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An exploratory study of the life changes homosexual and bisexual men experience as they age.

A guide to identifying, treating and breaking the cycle of sexual abuse. Based on 30 years of professional experience in treating offenders and survivors of sexual assault and molestation, the author provides step-by-step guidelines for producing change in this group of clients.

Summarizes the history of firearms and ammunition as it relates to the development of modern weapons. This book details chemical aspects of forensic firearms casework with particular emphasis on the detection of gunshot residues (GSR) on a suspect's skin and clothing surfaces. It includes more than 100 figures and tables complementing the text.

Provides students with elementary information regarding the anatomy and physiology of various body systems, recording techniques, integrative reviews of literature, and concepts in the field. This book is aimed at upper level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in psychophysiology, biological psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Outlines best practices for the psychosocial problems associated with the chronic and major health conditions of the 21st century, such as paediatric asthma, Type I and Type II diabetes, obesity, paediatric cancer, and adult hypertension. This text is suitable for students and for practitioners specialising in social work in health settings.

Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) can be a physically and emotionally painful soul-shattering experience that can traumatize a person for a lifetime. This title offers an exploration of the subjective experiences of both client and therapist as they together travel the path to recovery.

Presents a fresh overview of the Asian-Pacific War and its victims, drawing attention to the neglected history of Japan's invasion of China and Southeast Asia. This book seeks to show that the war in Asia and the Pacific is as much about Shanghai, Nanking, and Manila as about Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Hiroshima.

Globalization, migration, and the spread of English have resulted in a great diversity of social and educational contexts in which English learning is taking place. This volume specifically designed for language teachers, provides links between sociolinguistic concepts and language pedagogy.

Offers training, support and advice for prospective news editors. Through history, analyses, and anecdotes, this book offers a grounding to prepare potential editors for the range of their responsibilities in newsrooms: developing ideas; evaluating and editing copy; working with writers; determining what is news; and, directing news coverage.

Subjects the prophets and doctrines of educational neoliberalism to scrutiny in order to provide a rationale and vision for public education beyond the limits of No Child Left Behind. This book combines a history of education policy with an analysis of the origins of such policy and its impact on professional educators.

This critical examination of the origins of mass communication research from the perspective of an educational historian investigates the educational meaning of mass media, with the goal of understanding the essential connection between education and communication.

This text uses findings from a comprehensive and representative study of the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of 1410 US print and broadcast journalists in the 1990s, to analyze factors that have shaped American journalism.

A rare look at the experience of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples). Also addresses research topics such as: how HIV affects a woman's sense of self, how women repair disruption and restore identities, the limits to women's coping strategies, and many others.

This text charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. It documents and analyses how, from the early 19th century through to the present, the combined endeavours of schools, advertising and media have led to the creation of a consumerist ideology.

This guide should be of use to mental health professionals treating religious persons. The authors detail how their manual-focused approach aims to overcome emotional distress.

Presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This book aims to go beyond individual cases and practices to examine the approaches and ideas on which they are based.

This text presents principles and methods for studying children in the varied contexts in which they live and function. It is written for people interested in how to examine and describe children as well as those interested in creating educational environments for children.

Covers aspects of leading and managing downtown and community development organizations, from planning and implementing programs and policies, to evaluating successes and failures. This book presents step-by-step instructions for performing a host of useful tasks in the business district revitalization field.

Combines theory, practice, and plenty of clinical examples to introduce an approach to case management that's based on a biopsychosocial vulnerability-stress model. This title focuses on the dynamic interplay among biological, psychological, social and environmental factors that influences the development and severity of a person's mental illness.

Offers helping professionals a thorough introduction to the neurobiological aspects of substance abuse. Presents basic information on the subject, including various neubiological theories of addiction, and places them in a psychosocial context.

Provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. This volume highlights non-traditional perspectives on health communication.

Provides a foundation for the study of GLBT families. This book focuses not only on the factors within GLBT families, but also on the elements encountered within families that are present regardless of sexual orientation and gender, such as physical and emotional abuse. It is useful for those interested in understanding GLBT family studies.

An alternative theory of criminal opportunity is proposed in this book. The authors examine and develop the theory of criminal opportunity by addressing focal areas involving theory, methodology, empirical research and policy.