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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Public Health Research Methods, edited by Greg Guest and Emily Namey, provides a comprehensive foundation for planning, executing, and monitoring public health research of all types. The book goes beyond traditional epidemiologic research designs to cover state-of-the-art, technology-based approaches...
by Clifford T. Brown, Larry S. Liebovitch
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
A specialized presentation of fractal analysis oriented to the social sciences
This primer uses straightforward language to give the reader step-by-step instructions for identifying and analyzing fractal patterns and the social process that create them. By making fractals accessible to the...
Applied Research Design
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1993
To help researchers and students make the transition from the classroom and laboratory to research in the `real world,' the authors reveal the pitfalls and suggest strategies to overcome problems in the design and planning of applied research. With a focus on how to refine research questions as real...
Overcoming Unintentional Racism in Counseling and Therapy
A Practitioner's Guide to Intentional Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2005
Overcoming Unintentional Racism in Counseling and Therapy, Second Edition examines the dynamics and effects of racism in counseling with an emphasis on the insidiousness of unintentional racism.. The Second Edition provides a new section on the policies and practices of agencies and other institutions...
Culturally Adaptive Counseling Skills
Demonstrations of Evidence-Based Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
A key supplement for courses on multicultural counseling, this book is a practical volume that will help faculty and students see demonstrations of multicultural counseling in practice. The text covers evidence-based practices for working with five major ethnic groups, while weaving in other factors...
Multicultural Counseling Competencies
Assessment, Education and Training, and Supervision
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1996
In this volume, leading researchers and trainers in multicultural counselling and psychology address the issues of what makes a counsellor multiculturally competent and how to create more culturally competent counsellors.
The contributors consider ways to evaluate counsellors for their awareness,...
Multicultural Counseling Competencies
Individual and Organizational Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1998
This book will provide practitioners, researchers and counsellor trainers with the knowledge they need to influence more competent therapeutic practice with a diverse clientele. It is a companion volume to Volume 7 in the Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series.
by Lawrence H. Gerstein, Dr. P. Paul Heppner, Dr. Stefania Aegisdottir
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Essentials of Cross-Cultural Counseling is a brief, supplemental book derived from the International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling. Edited by a high-profile team with international expertise, the book focuses on the history, issues, challenges, and opportunities for the counseling profession...
Voices of Color
First-Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
Voices of Color: First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists is the first book to address the training, academic, and professional experiences of ethnic minority therapists. Using real cases, narratives, and biographical material, each chapter motivates the reader to ponder and challenge how...
by Robert Weis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Robert Weis' third edition of Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology adopts a developmental psychopathology approach to understanding child disorders. Using case studies, this perspective examines the emergence of disorders over time, pays special attention to risk and protective...
Social Welfare Policy
Regulation and Resistance Among People of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Applying the social control paradigm to people of color, this text uses a racism-centered perspective of social welfare policy analysis to examine how such policies have regulated the lives of people of color and then employs a strengths-based approach to describe how they have refused to go along...
by Mary F. Bosworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Explaining U.S. Imprisonment examines women in prison, minorities, the historical path to the modern prison, a wide range of contemporary issues, and social influences on prison reform. While focusing on prisons, this one-of-a-kind book is written within the context of the sociology of punishment...
American Educational History
School, Society, and the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
American Educational History: School, Society, and the Common Good is an up-to-date, contemporary examination of historical trends that have helped shape schools and education in the United States. Author William H. Jeynes places a strong emphasis on recent history, most notably post-World War II...
The Supreme Court, Race, and Civil Rights
From Marshall to Rehnquist
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1995
Providing a well-rounded presentation of the constitution and evolution of civil rights in the United States, this book will be useful for students and academics with an interest in civil rights, race and the law.
Abraham L Davis and Barbara Luck Graham's purpose is: to give an overview of...