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Inspiring Greatness in Education: A School of the 21st Century Model at the Independence School District
ISBN: 9780199897841 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the major domestic policy issues of our time is whether our nation can provide a more effective educational experience for our children. Economists have stressed that the quality of our educational system eventually defines the ability of our workforce, which in turn affects our competitive position in the world market. This issue has earned increasing attention in light of recent reports that students in many nations perform at higher levels of educational competence than children in America's schools. Inspiring Greatness in Education describes the 21st Century Schools...
One of the major domestic policy issues of our time is whether our nation can provide a more effective educational experience for our children. Econom...
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Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents
ISBN: 9780199987467 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents brings together many of the field's most important scholars and media professionals to present cutting-edge theory and empirical research on both the benefits and risks to youth development. It examines the role that media play in the every-day lives of young people and their families, and considers both traditional media such as television and movies as well as "new" digital media, such as video games, cell phones, and the Internet. The volume is divided into four parts. Part One provides up-to-date trends on children and...
Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents brings together many of the field's most important scholars and media professionals to p...
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Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
ISBN: 9780399168833 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this New York Times-bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding.
Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways. In Brainstorm, Dr. Daniel Siegel busts a number of commonly held myths about adolescence--for example, that it is merely a stage of "immaturity" filled with often "crazy" behavior. According to Siegel, during adolescence we learn vital skills, such as how to... In this New York Times-bestselling book, Dr. Daniel Siegel shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods...
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Effective Anger Management for Children and Youth: The Manual and the Workbook
ISBN: 9789814596121 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Teenage Pregnancy: The Interaction of Psyche and Culture
ISBN: 9781138005327 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unwed teenage pregnancy is a national problem - and a puzzle for clinicians and social psychologists. For how are we to understand a pattern of behavior that is strongly motivated and yet likely to end in unfortunate outcomes? Moreover, why does the pattern of unwed teenage pregnancy repeat in successivegenerations in some families, despite education and previous experience, whereas in other families the pattern is broken? Reporting on intensive social and psychological research in a rural African American community in Louisiana, Anne Dean offers a compelling view of this phenomenon that...
Unwed teenage pregnancy is a national problem - and a puzzle for clinicians and social psychologists. For how are we to understand a pattern of behavi...
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Adolescents' Health: A Developmental Perspective
ISBN: 9781138002500 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is devoted to identifying the precursors of adolescents' health problems and risk taking behaviors and the developmental processes that accompany them. It presents data on lay conceptions of health and illness, physical maturity, causes of mortality and morbidity, and patterns of utilization of medical and psychosocial health care services. Developmental changes in risk perception, self-disclosure behavior, and in dealing with nudity are linked with doctor-patient communication to illustrate the typical obstacles health experts are faced with when trying to assess diagnostic...
This book is devoted to identifying the precursors of adolescents' health problems and risk taking behaviors and the developmental processes that acco...
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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 23: Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
ISBN: 9781138005259 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Launched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry, in the words of founding coeditors Sherman C. Feinstein, Peter L. Giovacchinni, and Arthur A. Miller, promised "to explore adolescence as a process . . . to enter challenging and exciting areas that may have profound effects on our basic concepts." Further, they promised "a series that will provide a forum for the expression of ideas and problems that plague and excite so many of us working in this enigmatic but fascinating field." For over two decades, Adolescent Psychiatry has fulfilled this promise. The repository of a wealth of...
Launched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry, in the words of founding coeditors Sherman C. Feinstein, Peter L. Giovacchinni, and Arthur A. Miller...
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The Adolescent Experience: European and American Adolescents in the 1990s
ISBN: 9781138002739 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The opening of the borders to Eastern Europe has expanded our view on European diversities and offered new opportunities to examine the effects of the heterogeneity in European cultural backgrounds and political systems on personality and social development. This book is a first step in utilizing the rich cultural resource offered by the large number of cultural units represented in Europe and--at least in part--in the United States.
One way to understand the life conditions of adolescents in different countries is to study what they actually do in everyday life and how much time they... The opening of the borders to Eastern Europe has expanded our view on European diversities and offered new opportunities to examine the effects of the...
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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 24: Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
ISBN: 9781138005266 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Launched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry promised "to explore adolescence as a process . . . to enter challenging and exciting areas that may have profound effects on our basic concepts." Further, they promised "a series that will provide a forum for the expression of ideas and problems that plague and excite so many of us working in this enigmatic but fascinating field." The repository of a wealth of original studies by preeminent clinicians, developmental researchers, and social scientists specializing in this stage of life, the series has become an essential resource for all mental...
Launched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry promised "to explore adolescence as a process . . . to enter challenging and exciting areas that may ...
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German Communicative Development Inventory: An Adaptation of the Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Toddlers
ISBN: 9783631647530 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This research presents a German adaptation of the American MacArthur-Bates Commmunicative Inventory (CDI) for toddlers, with the addition of a detailed inflectional morphology scale. The name of the instrument is FRAKIS (Fragebogen zur fruhkindlichen Sprachentwicklung). The research presents the first norm data of early language development for German-speaking children. Results of the study confirm the enormous variability in early language development found in other languages for German. There was also a strong relation between lexical and grammatical development, including between specific...
This research presents a German adaptation of the American MacArthur-Bates Commmunicative Inventory (CDI) for toddlers, with the addition of a detaile...
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Imagining Futures: Identity Narratives and the Role of Work, Education, Community and Family
ISBN: 9780522860948 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young people consider their future at a stage of life when the structure and relative certainty of school and further education are about to be left behind. This book provides an insight into how young people see themselves, the options they think are available to them and the strategies they use to make their imagined futures possible.
Ultimately, Imagining Futures is about identity. It draws on the real-life stories and voices of a range of young people many of whom are in their final years of secondary school or TAFE to present an eye-opening portrait who they are, who they aim... Young people consider their future at a stage of life when the structure and relative certainty of school and further education are about to be left b...
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Enhancing Self-Control in Adolescents: Treatment Strategies Derived from Psychological Science
ISBN: 9781138798199 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an innovative, trans-diagnostic approach to enhancing self-control in adolescents based directly on personality and social psychological science. It thus fills a void. While several books address specific disorders such as ADHD, poor school performance, and aggression, this is one of the first books to translate social and personality psychology research into a set of generally applicable treatment strategies. This literature as a whole is not well known to cognitive behavioral therapists or other applied mental health professionals and will be a valuable addition to their...
This book offers an innovative, trans-diagnostic approach to enhancing self-control in adolescents based directly on personality and social psychologi...
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Enhancing Self-Control in Adolescents: Treatment Strategies Derived from Psychological Science
ISBN: 9781138798205 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an innovative, trans-diagnostic approach to enhancing self-control in adolescents based directly on personality and social psychological science. It thus fills a void. While several books address specific disorders such as ADHD, poor school performance, and aggression, this is one of the first books to translate social and personality psychology research into a set of generally applicable treatment strategies. This literature as a whole is not well known to cognitive behavioral therapists or other applied mental health professionals and will be a valuable addition to their...
This book offers an innovative, trans-diagnostic approach to enhancing self-control in adolescents based directly on personality and social psychologi...
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Family Life in Adolescence
ISBN: 9783110402483 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many parents fear the time when their beautiful happy children will become unmanageable adolescents continually engaging in risky or destructive behaviour. Unfortunately, this view of adolescents is the focus of the media, even though it relates to just a small proportion of young people. Many parents fear the time when their beautiful happy children will become unmanageable adolescents continually engaging in risky or destructive be... |
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Creating Environments for Troubled Children
ISBN: 9780807840610 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This moving account of the many different aspects of the work of a child psychiatry consultant in therapeutic group child-care programs is a practical, jargon-free treatment of the problems and tested solutions arising in group-care situations. Powers integrates sound principles of therapeutic care through interrelated essays, stories, poems, and photographs to evoke the emotional reality and impact of caring for troubled children.
Originally published 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available... This moving account of the many different aspects of the work of a child psychiatry consultant in therapeutic group child-care programs is a practical...
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Cyberbullying: Development, Consequences, Risk and Protective Factors
ISBN: 9781138844865 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the beginning of 2000, with the increase and diffusion of modern technologies, a new form of bullying using electronic means has emerged. Literature has reached some consistent findings on the description of the problem. However, there is still a lack of knowledge about developmental processes of cyberbullying and about possible predictors and correlates. Some of the main emerging areas investigated in connection with cyberbullying are: personality factors, callous unemotional traits and self-control, memory cognitive distortions, emotional and moral mechanisms, ICT use and media... From the beginning of 2000, with the increase and diffusion of modern technologies, a new form of bullying using electronic means has emerged. Lite... |
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Human Development and the Spiritual Life: How Consciousness Grows Toward Transformation
ISBN: 9781461351801 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author proposes a theory of the development of consciousness in which ego is the central agent of socialization and culture and the driving force behind individual self-control and self-regulation. He reviews the literature on identity and narrative; outlines the fields of intellectual, self, moral, and consciousness development; and discusses the evidence indicating that the development of consciousness trancends the limitations of conventional ego development.
The author proposes a theory of the development of consciousness in which ego is the central agent of socialization and culture and the driving forc...
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Nurturing a Healthy Human Spirit in the Young
ISBN: 9780853985839 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many young people are beset by a host of fears, worries, anxieties and insecurities that make for superficial and discouraging relationships, lack of motivation, and confused, escapist or hedonistic lifestyle choices that can determine a future riddled with problems almost impossible to extricate oneself from; emotional responses appear uncontrollable, with frequent rage outbursts or overwhelming melancholy. Our affluent societies have seen a sharp increase in antisocial behaviour: alcohol and drug abuse, carrying a weapon in case of a fight, vandalism, general rowdiness in gangs, cruelty to...
Many young people are beset by a host of fears, worries, anxieties and insecurities that make for superficial and discouraging relationships, lack of ...
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Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth: Transcending Homonormativity and Constructing Preferred Identities
ISBN: 9781442247796 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first therapy book that focuses on clinical work with youth who construct queer identities (as differentiated from essentialized gay or lesbian identities). It's also the first practice-based book that draws on queer theory, constructionist philosophy, and cultural studies to inform and guide therapeutic work with queer youth. As such, it offers fresh, critical, and hopeful resources for therapists committed to culturally responsive work with youth. It also helps to make ideas from queer theory and cultural studies accessible to clinicians and widely applicable in therapeutic...
This is the first therapy book that focuses on clinical work with youth who construct queer identities (as differentiated from essentialized gay or le...
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Adultos Niños: Hijos de Familias Disfuncionales o con Problemas por el Abuso de Sustancias
ISBN: 9781503249264 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Todos crecemos fisicamente. Sin embargo, no todos lo hacemos emocionalmente. Algunos, por razones que no estuvieron en nuestras manos, estamos atorados y, aunque nos cueste trabajo admitirlo, alla atras, en nuestra ninez, no aprendimos una manera "sana" de manejar nuestras emociones. Piensalo: Si naciste en una familia disfuncional y creciste con adultos emocionalmente inestables, o peor aun, que abusaron de substancias intoxicantes, fuiste educado por personas que, sin animo de critica, tampoco crecieron emocionalmente; por eso usaban substancias no lo crees? En consecuencia, no tuviste...
Todos crecemos fisicamente. Sin embargo, no todos lo hacemos emocionalmente. Algunos, por razones que no estuvieron en nuestras manos, estamos atorado...
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