Presents a collection of presentations given at the 50th anniversary celebration symposium of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina. The book brings together a star-studded list of professionals to address the three themes of the symposium - Early Care and Education, Diversity, and Disabilities.
A Practical Manual for Supporting School Engagement, Aspirations and Success in Young People aged 11-18
Setting out a year-long curriculum based programme for education and youth professionals, this book provides a challenging and engaging workshop-based approach to developing school engagement and ambitions in young people aged 11-18. The programme, which is informed by CBT, helps professionals to understand barriers to young people's school ......
With educational stakeholders in mind, this book uses real-world experiences and evidence-based strategies to guide implementation of a practical and sustainable social emotional learning program.
Counseling and Educational Research: Evaluation and Application fills a special niche for courses in counseling and educational research by teaching students how to be good consumers of research and teaching practitioners how to conduct research in practice. Author Rick Houser uses concrete examples from the professional literature to demonstrate how to effectively evaluate and interpret research articles.
With an emphasis on strengths as recommended in the 2017 multicultural guidelines set forth by the American Psychological Association (APA), this comprehensive text includes considerations for clinical practice with twelve groups, including older adults, immigrants and refugees, clients with disabilities, and multiracial clients.
Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling presents a broad overview of the field of clinical mental health and provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully put theory into practice in real-world settings. Drawing from their experience as clinicians, authors Joshua C. Watson and Michael K. Schmit cover the foundations of ......
Presents a datadriven approach to preventing and responding to school violence. With concrete methods for promoting safety educational settings, this book will engage and enable school faculty, counsellors, administrators, and other partners to better understand areas of common interest and learn how to work together more effectively.
The substantially revised Fifth Edition includes new topics and updated research to help build reader awareness of programs and how to better understand help-seeking behavior, as well as explain ways to take advantage of the resources available to older adults.
The common goal of the contributing authors in this publication is to engage, learn from and share success in order to energise the positive education movement for the benefit of our young people. This is the greatest contribution we can make to the future of our global society and the wellbeing of its citizens. We all seek to offer to everyone ......
