Written in an accessible and engaging style, this second edition of The Psychology of Education addresses key concepts from psychology which relate to education. Throughout the text the author team emphasise an evidence-based approach, providing practical suggestions to improve learning outcomes, while fictional case studies are used in this new edition to provide students with a sense of what psychological issues can look like in the classroom. Activities around these case studie...

10,000 Dreams Interpreted: What’s In a Dream by Gustavus Hindman Miller.In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.—Job xxxiii., 15.Dreams are rudiments of the great state to come. We dream what is about to happen.—BaileyThe Bible, as well as other great books of histo...

Today, more than 68 million children and adolescents participate in sport programs in the United States. Yet despite the growth and popularity of highly-organized athletic competition, controversy still swirls around the role that adults, particularly coaches, play in the world of youth sports. Coaches not only occupy a critical leadership position in the athletic setting, but their influence can extend into other areas of life as well.Sport Psychology for Youth Coaches is a practi...

“I am very pleased to see EPPP Fundamentals, a concise, compact presentation of essential information, that does not overwhelm the reader who is already feeling some anxiety about the upcoming exam. This is an effi cient alternative to expensive EPPP preparation courses, and is now at the top of my list of recommendations for our graduates.”Richard Tedeschi, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina-CharlotteThis authoritative guid...

Mental health is becoming a key topic in education, but it is a topic that is not always easy to discuss.  Stop Wondering, Start Knowing is designed to help teachers and their students: To better understand and be more aware of mental health To recognize the early signs of mental health challenges To reflect and share ideas about mental health To help decrease the stigma around mental health To learn about re...

The top achievers learn the most and apply what they learn; therefore, there is no skill, information, or lesson more vital than learning how to learn.This book is a must-read for business executives, entrepreneurs, people interested in personal development, trainers, teachers, and students. We live in a world where, more and more, we succeed based on what we know rather than what task we perform. Authors, Jim Stovall and Ray Hull, PhD are lifelong learners and teachers of...

The human ability to render meaning through symbolic media such as art, dance, music, and speech defines, in many ways, the uniqueness of our species. One symbolic medium in particular--written expression--has aroused increasing interest among researchers across disciplines, in areas as diverse as the humanities, education, and the social sciences because it offers a fascinating window into the processes underlying the creation and enunciation of symbolic representation. In The Psychol...

In this book, author has described the program for improving memory, study style, and behavior. His method is dramatic and lucid. He penetrates in the mind of his clients and creates report very fast. The author has helped hundreds of students in improving their memory, method of study and behavior; he has developed a training program for this and has tested it on hundreds of boys and girls. He has been doing this professionally since forty-five years. Number of students who used to fail i...

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur, and yet many of the existing, effective therapies available for children and adolescents with emotional disorders target just one or a smaller subset of these problems. The Unified Protoc...

During the drama of the campaign of 2016, I made a conscious choice to focus on Love, the many faces of love instead of the negative voices. I used the tools of words and art in a healing practice that I have developed over twenty-five years as an expressive arts therapist. I explored: romantic love, fears about love, feeling lit up within, what I call "heart fire" and much more. I drew on universal themes such as: loneliness, what is unconditional love?, self-love, self-empowerment, feeli...

This user-friendly book equips school practitioners with practical skills and strategies for conducting student-driven interviews—conversations that invite students of all ages to take charge of school-behavior problems and build solutions based on their own strengths and resources. In contrast to traditional interviewing models that approach behavior problems by focusing on what is wrong and missing in students’ lives, student-driven interviews help students discover and apply what is rig...