Educational psychology

This accessible guide provides family and play therapists with an innovative method for addressing maladaptive emotional behavior in vulnerable children, helping them develop a practical understanding of how to diagnose, treat, and help children move from pain to peace.

For all the work on disability in previous years, there had been surprisingly little done on a subject of central importance - the social and psychological needs of teenagers with disabilities.

Learn how to facilitate conversations about race in the classroom, and why these discussions are such an important part of our work toward equity and justice.

This is a book about teachers' classroom motivating styles.

Despite calls for a more preventive and developmental mode of functioning, school counseling has tended to be driven by a reactive and sometimes crisis orientation.

Most people accept that early years education should aim to develop children's creativity, but this raises a number of questions: What is creativity?

This book summarizes research within the area of trust and trustworthiness during childhood and adolescence.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on the theories, processes, and solutions relevant to effectively creating, using, and managing digital media in a variety of instructional settings.

In the decade preceeding the original publication of this book the discipline of behaviour analysis was becoming increasingly influential in educational circles, but many of the practices we now take for granted were still being pioneered.

The authors propose the science curriculum concept of Global Science Literacy justifying its use internationally with reference to the nature of science, the probable direction of science in the new millennium, the capability for GSL to develop inter-cultural understanding, and its relevance to non-Western cultures and traditions.

The Handbook of Social Influences in School Contexts draws from a growing body of research on how and why various aspects of social relationships and contexts contribute to children's social and academic functioning within school settings.

Around the world, schools and school systems are spending billions of dollars in the design and build of learning environments that are equipped with innovative design elements.

This book is the first of four edited volumes designed to reconceptualize teaching and learning in higher education through a critical lens, with this inaugural publication focusing on the fundamentals behind the experience.

What we expect, all too often, is exactly what we get.

Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in young people has long been a tough call for clinicians, either for fear of stigmatizing the child or confusing the normal mood shifts of adolescence with pathology.

Depuis la création de l’OPPQ, l’encadrement de la profession vise à favoriser un rehaussement des normes de pratique chez ses professionnels qui ont des compétences reconnues.

Too many students experience school as a place to put in time .

At the start of every school day, it s not an unfamiliar sight to see younger children bounding toward school, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to seize the day.

Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning.

Learning Theory and Online Technologies offers a powerful overview of the current state of online learning, the foundations of its historical roots and growth, and a framework for distinguishing between the major approaches to online learning.

The Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate (ADDIE) process is used to introduce an approach to instruction design that has a proven record of success.

Thinking for Learning looks at the place of different thinking skills approaches in delivering a twenty-first century education.

This book provides a detailed examination of argumentative interactions in families with young children during mealtimes.

A study of the beliefs and practices of parents and educators raising future generations of multilingual children.

Being a teacher is often thought of as an emotionally fulfilling job, with many positive experiences in watching students grow and mature.

This innovative text introduces readers to brain science and the science of complex systems as it applies to human development.

This handbook provides a review of relevant topics concerning the interface between culture and mental health, with a particular focus on child-rearing practices and transcultural issues in the perinatal period, infancy, and early childhood.

A Scientific Framework for Compassion and Social Justice provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the behavior analytic principles that maintain social justice issues and highlights behavior analytic principles that promote self-awareness and compassion.

This book has been replaced by Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5561-1.

How do you help students uncover and hone their innate talents to create works that are uniquely their own, works worthy of their signatures?

Educators as First Responders is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to adolescent development and mental health for teachers and other educators of students in grades 6-12.

This fully updated new edition offers a research-based analysis of the online social world of adolescence, incorporating additional research findings that have appeared during the last decade.

Why is play so important in child development?

This book establishes the foundation for a true scientific applied psychology, a theory of how human influence induces change in others.

For therapists working in clinics and hospitals, as well as those who conduct private practices, supervision is a crucial resource long past formal training.

This book shows, in detail and with concrete examples, how educational theory and research can be translated into practice.

This book explores current research on online instructed L2 acquisition, with a specific focus on the nature and impact of learner engagement in online L2 classroom interaction.

In this helpful resource, the author guides parents through the top eight myths about motivation and reveals what really works for kids.

The book pursues the goal of exploring and strengthening a dialogical approach of communication and cognition.

Necessary Conditions of Learning presents a research approach (phenomenography) and a theory (the variation theory of learning) introduced and developed by Ference Marton and taken up by his wide and varied following around the world-together with their practical applications in educational contexts.

During and after his term as interim Central Falls superintendent in 2006-2007, Bill Holland sought answers to why some Central Falls High School students had school success while over half of their classmates failed to graduate.

This book examines the cumulative effects of working with high trauma populations as they pertain to education settings.

Decades of research in the cognitive and learning sciences have led to a growing recognition of the incredibly multi-faceted nature of human knowing and learning.

This book models project-based environments that are intentionally designed around the United States Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010) for Mathematics, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013) for Science, and the National Educational Technology Standards (ISTE, 2008).

Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions--the first comprehensive book-length treatment of this topic--looks at the historic contributions of 16 leading psychologists, as well as others, who influenced the field of educational psychology from its philosophical moorings in the late 19th century to its current scientific status at the dawn of the 21st.

In a world plagued by enormous, complex problems requiring long-range vision and interdisciplinary insights, the need to attend to the influence of dogmatic thinking on the development of high ability and creative intelligence is pressing.

This book will offer ideas on how robots can be used as teachers' assistants to scaffold learning outcomes, where the robot is a learning agent in self-directed learning who can contribute to the development of key competences for today's world through targeted learning - such as engineering thinking, math, physics, computational thinking, etc.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the profession for school counselors in training, providing special focus on the topics most relevant to the school counselor's role, and offers specific strategies for practical application and implementation.