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Based on the Pittsburgh Youth Study complemented by follow-up tracking of juvenile court records, this text provides information about the prevalence and seriousness at different ages of child problem behaviours, including delinquency, substance use, sexual behaviour and mental health disorders.

This text emphasizes academic administration, for communication and media administrators. It contains philosophical, theoretical and practical information. It is divided into sections on: background material and specific and programmatic challenges facing administrators.

Older adults must make decisions about conditions and issues for which they have limited information, and the consequences often have implications for their well-being. This volume addresses these issues and focuses on understanding the impact of age-related decline.

Using play as the method against which all others are compared, this book presents the strengths and weaknesses of different models of teaching, examines various methods of guiding young children's behavior, and shows how to create and maintain a positive learning environment. It discusses how to work as a team member in ECE settings.

Analyzes and explains the goals, processes, and effects of language policies in the US and Canada from historical and contemporary perspectives. This book explores parallel and divergent developments in language policy and language rights in the countries, as a basis for reflection on what can be learned from one country's experience by the other.

Hydrogeology;the science of groundwater, requires a multidisciplinary approach involving many other sciences: surface hydrology, climatology, geology, geography, physics, chemistry, biology, and more.

This text studies the coping behaviours of people who have suffered bad accidents to account for individual differences in prolonged distress syndromes. It argues that personality styles and beliefs play a powerful moderating role between objective adversity and apparent distress responses.

Presents a complex portrait of the American teacher through a range of 'story' narratives, including fictional short stories, poetry, diaries, letters, ethnographies, and autobiographies. This title traces the evolution of the teacher and the profession over the course of two centuries - from the late 1700s to the late 1900s.

While honouring Jerome Singer's career in psychology, this volume also demonstrates psychology's understanding of the role of consciousness in affective and cognitive processes, the development of imagination in children, and its application to the practice of psychotherapy.

This work addresses the cultural, methodological, research and forensic issues that must be considered by neuropsychologists of Hispanic patients. It includes assessment decision trees, summaries of normative data, descriptions of tests, and HIV and paediatric references.

This volume grew out of an National Service-Learning Conference. The papers offer documentation and analysis for an emerging research knowledge base. They ask: does learning take place?; will other kinds of learning suffer; and what kinds of practice are most effective?

This volume presents the results of a study that researched the development of 200 German families over a period of 16 years from 1976 to 1992. This study is based on an eco-psychological framework focusing on four levels of developmental analyses.

This work is concerned with how people tend to influence environments and how environments reciprocally tend to influence people. It should be of interest to social psychologists, and vocational and industrial/organizational professionals.

This study systematically examines empirical strategies for the teaching of media, focusing on 14-16 year-old students. It describes an international project based on research which began in England, and aims to initiate a more fruitful dialogue about educational approaches.

This volume explores the use of literacy outside the mainstream in different contexts throughout the world. Divided into parts, it presents an anthropological perspective, a psychological perspective and an educational perspective.

A collection of stories of scholars who have found a lifelong commitment to the teaching of writing. It includes the professional histories of 19 rhetoricians and compositionists who explain how they came to fall in love with the written work and with teaching.

Combining three elements - communication, ageing and culture - all of which have an increasingly profound impact on today's multicultural society, this text focuses on older Americans in various communicative contexts within the framework of their cultures.

This text describes projects in which case-based reasoning (CBR) is the focus for the representation and reasoning in a particular design domain. It provides a broad spectrum of applications and issues in applying and extending the concept of CBR to design.

This collection of essays considers how representational or symbolic thought develops for children's use in a wide array of circumstances.

Addressing the intellectual effect of neural network models on social psychology, the contributors address a number of central issues and show how these models provide insight into many classic issues.

This text explores learning at all ages with a particular focus on middle and high school classrooms. The contributors discuss the factors which complicate the production of readers and writers who understand, learn from and think critically about the information in various forms of text.

This study works through some of the theoretical issues that have been accumulating in informal logic since 1979. At the same time, it defines a core position in the theory of argument in which those issues can be further explored.

This text shows how the infusion of racial identity theory with other psychological models can yield more holistic considerations of client functioning and well-being. It applies complex theoretical notions to real-life cases in psychological practice.

This text shows how the infusion of racial identity theory with other psychological models can yield more holistic considerations of client functioning and well-being. It applies complex theoretical notions to real-life cases in psychological practice.

Focusing on topics and issues of modern-day child language research, this volume brings together the work of 32 scholars from 13 countries, investigating children learning 15 different languages.

This volume concentrates on the issue of autobiographical memory, an area often studied by researchers investigating memory in natural contexts, and it focuses upon the qualities or types of recall from research participants.

The editors of this volume had two missions: to create a development span by bringing together researchers working from infancy to adulthood, and to create a bridge between individuals working from within the text comprehension perspective, within the naturalistic perspective.

Focusing on the principles and applications of chaotic thinking, this text seeks to promote a more general understanding and acceptance of this cognitive style. It may help people deal more effectively with chaotic situations, such as economic crises, career changes, and relationship skills.

This volume provides an overview of racism and its impact on American society, and an account of the ways in which the contributors have attempted to deal with it in their own teaching practice. The work also examines strategies for "teaching the conflicts" in comparative literature and politics.

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