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    • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 69
      • September 1, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 69, 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. Chapters in this new release include Autonomic and Attentional Pathways in the Emergence of Autism: Bridging Mechanisms and Real-World Contexts in Infancy, The Sound-of-Words model: a developmental perspective of phonolexical acquisition, The Development of Children's Beliefs about Ability, and Assessing Children’s Spatial Thinking: Insights, Challenges, and Implications,

    • Foundations of Literacy

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 68
      • July 2, 2025
      • English
      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.

    • Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training

      • 1st Edition
      • January 9, 2025
      • Peter Sturmey + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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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).

    • Leadership and Management Practices in Human Services Organizations

      • 1st Edition
      • March 3, 2025
      • Rita M. Gardner + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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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-inc... (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.

    • Embracing the Complexity of Gender

      • 1st Edition
      • July 14, 2025
      • Emily Keener
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Embracing the Complexity of Gender examines the heart of a modern gender revolution, exploring the dynamic and multifaceted nature of gender in contemporary society. Spurred by landmark events such as the legalization of same-sex marriage and the rise of transgender visibility, this revolution has ignited passionate debates and a heightened interest in understanding gender's complexities. From legal battles over all-gender bathrooms to corporate decisions challenging traditional gender norms, the discourse around gender has never been more vibrant or contentious. This book combines a developmental and intersectional feminist approach with accessible, engaging content.By including discussion questions and clear definitions of key terms, the book ensures that complex ideas are understandable for readers at all levels. Drawing on psychological evidence and theoretical perspectives, this book challenges the gender binary and emphasizes the importance of social justice and inclusion.

    • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 67
      • September 9, 2024
      • 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
      • English
      • Hardback
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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.

    • Encyclopedia of Adolescence

      • 2nd Edition
      • June 24, 2024
      • Wendy Troop-Gordon + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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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.

    • Body Image and the Asian Experience

      • 1st Edition
      • November 13, 2024
      • Hsiu-Lan Cheng + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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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-clas... 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.

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