Educational psychology

In the twenty-first century, being able to collaborate effectively is important at all ages, in everyday life, education and work, within and across diverse cultural settings.

The fourth in the Inside series, this volume includes four theses completed under the editor's direction at the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University.

This book presents a series of informal biographies about major figures in the history of psychology.

This is an extremely comprehensive resource of photocopiable handouts to aid therapeutic intervention.

The influence of Urie Bronfenbrenner's model of development has been extensive in different areas of developmental science and education, and it continues to inform contemporary research and practice in many fields, including early childhood education.

This in-depth chronicle of 110 families in Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program provides a realistic look at how urban families experience the process of using school choice vouchers and transform from government clients to consumers of education and active citizens.

Teachers today are more stressed than ever.

Brief Coaching with Children and Young People: A Solution Focused approach is the first book of its type to describe the thinking and practice of Solution Focused coaching with these age groups.

This book examines the theoretical basis of one of the functional layers-the message layer-of an architectural theory of instructional design.

Written from a developmental perspective, Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is organized around five prominent and recurring themes: the course of normal development proceeds in an orderly and predictable direction; maladaptive behaviors represent deviations from the normal path; maladaptive behavior is represented by a continuum of severity (symptoms, syndromes, disorders) based on the degree to which behaviors deviate from the norm; individual, interpersonal, contextual and cultural factors interact in a reciprocal way to influence normal development and abnormal deviations; theoretical input from diverse perspectives can guide our understanding of underlying processes that precipitate and maintain behaviors and the different developmental pathways that might result.

In this comprehensive and informative book, Christine Driver provides a systematic overview of the key issues that a supervisor of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy needs to consider and understand in order to work effectively and dynamically.

Pip at the Seaside is the fourth book in the invaluable 'Pip and Bunny' collection; a set of six picture books with an accompanying handbook and e-resources carefully written and illustrated to support the development of visual and literary skills.

This book serves as a succinct resource on the cognitive requirements of reading.

`At the end of the day, what is crucial is to enable educationalists to promote and apply their own metatheories and models of child development which they feel comfortable with and which enable children to develop.

Although "e;School Psychology"e; first became recognized as a specialty in professional psychology by CRSPPP in 1998, this area of psychology can be traced back to the late 19th century, where it can be thought to have developed alongside "e;Clinical Psychology"e; due to the types of cases seen in Lightner Witmer's Psychological Clinic that opened in 1896.

'Girls are worse than boys these days' was a common complaint from teachers in the 1970s.

Do you ever feel stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed?

In the 1980s working with parents in the education and care of their children was more often preached than practised by professionals.

For researchers in the Learning Sciences, there is a lack of literature on current design practices and its many obstacles.

Drawing upon extensive research, David Galloway and Anne Edwards analyse the increasing pressures on teachers from the national curriculum and other recent legislation.

First published in 1995, Communication and Learning Revisited focuses on the importance and benefits of group dialogue in cooperative learning.

This book is based on the belief that decision making is perhaps the most critical of all teaching skills and that good assessments lie at the core of good decision making.

Drawing on self-worth theory, this book guides educators in designed college courses that promote intrinsic motivation and reduce grade fixation.

Are we adequately preparing students for life beyond school doors?

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.

The expert contributors to this book make sense of the different approaches to understanding pupil behavior in schools, providing a comprehensive overview thorough discussion of key topics.

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children.

Teachers, counselors, therapists, parents and caregivers can use this engaging novel and guidebook to help to promote resilience within children, families and communities that have experienced traumatic stress.

In this third volume of the Routledge Great Educators Series, ten of education's inspiring thought-leaders come together to bring you their perspectives on how to improve equitable outcomes in your school or classroom, so that all students have what they need to succeed.

A Companion to Introductory Psychology is a rich collection of thought-provoking chapters, which enhance student interest and promote group discussions, training entry-level students in critical thinking skills and engaging them with course material.

Creating Meaning in Young Adulthood explores the ways in which young adults are creating meanings in life through their relationships with the world.

This book provides a critical commentary on key issues around learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational settings.

In the twenty-first century, what could be more important than networks?

Apraxia is a symptom of cerebral lesions that has puzzled clinicians and researchers for some 100 years.

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are a ubiquitous tool used in college classrooms, yet most instructors admit that they are not prepared to maximize the question's benefits.

This book describes a specific program for teaching and mentoring expressive writing by at-risk youth-a program that can generate transformative change in the teens, and generate significant new satisfactions for you.

Children are being identified with more neurodevelopmental disorders than in previous decades and understanding these medically complex disorders has become critical as more children are living with these disorders.

First published in 1988, Psychology for Teachers offers a new approach to the study of the psychology of education.

Pedagogical Equilibrium is an innovative reconceptualisation of teachers' professional knowledge development.

The constituency for education and therapy in the arts is rapidly expanding beyond the conventional school and clinical settings to include the wider community.

Throughout history there have been efforts to help deaf children develop spoken language through which they could have full access to the hearing world.

Talking, Listening, and Teaching demonstrates how important it is for teachers to understand and monitor classroom communication patterns and resolve problems that may hamper students' learning.

This volume brings together internationally known researchers representing different theoretical perspectives on students' self-regulation of learning.

In particular, this book uses alternative theoretical perspectives to focus on how young children are 'doing' gender in kindergarten classroom.

Highly accessible and user-friendly, this book focuses on helping K12 teachers increase their use of classroom management strategies that work.

This indispensable resource provides a flexible framework and a wealth of engaging tools for teaching mindfulness to children and adolescents with varying needs in school or clinical settings.

Motivation experts explain how goal-life alignment and ''thriving with social purpose'' inspire optimal functioning and enhance life meaning.

AutPlay Therapy is a behavioral play-based treatment approach to working with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities.

This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children whose parents are going through a separation.

This book presents various paradigms and debates on the diverse issues concerning disability in India from a sociological perspective.