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Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities
This edited volume fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary disparities. School exclusion—out-of-school suspension and expulsion in particular—remains a substantial component of discipline in our nation’s schools, and those consequences continue to fall disproportionally on certain groups of learners. The negativ…
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- 978-1-137-51256-7
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- XXI, 285
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- 150 INE
Couple Resilience: Emerging Perspectives
This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive adaptation to life challenges. Committed partnerships represent a unique form of relational alliance that offers an opportunity and challenge to go beyond the self - to develop as individuals and as a relationship. The …
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- 9789401799096
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- XX, 210
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- 150
Counseling and Action: Toward Life-Enhancing Work, Relationships, and Identity
Engaging in action is at the heart of our most meaningful experiences. And given the fast-paced, goal-driven nature of modern society, engagement in action is also central to how we perceive ourselves. Action has traditionally been viewed as an end product of the counseling process, but now a bold new redefinition makes counseling not only a driver of action, but an action in itself. Counseling…
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- 9781493907731
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- XII, 350
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- 158.3
The Practices of Happiness: Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing
There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within the humanities and social sciences is increasingly concerned to chart not only the underlying tre…
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- 9780415550970
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- 200.19 PRA p
Critical Thinking in Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
This much-needed volume brings to the clinician or student some of the best critical-minded analysis by some of the most insightful thinkers about psychiatric diagnosis today. The thought-provoking questions these essays raise, and the multifaceted and provocative answers they provide, cultivate sensitivity to the nuances of diagnostic assessment that often makes the difference between clinical…
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- 9783319177748
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- XVI, 304
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- Essential Clinical Social Work Series
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- 616.89
The Rise of Mass Advertising Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries o…
This book is a first cultural legal history of advertising in Britain, tracing the rise of mass advertising circa 1840–1914 and its legal shaping. The emergence of this new system disrupted the perceived foundations of modernity. The idea that culture was organized by identifiable fields of knowledge, experience, and authority came under strain as advertisers claimed to share values with the …
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- 9780192858917
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Integrating Timing Considerations to Improve Testing Practices
Integrating Timing Considerations to Improve Testing Practices synthesizes a wealth of theory and research on time issues in assessment into actionable advice for test development, administration, and scoring. One of the major advantages of computer-based testing is the capability to passively record test-taking metadata—including how examinees use time and how time affects testing outcomes. …
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- 9781351064767
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- 200 halaman
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- 370 INT
Healing and Change in the City of Gold: Case Studies of Coping and Support in…
This volume collects case studies on the lives of people living in post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. In doing so, it considers how people manage, respond to, narrate and/or silence their experiences of past and present violence, multiple insecurities and precarity in contexts where these experiences take on an everyday continuous character. Taking seriously how context shapes the meani…
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- 978-3-319-08767-2
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- VIII, 187
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- Peace Psychology Book Series
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- 150 HAN
Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices
This book presents an evidence-based framework for replacing harmful, restrictive behavior management practices with safe and effective alternatives. The first half summarizes the concept and history of restraint and seclusion in mental health applications used with impaired elders, children with intellectual disabilities, and psychiatric patients. Subsequent chapters provide robust data and ma…
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- 978-3-319-17569-0
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- XV, 249
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- Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
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- 155
Age and Work Advances in Theory, Methods, and Practice
"Research on age(ing) and work often draws upon lifespan development perspectives to explain how adults “age successfully,” managing developmental gains and losses and maintaining well-being and functioning over time. There are a multitude of similar theories to consider to this end, which is both a blessing and a curse for researchers. In this chapter, we introduce a conceptual integration…
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