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What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It
While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding, clinical practice lags behind. This book describes what treatment and prevention would look like if it were based on the best science available.
What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It
While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding rapidly, clinical practice still lags behind. This book incorporates developmental, neurobiological, genetic, behavioral, and social-environmental perspectives, and talks, among the other things, about the nature and causes of alcohol and other drug problems.
Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it. Leading researcher and clinician Deborah Waber offers an alternative to the prevailing view of learning disability as a problem contained within the child. Instead, she shows how learning difficulties are best ......
Presenting a flexible short-term dynamic model, this book shows how to conduct successful therapies with personality-disordered clients. With step-by-step guidelines and case material, it demonstrates how to bring about rapid and enduring changes in personality-disordered clients.
A guide to implementing response to intervention (RTI) in schools. It explains the main components of RTI - high-quality instruction, frequent assessment, and data-based decision making - and shows how to use it to foster positive academic and behavioral outcomes for all students.
Successful implementation of response to intervention (RTI) for academic skills problems requires rigorous progress monitoring. This book shows how the proven instructional technology known as precision teaching (PT) can facilitate progress monitoring while building K-12 students' fluency in reading, writing, math, and the content areas. Detailed ......
Successful implementation of response to intervention (RTI) for academic skills problems requires rigorous progress monitoring. This book shows how the proven instructional technology known as precision teaching (PT) can facilitate progress monitoring while building K-12 students' fluency in reading, writing, math, and the content areas. Detailed ......
Now revised and expanded with the latest research and adaptations for additional target behaviors, this is the gold-standard guide to Check-In, Check-Out (CICO), the most widely implemented Tier 2 behavior intervention. CICO is designed for the approximately 10–15% of students who fail to meet schoolwide behavioral expectations...
