional and behavioural difficulties.

What can be done to help those persons who consistently do not respond to therapeutic interventions, despite significant suffering and repeated attempts to seek treatment? This text presents a powerful evidence-based approach to working with these individuals.

Examines the impact of parental psychiatric disorder on parenting and child development. One in ten women suffers from an episode of significant depression after birth - effecting the quality of the mother-infant relationship.

Brings forensic professionals up to date on key issues surrounding insanity evaluations. It delineates explicit, research-based guidelines for interview-based assessments, psychological testing and other specialized procedures.

This book outlines effective assessment, management, and treatment procedures that balance the need for high-quality care with the requirements of court-determined and statutory standards.

This manual offers an approach to the prevention and treatment of undergraduate alcohol abuse. The BASICS model is a nonconfrontational, harm reduction approach that helps students reduce alcohol consumption gradually.

This manual outlines how the ADA applies to a wide range of mental and physical impairments within higher education settings, it outlines a series of fundamental principles and actual clinical/administrative procedures.

This text provides a framework for teaching students how to be students, and offers practical guidance on how academic learning, at its best can be brought about.

This book offers important insight into such issues as gender-role expectancies, relationship norms and goals, and cultural assumptions about friendship and sexuality.

Presenting a flexible short-term dynamic model, and including step-by-step guidelines and case material, this book shows how to conduct successful therapies with personality-disordered clients.