Educational psychology

The Second Edition of the Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems clarifies the current state of treatment and prevention through comprehensive examinations of mental disorders and dysfunctional behaviors as well as the varied forces affecting their development.

The book comprises a selection of 14 papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in communication and translation, as well as in various applications of language.

This new volume in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society represents a milestone in Search Institute's signature work on the Developmental Assets that children and adolescents need in their lives to succeed.

This workbook addresses the vital questions helpers, responders, and organizations have about self-care and its relationship to resilience and sustained effectiveness in the midst of daily exposure to trauma victims and or situations.

This book makes a defence of compassion as an essential and significant quality that should be at the heart of the education of young people.

This volume provides a thorough examination of the interplay between individuals and their environment in the development and maintenance of problem behaviors, and delineates procedures for conducting assessment, intervention, and prevention within the child's ecosystem.

Optimizing Learning Outcomes provides answers for the most pressing questions that mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators are facing in today's schools.

This major reference work breaks new ground as an electronic resource for students, educators, researchers, and professionals.

Youth around the world are fittingly described as digital natives because of their comfort and skill with technological hardware and content.

This book is based on the idea that instruction carries in-built risks, and instructional practices can be counterproductive unless used with care.

Expanding the learning day is gaining national momentum as an important school-improvement and whole-child development strategy.

This book addresses Problem-based Learning (PBL) in elementary schools and reveals how this can promote elementary students' development in critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, and citizenship, also known as the 5 Cs.

Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today's youth face an inauspicious future.

Although specific definitions may change over time, few goals are considered more important to education than the pursuit of academic excellence.

Presents an innovative approach to research and practice with young people growing up in the context of political violence.

This guide has been written to accompany the book The Silent Selkie, a children's story about trauma and offers gentle, creative ways for adults to work with children and young people who have faced adverse childhood experiences.

Our children grow up into a world of stories-in books, on screens-but what do they make of the stories we offer them?

This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children with a parent who is suffering from depression.

This resource bridges the worlds of education, mental health, and the performing arts to offer a comprehensive roadmap for 9-12 theatre educators looking to promote safe, supportive, and creative spaces for their students.

This second edition presents an updated action-based curriculum for high school counselors that will meet the needs of 21st century students, helping to foster their growth and engage them in learning what they need to succeed beyond high school.

Grounded in a wellness, strengths-based, and developmental perspective, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury is the ideal guide for counselors and other clinicians seeking to understand self-injurious behaviors without pathologizing them.

School transition is a life changing event for children - they are rarely faced with such a powerful set of personal and social changes.

The authors provide a straightforward, practical guide to establishing high-quality social and emotional education programs.

Argues that good educational research is often in essence philosophical rather than a matter of conventional ''research methods''.

Recently, in the area of learning disabilities, a subarea of special educa- tion, an interesting development has become discernible.

Applying Trauma-Sensitive Practices in School Counseling provides school counselors with the research, knowledge, and skills they need to implement interventions that will impact the academic, social, and emotional outcomes of traumatized students.

How do parenting styles differ globally?

Selection for secondary education at 11-plus still arouses widespread controversy; and the psychological techniques which are employed, such as intelligence and attainments tests, are often criticised.

The idea that teachers love children is often taken for granted in education.

The Importance of Average calls attention to the policies and practices that discriminate against the silent majority of students in the American educational system.

For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology.

Originally published in 1940.

This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out .

The second edition of this book examines the numerous research and practice advances with regard to adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Like its predecessors, Volume III of the Handbook for Teaching Introductory Psychology provides introductory psychology instructors with teaching ideas and activities that can immediately be put into practice in the classroom.

This ground breaking book is unique in bringing together two perspectives on learning - sociocultural theory and neuroscience.

Leading thinkers in mathematics, philosophy and education offer new insights into the fundamental question: what is a mathematical concept?

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence, from delight, surprise and love to anger, distress and fear.

Compassion-Based Practices for Secondary Traumatic Stress is a comprehensive guide that merges profound theoretical insights with practical compassion-based practices.

In a time of pressures, challenges, and threats to public education, teacher preparation, and funding for educational research, the fifth volume of the Handbook of Reading Research takes a hard look at why we undertake reading research, how school structures, contexts and policies shape students' learning, and, most importantly, how we can realize greater impact from the research conducted.

Validity is a clear, substantive introduction to the two most fundamental aspects of defensible testing practice: understanding test score meaning and justifying test score use.

Draw on Your Relationships is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express, communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing.

This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for school intervention into child and adolescent maltreatment, highlighting the unique potential for schools to identify and mitigate the long-term impacts of childhood trauma on children's educational well-being.

Educating College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders is one of the first books to specifically address the accommodation of students with significant learning differences in postsecondary education.

The first textbook of its kind, Critical Educational Psychology is a forward-thinking approach to educational psychology that uses critical perspectives to challenge current ways of thinking and improve practice.

The ability to learn is of crucial importance in human life, but understanding this ability has proved to be difficult.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look at problem solving research and practice over the last fifteen years.

In classrooms and lectures we learn not only about academic topics but also about ourselves, our peers and how people and ideas interact.

This book helps readers understand, teach, and support children with persistent low academic achievement who don't meet special education eligibility criteria, or for whom Tier 2 MTSS interventions are insufficient.