Best Professional Practices for Serving the Needs of All Students
This comprehensive, landmark guide presents an evidence-based approach to assessment and instruction in K-12 education that takes into account individual differences in students.
Because dementia is a progressive deterioration in cognitive functions that leads to intellectual, emotional, and behavioural changes, it presents significant challenges to the patient and caregiver alike. In this video, Dr. Susan M. McCurry discusses and demonstrates her contextual approach to working specifically with caregivers of those who ......
The population of people in the United States over the age of 65 is one of the most rapidly growing groups in America. Therefore, it is essential for therapists who work closely with older adults to be able to define and administer an effective course of therapeutic treatment. For older adults with mental health issues, problem-solving skills can ......
Presence in psychotherapy, considered to be a fundamental underlying quality of an effective therapeutic relationship, is essentially the state of having one's whole self in the encounter with a client by being completely in the moment on a multiplicity of levels: physically, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually. Not a replacement for ......
The ambitious goal of this book is to transform how mental health practitioners understand and treat diverse groups of women. Doing so involves thinking in more nuanced ways about women's multiple identities that are formed from the complex interplay of ethnic and racial background, social class, sexual orientation, ability/disability status, ......
Trauma can impact people not only psychologically, socially, and physically, but spiritually as well. Recent clinical research has shown that psychotherapists working with traumatized clients can foster better outcomes if they exercise sensitivity to their clients' spiritual needs. This book addresses a wide range of different client presenting ......
Offers specific guidelines for deciding when accommodations are appropriate for a student with disabilities - depending on the test being taken, the accommodations being considered, and the student's functional skills. It explains how laws and practices differ for K-12 accommodations versus postsecondary education and workplace accommodations.
Arms therapists with the information they need to provide advice on the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine therapies and describes a broad array of approaches that may benefit clients: from biofeedback, meditation, hypnosis, yoga, and spirituality to biologically-based practices including dietary supplements and ......
Volume 1: Attitudes and Social Cognition Volume 2: Group Processes Volume 3: Interpersonal Relations Volume 4: Personality Processes and Individual Differences
Summarizes the current state of knowledge on major topics within the fields of personality and social psychology. Coverage is contemporary, from social cognition, to emotional experience, from religious beliefs to interpersonal relations. The chapters reflect a wide range of theoretical perspectives at different levels of analysis, including ......