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Provides a guide to the task of conceptualizing, understanding and intervening with persons who abuse substances. The book offers practical suggestions, assessment procedures and change strategies directed at the thoughts, feelings and behaviours believed to support a drug-dependent lifestyle.

This text discusses the pros and cons of physical activity for older persons, and explores the theoretical reasons for which older people do not pursue physical activity and how to overcome this reluctance. There is a model included, as well as implications for future social policy.

As the incidence of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesity sometimes caused by compulsive eating has risen, so has research and literature in the field. Presenting current knowledge of these eating disorders, this book addresses issues relevant to all.

Explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to educational research and practice. Focusing on the theoretical premises and the methodology, this book aims to present complexity thinking as an important attitude for educators and educational researchers. It also deals with global issues around complexity thinking.

Offers an overview of the range of cognitive activities. This book reviews an area of cognitive research, explains the findings, and highlights their implications and applications in - cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, and family- models of therapy. Each includes case vignettes illustrating the importance of concepts in practice.

New discoveries about the genetic underpinnings of many kinds of human experience are now constantly being made. This book explores the impact of these discoveries on the ways in which the common mental disorders are best conceptualized and treated.

Presents a picture of the field of intellectual styles, through describing, analyzing, and integrating the major theoretical and research works on the topic. This book describes nature, origins, historical development, theories, research, and applications of this field, and addresses three major controversial issues.

Examines satellite communications - the technology and the services they provide and the socio-political, security, economic, policy, news, entertainment, and cultural impact. The book addresses what satellites have been, how they are designed and built, how they will evolve in the future, what they mean today, and what they will mean tomorrow.

Focusing on corpus planning in language policy, this book provides an integrative framework, and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with familiarity, with a range of language cases, and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate.

Ted T. Aoki, a prominent curriculum scholar of his generation in Canada, has influenced numerous scholars around the world. This book brings together his work, over a 30-year span.

This volume examines children's experiences with electronic media in the home, including children's development of media literacy. To understand the experiences, the book examines the children at various developmental ages and across generations.

Cynthia Glidden-Tracey lays out an integrated, holistic and effective approach to clients' inevitably intertwined problems that requires all practitioners to develop skills for detecting, assessing, and addressing substance use whenever concerns about it emerge in the course of therapy.

Reporting the emergence of technological literacy in the US, this study chronicles the stories of several individuals in their efforts to acquire varying degrees of such literacy. It situates their accounts in the cultural ecology of the time, tracing factors and trends that may have influenced or been influenced by literacy practices and values.

This manual presents a working model for "helping the learner to learn". It should be relevant to any teaching context, but the focus is on teaching in secondary and college science classrooms. It defines a framework for thinking about active learning and creating an active learning environment.

This work proposes that the American newspaper industry must begin to view change as more than just something to which it must react and adjust, offering instead a view of change as a process with causes, phases and. cycles. The book is concerned with the past, present and future of a paper.

The main objective of this text is to present a career counselling process model, including sequential stages and steps, along with a method for implementing the model. It is intended as a bridge between the theoretical and the applied worlds of career counselling.

Tackles the question of media ownership. This title chronicles the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to these changes. It examines how the media industry is being reshaped by technological forces in the various segments, as well as by social and cultural reactions to these forces.

This work seeks to enhance understanding of family-life development by shedding light on the meanings that family members ascribe to the developmental process of becoming a family. This is achieved by qualitative analysis of narratives through which individuals explain their thinking and behaviour.

The media's presentation suggests that American teenage culture today is the most violent, sexual, and amoral youth culture in history. In this book, Nichols and Good deconstruct the negative images held by large numbers of adults.

This text brings together the challenges faced by managers as they learn to adapt to a more globalized world, as well as to an even-more-technologically sophisticated world. Divided into five parts, the book is designed to present an overview of the challenges facing managers and employees today.

This is a study of the Pueblo Indians and Indian High School in New Mexico. The school is a non-public, state-accredited, off-reservation boarding school for more than 400 Pueblo, Navajo and Apache Indian students.

An exploration of Williams Syndrome, covering its medical conditions, theoretical issues and neurobiological mechanisms. It integrates research findings, clinical observations and personal accounts, and offers a range of interventions to maximise the potential of those with the syndrome.

Provides a review and analysis of the theoretical and empirical research that has examined the interconnections among the domains of family life and the workplace. Documenting the economy patterns, this book also looks at the health of communities and neighborhoods, exploring the extent to which such services meet the needs of working families.

Informs readers concerning complexities of the issues of brand imitation, integrating the disciplines of psychology, business, and law to the area of trademark infringement and counterfeiting. This book provides those involved in commerce with some understanding, some ideas, and strategy for building differentiated brands that are easy to protect.

Examines the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on both the macro level - societal, socio-economic, and governmental; and sector level - education, health, agriculture, entrepreneurship. This volume is useful for those involved in telecommunications law and policy, media economics, and international communication.

This approach to the study of sentence formation builds on the emergentist thesis that the structure and use of language is shaped by more basic, non-linguistic forces rather than by an innate Universal Grammar. William O'Grady situates emergentism in a broader picture