Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom

By: Randy M. Page, Tana S. Page
publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
year: 2010, pages: 457
PDF 4.8 Mb

Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom, Fifth Edition provides pre-service and current teachers all the tools and up-to-date information needed for effectively promoting healthy life choices.

Framed around the National Health Education Standards and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions six risk behaviors, this practical text facilitates instructional planning, allows for easy adaptation into various curricular frameworks, and ensures that the most essential health education content is addressed.

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Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning

By: Sanna Jarvela
publisher: Elsevier
year: 2011, pages: 300
PDF 2 Mb

Social and emotional aspects of schooling and the learning environment can dramatically affect one's attention, understanding, and memory for learning. This topic has been of increasing interest in both psychology and education, leading to an entire section being devoted to it in the third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education.

Thirty-three articles from the Encyclopedia form this concise reference which focuses on such topics as social and emotional development, anxiety in schools, effects of mood on motivation, peer learning, and friendship and social networks.

Saves researchers time in summarizing in one place what is otherwise an interdisciplinary field in cognitive psychology, personality, sociology, and educationLevel of presentation focuses on critical research, leaving out the extraneous and focusing on need to know informationContains contributions from top international researchers in the fieldMakes MRW content affordable to individual researchers

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Succeeding in Graduate School: The Career Guide for Psychology Students

By Steven Walfish, Allen K. Hess
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Pages: 416, Date: 2001-06-01
ISBN-10 : 0805836136, epub 0.7 Mb

Psychology students who want to continue their education today are confronted by a bewildering variety of possibilities. Succeeding in Graduate School offers them much needed practical help.

Written by experienced mentors, this book:
*explains the options provided by a bachelor's degree, describes what each of the many available programs at the master's and doctoral levels prepares one to do, helps in selecting the most appropriate program, and enhances one's chances of being admitted;
*gives reader-friendly tutorials in teaching, research, and clinical/consulting skills;
*describes the stresses of life as a graduate student;
*suggests ways to cope with the management of difficult professors, the search for the optimal advisor-mentor match, and other political and emotional problems that can make or break a graduate career;
*offers advice on overcoming obstacles to completing a thesis or dissertation; and
*provides guidance on navigating beyond graduate school: maintaining one's ethical focus, getting into and completing the internship that is a requirement of many programs, obtaining a license for those requiring one to work, and in general, building a career beyond the degree.

Clear, crisp, and comprehensive--with extensive references for further exploration--Succeeding in Graduate School is must reading for undergraduates and graduate students alike.

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Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy

By: Gerald Corey
publisher: Thomson Brooks/Cole
year: 2008 ,Pdf 4.5 Mb

Develop your own counseling style using Corey's bestselling THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY. You will see the major theories of counseling (psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, reality, behavior, cognitive-behavior, family systems, feminist and, and postmodern approaches) as they are used in practice through a case study focused on one client, "Stan."

The case of "Stan" appears in each chapter so you can see how the theory presented in that chapter informs therapeutic decision-making. "At a Glance" charts pinpoint the major differences between theories in areas such as multicultural focus, basic philosophies, and limitations.

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PDF For Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law (2 volume set)

By Brian L. Cutler
Publisher: Sаge Рublications | 2007-12-21
ISBN: 1412951895PDF | 1008 pages | 14.77 MB

Some of the thorniest issues facing a society arise at the intersection of law and psychology. Individuals’ responsibility for their actions, parental rights, imposition of the death penalty on persons with mental illnesses or developmental disabilities, and end-of-life decisions are just a few of the topics that draw on both disciplines.

Scholarship, practice, and education in the interdisciplinary field of psychology and law have grown in recent years, but the development of supporting reference works has lagged behind. This alphabetically arranged encyclopedia goes a long way toward filling the void, with more than 300 entries related to criminal competencies, criminal responsibility, mental-health law, psychology of criminal behavior, psychology of policing and investigations, victim reactions to crime, and more. Criminal-justice topics represent a large proportion of the entries.

The editor’s own research area—eyewitness identification—is more than adequately covered, with 52 entries ranging from Clothing bias in identification procedures to Stress and eyewitness memory. The introduction encourages readers to use the “Reader’s Guide,” which lists entries by theme. Although useful, the guide is sometimes duplicative—all but one of the entries listed in “Psychological and Forensic Assessment Instruments” are also included in “Forensic Assessment in Civil and Criminal Cases.” The themes do help the reader see familiar topics from different perspectives. For example, the entry on the Americans with Disabilities Act is assigned to the “Forensic Assessment in Civil and Criminal Cases” theme, since it examines the use of psychological evaluations in litigation related to disability. Entries vary in length from 1,000 to 3,000 words and include thorough see also references and suggestions for further reading. The latter generally list 5 or 6 sources, although some have only 1 and others may have 12 or 13. Sources include articles from law reviews and psychology journals, books, case citations, the DSM-IV, and reviews of assessment instruments. A comprehensive index completes the work, providing critical access points for persons, statutes, and court cases. Highly recommended for college, law-school, and large public libraries as well as practitioners.

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Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing: The Craft of Caring, Second Edition

By Phil Barker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages: 782
Publication Date: 2009-02-25
ISBN-10 : 0340947632, PDF 6 Mb

Description
The second edition provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of psychiatric and mental health nursing, supported by relevant theory, research, policy and philosophy. The text is based on the concept of "the craft of caring" which considers the basis of good nursing practice to be a combination of both art and science, and requires nurses to take a holistic approach to the practice of psychiatric and mental health nursing.

Chapters have been completely updated to reflect recent developments in nursing practice and the understanding of mental health disorders. This new edition also includes a more international focus with overviews of practice and policy developments around the world. Fourteen new chapters have been added, giving more emphasis to certain groups such as children and adolescents, women, older people, asylum seekers and refugees.

Additional coverage of specialists services, such as psychiatric liaison and spiritual care has been included, and further emphasis is given to psychiatric diagnosis and mental health legislation in relation to human rights. This is an essential text for all psychiatric and mental health nurses at diploma and degree level, as well as qualified mental health nurses seeking to update their knowledge, and also as a reference for other disciplines such as social work, medicine and psychology.

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The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

By Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Christopher F. Zurn
Publisher: Lexington Books
Pages: 390, Date: 2010-01-15
ISBN-10 : 0739144251, PDF 1.03 Mb

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This volume collects original, cutting-edge essays on the philosophy of recognition by international scholars eminent in the field. By considering the topic of recognition as addressed by both classical and contemporary authors, the volume explores the connections between historical and contemporary recognition research and makes substantive contributions to the further development of contemporary theories of recognition.

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Education for Thinking | PDF File

By Deanna Kuhn
Publisher: Harvard University Press (March 15, 2008)
Language: English, 218 pages
ISBN-10: 0674027450, PDF 10 Mb

What do we want schools to accomplish? The only defensible answer, Deanna Kuhn argues, is that they should teach students to use their minds well, in school and beyond.

Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Kuhn maintains that inquiry and argument should be at the center of a "thinking curriculum"—a curriculum that makes sense to students as well as to teachers and develops the skills and values needed for lifelong learning. We have only a brief window of opportunity in children's lives to gain (or lose) their trust that the things we ask them to do in school are worth doing. Activities centered on inquiry and argument—such as identifying features that affect the success of a music club catalog or discussing difficult issues like capital punishment—allow students to appreciate their power and utility as they engage in them.

Most of what students do in schools today simply does not have this quality. Inquiry and argument do. They are education for life, not simply more school, and they offer a unifying purpose for compulsory schooling as it serves an ever more diverse and challenging population.

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The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation: Leveraging Resilience for Life Change

By: James Garbarino
Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition. edition (January 11, 2011)
Language: English, 136 pages
ISBN-10: 1441977430

Description
Given the current climate of economic and environmental uncertainty, it is all too easy for individuals to feel hopeless about their lives and indifferent to the problems of others. But according to leading psychologist, James Garbarino, this is the peak time for people to enhance their optimism, empathy, and emotional responsiveness. In his important new book, The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation, Dr. Garbarino reveals the social basis for moral development in adversity, and the mental and physical benefits of psychological and spiritual growth.

Drawing widely on his years as a healing professional and own experience of personal crisis as well as on decades of resilience and happiness literature, the author traces the evolution of the moral sense that affects all human relationships, including the one with the Earth itself. In these compelling pages, Dr. Garbarino:

Examines how humans’ deep bonds with dogs can model positive human relationships.
Compares the risks and benefits of the “oblivious” versus the self-aware life.
Analyzes the role of trauma in heightening our sense of the meaning of life and defines the experience of transformational grace in adversity.
Explains current manifestations of narcissism and the need for “the positive death of the self.”
Asserts that every person is capable of “living an ‘extraordinary’ life.”

A book with vast significance across the healing disciplines, The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation should be read, savored, and practiced by researchers, practitioners, and scientists in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology; social work; educational and community psychology; sociology; and public health.

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Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education

By Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 528, Date: 2003-03-27
ISBN-10 : 0195149971, 2.63MB, zipped PDF file.

Description:
The Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education is the definitive professional reference work in the field of deafness research. This volume covers all important aspects of deaf studies: language, social/psychological issues, neuropsychology, culture, technology, and education.

Each chapter, written by an acknowledged authority in the field, contains a state-of-the-art review of an important aspect of research concerning individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. The book also includes comprehensive bibliographies and a glossary.

The editors are from the two primary institutions for research and post-secondary education of deaf individuals and were founding editors of OUPs Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. The Handbook is intended for researchers, educators, educational administrators, service-providers such as audiologists, speech therapists, and school psychologists, as well as graduate students in the field of deaf studies.

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Qualitative Research: Studying How Things Work

Title : Qualitative Research: Studying How Things Work
By Robert E. Stake PhD
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pages: 244, Date: 2010-03-03
ISBN-10 : 1606235451, Rar'd PDF 2.7 MB's Full

Description:
This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study. Rather than offering recipes for specific techniques, master storyteller Robert Stake stimulates readers to discover "how things work" in organizations, programs, communities, and other systems.

Topics range from identifying a research question to selecting methods, gathering data, interpreting and analyzing the results, and producing a well-thought-through written report. In-depth examples from actual studies emphasize the role of the researcher as instrument and interpreter, while boxed vignettes and learning projects encourage self-reflection and critical thinking.

Other useful pedagogical features include quick-reference tables and charts, sample project management forms, and an end-of-book glossary. After reading this book, doctoral students and novice qualitative researchers will be able to plan a study from beginning to end.

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Pain Control Support for People With Cancer (Health Psychology Research Focus)

By National Cancer Institute
Publisher: Nova Biomedical Books
Pages: 75, Date: 2009-04
ISBN-10 : 1606928481, PDF 0.81 MB

Description:
Having cancer doesn't mean that you'll have pain. But if you do, you can manage most of your pain with medicine and other treatments. This book will show you how to work with your doctors, nurses, and others to find the best way to control your pain.

It will discuss causes of pain, medicines, how to talk to your doctor, and other topics that may help you. In this book, your 'health care team' can mean any of the professionals you see as part of your medical care.

These may include your oncologist, your family doctor, nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists, oncology social workers, clergy members, and others. You may read it from front to back. Or you may want to read different parts as you need them.

There is a list of resources toward the end of the book. There is also a page where you can write down notes and keep track of the medicines you're taking. This section also includes a sample pain control record.

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Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations

By Dana S. Dunn, Bernard B. Beins, Maureen A. McCarthy, G. William Hill IV
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 416, Date: 2010-01-12
ISBN-10 : 0195378210, Rar'd PDF 1 MB Full

Description:
Introductory and capstone experiences in the undergraduate psychology program are crucial ways to engage students in their major and psychology department, impart realistic expectations, and prepare them for life beyond college.

Providing the right orientation and capstone courses in psychology education is increasingly a concern of instructors, department chairs, program directors, and deans, and both types of courses have become important sources for gathering pre- and post-coursework assessment data for degree learning outcomes.

The strategies presented here have been designed to help educators examine issues around teaching the introductory or careers course and developing a psychology-specific orientation program. The authors also provide concrete suggestions for building capstone experiences designed to fit the needs of a department, its pedagogical philosophy, or the educational agenda of the college or university. Undergraduate psychology curriculum designers and instructors can benefit from learning innovative and effective strategies for introducing the major to first-year students and, at graduation, for bringing closure, reinforcing the overall departmental learning outcomes, and helping students apply their disciplinary knowledge in capstone experiences and post-graduate life.

In this collection of articles, psychology instructors involved in the improvement of teaching and learning review the research and share their own successes and challenges in the classroom. Discussions include effective practices for helping students become acclimated to and engaged in the psychology major, application of developmental knowledge and learning communities to course design, and use of quality benchmarks to improve introductory and capstone courses.

Other chapters describe innovations in the design of stand-alone courses and offer concrete advice on counseling psychology graduates about how to use what they have learned beyond their higher education experiences.

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Working With Adults With Asperger Syndrome: A Practical Toolkit

By Carol Hagland, Zillah Webb
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 156, Date: 2009-09-15
ISBN-10 : 1849050368, rar'd pdf | 791.9 KB

Description:
Supporting someone with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) can, at times, be frustrating and challenging. But a greater knowledge and understanding of the problems facing people with AS can make a huge difference to their lives.

This practical workbook was developed in consultation with carers, and can be used in groups or with individuals, concentrating on particular characteristics to learn more about the people you are supporting, or it can be used as a resource for everyday information seeking and problem solving.

Atypical social behaviour and the importance of routine are explained, as well as considering relationships, emotions and mental health. Packed with exercises and case vignettes to help you to get to know the person you are supporting better, there is also a trouble-shooting section at the end of each chapter with practical solutions for tackling common problems.

"Asperger's Syndrome - A Workbook for Carers" offers an easy-to-use, person-centred approach, which will prove a valuable resource for families, friends and a wide range of professionals involved in supporting an adult with AS.


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Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering

By Stephen K. Levine
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
Pages: 208, Date: 2009-09-15
ISBN-10 : 1843105128, rar'd pdf | 1.27 MB

Description:
"Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering" explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume the role of the victim.

Among the many concerns that the book addresses is the damage done by the tendency to adopt stock methods of understanding and superficial explanations for the depths, complexities, wonders, and exasperations of human experience. The book explores the chaos and fragmentation inherent in both art and human existence and the ways in which memory and imagination can find meaning by acknowledging this chaos and embodying it in appropriate forms.

"Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering" builds on the important theories of Stephen K. Levine's previous book, "Poiesis: The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul", also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

It challenges dominant psychological perspectives on trauma and provides a new framework for arts therapists, psychotherapists, psychologists and social scientists to understand the effectiveness of the arts therapies in responding to human suffering.

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Handbook of Integrative Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Medicine

Perspectives, Practices, and Research

By Roland A. Carlstedt PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
 Pages: 912, Date: 2009-12-14
ISBN-10 : 0826110940, Rar'd PDF 8.9 MB's Full

Description:
"This is the long-awaited text on interdisciplinary treatment and assessment of, among other clinical topics, brain-derived behavioral, cognitive, and neurological disorders ."

--Niels Birbaumer, PhD
University of Tubingen, Germany

Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina

"Gone is the unidimensional approach of the expert summarizing a topic from a single vantage point. Instead, the content shifts laterally, embracing not only interdisciplinary expertise, but an integrative way of thinking that transcends each discipline .What makes the Handbook so refreshing is that this cross pollination of ideas and approaches is more than novel theorizing. It offers clinicians a new way forward."

--Anthony Feinstein, MD, MPhil, PhD, FRCP

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PDF Books | Practical Handbook of School Psychology

 Effective Practices for the 21st Century

By Gretchen Gimpel Peacock PhD, Ruth A. Ervin PhD, Edward J. Daly III PhD, Kenneth W. Merrell PhD
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pages: 626, Date: 2009-09-02
ISBN-10 : 1593856970, Rar'd PDF 5.2 MB's Full

Description:
Bringing together leading authorities, this state-of-the-science handbook delves into all aspects of problem-solving-based school psychology practice. Thirty-four focused chapters present data-based methods for assessment, analysis, intervention, and evaluation, with special attention given to working in a response-to-intervention framework.

Tools and guidelines are provided for promoting success in key academic domains: reading, writing, and math. Social-emotional and behavioral skills are thoroughly addressed in chapters on self-management interventions, peer and family support, cognitive-behavioral interventions, medication use, and more.

This accessible work is an invaluable reference for practitioners and an ideal resource for school psychology training programs.

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Psychology of Language: A Critical Introduction

By Dr Michael A Forrester
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Pages: 224, Date: 1996-04-26
ISBN-10 : 0803979916, Rar'd PDF ~ 6.1 MB's Bookmarked

Description:
This comprehensive textbook brings together diverse themes on the psychology of language in an accessible and integrated way. Rather than covering only the formal-structural aspects of language, Michael A Forrester provides a broad view of the study of language across various perspectives, focusing throughout on interesting relationships between language and human psychological processes.

Psychology of Language provides a clear introduction to key topics from language structure and processing, semantics and cognitive science, to conversation analysis, reading and writing, power relations in communication and postmodern psychology.

The book explores language by considering three themes:
· Thinking - the cognitive processes of self-communication.
· Talk - where the emphasis is on everyday conversational behaviour.
· Text - including the study of reading and writing.

A coherent framework is developed by looking at topics which link the themes together, clearly demonstrating the relationship between language and communication processes.

The text will be invaluable to students on all courses addressing psychology and language, particularly in areas such as cognitive and social psychology and psycholinguistics.

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Majoring in Psychology: Achieving Your Educational and Career Goals

By Jeffrey L. Helms, Daniel T. Rogers
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pages: 336, Date: 2010-08-30
ISBN-10 : 1405190647, PDF 1.2 Mb

Description:
With coverage of important preparatory issues and the key psychology subfields, Majoring in Psychology: Achieving Your Educational and Career Goals provides undergraduate students with clear, concise, research-based information on strategies to begin a successful undergraduate career in psychology.

* Provides the most comprehensive text on majoring in psychology currently available
* Discusses the benefits of pursuing a psychology degree and key steps to prepare for a job or graduate study in the field
* Features brief topical contributions written by national figures in their respective subfields
* Incorporates current data and research on diversity-related issues as well as guidance on how to ensure personality traits and abilities match the skills that potential career paths demand

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Entering the Child's Mind: The Clinical Interview In Psychological Research and Practice

By Herbert P. Ginsburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 293, Date: 1997-11-28
ISBN-10 : 0521496853

Description:
Entering the Child's Mind teaches the "clinical interview" as a technique for gaining insight into a child's way of thinking. In the tradition of Piaget and Vygotsky, Dr. Ginsburg argues that standardized instruments of evaluation often fail to meet the challenges of complex cognition.

He presents the clinical interview as a powerful tool that, when understood and used properly, can provide psychologists with a profound appreciation for children's thinking. This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of the clinical interview method.

• The first comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of the clinical interview method • Presents underlying rationale for a key ‘qualitative’ method, the deliberately non-standardized clinical interview procedure • Offers user-friendly practical guidelines for conducting the clinical interview
Contents

1. The need to move beyond standardized methods; 2. What is the clinical interview? Where did it come from? Why do it?; 3. What happens in the clinical interview; 4. Not a cookbook: guidelines for conducting a clinical interview; 5. Evaluating clinical interviews: how good are they; 6. Towards the future: the clinical interview and the curriculum; Appendix.
Review

‘Ginsburg’s excellent account of the clinical interview should appeal to anyone who works, or is thinking of working with children.’ Janine Spencer, London Guildhall University

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