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  • Social Group Work

    Competence and Values in Practice

    by Joseph Lassner, Kathleen Powell, Elaine Finnegan ...
    Here is an exciting and stimulating book featuring expert evaluations and descriptions of current social work group practice with an overall focus on competence and values. The contributors give detailed information on group work theory, group structure, gender and race issues in group work, group work in health care settings, and the use of groups for coping with family issues that will be ... Read more

    $285.00 USD

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  • Becoming a High Expectation Teacher

    Raising the bar

    by Christine Rubie-Davies ...
    We constantly hear cries from politicians for teachers to have high expectations. But what this means in practical terms is never spelled out. Simply deciding that as a teacher you will expect all your students to achieve more than other classes you have taught in the same school, is not going to translate automatically into enhanced achievement for students.Becoming a High Expectation Teacher is ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Six Degrees of Social Influence

    Science, Application, and the Psychology of Robert Cialdini

    Edited by Douglas T. Kenrick, Noah J. Goldstein, Sanford L. Braver ...
    Over the course of the last four decades, Robert Cialdini's work has helped spark an intellectual revolution in which social psychological ideas have become increasingly influential. The concepts presented in his book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, have spread well beyond the geographic boundaries of North America and beyond the field of academic social psychology into the areas of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Question of Competence

    Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Brian D. Hodges, Lorelei Lingard ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical education and others explain how to achieve various competencies, the authors of the seven chapters in The Question of Competence offer something very different. They critique the very notion of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Making Classrooms Better

    50 Practical Applications of Mind, Brain, and Education Science

    by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa ...
    A practical, classroom-oriented guide to best-practice teaching.Learning specialist Leslie Hart once wrote that designing educational experiences without knowledge of the brain is like designing a glove without knowledge of the hand. Making Classrooms Better takes this concept a step further, building from general knowledge of brain-based education science and current educational research to offer ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Science of Social Influence

    Advances and Future Progress

    Edited by Anthony R. Pratkanis ...
    Series series Frontiers of Social Psychology
    The contributions to this volume capture the thrill of current work on social influence, as well as providing a tutorial on the scientific and technical aspects of this research. The volume teaches the student to:Learn how to conduct lab, field and case research on social influence through example by leading researchersFind out about the latest discoveries including the status of research on ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool

    Applying the Scientific Evidence

    by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk, Dorothy Singer ...
    We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief but compelling book provides a strong counterargument to the rising tide of didactic instruction on ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Psychology of Study Success in Universities

    by Kaarina Maatta, Satu Uusiautti ...
    Universities around the world are under increasing pressure to maintain high levels of graduation and to make study processes as efficient as possible, with teachers and students struggling to meet the expectations placed upon them as a result. The Psychology of Study Success in Universities asks whether it is possible to meet these demands at the same time as protecting the well-being of students ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Consumer Psychology

    Edited by Curtis P. Haugtvedt, Paul M. Herr, Frank R. Kardes ...
    Series series Marketing and Consumer Psychology Series
    This Handbook contains a unique collection of chapters written by the world's leading researchers in the dynamic field of consumer psychology. Although these researchers are housed in different academic departments (ie. marketing, psychology, advertising, communications) all have the common goal of attaining a better scientific understanding of cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Self-Insight

    Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself

    by David Dunning ...
    Series series Essays in Social Psychology
    People base thousands of choices across a lifetime on the views they hold of their skill and moral character, yet a growing body of research in psychology shows that such self-views are often misguided or misinformed. Anyone who has dealt with others in the classroom, in the workplace, in the medical office, or on the therapist’s couch has probably experienced people whose opinions of themselves ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Interpersonal Relationships

    by Diana Jackson-Dwyer ...
    Series series Foundations of Psychology
    With a more specific focus than the all-encompassing textbook, each title in the Foundations of Psychology series enables students who are new to psychology to get to grips with a key area of psychological research, while also developing an understanding of basic concepts, debates, and research methodologies. In this book Diana Jackson-Dwyer presents an introductory survey of classic and recent ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Counting Our Losses

    Reflecting on Change, Loss, and Transition in Everyday Life

    Edited by Darcy L. Harris ...
    Series series Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement
    This text is a valuable resource for clinicians who work with clients dealing with non-death, nonfinite, and ambiguous losses in their lives. It explores adjustment to change, transition, and loss from the perspective of the latest thinking in bereavement theory and research. The specific and unique aspects of different types of loss are discussed, such as infertility, aging, chronic illnesses and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD