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Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology

Learning to Look Beyond the Symptoms

This casebook provides rich, detailed examples of the major mental illnesses. In addition, it also includes up-to-date information about the biological nature of these disorders, comprehensive approaches to treatment, and critical thinking and questioning pauses. As an added feature, this text incorporates multiple treatment providers including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatric nurse practitioners. Before delving into the detailed cases, the text provides introductory chapters on: perspectives in abnormal psychology, diagnostic and therapeutic interviewing, classification and diagnosis, assessment procedures, introductory comments about each case, and therapeutic strategies. Readers learn about the personal history of each consumer both before and during the development of each case. Most cases also include in-depth interviews with individuals close to the consumer. Every case ends with a section on that particular disorder as viewed from a biological perspective. Treatment approaches are applied as appropriate as well as discussions centring on why other treatment techniques have been ruled out as viable options.

The reader may immediately wonder why a casebook for abnormal psychology is
needed. That is a good question and one that has guided the authors as we
prepared this text. Casebooks for such courses are only as useful as the student's
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Collins Essential Atlas of the World

A colour atlas of the world created from current sources, this text includes a 32-page geographical encyclopaedia section on contemporary world issues and 96 pages of detailed reference maps.

A colour atlas of the world created from current sources, this text includes a 32-page geographical encyclopaedia section on contemporary world issues and 96 pages of detailed reference maps.

Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties

This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students--particularly those at risk for reading difficulties--understand and acquire new knowledge from text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional techniques and activities, complete with helpful classroom examples and sample lessons. The book describes ways to assess comprehension, build the skills that good readers rely on, and teach students to use multiple comprehension strategies flexibly and effectively. Each chapter features thought-provoking discussion questions. Reproducible lesson plans and graphic organizers can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition Chapters on content-area literacy, English language learners, and intensive interventions. Incorporates current research on each component of reading comprehension. Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards. Additional instructional activities throughout.

Preface. When. reading is effortless, which is likely the case for readers of this
preface, it is difficult to imagine what it might be like to read print and not be able
to understand it or say much about it afterward. Although we might occasionally
not ...

Choosing Motherhood

Stories of Successful Women Who Put Family First

Motherhood or a career? Which one truly matters? Both are important in their own way, but in Choosing Motherhood learn how these bright, young LDS women from the Yale community, while their peers were putting off motherhood or forgetting it entirely, decided to become mothers and make an eternal difference in the lives of their children and their communities.

Both are important in their own way, but in Choosing Motherhood learn how these bright, young LDS women from the Yale community, while their peers were putting off motherhood or forgetting it entirely, decided to become mothers and make an ...