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Alcohol, Crime and Public Health explores the issue of drinking in
the criminal justice system, providing an overview of the topic
from both a criminal justice and public health perspective. The
majority of prisoners in the UK (70%) have an alcohol use disorder,
and evidence tells us that risky drinking is high amongst those in
contact with all areas of the criminal justice system. Uniquely,
this book brings both a criminal justice and public health
perspective to the topic. The book opens by exploring the levels of
crime attributed to alcohol, the policy context of alcohol and
crime, and the prevalence of risky alcohol consumption in the
criminal justice system. The following chapters examine risky
drinking amongst men, women and young people in the criminal
justice system. The final chapters look at the efficacy of
psychosocial interventions for risky drinking in the criminal
justice system, and look forward to how researchers and
practitioners can work together to produce research in the criminal
justice system. Written in an accessible and concise style,
Alcohol, Crime and Public Health will be of great use to students
of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Health as well as the
wider area of Public and Social Policy in relation to alcohol and
crime.
Viewing Art with Babies demonstrates how to facilitate quality art
viewing experiences with babies from as young as two months old.
Such experiences can help to nurture early literacy and receptive
language skills, sensory stimulation, and early brain development.
Based on the author's research with babies in New Zealand,
Australia, Romania, England, and the U.S., the book provides the
reader with information about early brain, vision, sensory and
language development, as well as the aesthetic preferences of
babies. Danko-McGhee provides details about the type of art that
babies like, how to display art in the learning environment, and
how to interact with a baby when viewing art. Case studies of
international museums, national museums and community agencies that
have had success with engaging babies in art viewing experiences
will be included in the book as a way to demonstrate how theory and
research can be successfully put into practice. Viewing Art with
Babies details practical ways that museum practitioners, early
childhood and community educators and parents can provide
art-viewing experiences in the museum, early childhood classroom or
even their own home. It will be of interest to practitioners and
parents around the world, as well as those engaged in the study of
museum education.
This book gathers the lectures of the post-graduate course entitled
"The Graph of Desire and the Psychoanalytic Clinic," held in 1993
within the framework of the Updating Program on Lacanian
Psychoanalysis (Post-Graduate Secretary, Faculty of Psychology,
University of Buenos Aires).Although the subject of the course was
the graph of desire and its articulation with the psychoanalytical
practice, the reader will find here that Lacan s article "The
subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the
Freudian unconscious" has been intensively looked over, being
paraphrased and quoted in almost every class of the course.
Considering that the Spanish translation has some problems, certain
terms and paragraphs from the original French version have been
translated by the author, in order to try to understand what Lacan
affirms.The recordings of the course lectures constitute the basis
for this book; they have been barely modified, for their colloquial
style will not interfere with the reading."
Are humans fair by nature? Why do we often willingly trust
strangers or cooperate with them even if those actions leave us
vulnerable to exploitation? Does this natural inclination towards
fairness or trust have implications in the market-place?
Traditional economic theory would perhaps think not, perceiving
human interaction as self-interested at heart. There is increasing
evidence however that social norms and norm-driven behaviour such
as a preference for fairness, generosity or trust have serious
implications for economics. This book provides an easily accessible
overview of economic experiments, specifically those that explore
the role of fairness, generosity, trust and reciprocity in economic
transactions.
Ananish Chaudhuri approaches a variety of economic issues and
problems including:
- Pricing by firms
- Writing labour contracts between parties
- Marking voluntary contributions to charity,
- Addressing issues of environmental pollution,
- Providing micro-credit to small entrepreneurs,
- Resolving problems of coordination failure in
organizations.
The book discusses how norm-driven behaviour can often lead to
significantly different outcomes than those predicted by economic
theories and these findings should in turn cause us to re-think how
we approach economic analysis and policy.
Assuming no prior knowledge of economics and containing a
variety of examples, this reader friendly volume will be perfect
reading for people from a wide range of backgrounds including
students and policy-makers. The book should appeal to economics
undergraduates studying experimental economics, microeconomics or
game theory as well as students in social psychology,
organizational behaviour, management and other business related
disciplines.
A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching presents a new
approach to baseball coaching and practice. Applying a CLA to
player development process across the skill spectrum from the
beginners to elite, this book uses practical examples to
demonstrate the theoretical principles of the Constraints-led
coaching style embedded in research showing the numerous benefits
of the approach. This book incorporates cases studies and examples
of how constraints are manipulated to develop more adaptable
players that can perform at a higher level with a reduced risk of
injury, shifting the reader's view of skill acquisition from the
concept of one "correct" solution, acquired through repetition, to
the ecological dynamics framework focused on variability,
adaptability and self-organization. Individual chapters cover major
topics such as hitting, pitching and fielding for players at range
of levels form little leagues to the pros and illustrating the
underlying principles so that coaches can develop their own
practice activities. A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball
Coaching is key reading for undergraduate students and practising
sports coaches, physical education teachers and sport scientists
alike as well as practising players and coaches in baseball and
related sports.
This fine new book, the third in a series, brings psychologists up
to date on the advances of phenomenological research methods in
illuminating the nature of human awareness and ex periences. In the
more congenial and welcoming intellectual climate of the 1990s, phe
nomenological methods have moved to the forefront of discourse on
research methods that support and advocate an expanding view of
science. In Valle and King (1978), phenome nological methods were
presented as alternatives to behavioral methods. In Valle and
Halling (1989), phenomenological methods were advanced to
perspectives in psychology. This new volume is even less cautious,
indeed bolder, in relation to conventional methods and
epistemologies. By now, people knowledgeable about psychology, and
most psycholo gists, have digested the criticisms directed against
methods that operationalize, quantify, and often minimize human
behavior. In bringing us up to date on the growing power of phe
nomenological methods, this volume brings welcome coherence and
integrity to an in creasingly harried science attempting to
reenchant itself with meaning and depth, an endeavor artfully
exemplified by phenomenological inquiries of the last several
decades."
This book differentiates between categories of adolescent male
offending and explores the behavioural and social profiles of those
who become involved in violent offending and organized crime. Using
self-reported and arrest data, the book examines key stages of male
adolescent offending with a view to early recognition of behaviours
that leave young men vulnerable to criminal exploitation and the
escalation of violence. It also explains the importance of
understanding crime motivations, how young men view themselves when
they offend, and the emotions that they experience. Rather than
looking at violent offending as a single category of behavior, the
book helps readers differentiate between types of adolescent
violence and to understand the underlying psychological and social
causes. It offers an insight into the journey of young people who
are criminally exploited and those who become involved in
committing acts of serious violence and organized crime. It does so
by using data from official records, self-reported offending, and
the narratives of young people. Each chapter focuses on a
particular stage of offending with a view to early identification,
support, and diversion. Pathways to Adolescent Male Violent
Offending is aimed at practitioners in youth offending services,
youth work, policing, and education. It will also be useful for
students of forensic and investigative psychology, criminal
justice, policing, and child and adolescent mental health.
Special Needs Advocacy Resource Book: What You Can Do Now to
Advocate for Your Exceptional Child's Education is a unique
handbook that teaches parents how to work with schools to achieve
optimal learning situations and accommodations for their child's
needs. From IEPs and 504 Plans, to IDEA and NCLB, navigating
today's school system can be difficult for even the most
up-to-date, education-savvy parent. Special needs advocates Rich
Weinfeld and Michelle Davis provide parents and professional
advocates with concise, easy-to-understand definitions and
descriptions of legal terms and school regulations, along with
checklists, tips, questionnaires, and other tools. Topics covered
in this handy guide include gathering accurate information about a
child's education, navigating school meetings, understanding
education law, and best practices in the classroom, working
effectively with parents and school systems, discovering
educational options beyond the standard, and much more. Parents and
advocates not only will feel informed by Weinfeld and Davis' vast
knowledge of the inner workings of the school system-they'll be
empowered to help their kids succeed in school. Educational
Resource
Theoretical Issues in Psychology is published as the discipline of
psychology enters its (at least) third century. The year 2001
brings with it millennial reflections, as well as the strange sense
of deja vu that we derive from the Kubrick movie. As to the former,
a glance at the contents list of this volume will demonstrate both
the maturity and the vigour of theoretical debate within
psychology. There is a level of sophistication here that should be
the cause of quiet celebration. Recent ideas about discursive
practice and subjectivity, chaos theory and autopoiesis, are
effortlessly entrained with classical issues. Canonical texts are
looked at with fresh eyes. Unresolved social and political
questions are doggedly persisted with, and new perspectives on the
human experience are pioneered. We are not afraid of long words,
even if French in origin, but nor are we afraid to recognise that
we are physical beings who touch other beings, who hold, desire,
and remember - and who talk, talk, talk. For surely it is
theoretically-sensitive work in psychology - whether "critical" or
not - that best represents what the discipline has to offer the
wider community.
Statistical Power Analysis explains the key concepts in statistical
power analysis and illustrates their application in both tests of
traditional null hypotheses (that treatments or interventions have
no effect in the population) and in tests of the minimum-effect
hypotheses (that the population effects of treatments or
interventions are so small that they can be safely treated as
unimportant). It provides readers with the tools to understand and
perform power analyses for virtually all the statistical methods
used in the social and behavioral sciences. Brett Myors and Kevin
Murphy apply the latest approaches of power analysis to both null
hypothesis and minimum-effect testing using the same basic unified
model. This book starts with a review of the key concepts that
underly statistical power. It goes on to show how to perform and
interpret power analyses, and the ways to use them to diagnose and
plan research. We discuss the uses of power analysis in correlation
and regression, in the analysis of experimental data, and in
multilevel studies. This edition includes new material and new
power software. The programs used for power analysis in this book
have been re-written in R, a language that is widely used and
freely available. The authors include R codes for all programs, and
we have also provided a web-based app that allows users who are not
comfortable with R to perform a wide range of analyses using any
computer or device that provides access to the web. Statistical
Power Analysis helps readers design studies, diagnose existing
studies, and understand why hypothesis tests come out the way they
do. The fifth edition includes updates to all chapters to
accommodate the most current scholarship, as well as recalculations
of all examples. This book is intended for graduate students and
faculty in the behavioral and social sciences; researchers in other
fields will find the concepts and methods laid out here valuable
and applicable to studies in many domains.
Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking
book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about
fathers. Using the most recent research, this pioneering work
exposes these baseless beliefs and the toll they take on children's
relationships with their fathers, parents' relationships with one
another, and the physical and mental health of fathers and mothers.
Tackling a wide range of topics from custody laws, to children's
toys, to the sexist behavior of counselors, pediatricians, and
lawyers, Dr Linda Nielsen describes in vivid detail how these myths
are linked to many of our most pressing issues: Creating more
gender equity in childcare and housework Reducing child abuse,
post-partum depression, and fathers' suicide rates Expanding
mothers' and fathers' options at home and at work Reducing
children's academic, behavioral, and emotional problems Lessening
the pressures of parenting for both parents Changing sexist
policies and practices that hurt parents and children Improving the
economic situations for parents and their children The book is not
only a wake-up call for parents but also for students and
professionals in medicine and family law, social work, child
development, education, and in the publishing, advertising, media,
and entertainment industries. Above all, the book empowers parents
to free themselves from the myths and lies about fathers that bind
them.
*Bestseller with over 125,000 in print, completely rewritten; over
90% new material reflects advances in MI as well as the changing
health care landscape. *Authoritative--Rollnick and Miller are the
renowned co-developers of this in-demand, empirically supported
method. *Tailor made for busy health care providers; concise,
accessible, affordable, practical, and illustrated with clinical
dialogues. *For providers in any setting, from private practice and
hospitals to health clinics, rehab centers, pharmacies, and
schools. *A key to effective health care is patient adherence; MI
tackles behavior change head-on. *New or expanded coverage of
working with hostile or resistant patients, vaccine hesitancy (not
Covid-specific), and delivering bad news.
The volumes in this set make available significant studies on
mental health and illness. Issues examined include Chronic
Schizophrenia, Psychosis, different approaches to psychiatric
research and the community aspect of mental health.
Generation Z (GenZ) is the young generation born between the
mid-1990s and 2010s. They are now entering the market and starting
their first jobs. Therefore, managers must shape the company
workplace environment to encourage young employees to work
efficiently and connect their future with the company. Only then
both managers and employees will share mutual satisfaction from
collaboration and aim at the common target, which should be the
prosperity of the company. This book presents research results and
techniques for analyzing the working expectations and needs of
GenZ. The analyses were made in various countries in Europe: The
Czech Republic, Latvia, Poland, and Portugal. The book contains
chapters that present the analysis results and technical chapters
that outline modern methods of analysis of management data,
including tutorial chapters on Machine Learning, which currently
make a strong appearance in research in various disciplines. This
volume will be of interest to researchers, academics,
practitioners, and students in the fields of management studies,
research methods, and human resource management.
Organizations and societies are facing extreme challenges that
require action (IPCC, 2021). The UN's sustainability goals,
demographic change, and the green shift are knocking on the door,
while traditional education, and ways of leading and managing this
development, often fail to keep up. Organizational Change,
Leadership and Ethics challenges leadership orthodoxy, assumptions,
and myths currently preventing the further development of theory
and practice. It encourages intelligent disobedience in support of
greater leadership capabilities and capacity in organisations and
societies. As such, the book is written for everyone who wants to
be MAD - to Make A Difference - students, scholars, and
practitioners alike.
First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Including volumes originally published between 1910 and 1957, this
set clearly shows the evolution of approaches to and definitions of
conditions such as nervous anxiety, neuroses, hysteria,
delinquency, insanity and mental illness. It provides a compelling
insight into how attitudes have changed to such states during this
century. Other subjects covered include psychotherapy with
children, personality, abnormal psychology, the relationship
between brain and personality and psychotic art.
The volumes in this set take a comparative approach to human and
animal psychology and give a valuable insight into thinking about
similarities and differences between humans and animals prevalent
in the 1920s and 1930s.
This set includes a fascinating range of subjects relating to the
areas of individual psychology, personality and character. An
unusual feature of this set are titles covering the areas of
eugenics and handreading.
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