Authors:Linda K. Stroh, Homer H. Johnso,
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: consulting, effective, principles, basic
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-12-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0805854207
ISBN-13: 9780805854206

This is a very good time for consultants. As corporations have been reorganizing and downsizing, merging and globaliing, the consulting business has been booming. The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting is about what effective consultants do and how they do it. It provides a step-by-step process that can provide successful outcomes for consultants and their clients. The chapters have plenty of examples and cases of the process used by effective consultants, as cases and examples are one of the best ways to learn the consulting business. Also provided as part of each chapter are short piec

Author: Zoltan Dornyei
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: language, second, acquisition, series, research, differeces, learner, individual, psychology
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0805860185
ISBN-13: 9780805860184

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies in various learner attributes such as personality traits, motivation, or language aptitude. In psychology, these attributes have traditionally been called "individual differences." The scope of individual learner differences is broad--ranging from creativity to learner styles and anxiety--yet there is no current, comprehensive, and unified volume that provides an overview of the considerable amount of research condu

Author: Suzanne M. Bianchi
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: health, family, work
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0805852549
ISBN-13: 9780805852547

Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being grew out of a conference held in Washington, D.C. in June 2003 on "Workforce/Workplace Mismatch: Work, Family, Health, and Well-Being" sponsored by the National Institute of Health (NIH). The text considers multiple dimensions of health and well-being for workers and their families, children, and communities. The health of the individual worker is likely intimately related to the health of the worker’s family. Investigations into the socioeconomic gradient in health within broad occupational categories have raised important questions about the role of

Authors:Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Stephe
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: perspectives, approaches, disciplinary, multi, family, handbook, work
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2005-12-16
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 0805850252
ISBN-13: 9780805850253

The Work and Family Handbook is a comprehensive edited volume, which reviews a wide range of disciplinary perspectives across the social sciences on the study of work-family relationships, theory, and methods. The changing demographics of the labor force has resulted in an expanded awareness and understanding of the intricate relations between work and family dimensions in people’s lives. For the first time, the efforts of scholars working in multiple disciplines are organized together to provide a comprehensive overview of the perspectives and methods that have been applied to the study

Author: Marilyn Cochran-Smith; Kenneth M. Zeichner
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: education, teacher, research, panel, report, studying, aera
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2005-06-29
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 0805855920
ISBN-13: 9780805855920

This landmark volume presents the work of the American Educational Research Association’s Panel on Research and Teacher Education. It represents a systematic effort to apply a common set of scholarly lenses to a range of important topics in teacher education. The Panel’s charge was twofold: *to create for the larger educational research community a thorough, rigorous, and even-handed analysis of the empirical research evidence relevant to major policies and practices in pre-service teacher education in the U.S., and to propose a research agenda related to teacher education that bui

Author: Joan Poliner Shapiro; Jacqueline A. Stefkovich Jo
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: perspectives, complex, dilemmas, second, theoretical, applying, leadership, decision, making, education, ethical
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0805850228
ISBN-13: 9780805850222

This text--developed in response to an increasing interest in ethics and a growing number of courses on this topic that are now being offered in educational leadership programs--is designed to fill a gap in instructional materials for teaching the ethics component of the knowledge base that has been established for the profession. Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education: Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas, Second Edition: *demonstrates the application of different ethical paradigms (the ethics of justice, care, critique, and the profession) through discussion and

Author: David Blustei
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: counseling, public, policy, series, psychotherapy, lea, development, working, new, perspective, career, psychology
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2006-02-15
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0805858792
ISBN-13: 9780805858792

In this original and major new work, David Blustein places working at the same level of attention for social and behavioral scientists and psychotherapists as other major life concerns, like intimate relationships, physical and mental health, and socio-economic inequities. He also provides readers with an expanded conceptual framework within which to think about working in human development and human experience. As a result, this creative, new synthesis enriches the discourse on working across the broad spectrum of psychology’s concerns and agendas, and especially for those readers in ca