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Encyclopedia of Counseling: Master Review and Tutorial for the National Counselor Examination and State Exams
: :The new edition of this best-selling preparation book for the National Counselor Examination (NCE) has been expanded with hundreds of new terms, concepts, memory devices and test hints. The book covers all content and work behavior areas on the new NCE, and includes a new special section regarding marriage and family counseling, new material on web counseling, and updated material throughout. This lively resource includes 1,000 tutorial questions/answers and a quick access index to both teach you the material and raise your score. Dr. Rosenthal's reader-friendly style actually makes studying ...
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School-Based Play Therapy
from: Wiley
: :An essential guide that focuses on play therapy in schools This landmark reference presents an A-to-Z guide for using play therapy in preschool and elementary school settings to help children prevent or resolve psychosocial dif?culties. Coedited by three experts in the ?eld, School-Based Play Therapy offers school counselors, psychologists, teachers, and social workers the latest techniques to help them develop their own creative approaches to utilizing the therapeutic powers of play. Beginning with an overview that addresses multicultural concerns, a description of play instruments, and observational techniques, this practice-oriented book ...
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Handbook of Distance Education, Second Edition
from: Lawrence Erlbaum
: :The second edition of this award-winning book continues the mission of its predecessor, to provide a comprehensive compendium of research in all aspects of distance education, arguably the most significant development in education over the past quarter century. While the book deals with education that uses technology, the focus is on teaching and learning and how its management can be facilitated through technology. Key features include: Comprehensive—Coverage includes all aspects of distance education including design, instruction, management, policy, and a section on different audiences. Chapter Structure—Chapter authors frame their topic in terms ...
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Practical Ethics for Psychologists: A Positive Approach
: :On a daily basis, psychologists confront ethical issues. 'Practical Ethics for Psychologists: A Positive Approach' helps psychologists clarify what they value, consider how they should behave, and determine what constitutes proper professional conduct. This book is unique in stressing the importance of positive ethics - that is, ways in which psychologists can reach their highest ethical ideals, rather than just avoiding breaking rules. Using the newly revised '2002 APA Code of Ethics' as a guide, the authors lay out a five-step model for resolving ethical dilemmas, illustrating the discussion with ...
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The E-Learning Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Learning
: :The e-Learning Handbook provides a critical reflection on the current state of e-learning with contributions from the world’s foremost e-learning experts and best-selling authors from academe and industry, including Margaret Driscoll; Brent Wilson Lee Christopher; William Horton, L. Wayne Precht, Harvey Singh, Jim Everidge, and Jane Bozarth; Pat Brogan; Patrick Parrish; Marc J. Rosenberg and Steve Forman; Pat McGee; Philip C. Abrami, Gretchen Lowerison, Roger Cote, and Marie-Claude Lavoie; Thomas C. Reeves, Jan Herrington, and Ron Oliver; and Patrick Lambe. The book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the technological, ...
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Thinking and Deciding
: :Beginning with its first edition and through subsequent editions, Thinking and Deciding has established itself as the required text and important reference work for students and scholars of human cognition and rationality. In this, the fourth edition, Jonathan Baron retains the comprehensive attention to the key questions addressed in the previous editions - How should we think? What, if anything, keeps us from thinking that way? How can we improve our thinking and decision making? - and his expanded treatment of topics such as risk, utilitarianism, Baye's theorem, and moral ...
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The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology (Penguin Dictionary)
: :This authoritative and wide-ranging reference work has been thoroughly revised to include the latest definitions used in psychology, psychiatry, and related fields. It now features 17,000 entries along with sections that explore the latest developments in neuroscience and social psychology. A first rate reference book, The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology will continue to prove invaluable to students, professionals, and the interested general reader 'By far the best reference work of its kind.' (Paul Edwards, emeritus professor of philosophy, City University of New York)
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The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning
from: Cambridge University Press
: :During the past 10 years, the field of multimedia learning has emerged as a coherent discipline with an accumulated research base that has never been synthesized and organized. This reference constitutes an original work devoted to comprehensive coverage of research and theory in the field of multimedia learning. It focuses on how people learn from words and pictures in computer-based environments. Multimedia environments include online instructional presentations, interactive lessons, e-courses, simulation Games, virtual reality, and computer-supported, in-class presentations.
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Counseling and Therapy Skills
: :Beginning the path to becoming a great therapist! The second edition of this practical book discusses many fundamental concepts and pro- vides a closer look at important views that have emerged most recently in the field of counseling and therapy. Expanded material explores what beginning therapists need to know and offers practical advice about beginning sessions, settings for therapy, ethical issues, and different formats for therapy. Martin's clear, engaging tone guides readers involved in a variety of helping professions toward being intuitive, experiential, and full of presence--being evocatively empathic so ...
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Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach Reading (Bradford Books)
: :Early Reading Instruction is a comprehensive analysis of the research evidence from early writing systems to computer models of reading. In this book, Diane McGuinness provides an innovative solution to the 'reading war'—the century-old debate over the efficacy of phonics (sound-based) versus whole-word (meaning- based) methods. She has developed a prototype—a set of elements that are critical to the success of a reading method. McGuinness shows that all writing systems, without exception, are based on a sound unit in the language. This fact, and other findings by paleographers, provides a ...
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