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“james behrendt”

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  • Social Treatment

    An Approach to Interpersonal Helping

    Edited by Christina Behrendt, James K. Whittaker ...
    The book has two principal purposes: To provide an introduction to interpersonal helping in the context of social work practice, and to develop a conceptual framework for interpersonal helping --called social treatment--that will enable the social worker and members of other helping professions effectively to use all the various methods and strategies currently practiced. The book offers an ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Judo & American Culture

    Prelude, Acceptance, Embodiment

    by Geoffrey Wingard, Matt Hlinak, Joseph Svinth, James Webb, James Behrendt ...
    The origins of Asian martial arts in the United States reach back to the Pacific Rim and immigration. This anthology is dedicated to the profoundly significant period—roughly from mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century—in which gifted Japanese taught their brand of jujutsu/judo to small groups that gradually disseminated knowledge of combatives into the American mainstream.Wingard ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

    by Lee Ross, Richard E Nisbett ...
    How does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks. ... Read more

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  • Giftedness 101

    by Linda Silverman, PhD ...
    Series series Psych 101
    "Is there really such a thing as giftedness? Are programs for gifted children elitist and undemocratic? Giftedness 101 addresses this extremely controversial topic with the intention of dispelling the many myths surrounding the concept of giftedness and providing a clear, cohesive conception of the psychology and development of gifted children.Seeking to reinvigorate the study of giftedness as a ... Read more

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  • Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice

    A Generalist-Eclectic Approach, Second Edition

    by Peter Lehmann, PhD, LCSW ...
    Series series Springer Series on Social Work
    " Praise for the first editionFinally, a social work practice text that makes a difference! This is the book that you have wished for but could never find. Although similar to texts that cover a range of practice theories and approaches to clinical practice, this book clearly has a social work frame of reference and a social work identity.--Gayla Rogers, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work, ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Science of Social Influence

    Advances and Future Progress

    Edited by Anthony R. Pratkanis ...
    Series series Frontiers of Social Psychology
    The contributions to this volume capture the thrill of current work on social influence, as well as providing a tutorial on the scientific and technical aspects of this research. The volume teaches the student to:Learn how to conduct lab, field and case research on social influence through example by leading researchersFind out about the latest discoveries including the status of research on ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool

    Applying the Scientific Evidence

    by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk, Dorothy Singer ...
    We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief but compelling book provides a strong counterargument to the rising tide of didactic instruction on ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Theories in Social Psychology

    Edited by Derek Chadee ...
    Theories in Social Psychology is an edited volume that identifies and discusses in-depth the important theoretical perspectives and theories that underlie the discipline of social psychology.The only current book focusing specifically on the theories within social psychologyBrings together a range of distinguished scholars in the field of social psychology – including Bertram F. Malle, Paul R. ... Read more

    $106.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity

    Edited by James C. Kaufman, Robert J. Sternberg, PhD ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators. This handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education, business, and world cultures. The ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Self-Insight

    Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself

    by David Dunning ...
    Series series Essays in Social Psychology
    People base thousands of choices across a lifetime on the views they hold of their skill and moral character, yet a growing body of research in psychology shows that such self-views are often misguided or misinformed. Anyone who has dealt with others in the classroom, in the workplace, in the medical office, or on the therapist’s couch has probably experienced people whose opinions of themselves ... Read more

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  • The Ecology of Human Development

    Experiments by Nature and Design

    by Urie Bronfenbrenner ...
    Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world’s foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the child’s behavior sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and analytic rigor. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to “the science of the strange ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Explorations in Giftedness

    by Robert J. Sternberg, Linda Jarvin, Elena L. Grigorenko ...
    This book is a scholarly overview of the modern concepts, definitions, and theories of intellectual giftedness, and of past and current developments in the field of gifted education. The authors consider, in some detail, the roles of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom in giftedness and the interaction between culture and giftedness, as well as how giftedness can be understood in terms of a ... Read more

    $38.99 USD