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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death and
illness in the United States, and though much progress has been
made in reducing cardiac risk factors, obesity and diabetes
mellitus are on the rise. Preventing Illness Among People With
Coronary Heart Disease explores recent advances in drug treatments
for CAD risk factors and how these interventions can play an
important role in improving the length and quality of
patients'lives by addressing health behaviors and the need for
behavioral change. This advanced text shows readers how mental
health problems such as anxiety, depression, and alcoholism
interplay with patients'physical health and how certain
interventions can improve patients'outlook and health
status.Preventing Illness Among People With Coronary Heart Disease
brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to
address subjects critical to secondary and tertiary preventive care
for patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). This outstanding
volume concentrates on studies from three major areas to help
primary care practitioners and family practice physicians intervene
successfully with risky behaviors among their patients prone to or
afflicted with coronary artery disease. These include the effects
of heart disease on patients'mental health and quality of life and
the role of formal behavioral interventions in promoting health
among patients with heart disease.Readers of Preventing Illness
Among People With Coronary Heart Disease acquire a solid
understanding of the factors influencing CAD patients'behavioral
patterns and mental states and how the prevalence of CAD can be
reduced. Among the vital topics readers learn about are: the
effects of alcohol upon CHD and blood pressure CHD risk factors in
the elderly exercise interventions coping strategies and cardiac
illness strategies for assessment and prevention smoking and
cardiovascular diseasePreventing Illness Among People With Coronary
Heart Disease seeks to provoke greater discussion and scientific
activity among professionals in the field to improve understanding
of the interplay of mental health, physical health, and behavioral
medicine for patients with heart disease. Primary care
practitioners, family practice physicians, medical students, and
others interested in preventive cardiology, preventive care, or
chronic disease management will learn about recent advances in
research and treatment approaches that can be applied immediately
to daily practice.
A useful guide on education in the field of community research and
action, Education in Community Psychology explores curriculum
issues regarding coursework, field training, the status of
research, and the need for promoting a multidisciplinary
perspective. For your easy reference, it gives you a thorough
overview of the kinds of undergraduate and graduate courses
available and of freestanding and interdisciplinary graduate
programs in both North America and New Zealand. For your
convenience, it also covers the types of knowledge and skills
taught in these courses and programs, the professional roles open
to community graduates, how programs can work with community
organizations, and the steps and issues you should consider when
planning a community psychology course or program. From this book's
helpful pages, you will discover why interdisciplinary programs
hold the most promise for innovation in graduate education, as well
as the greatest potential for developing community research and
action into an interdisciplinary field. If you are interested in
setting up a program that helps students develop a 'systems
perspective'in the way they approach problems and issues in the
community, Education in Community Psychology will help you get
started. To this end, you learn about: the issues and strategies in
teaching community psychology to your students practical steps for
developing your program how to secure viable field placements for
your students how your community psychology program can train
psychologists in nontraditional roles suited to address human and
social problems the ecology of masters'programs selecting required
readings trends in interdisciplinary training using social
functions that include faculty, students, and community agencies to
develop collaborative working relationships the change in APA
guidelinesEducation in Community Psychology provides community
psychology professors and graduate students, psychology
undergraduates intending to go to graduate school, and educators in
human development and social work with a practical overview of the
field of community research and action, its values, ethics,
theories, and methods. With its sample course outlines,
recommendations for faculty planning, and insights on how to
develop community psychology programs, you will be able to extend
your skills beyond the classroom and into the community, where it
counts.
Preventing Drunk Driving shows what is being done today, in
research and practice, to reduce impaired driving and the
fatalities and injuries it produces and to curtail the spread of
this tragic social epidemic. In this informative book, you'll
discover how current research and prevention programs are
increasing the success of designated driver programs. You'll also
find out how communities, friends, and experts are making drinkers
aware of their levels of intoxication and discouraging them from
driving to keep the roads safer. You'll see when intervention
works, when it doesn't, and how you can be most effective as a
citizen in the fight against impaired driving deaths along your own
stretch of the world's highways and city streets. In Preventing
Drunk Driving, you'll get up-to-date data on how researchers are
identifying the most dangerous drunk driving recidivists. Also,
you'll see how increased study and research have led to theoretical
models of intervention, assessments of the usefulness of vehicle
interlock programs, and the use of mapping to target offenders most
at risk. Most importantly, you'll learn: the results of experiments
designed to test methods of increasing designated driving how
census-tract mapping can target communities prone to DWI offenses
the benefits and limitations of vehicle-interlock devices for the
prevention of recidivism how interveners may improve their chances
of stopping an impaired person from getting behind the wheel ways
that blood alcohol concentration (BAC) feedback stations can reduce
DUI incidents"Give me the keys." "Friends don't let friends drive
drunk." These are all sayings we've heard--but what are the
scientific facts about impaired driving and its prevention in our
local communities and neighborhoods? Preventing Drunk Driving
analyzes the societal ill of driving under the influence of alcohol
and its related death toll from a wide variety of angles.
Program Implementation in Preventive Trials shows you how you can
take a more active part in program evaluation and how you can
direct existing programs toward new horizons of more effective
service. In this concise, focused look at community-based
psychology and its operative programs, you'll see how and why
community programs should be comprehensively evaluated. You'll see
the importance of understanding how interventions were conducted
before making conclusions about a program's impact, and you'll
discover why there's an ever-widening gap between what is planned
and what actually gets implemented in community-based programs.In
short, Program Implementation in Preventive Trials helps you see
the increasing need for the assessment of implementation, the
"active" side of community psychology. You'll gain instant
understanding as to why there's a need for constant monitoring of a
program's use, and you'll find answers to the following questions
that continue to plague community psychologists who are interested
in implementing programs of change: Does the current personnel
follow the implementation program? Will new members to the setting
understand and utilize the procedures developed for that setting?
Will the procedures be modified such that their utility decreases?
Specifically, you'll read about: how to ensure intervention
programs are conducted as planned why implementation data should be
collected what protocol compliance is and its role in treatment
programs when to be flexible so modifications can be made in
program procedures who can enhance program adherence by "buying in"
to a multi-change agent approach where cultural sensitivity helps
programs be more faithfully adopted and conductedIf you're a
scholar or a student interested in studying the fundamental issue
of implementation, you'll definitely want to see what these
professionals have compiled in Program Implementation in Preventive
Trials. You'll find that your program agenda, however beneficial it
is now, will only be raised and elevated to a new level of
performance by the positive examples and research carefully
collected here.
Increase your understanding of the etiology, prevention, and
treatment of delinquency!
This informative book provides you with specific strategies to
assess delinquency and to increase the effectiveness of any
prevention program. In addition, it presents a community peer model
of delinquency with important implications for delinquency
prevention programs and for delinquency research. Examining
specific cultural groups in the United States, including
Caucasians, East Asians, South-East Asians,
Polynesians/Micronesians, and Vietnamese, as well as Japanese
youths in their homeland, this model shows how families, schools,
and neighborhoods affect the formation of peer groups--and how
these groups can facilitate or inhibit delinquency.
Culture, Peers, and Delinquency explores the interplay of
historical, traditional culture with contemporary youth culture. It
also examines the relationship between individual outcome and
community disorganization and illustrates how peer relationships
are conditioned by gender. The book will increase your
understanding of the etiology, prevention, and treatment of
delinquency with examples that show treatment alternatives and
outcomes, focusing on: intercultural differences in major
descriptors of the attitudes and activities of youth the
demographics, economics, and history, as well as a fascinating and
disturbing cultural analysis of the ever-increasing rate of
juvenile delinquency in Japan the influence of peers and culture on
Vietnamese youth gangs in Honolulu gender-difference studies of
mixed-culture incarcerated adolescents--and what these youths have
to say about the detention facility where they go to school a
careful analysis of homes, schools, and neighborhoods in terms of
their dysfunctions and how they increase the likelihood that their
youth will spend time with similar peers and without adult
supervision
Discover the first book on employment opportunities in community
psychology!Employment in Community Psychology: The Diversity of
Opportunity is the first psychology career reference book for
undergraduate psychology majors deciding on graduate schools, for
graduate students in psychology seeking employment, and for
psychology faculty advising their students. This book answers the
questions "What can you do with a graduate degree in community
psychology?" and "Who employs community psychologists?" Employment
in Community Psychology addresses these questions through examples
of graduates educated in community psychology and employed in
diverse applied, research, and academic settings. In Employment in
Community Psychology, you will explore the diversity of community
psychology employment opportunities through the stories of current
graduate students, community psychologists on their first job, and
psychologists who have well-established positions in community
research and action. Each experience is told in a story-telling
style allowing the reader to grasp a deeper understanding of the
employment opportunities that cannot be obtained through abstract
description alone. Some of the experiences that highlight
opportunities in the field include: working in the Institute for
Families in Society at the University of South Carolina as a
Research Associate working as a researcher at the Korea Institute
of Social Psychiatry to determine how primary prevention and action
research can be applied to the promotion of adolescent mental
health in Korean society doctoral studies that developed into the
first community psychology position focusing on the issues of
social justice and reconciliation between Indigenous and
non-Indigenous groups in Australian town non-traditional academic
positions in psychology working as a social worker for Native
non-profit health corporation in Alaska a policy-oriented community
psychologist, or a c.p. in the disabilities field entering a second
career in community psychology at mid-life Employment in Community
Psychology is an essential tool for undergrads and graduate
students considering a career in community psychology. The rich
palette of community psychology experiences that are laid out for
the career researcher and advisor are sure to assist students in
deciding what area of community psychology they would like to
pursue.
Program Implementation in Preventive Trials shows you how you can
take a more active part in program evaluation and how you can
direct existing programs toward new horizons of more effective
service. In this concise, focused look at community-based
psychology and its operative programs, you ll see how and why
community programs should be comprehensively evaluated. You ll see
the importance of understanding how interventions were conducted
before making conclusions about a program 's impact, and you ll
discover why there 's an ever-widening gap between what is planned
and what actually gets implemented in community-based programs.In
short, Program Implementation in Preventive Trials helps you see
the increasing need for the assessment of implementation, the
"active" side of community psychology. You ll gain instant
understanding as to why there 's a need for constant monitoring of
a program 's use, and you ll find answers to the following
questions that continue to plague community psychologists who are
interested in implementing programs of change: Does the current
personnel follow the implementation program? Will new members to
the setting understand and utilize the procedures developed for
that setting? Will the procedures be modified such that their
utility decreases? Specifically, you ll read about: how to ensure
intervention programs are conducted as planned why implementation
data should be collected what protocol compliance is and its role
in treatment programs when to be flexible so modifications can be
made in program procedures who can enhance program adherence by
"buying in" to a multi-change agent approach where cultural
sensitivity helps programs be more faithfully adopted and
conductedIf you re a scholar or a student interested in studying
the fundamental issue of implementation, you ll definitely want to
see what these professionals have compiled in Program
Implementation in Preventive Trials. You ll find that your program
agenda, however beneficial it is now, will only be raised and
elevated to a new level of performance by the positive examples and
research carefully collected here.
Preventing Drunk Driving shows what is being done today, in
research and practice, to reduce impaired driving and the
fatalities and injuries it produces and to curtail the spread of
this tragic social epidemic. In this informative book, you?ll
discover how current research and prevention programs are
increasing the success of designated driver programs. You?ll also
find out how communities, friends, and experts are making drinkers
aware of their levels of intoxication and discouraging them from
driving to keep the roads safer. You?ll see when intervention
works, when it doesn?t, and how you can be most effective as a
citizen in the fight against impaired driving deaths along your own
stretch of the world's highways and city streets. In Preventing
Drunk Driving, you?ll get up-to-date data on how researchers are
identifying the most dangerous drunk driving recidivists. Also,
you?ll see how increased study and research have led to theoretical
models of intervention, assessments of the usefulness of vehicle
interlock programs, and the use of mapping to target offenders most
at risk. Most importantly, you?ll learn: the results of experiments
designed to test methods of increasing designated driving how
census-tract mapping can target communities prone to DWI offenses
the benefits and limitations of vehicle-interlock devices for the
prevention of recidivism how interveners may improve their chances
of stopping an impaired person from getting behind the wheel ways
that blood alcohol concentration (BAC) feedback stations can reduce
DUI incidents"Give me the keys." "Friends don?t let friends drive
drunk." These are all sayings we?ve heard--but what are the
scientific facts about impaired driving and its prevention in our
local communities and neighborhoods? Preventing Drunk Driving
analyzes the societal ill of driving under the influence of alcohol
and its related death toll from a wide variety of angles.
A useful guide on education in the field of community research and
action, Education in Community Psychology explores curriculum
issues regarding coursework, field training, the status of
research, and the need for promoting a multidisciplinary
perspective. For your easy reference, it gives you a thorough
overview of the kinds of undergraduate and graduate courses
available and of freestanding and interdisciplinary graduate
programs in both North America and New Zealand. For your
convenience, it also covers the types of knowledge and skills
taught in these courses and programs, the professional roles open
to community graduates, how programs can work with community
organizations, and the steps and issues you should consider when
planning a community psychology course or program. From this book's
helpful pages, you will discover why interdisciplinary programs
hold the most promise for innovation in graduate education, as well
as the greatest potential for developing community research and
action into an interdisciplinary field. If you are interested in
setting up a program that helps students develop a 'systems
perspective'in the way they approach problems and issues in the
community, Education in Community Psychology will help you get
started. To this end, you learn about: the issues and strategies in
teaching community psychology to your students practical steps for
developing your program how to secure viable field placements for
your students how your community psychology program can train
psychologists in nontraditional roles suited to address human and
social problems the ecology of masters'programs selecting required
readings trends in interdisciplinary training using social
functions that include faculty, students, and community agencies to
develop collaborative working relationships the change in APA
guidelinesEducation in Community Psychology provides community
psychology professors and graduate students, psychology
undergraduates intending to go to graduate school, and educators in
human development and social work with a practical overview of the
field of community research and action, its values, ethics,
theories, and methods. With its sample course outlines,
recommendations for faculty planning, and insights on how to
develop community psychology programs, you will be able to extend
your skills beyond the classroom and into the community, where it
counts.
An important contribution to the understanding of the unique
circumstances and needs of the homeless, Diversity Within the
Homeless Population examines why more and more women and their
children, adolescents, and young adults are ending up on the
street. You will learn about unique treatment and community
intervention programs, preventive approaches that target those at
risk for future homelessness, and case management as a strategy for
preventing the initial experience of homelessness. You will also
learn about the "behavioral" factors that differentiate homeless
women with children from impoverished women with children who
remain housed, including domestic violence, degree of education,
number of children, traumatic experiences, and use of drugs. You'll
find this dynamic book takes a giant step toward the development
and evaluation of strategies for preventing and alleviating this
urgent social problem. In doing so, Diversity Within the Homeless
Population explores the benefits of family-oriented treatment, ways
to make housing available to the homeless through employment
opportunities, and the effectiveness of linking inpatient treatment
to a culturally sensitive, community-based intervention program.
You will also learn about: the lack of personal support networks
among the homeless crack/cocaine use and homelessness among
inner-city communities preventing relapse among crack-using
homeless women with children the "Needs Foundation" in Chicago
social and environmental predictors of adjustment in homeless
children homelessness and how it compromises the behavioral,
physical, social, cognitive, and emotional development of children
hierarchical multiple regression analyses system and agency demands
on case managersAs a researcher, social worker, psychologist, or
counselor who works with the homeless, you face extraordinary
adversity on a daily basis; this book offers you hope, guidance,
insight, and intervention strategies that will aid you in tackling
this enormous social problem. Diversity Within the Homeless
Population provides you with a storehouse of ideas that you'll
implement in your own practice or community.
Research on treatment outcome for addictive disorders indicates
that a variety of interventions are effective. However, the
progress clients make in treatment frequently is undermined by the
lack of an alcohol and drug free living environment supporting
sustained recovery. This book suggests that treatment providers
have not paid sufficient attention to the social environments where
clients live after residential treatment or while attending
outpatient programs. It also describes the need for alcohol and
drug free living environments. We then review the history of
communal living for recovering addicts and alcoholics and provide
concrete examples of the Oxford House model, which is a widespread
communal living option for over 10,000 recovering persons in the
US. The structure and philosophy of Oxford Houses are presented
along with recent outcome studies providing support for their
effectiveness. This book was published as a special issue in the
Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery.
Research on treatment outcome for addictive disorders indicates
that a variety of interventions are effective. However, the
progress clients make in treatment frequently is undermined by the
lack of an alcohol and drug free living environment supporting
sustained recovery. This book suggests that treatment providers
have not paid sufficient attention to the social environments where
clients live after residential treatment or while attending
outpatient programs. It also describes the need for alcohol and
drug free living environments. We then review the history of
communal living for recovering addicts and alcoholics and provide
concrete examples of the Oxford House model, which is a widespread
communal living option for over 10,000 recovering persons in the
US. The structure and philosophy of Oxford Houses are presented
along with recent outcome studies providing support for their
effectiveness. This book was published as a special issue in the
Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery.
Learn to create a positive research/action alliance similar to that
of DePaul University and the Oxford House community This book
reviews important research conducted in a 13-year collaborative
partnership between Oxford House (a community-based, self-run
residential substance abuse recovery program) and DePaul
University. It also presents practical guidelines for developing
effective action research collaborative programs that can cultivate
and maintain mutually beneficial community/research
partnerships.Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery: The
Oxford House Model presents and examines: practical guidelines for
developing effective action research collaboratives focusing on the
development of trust, respecting the personal experiences of the
community members and the group, commitment to serving the
community, validating findings with organization members, and
accountability the experiences and attitudes of Oxford House
community members in light of their participation in the
collaborative research projects described in the book the
essentials of designing and creating an efficient and productive
yet homey residential community environment for addicted persons
the factors that make Oxford Houses in the United States and
Australia safe and sober settings for persons in recovery the
differential growth among self-governed substance abuse recovery
homes for men and for women with a focus on the impact of state
loan programs and the utilization of technical assistance in
relation to the expansion of women's houses as compared with men's
the economic advantages of the Oxford House model as compared with
other treatment and incarceration alternatives the roles of
ethnicity and gender in substance abuse recovery the structural
social support of Oxford House men and the impact of parenthood on
these men's substance use patterns and recovery attempts the
medical care (need and utilization) patterns of a substance abusing
and recovering population how Oxford House's African-American
community functions as a source of abstinent social networks the
sense of community among women and women with children living in
Oxford Houses with emphasis on how the presence of children impacts
the household perspectives of leadership by women (some with
children, some without) affiliated with Oxford HousesThe
information in this book shows that the rules of the game have
changed.Substance abusers now can take charge of their own recovery
in effective and efficient ways, and practitioners can find
low-cost housing options for their clients with substance abuse
problems. As a part of your professional/teaching collection,
Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery can help you or your
students take understand and make effective use of this rapidly
evolving paradigm of community-based recovery.
Learn to create a positive research/action alliance similar to that
of DePaul University and the Oxford House community This book
reviews important research conducted in a 13-year collaborative
partnership between Oxford House (a community-based, self-run
residential substance abuse recovery program) and DePaul
University. It also presents practical guidelines for developing
effective action research collaborative programs that can cultivate
and maintain mutually beneficial community/research
partnerships.Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery: The
Oxford House Model presents and examines: practical guidelines for
developing effective action research collaboratives focusing on the
development of trust, respecting the personal experiences of the
community members and the group, commitment to serving the
community, validating findings with organization members, and
accountability the experiences and attitudes of Oxford House
community members in light of their participation in the
collaborative research projects described in the book the
essentials of designing and creating an efficient and productive
yet homey residential community environment for addicted persons
the factors that make Oxford Houses in the United States and
Australia safe and sober settings for persons in recovery the
differential growth among self-governed substance abuse recovery
homes for men and for women with a focus on the impact of state
loan programs and the utilization of technical assistance in
relation to the expansion of women's houses as compared with men's
the economic advantages of the Oxford House model as compared with
other treatment and incarceration alternatives the roles of
ethnicity and gender in substance abuse recovery the structural
social support of Oxford House men and the impact of parenthood on
these men's substance use patterns and recovery attempts the
medical care (need and utilization) patterns of a substance abusing
and recovering population how Oxford House's African-American
community functions as a source of abstinent social networks the
sense of community among women and women with children living in
Oxford Houses with emphasis on how the presence of children impacts
the household perspectives of leadership by women (some with
children, some without) affiliated with Oxford HousesThe
information in this book shows that the rules of the game have
changed.Substance abusers now can take charge of their own recovery
in effective and efficient ways, and practitioners can find
low-cost housing options for their clients with substance abuse
problems. As a part of your professional/teaching collection,
Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery can help you or your
students take understand and make effective use of this rapidly
evolving paradigm of community-based recovery.
Educating Students to Make-a-Difference covers a range of issues
related to service learning, addressing the "who," "why," and "so
what" of service-learning experiences. It provides information that
will aid in the development of service-learning programs and
courses.The in-depth studies on student volunteerism found in this
book will show you how incorporating student service objectives
into your curriculum can improve your students'self-esteem and
school involvement, as well as alleviate depression and problem
behavior. Educating Students to Make-a- Difference will enhance
your knowledge and understanding of volunteerism and its many
benefits, showing you how to ignite the volunteer in each of your
students. By encouraging volunteerism, you?ll increase your
students'problem-solving and leadership skills, as well as their
awareness of social issues, and see the positive impact service
learning has on students, faculty and the community. Educating
Students to Make-a-Difference gives qualitative and quantitative
assessments of attributes that predict volunteerism in student
populations and the social values that are developed or enhanced as
a consequence of service-learning experiences. You?ll learn about
student predispositions and motivations for community service
across a variety of student populations. In addition to promoting
moral and social values, service-learning opportunities present
educational benefits as well as benefits to personal and
professional growth. You will see this as the book explores: the
"who," "why," and "so what" of service learning educational
benefits of service-learning opportunities self-esteem and
self-efficacy faculty benefits comparisons between volunteers and
nonvolunteers motivations and predispositions for student
volunteerism selection and retention of student volunteersYour
colleagues will want to borrow your syllabus after seeing the
results of your new community service incorporated class material.
Educating Students to Make-a-Difference gives you the insight on
student patterns and volunteerism and data to service learning
activities that enhance your students'educational experiences.
An important contribution to the understanding of the unique
circumstances and needs of the homeless, Diversity Within the
Homeless Population examines why more and more women and their
children, adolescents, and young adults are ending up on the
street. You will learn about unique treatment and community
intervention programs, preventive approaches that target those at
risk for future homelessness, and case management as a strategy for
preventing the initial experience of homelessness. You will also
learn about the "behavioral" factors that differentiate homeless
women with children from impoverished women with children who
remain housed, including domestic violence, degree of education,
number of children, traumatic experiences, and use of drugs. You'll
find this dynamic book takes a giant step toward the development
and evaluation of strategies for preventing and alleviating this
urgent social problem. In doing so, Diversity Within the Homeless
Population explores the benefits of family-oriented treatment, ways
to make housing available to the homeless through employment
opportunities, and the effectiveness of linking inpatient treatment
to a culturally sensitive, community-based intervention program.
You will also learn about: the lack of personal support networks
among the homeless crack/cocaine use and homelessness among
inner-city communities preventing relapse among crack-using
homeless women with children the "Needs Foundation" in Chicago
social and environmental predictors of adjustment in homeless
children homelessness and how it compromises the behavioral,
physical, social, cognitive, and emotional development of children
hierarchical multiple regression analyses system and agency demands
on case managersAs a researcher, social worker, psychologist, or
counselor who works with the homeless, you face extraordinary
adversity on a daily basis; this book offers you hope, guidance,
insight, and intervention strategies that will aid you in tackling
this enormous social problem. Diversity Within the Homeless
Population provides you with a storehouse of ideas that you ll
implement in your own practice or community.
Educating Students to Make-a-Difference covers a range of issues
related to service learning, addressing the "who," "why," and "so
what" of service-learning experiences. It provides information that
will aid in the development of service-learning programs and
courses.The in-depth studies on student volunteerism found in this
book will show you how incorporating student service objectives
into your curriculum can improve your students'self-esteem and
school involvement, as well as alleviate depression and problem
behavior. Educating Students to Make-a- Difference will enhance
your knowledge and understanding of volunteerism and its many
benefits, showing you how to ignite the volunteer in each of your
students. By encouraging volunteerism, you'll increase your
students'problem-solving and leadership skills, as well as their
awareness of social issues, and see the positive impact service
learning has on students, faculty and the community. Educating
Students to Make-a-Difference gives qualitative and quantitative
assessments of attributes that predict volunteerism in student
populations and the social values that are developed or enhanced as
a consequence of service-learning experiences. You'll learn about
student predispositions and motivations for community service
across a variety of student populations. In addition to promoting
moral and social values, service-learning opportunities present
educational benefits as well as benefits to personal and
professional growth. You will see this as the book explores: the
"who", "why", and "so what" of service learning educational
benefits of service-learning opportunities self-esteem and
self-efficacy faculty benefits comparisons between volunteers and
nonvolunteers motivations and predispositions for student
volunteerism selection and retention of student volunteers Your
colleagues will want to borrow your syllabus after seeing the
results of your new community service incorporated class material.
Educating Students to Make-a-Difference gives you the insight on
student patterns and volunteerism and data to service learning
activities that enhance your students'educational experiences.
Procrastination is a fascinating, highly complex human phenomenon
for which the time has come for systematic theoretical and
therapeutic effort. The present volume reflects this effort. It was
a labor of love to read this scholarly, timely book-the first of
its kind on the topic. It was especially encouraging to find that
its authors are remarkably free of the phenomenon they have been
investigating. One might have expected the opposite. It has often
been argued that people select topics that trouble them and come to
understand their problems better by studying or treating them in
others. This does not appear to be true of the procrastination
researchers represented in this book. I base this conclusion on two
simple observations. First, the work is replete with recent refer
ences and the book itself has reached the reader scarcely a year
following its completion. Second, when one considers the remarkable
pace of pro grammatic research by these contributors during the
past decade, it is clear that they are at the healthy end of the
procrastination continuum. The fascinating history of the term
procrastination is well documented in this book. The term continues
to conjure up contrasting, eloquent images-especially for poets.
When Edward Young wrote in 1742, "Pro crastination is the Thief of
Time," he was condemning the waste of the most precious of human
commodities.
Find out why you put things off-and learn to conquer
procrastination for good! "What if I make a bad decision?" "What if
I fail?" "I'm better under pressure." There are all sorts of
reasons people procrastinate. What are yours? This book draws on
scientific research on procrastination conducted over more than
twenty years by the author and his colleagues, to help you learn
what stops you from getting things done so that you can find the
solutions that will really work. Contrary to conventional wisdom,
chronic procrastination is NOT about poor time management, but
about self-sabotaging tendencies that can prevent you from reaching
your full potential. This book gives you the knowledge and tools
you need to understand and overcome these tendencies so you can
start achieving your goals-not next week, next month, or next year,
but TODAY! Exposes the hidden causes of procrastination, including
fear of failure, fear of success, and thrill-seeking Identifies
types of procrastinators and helps determine which type describes
you Shares surprising information on how factors such as technology
and the time of day affect procrastination Examines specific issues
related to putting things off in school and at work Shares more
than twenty years of research on the causes and consequences of
chronic procrastination Written by a psychologist who is an
international expert on the subject of procrastination Are you
still procrastinating? This take-charge guide will help you stop
making excuses and start transforming your life-right now!
Procrastination is a fascinating, highly complex human phenomenon
for which the time has come for systematic theoretical and
therapeutic effort. The present volume reflects this effort. It was
a labor of love to read this scholarly, timely book-the first of
its kind on the topic. It was especially encouraging to find that
its authors are remarkably free of the phenomenon they have been
investigating. One might have expected the opposite. It has often
been argued that people select topics that trouble them and come to
understand their problems better by studying or treating them in
others. This does not appear to be true of the procrastination
researchers represented in this book. I base this conclusion on two
simple observations. First, the work is replete with recent refer
ences and the book itself has reached the reader scarcely a year
following its completion. Second, when one considers the remarkable
pace of pro grammatic research by these contributors during the
past decade, it is clear that they are at the healthy end of the
procrastination continuum. The fascinating history of the term
procrastination is well documented in this book. The term continues
to conjure up contrasting, eloquent images-especially for poets.
When Edward Young wrote in 1742, "Pro crastination is the Thief of
Time," he was condemning the waste of the most precious of human
commodities."
The purpose of Creating a Transformational Community: The
Fundamentals of Stewardship Activities is to provide the reader
with a description of the important role that community development
has in establishing healthy, cooperative, and prosocial
relationships among individuals residing within their neighborhoods
and communities. This book examines four primary domains in how
communities can grow and positively influence individual and
holistic development as well as group interaction: education and
organized school systems; environmental development, such as green
sustainable programs; healthful nutrition; and spiritual growth and
development An important scope of the manuscript is to provide the
reader with insight how these four primary community domains
interact with each other to play a critical role in the healthy
development not of the individual but also how groups within
society can work cooperatively and interdependently in creating a
healthier and more sustainable community.
Discover the first book on employment opportunities in community
psychology Employment in Community Psychology: The Diversity of
Opportunity is the first psychology career reference book for
undergraduate psychology majors deciding on graduate schools, for
graduate students in psychology seeking employment, and for
psychology faculty advising their students. This book answers the
questions "What can you do with a graduate degree in community
psychology?" and "Who employs community psychologists?" Employment
in Community Psychology addresses these questions through examples
of graduates educated in community psychology and employed in
diverse applied, research, and academic settings. In Employment in
Community Psychology, you will explore the diversity of community
psychology employment opportunities through the stories of current
graduate students, community psychologists on their first job, and
psychologists who have well-established positions in community
research and action. Each experience is told in a story-telling
style allowing the reader to grasp a deeper understanding of the
employment opportunities that cannot be obtained through abstract
description alone. Some of the experiences that highlight
opportunities in the field include: working in the Institute for
Families in Society at the University of South Carolina as a
Research Associate working as a researcher at the Korea Institute
of Social Psychiatry to determine how primary prevention and action
research can be applied to the promotion of adolescent mental
health in Korean society doctoral studies that developed into the
first community psychology position focusing on the issues of
social justice and reconciliation between Indigenous and
non-Indigenous groups in Australian town non-traditional academic
positions in psychology working as a social worker for Native
non-profit health corporation in Alaska a policy-oriented community
psychologist, or a c.p. in the disabilities field entering a second
career in community psychology at mid-lifeEmployment in Community
Psychology is an essential tool for undergrads and graduate
students considering a career in community psychology. The rich
palette of community psychology experiences that are laid out for
the career researcher and advisor are sure to assist students in
deciding what area of community psychology they would like to
pursue.
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