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Foundations of Literacy

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 68
  • June 1, 2025
  • Jeffrey J. Lockman + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 68, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely updates, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

Leadership and Management Practices in Human Services Organizations

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Rita M. Gardner + 4 more
  • English
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Management, Operation, and Program Development in Human Services Organizations: EnvisionSMART™: A Melmark Model of Administration and Operation is the fourth guidebook in the EnvisionSMART™ series addressing leadership and management practices in human services organizations for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The authors describe a model of administration and operation formed from the disciplines of applied behavior analysis (ABA) and organizational behavior management (OBM). Critical components of organizational design and responsiveness are presented, with chapters devoted to behavior, clinical, and health safety, diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI), assessment and evaluation, and practice-research dissemination. The guidebook illustrates systems-wide implementation of assessment, measurement, intervention and evaluation procedures, includes many practice protocols, and details the evidence-support for programmatic recommendations.

Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training

  • 1st Edition
  • January 31, 2025
  • Peter Sturmey + 1 more
  • English
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Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training is a method consisting of multiple treatment components that is effective for training a wide variety of skills, both simple and complex, in people in a wide variety of populations, including children and adults with disabilities. This book is the first comprehensive research-based guide on behavior skills training for practitioners and human service organizations. Behavioral skills training includes instructions, modelling, rehearsal, and feedback, leading to improvement in social and language skills, reduced problem behavior, independence, and autonomy.This book provides a detailed roadmap from beginning (identifying training needs) to end (large scale application across entire organizations).

Body Image and the Asian Experience

  • 1st Edition
  • November 13, 2024
  • Hsiu-Lan Cheng + 1 more
  • English
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Individuals of Asian descent are a demographic often overlooked in mainstream body image scholarship. Historically, body image concerns were thought to only affect white, upper-to-middle-class women in North America and Western Europe. However, empirical data accumulated in recent decades have subverted this myth. Contrary to popular belief and stereotypes that Asian Americans are a Model Minority in the United States, they experience significant body image concerns, as well as related disordered eating and mental health challenges. Asian diasporas in Western countries also face challenges similar to those faced by Asian Americans (e.g., racialized and objectified views of Asians). Asian nationals in Asia, on the other hand, are juggling between their collective and national standards of beauty/fitness and the body-image ideals propagated through commercialism and capitalization amidst the historical context of colonization and the contemporary atmosphere of globalization. Body Image and the Asian Experience: Asians, Asian Americans, and Asian Diasporas Across the Globe discusses the dearth of knowledge—and sometimes misinformation—about body image among people of Asian descent, including Asian nationals dwelling in Asia and those in the diaspora (Asian Americans, Asian immigrants in the United Kingdom, Australia, etc.).The first section of the book reviews the applicability of existing theories in understanding the body image experiences of individuals of Asian descent and proposes a new theoretical framework that emphasizes both decolonizing and intersectional perspectives in conceptualizing Asian body image. The next section examines the current state of research on body image among Asians, Asian Americans, and Asian diasporas around the globe, including attending to some seriously neglected specific demographic and social identity groups. The last section explores mental health and psychosocial implications of body image in the aspects of mental disorders, interpersonal and social relationships, and identity development.

Medical and Educational Needs for Autism

  • 1st Edition
  • September 10, 2024
  • Michelle Hartley-McAndrew + 1 more
  • English
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Medical and Educational Needs for Autism aims to provide understanding and assistance to clinicians interacting with ASD patients and their caregivers. This book is divided into two clear sections, first the medical coverage and second, an educational section. The first section includes chapters on sleep disorders, feeding/nutrition concerns, and medication. The second section focuses on the education component which includes IEP processes and activities for daily living.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 67
  • September 9, 2024
  • Jeffrey J. Lockman
  • English
  • Hardback
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Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 67, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely updates, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Conceptual and Empirical Advances in Afterschool Research, Unraveling the Transracial Adoption Paradox: Construction race and racism in adoptive families, Risk and Resilience Models in Child Development, The Dual Journey: The Development of Twins’ Relationships Throughout Childhood, A sociocultural perspective of multimodal learning by infants and young children, and Defining the Role of Executive Function in Children's Sociomoral Reasoning.

Natural Behavior

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 66
  • August 1, 2024
  • Jeffrey J. Lockman + 2 more
  • English
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Natural Behavior, Volume 66 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.There is a long history of studying natural behavior in science. In 1872, Charles Darwin documented his observations on the development of his children in words, which was published in an article titled “A Biographical Sketch of an Infant.” Traditionally, observational studies like this had been viewed as insightful but also criticized as not objective and quantitative. More recently, building on advanced computation, the contemporary approaches to studying natural behavior in the real world delivered quantitative results. New sensing and wearable technologies allow researchers to collect high-density data in everyday contexts. With technological advances, we can scale up and obtain quantitative results from real-world data. This volume contains a collection of papers on studying natural behavior of child development. Those papers aim at understanding and predicting behavior and cognition as it occurs within complex real-world situations. Compared with findings from laboratories, the results derived from natural behavior are remarkably reliable, which provides an answer to the reproducibility crisis in science. Moreover, the findings based on natural behavior can be directly applied to the real world, especially in the health and education domains.

A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions That Work for Autistic People

  • 2nd Edition
  • July 29, 2024
  • Susan M. Wilczynski
  • English
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A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions that Work for Autistic People: Diversity Affirming Evidence-Based Practice, second edition, provides a socially valid, culturally sensitive, and person-centered resource to aid practitioners in guiding the selection of effective interventions. By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. The second edition includes new chapters on diversity affirmation and cultural adaptations of interventions, quality of life, self-determination, guided decision-making, and ethics as foundational skills for identifying effective, socially valid interventions that are delivered with compassion and assent/consent.

Encyclopedia of Adolescence

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 24, 2024
  • Wendy Troop-Gordon + 1 more
  • English
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Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Second Edition presents a comprehensive overview of the theories, methods, and empirical evidence needed to understand this critical developmental period. Split across 3 volumes, and spanning over 130 chapters, the title begins with an overview of the history of the study of adolescence and the emerging theories and tools used to study adolescent development, as well as normative changes of adolescence, encompassing a broad range of adolescent experiences. It then examines the interpersonal and socioecological contexts which are both shaped by the adolescent and play a formative role in the adolescent’s development.In conclusion, the book examines those experiences that can compromise healthy development in adolescence and the specific mental health challenges that are common or emergent during the adolescent years. This updated edition addresses identified gaps in the earlier edition, and in similar works, expanding coverage to topics that have often been overlooked but are key experiences, tasks, or contexts affecting adolescent development.

Handbook of Social Media in Education, Consumer Behavior and Politics, Volume 1

  • 1st Edition
  • December 4, 2023
  • Vladlena Benson
  • English
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Handbook of Social Media in Education, Consumer Behavior and Politics explores the impact of social media within these systems. The book covers who contributes to social media, from social influencers to everyday people, how that information is disseminated in shares and likes, and the impact social media has on perception, opinion and behavior. Education coverage includes influences on pedagogy, class participation, e-learning, academic performance, and it’s use and influence on teachers, parents and students. Coverage in economics and commercialization includes different types of digital marketing and social media, the rise of social influencers, and impacts on consumer behavior. Coverage in politics includes the impact on political awareness, participation and its impact on election outcomes. Coverage on design and innovation includes the design of social media and tools and approaches for maximizing impact.

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