The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
Experts Eugene Bardach and Eric Patashnik equip both budding and seasoned policy analysts with the skills they need to succeed, with a practical model including step-by-step advice, insightful discussions, and current case studies.
New headteachers need help as they walk the tightrope between surviving the first years in the job and becoming strong and effective instructional leaders. A Practical Guide for New School Leaders offers concrete strategies, case studies and a personal leadership checklist to help the new school leader develop an individual plan to thrive and ......
New headteachers need help as they walk the tightrope between surviving the first years in the job and becoming strong and effective instructional leaders. A Practical Guide for New School Leaders offers concrete strategies, case studies and a personal leadership checklist to help the new school leader develop an individual plan to thrive and ......
A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions provides trauma counselors with effective guidelines that enhance skills and improve expertise in conducting empowering therapeutic interventions. Taking a practitioner's perspective, author Priscilla Dass-Brailsford focuses on practical application and skill building in an effort to understand the impact of extreme stress and violence on the human psyche. Key Features: Offers comprehensive coverage of trauma intervention: The wide coverage of the different levels of trauma- individual, community, institutional-and attention to the current theoretical and research literature makes this text the most comprehensive regarding trauma and its treatment. Highlights the intersection between trauma and culture: An ecological perspective focuses on the importance of viewing behavior within its social setting and examining the physical and psychosocial barriers to trauma recovery. Emphasizes the theme of "empowerment": Empowerment focuses on client strengths as the practitioner is encouraged to support clients towards resiliency. Provides an extensive historical background: The book examines multigenerational trauma experienced by several ethnic minority groups. Includes case studies and worksheets: Case studies gleaned from the author's clinical experience provide a snapshot of the field and make the work of trauma come alive. Intended Audience: This is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on psychological trauma in the departments of Counseling, Psychology, Human Services, and Social Work. It is also a useful resource for practicing clinicians.
This book's intent is to increase our understanding of the field of trauma, shape practice with both traumatized and non-traumatized people, and increase our understanding of the impact of extreme stress and violence on the human psyche. A Practical Approach to Trauma: Empowering Interventions discusses a brief overview of the field of trauma that includes a history of the field, current theoretical perspectives and methods that provide a paradigm for stage appropriate, culture-based therapy which can be integrated into existing therapeutic orientations. Individual approaches in trauma intervention are included, focusing on specific situations such as rape, domestic violence, child sexual abuse, group interventions, school counseling and secondary traumatization care for practitioners.
With a focus on organization studies, this volume takes readers through the narrative approach to qualitative research, from setting up the fieldwork to writing up the research.
A Practical Legal Guide for Parents and Professionals
Myers demonstrates the devastating consequen ces for women of facing a legal system which frequently does not support them, often attacks them, and sometimes gives t heir children away to the alleged perpetrators. '
A Practical Legal Guide for Parents and Professionals
Myers demonstrates the devastating consequen ces for women of facing a legal system which frequently does not support them, often attacks them, and sometimes gives t heir children away to the alleged perpetrators. '
The trusted series of workbooks by Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards continues with A Microsoft Excel (R)Companion to Political Analysis. In this new guide, students dive headfirst into actual political data working with the ubiquitous Excel software. Students learn by doing with new guided examples, annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, and exercises that reflect current scholarly debates in varied subfields of political science, including American politics, comparative politics, law and courts, and international relations. Chapters cover all major topics in political data analysis, from descriptive statistics through logistic regression, all with worked examples and exercises in Excel. No matter their professional goals, students can gain a leg up for their future careers by developing a working knowledge of statistics using Excel. By encouraging students to build on their existing familiarity with the Excel program, instructors can flatten the statistics learning curve and take some of the intimidation out of the learning process. Gain lost time usually spent troubleshooting software to provide students with a smooth transition into political analysis.
