Moving away from the usual medical-modeled framework of mental health focused on problems, this title takes a postmodern, social construction approach, looking for and amplifying strengths and encouraging stakeholders to use them.

This Fourth Edition introduces the sociology of culture and explores cultural phenomena including stories, beliefs, media, ideas, art, religious practices, fashions and rituals from a global-sociological perspective.

This book presents a method for bringing data analysis and statistical technique into line with theory.

This is a core textbook designed to prepare literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessments and to help them develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their students.

Quantitative Research for the Qualitative Researcher is a concise text that provides students who are not predisposed to mathematical or scientific thinking with the needed conceptual and practical understanding of quantitative methodology.

This interdisciplinary text examines five different components of family health--biology, behavior, social-cultural circumstances, the environment, and health care--and the ways they affect the abilities of family members to perform well in their homes, workplaces, and communities.

The casebook helps students gain a better understanding of nonprofit management by providing 28 contemporary cases from around the world, illustrating the complexity of nonprofit management in a variety of different sectors.

A fresh look at the numbers of daily living, particularly in light of current economic troubles, where modern economic practices, mathematical concepts, and everyday moral dilemmas are discussed.

A complete guide to the mandatory units of the new Certificate in Education and Training.

The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies offers a compendium of perspectives on process thinking, process organizational theory, process research methodology and empirical applications.