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Advancing Evidence-Based Practice Through Program Evaluation
A Practical Guide for School-Based Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Given the current climate of results-driven accountability, school-based professionals have a significant contribution to make in improving the impact of programs and initiatives through the application of program evaluation methods and tools to inform decision making within a multi-tier system of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
The fundamental principles of environmental toxicology are clearly presented here for university students and professionals in related fields. This book consists of two parts. In the first part basic metabolic, physiological, and pharmacological concepts are used to explain the fate of toxic chemicals...
From Evidence to Outcomes in Child Welfare
An International Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The information age is upon us and, with it, a new era of human services has emerged. The terms 'Evidence-Based,' 'evidence-informed,' 'best practice', and 'effective' have become ubiquitous in scholarly and professional publications, government documents, funding applications, and training institutions...
A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it...
The Meaning of 'Ought'
Beyond Descriptivism and Expressivism in Metaethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. In this book Matthew Chrisman develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator, and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have....
A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change
Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for Youth and Families in Under-Served Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. A national, community-based organization, the Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort with the University of Michigan's School of Social Work to bring six neighborhoods in...
Quixote's Ghost
The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, a provocative new analysis of the ideological fight for control of American social welfare policy, demonstrates how the Right pirated the pragmatism championed by the Left since the...
Teaching and Behavior Support for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
The number of children diagnosed with autism has increased dramatically in the last decade, and a growing number of behavior analysts, psychologists, educators, and speech pathologists-to name a few-are just starting to regularly treat individuals with autism. Children and adults with autism spectrum...
Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director's mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University...
by Gail Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Few conversational topics can be as significant as our troubles in life, whether everyday and commonplace, or more exceptional and disturbing. In groundbreaking research conducted with John Lee at the University of Manchester UK, Gail Jefferson turned the microscope on how people talk about their...
Self and Identity
Fundamental Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1997
Self and identity have been important yet volatile notions in psychology since its formative years as a scientific discipline. Recently, psychologists and other social scientists have begun to develop and refine the conceptual and empirical tools for studying the complex nature of self. This volume...
Thinking Orientals
Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists,...
Congress and the Media
Beyond Institutional Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Over the last four decades, members of Congress have increasingly embraced media relations as a way to influence national policymaking and politics. In 1977, nearly half of congressional members had no press secretary. Today, media relations is a central component of most congressional offices, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
Using oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses, brought together in extended, non-fiction essays...