Provides students with a snapshot of a particular theory/approach, the major thinkers associated with each theory, application to a single case study, and critical thinking and application questions to help students internalize the content presented and apply it to their own development as a counselor.

Ideal for Common Core initiatives, this much-needed book offers a step-by-step approach for teaching academic language, including case studies, classroom strategies, study questions, and more.

This text presents students, researchers and policy makers in the social sciences with the tools for undertaking mixed-methods research for policy research and programme evaluation, from design, through data collection and dissemination.

Offers both students and practitioners of public health and health psychology an indispensable resource providing not only a wealth of information and examples about specific cultural groups in North America but also assessment and implementation guidelines for promoting health and behaviors that optimize health in any cultural community.

The book teaches the basic concepts and vocabulary necessary to do program evaluations and to review the quality of evaluation research so as to make informed decisions about methods and outcomes.

Taking the topics of a quantitative methodology course and illustrating them through Monte Carlo simulation, this book illustrates abstract principles, such as bias, efficiency, and measures of uncertainty in an intuitive, visual way.

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Offers readers an introduction to the methodology, etiology, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of family violence. Organized chronologically, this title includes chapters that cover child physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; abused and abusive adolescents; courtship violence and date rape; spouse abuse, battered women, and elder abuse.