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V. 1. Theories, research, and methods -- v. 2. Practice, interventions, and applications

For clinical practitioners, school psychologists, and education researchers, state-of-the-art research is harnessed to provide practical recommendations for those working with school-age children. This book shows you the reasoning behind best practice behaviors in school environments and why engaging correctly with students is integral to success.

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v. 1. Intellectual and neuropsychological assessment -- v. 2. Personality assessment -- v. 3. Behavioral assessment -- v. 4. Industrial and organizational assessment

Introduction -- Psychodynamics of trauma -- The assessment -- Stalking and cyberstalking -- Property crime/robbery -- Hate crimes (various victim types and categories) -- Domestic violence -- Violence against children -- Sexual trauma -- Murder -- Societal trauma

"Presented in A to Z format, the Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development consists of three volumes that address the major conceptual areas of child development: learning, behavior, and emotions."

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v. 1. Changes and challenges for counseling in the 21st century -- v. 2. Personal and emotional counseling -- v. 3. Cross-cultural counseling -- v .4. Career counseling

"Presented alphabetically by title, 300 articles probe both enduring and exciting new topics in physiological psychology, perception, personality, abnormal and clinical psychology, cognition and learning, social psychology, developmental psychology, language, and applied contexts."

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"The alphabetically arranged articles address issues in major subject areas such as: Marriage, Family and Household Form, Family Relations, Mate Selection, and Marriage Ceremonies."

"The Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative coverage of the specific terms mostly used in the sciences of learning and its related fields, including relevant areas of instruction, pedagogy, cognitive sciences, and especially machine learning and knowledge engineering."

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Attachment, loss, & the experience of grief -- Understanding the mourning process -- The mourning process: mediators of mourning -- Grief counseling: facilitating uncomplicated grief -- Abnormal grief reactions: complicated mourning -- Grief therapy: resolving complicated mourning -- Grieving special types of losses -- Grief & family systems -- The counselor's own grief -- Training for grief counseling

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SECTION I: INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW -- Adolescent development -- Understanding primary prevention -- Family influences on adolescent development -- Community influence on adolescent development -- Understanding treatment: principles & approaches -- Evidence-based practices -- SECTION II: DISORDERS -- Anxiety disorders in children & adolescents: theory, treatment, & prevention -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- Pediatric bipolar disorder -- Depression -- Suicide -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Oppositional defiant disorder & conduct disorder -- Pervasive developmental delay -- Prevention & treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in adolescents -- Schizophrenia -- Eating disorders -- Obesity -- SECTION III: PROBLEM BEHAVIORS -- Adolescent delinquency & violent behavior -- Substance misuse & abuse -- Gambling -- Adolescent sex offenders -- Sibling incest offenders -- Treatment of gangs/gang behavior in adolescence -- Homicide -- Adolescent pregnancy -- School failure -- Religious cults

Section 1: New Directions in Theoretical Perspectives for Career Development & Guidance -- Section 2: The Person in Contexts across the Life Span -- Section 3: Boom, Bust, & Suitability: Effective Career Preparation in a Volatile Labor Market -- Section 4: Making Our Careers Green: Work, Environmental Sustainability, & Social Justice -- Section 5: Career Services: New Directions for Practice -- Section 6: Innovations in Career Counseling: Services for Special Groups -- Section 7: Career Services: New Directions for Assessment & Evaluation -- Section 8: Career Services: New Directions for Counselor Training, Competencies, & Standards

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"In this thoroughly updated edition, the editors focus critical attention on the need to enhance our understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients. They incorporate new and emerging areas of scholarship and reflect on implications of recent changes in our society, including political struggles for gay civil unions, marriage, and adoption rights. This volume focuses on the complex cultural contexts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and explores how to provide them with effective psychotherapy across a range of presenting concerns."

This comprehensive handbook provides counselors in training, counselor educators, and professional counselors with the latest information on major contemporary issues impacting the field. The design of the book is both conceptual and practical, reflecting current trends and issues from the perspective of expert counselor educators, and provides an up-to-date discussion of the importance of multicultural awareness and skills. The book is split into helpful sections covering a range of areas including social and cultural diversity, neuroscience, risk prevention in counseling, writing and publishing research, and career development.

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Part I. Psychological Inquiry in Education -- Part II. Functional Processes for Learning -- Part III. Learner Readiness & Development -- Part IV. Building Knowledge & Subject Matter Expertise -- Part V. The Learning & Task Environment

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Provides educational and psychological stakeholders with critical domain-specific expertise on the factors and processes relevant to learning for students with special needs. This includes students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, other executive function difficulties, behavior and emotional disorders, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, dyslexia, language and communication difficulties, physical and sensory disabilities, and more.

"The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes, analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and theory about family relationships, family structural variations, and the role of families in society. This updated Handbook provides the most comprehensive state-of-the art assessment of the existing knowledge of family life, with particular attention to variations due to gender, socioeconomic, race, ethnic, cultural, and life-style diversity."

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"The coverage in this important book lies beyond the scope of traditionally defined multiculturalism, with discussion of historically overlooked groups that have experienced prejudice and bias because of their size, social class, age, language, disability, or sexual orientation. This book provides readers with: Practical cases and examples to enhance skill development, promote critical thinking, and increase awareness -- A cross-section of diversity characteristics and best practice guidelines -- Examination of detailed, developmentally relevant competency categories -- Resources and exercises designed for practitioners at various levels of experience and expertise"

1. Introduction to the field of school counseling -- 2. Diversity & school counseling -- 3. Student development -- 4. School counselor competence -- 5. School-based interventions -- 6. Working with socioemotional challenges -- 7. Accountability and professional issues in school counseling

"The Handbook of School Mental Health offers ways for professionals to maximize resources, make and strengthen valuable connections, and attain more effective school-based services and programming. At the same time, the Handbook provides strategies and recommendations in critical areas, such as workforce development, interdisciplinary collaborations, youth/family engagement, consultation, funding, and policy concerns, summarizes the state of current research, and offers directions for further study."

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Users will find reviews on evidence-based academic, behavioral, social, mental health, and community-based interventions that will help increase all types of engagement...Presents practical strategies for engagement intervention and assessment Covers early warning signs of disengagement and how to use these signs to promote engagement Reviews contextual factors (families, peers, teachers) related to engagement Focuses on increasing engagement and school completion for all students Emphasizes multidimensional approaches to disengagement

"As in previous editions, the fourth edition links theory and research with the more applied aspects of this field: four sections cover, in order, the field's history, theory, research, and practical applications."

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"Covers such diverse topics as cohabitation, widowhood, domestic violence, online dating, gender socialization, codependency, same-sex marriages, resilience, commuter marriages, and the history of family life within various cultures"

"Topics cover the following areas: brain development, learning, curriculum, at-risk, classroom management, culture, emotion, foods, intelligence, learning environments, learning challenges, learning theories, and physical movement. Focus is on K-12 education, but also includes information on the pre-school and adult learner."

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Section I: Definitions, Labelling & Patterns of Provision -- Section II: Theories Explaining Child Development & Modes of Intervention -- Section III: Assessment & Intervention in Educational Settings -- Section IV: Specific Approaches & Issues -- Section V: Supporting School-Based Professionals

"Tracing theory, and examining the beginnings of counseling and psychotherapy through its development to current trends and movements, this reference work draws together a team of international scholars. They examine the global landscape of all the key counseling and psychotherapy theories and the theorists behind them while presenting them in context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses. This is a quick, one-stop source that gives the reader the 'who, what, where, how, and why' of contemporary counseling and psychotherapy theory."

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This title integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives - firstly as a positive state of well-being and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.

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"The School Counselor's Guide to Multi-Tiered Systems of Support is the first book to provide school counseling practitioners, students, and faculty with information and resources regarding the alignment and implementation of Comprehensive School Counseling Programs (CSCPs) such as the ASCA National Model and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). This innovative text provides a strong theoretical and research base, as well as practical examples from the field, case studies, and relevant hands-on resources and tools to assist school counselors in comprehending, facilitating, and strengthening the implementation of CSCPs, particularly through MTSS alignment. Furthermore, chapters include pertinent information from the CACREP standards and the ASCA National Model."