Education

Both children and adults who experience chronic peer victimization are at considerable risk for a host of adverse psychological consequences, including depression, aggression, even suicidal ideation. Bullying, Rejection, and Peer Victimization is the only book that addresses bullying across the developmental spectrum, covering child, adolescent, and adult populations. The contributors offer in-depth analyses on traditional aggression and victimization (physical bullying) as well as social rejection (emotional bullying). Peer and family relationships, relational aggression, and cyber-bullying are just a few of the important topics discussed. Key Features: Analyzes both perpetrator's and victim's sides of the peer victimization experience; Explores how gender traits influence aggression; Investigates how family dynamics influence chronic peer victimization; Examines the relationships between social status, power, and aggression. This text offers a wealth of insight into the experiences of victims of peer bullying, using cutting-edge theoretical perspectives, including social cognition, social ecology, genetics and genetic-environment interactions, and social cognitive neuroscience. more...

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Praise for the First Edition : `This text has made me more aware of the importance of thinking in terms of counselling and group counselling in the work I do relating to careers' - Guidance Matters. This fully revised and updated second edition of Career Counselling explains what career counselling actually is, why people seek it, and indicates the many contexts where it is used. It describes in detail the skills, tools and techniques of career counselling, useful to both professional career counsellors and those for whom career counselling is just part of their work. This practical guide examines the issues typically brought to career counselling, and includes a completely new chapter on the role of career counselling within organisations. Illustrated throughout by case studies from the authors' experience, the book also contains an invaluable resources section and includes a brand new appendix containing photocopiable exercises which practitioners and their clients can use in conjunction with their counselling sessions. more...

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A large number of children in developing countries are born with or develop cerebral. palsy. The problem is made worse by inadequate knowledge and treatment facilities. As a result, thousands of children with cerebral palsy live in burdensome dependence. upon their families. This tragic situation can be avoided to a great extent by. giving treatment early in the child’s life and also by guiding families on. how to manage the children in ways that help them become independent. This book. is a practical guide designed to help therapists and community workers understand. and effectively treat children with cerebral palsy. It focuses on. - adequately assessing children with cerebral palsy;. - designing treatment programmes that can be carried out in partnership with. parents and community workers;. - assessing and managing eating and drinking difficulties;. - making simple and cost-effective equipment;. - designing appropriate play activities during therapy;. - evaluating and dealing with sensory integration problems in children with. cerebral palsy; and. - closer integration of theory and practical skills. more...

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What works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual students? Questions like these arise in most schools, and busy educators often don’t have time to find the answers. more...

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In a managed care era, the MMPI-2 is required to generate more and more of the assessments that a battery of instruments once did. Edward Gotts and Thomas Knudsen have integrated useful MMPI scales with all the standard MMPI-2 scales. more...

Price: $75.00