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Social Problems
Community, Policy, and Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Empower your students to become part of the solution.
The new Sixth Edition of Anna Leon-Guerrero’s Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action goes beyond the typical presentation of contemporary social problems and their consequences by emphasizing the importance and effectiveness...
Introduction to Statistics
Fundamental Concepts and Procedures of Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Using a truly accessible and reader-friendly approach, Introduction to Statistics: Fundamental Concepts and Procedures of Data Analysis, by Howard M. Reid, redefines the way statistics can be taught and learned. Unlike other books that merely focus on procedures, Reid’s approach balances development...
by Valerie M. Sue, Lois A. Ritter
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Conducting Online Surveys is a complete guide to conducting survey research using digital modalities. Many topics discussed, such as developing online and mobile questionnaires, are unique to digital surveys, whereas others, such as creating reliable survey questions, are common to all survey environments....
by Travis C. Pratt, Jacinta M. Gau, Mr. Travis W. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Key Ideas in Criminology and Criminal Justice is an innovative, fascinating treatment of some of the seminal theories in criminology and key policies in criminal justice, offering a detailed and nuanced picture of these core ideas. With a fluid, accessible, and lively writing style, this brief text...
Conducting Research in Psychology
Measuring the Weight of Smoke
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke provides students an engaging introduction to psychological research by employing humor, stories, and hands-on activities. Through its methodology exercises, learners are encouraged to use their intuition to understand research methods...
Crisis Management
Leading in the New Strategy Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Offering a strategic orientation to crisis management, this fully updated edition of Crisis Management: Leading in the New Strategy Landscape, Second Edition by William "Rick" Crandall, John A. Parnell, and John E. Spillan helps readers understand the importance of planning for crises within...
Gender and Development
The Economic Basis of Women's Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Drawing from the leading scholarship in the field, Gender and Development: The Economic Basis of Women's Power helps you to develop a foundational understanding of the significant role that gender plays in developing societies. Award-winning scholars Samuel Cohn and Rae Lesser Blumberg have carefully...
Integrating 12-Steps and Psychotherapy
Helping Clients Find Sobriety and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Integrating 12 Steps and Psychotherapy: Helping Clients Find Sobriety and Recovery presents a practical and applied approach to working with substance dependent clients. Designed to be accessible to a wide and multidisciplinary audience of helpers at all skill levels, this text helps future practitioners...
A Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and Their Supervisors
Traveling the Landscape of Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
A Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and Their Supervisors offers a hands-on guide to both students and supervisors on the doctoral journey, helping make the process as enjoyable as it is productive. Drawing on research from peer learning groups, contributed narratives, and their own programs, authors...
Crisis and Disaster Counseling
Lessons Learned From Hurricane Katrina and Other Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
This text provides professionals with the skills needed to effectively assist survivors of disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, with healing, recovery, and resilience. This comprehensive collection includes powerful, direct accounts of first responders and the organizations they represent. Taking...
Prevention Program Development and Evaluation
An Incidence Reduction, Culturally Relevant Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
The use of seatbelts, the requirements for smoke detectors, and other kinds of public health interventions have been highly successful in reducing disability, injuries, and premature mortality. Prevention in mental health— identifying and treating mental illnesses before they become full blown syndromes...
Home Visiting
Procedures for Helping Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2000
This Second Edition is a good source for those training to be home visitors, in-service home visitors, supervisors and directors of home visiting programs serving a wide range of families. Recent evaluations of home visiting are summarized and practical suggestions for evaluating local programs are...
by Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Kandice L. Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Sociology of Sexualities by Kathleen J. Fitzgerald and Kandice L. Grossman is the first comprehensive text to approach the study of sexuality from a sociological perspective. Drawing on the most up-to-date social scientific research on sexuality, it discusses fundamental concepts in the field and...
The Engaged Sociologist
Connecting the Classroom to the Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
This fully updated edition of The Engaged Sociologist by Kathleen Odell Korgen carries the public sociology movement into the classroom, while at the same time providing an engaging overview of the entire field. It demonstrates how to think sociologically, to develop a sociological eye, and to use...