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A Chinese Perspective on Teaching and Learning. Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia
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Eng, Betty C., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Bringing together educators from a range of backgrounds--psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and teaching--this volume shows how Asian cultural values and beliefs can provide a lens through which to understand and envision how curriculum and pedagogy can be creatively adapted, not only in a local Chinese classroom context, but in a…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Curriculum, Volunteer Training, Social Sciences
Group Work and Outreach Plans for College Counselors
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Fitch, Trey, Ed.; Marshall, Jennifer L., Ed. – American Counseling Association, 2011
In this book, group work and college counseling leaders offer step-by-step instruction in the effective use and processing of structured group activities on topics such as test anxiety; stress and anxiety management; ADHD; career development; substance abuse; eating disorders; and the unique concerns faced by GLBT students, first-generation…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, First Generation College Students, Eating Disorders, Career Development
Growing Up in a Lesbian Family: Effects on Child Development.
Tasker, Fiona L.; Golombok, Susan – 1997
Opponents of the legal recognition of homosexual unions have based their arguments in part on the premise that children brought up by parents of the same sex face significant social and psychological disadvantages. Presenting a longitudinal study of 25 children raised in lesbian mother families, and a comparison group raised by single heterosexual…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Emotional Development, Family Characteristics, Family Relationship
Youth at Risk: A Prevention Resource for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents. Fourth Edition.
Capuzzi, David, Ed.; Gross, Douglas R., Ed. – 2004
The fourth revision of this text offers both tested prevention strategies for work with diverse at-risk populations and counseling techniques that address the complexities of destructive behavior from individual, family, school, and community perspectives. Drawing on the wisdom of 24 experts, this book provides concrete advice for creating and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Children
Understanding Diverse Families: What Practitioners Need To Know.
Okun, Barbara F. – 1996
Synthesizing current literature with information obtained through interviews of adoptive, gay and lesbian, and multiracial families, this book is designed to help practitioners work with diverse families. An introduction explores the concept of a "normal family" and provides an overview of the book and a description of the interview…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Biological Parents
The Families Book: True Stories about Real Kids and the People They Live with and Love.
Erlbach, Arlene – 1996
Recognizing the great variety of families in which children live, this book for children in upper elementary grades and their parents and teachers illustrates that variety through children's personal narratives about their families and descriptions of family activities. Section 1, "Families," presents the narratives of children ages 8 to 18 years…
Descriptors: Activities, Adopted Children, Adoptive Parents, Children