Setting the Table for Tier 2 Small Group Social and Emotional Learning and Academic Interventions for K-12 Students offers a strategic and proactive approach to supporting K-12 students with a focus on social and emotional learning competencies and academic skills within a multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) framework. The book outlines ......
Using the Art of Poetry to Become a Reflective Practitioner
Dancing with Dementia: Using the Art of Poetry to Become a Reflective Practitioner collects poems written by Robert John Raingruber as he began his descent into Lewy Body Dementia and his wife, Bonnie Jean Raingruber, a mental health nurse, as she cared for him. After the poems, the book provides readers with a tutorial on how to develop their own ......
Creative Counseling: Empowering Health through Makerspace Innovation provides counselors and mental health professionals with a framework for incorporating makerspace ideology into therapeutic practices. The book presents a hands-on approach, advocating for the inclusion of making, creating, and innovating as tools for therapeutic growth. The ......
Philosophy of Happiness: Seeking Wisdom and a Life of Human Flourishing presents readers with an exploration into diverse perspectives on the concept of happiness, beginning with historical insights from ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and moving through medieval Christian and Buddhist viewpoints to contemporary philosophical and ......
An Intersectional Approach to Behavior in the Social Environment: Decolonizing Theory to Practice provides readers with a critical examination of human development through a decolonial, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed framework. The book examines established human development theories from multiple marginalized perspectives, resulting in an ......
Why Communication Is Important and How to Be Good at It
Understanding Human Communication: Why Communication Is Important and How to Be Good at It provides readers with an exploration of why effective communication is vital and how it can be mastered. The book underscores communication as a critical skill for various social, personal, and professional scenarios, and provides readers with an innovative ......
Designed to serve as both a textbook and a course guide, Diversity in Perspective: Thinking and Acting helps students interrogate their own positionality so that they can better understand others and how they experience the world. The book also teaches students how to carefully consider information sources, particularly those pertaining to ......
Readings in Victimology: A Closer Look at Crime Victimization features a collection of carefully selected readings that provide a comprehensive overview of the study of crime victimization within the context of justice, law, and society. The anthology employs a critical perspective, emphasizing the social, economic, and political contexts in which ......
Critical Readings for Understanding Black Life and Culture in the U.S.
Black Perspectives in Sociology: Critical Readings for Understanding Black Life and Culture in the U.S. guides readers through an exploration of Black experiences and contributions to sociology from multiple perspectives. The book examines the work of early Black sociological thinkers such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, and Ida B. Wells, ......
