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Paperback. Condition: New. Startup Stories: Founder Experiences Building Tech Companies for All While Elevating Diverse Communities provides students with a collection of case studies that provide insight into the challenges and opportunities entrepreneurs and company leaders face, particularly in the context of consumer engagement, company development, and supporting diverse ventures. The book features seven case studies, each focusing on a unique problem encountered by a different company, such as adapting to a pandemic, creating new consumer behaviors, rebranding, supporting first-time founders, managing creator payments, engaging niche markets, and finding culturally inspired products. Each case encourages students to analyze situations and develop recommendations all while considering the risks and potential contingency plans associated with their strategies. Designed to foster greater critical thinking and decision-making skills, Startup Stories is an excellent resource for independent learners, courses, and programs in business administration, entrepreneurship, strategic management, marketing, and organizational behavior.

Paperback. Condition: New. You've probably heard that college is expensive and financing your education can be complex. While there's a lot of information available about financial aid, student loans, creating a college friendly budget, and more, it can be increasingly difficult to convert all that information into a financial plan that truly works for you. A Student's Guide to Money Matters: Your Financial Future Begins Now will help you learn how to successfully finance your college education. The guide assists you in developing a full financial plan, so you can think critically about the costs of college, better assess what you truly can and can't afford, and make sound decisions that will ensure your financial health throughout your academic career. Informative, accessible, and full of real-world examples, this guide will help you develop the financial savvy necessary to navigate the costs associated with investing in your education. A Student's Guide to Money Matters is part of the Cognella Series on Student Success, a collection of books designed to help students develop the essential life and learning skills needed to support a happy, healthy, and productive higher education experience.

Paperback. Condition: New. No matter how skilled you may be in your area of study, interpersonal skills and the way in which you present yourself to those around you are paramount to your success. A Student's Guide to Communication and Self-Presentation: Recommendations, Relationships, Resumés, and Interviews is designed to help you develop the communication, interpersonal, and self-presentation skills required to successfully interact with instructors and peers during your academic career, and managers, colleagues, and teams in your post-graduate, working life. The guide will help you navigate day-to-day interactions, prepare for interviews, cultivate emotional intelligence, and more. With numerous opportunities for participation and reflection, this book encourages you to examine your current communication and self-presentation skills in an effort to improve upon them and, ultimately, set yourself apart from the crowd. A Student's Guide to Communication and Self-Presentation is part of the Cognella Series on Student Success, a collection of books designed to help students develop the essential life and learning skills needed to support a happy, healthy, and productive higher education experience.

Paperback. Condition: New. Does the thought of a college-level mathematics course fill you with anxiety and dread? With a little practical advice and positivity, you can easily and effectively put your math-related fears to rest!A Students Guide to Math Success: Overcoming Barriers provides you with a toolbox of strategies to help you approach math courses with a positive attitude, overcome the key stressors associated with learning mathematics, and develop skills that will help you study efficiently and succeed in your coursework. With this guide, you'll learn how to conquer anxiety, develop healthy habits, and build a positive, personal awareness about how to study mathematics.Highly approachable and full of practical advice, this guide will help you develop both the mindset and the skill sets needed to build confidence in your personal mathematical ability.A Student's Guide to Math Success is part of the Cognella Series on Student Success, a collection of books designed to help students develop the essential life and learning skills needed to support a happy, healthy, and productive higher education experience.

Paperback. Condition: New. Television, movies, news, and social media; we're living in a world where we're inundated with stories and information. Yet somehow, instead of learning about each other and coming together, our nation is more divided than ever. Despite our access to facts and information, research indicates that our distrust of others is at a record high. In everyday interactions, we deal with people who seem to be operating in an entirely different reality than us-because they are.In Context is Everything: How to Navigate Life in Multiple Realities, author David James Bright explains how each of us is raised in our own unique context and how that context shapes our identity, narratives, beliefs, and willingness to interpret facts. Bright pulls from his extensive work as a mental health, career, and school counselor to help readers better understand how we create our own social narratives and identities.Through personal anecdotes, real-world examples, case studies, doses of humor, and research, you'll learn how our personal biases and tendencies can affect how we interact with others, especially those with different life experiences or those of different social classes, ethnic backgrounds, sexual identities, or political affiliations.By facilitating greater levels of personal understanding and self-reflection, Context is Everything encourages readers of all backgrounds to recognize our common thread of humanity and to come together despite our varying worldviews and perspectives. The book is an ideal supplementary text for courses in sociology, psychology, and counseling, especially those with focus on human services professional identity, social justice, social constructivism, and capstone experiences.

Paperback. Condition: New. The One-Minute Meeting: Creating Student Stakeholders in Schools teaches readers how to leverage a unique instructional practice called the One-Minute Meeting to authentically glean information from students. This valuable feedback can then be used to inform instructional practice, learning environment, and student achievement. The text provides detailed instructions for introducing, planning, implementing, and disaggregating the One-Minute Meeting in any learning environment.The book features in-depth explanations on the importance of each One-Minute Meeting component, from creating an informative needs assessment to maximizing transformational potential within a school to communicating with teacher leaders. Each chapter begins by explaining the origin of each One-Minute Meeting concept and then lays out the formal research that supports the concept within a school setting. Readers are provided with examples and templates throughout to support implementation at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.Developed to inspire school and district leaders to fully engage with and empower their students, The One-Minute Meeting is an exceptional resource for courses in school leadership and administration. The text is also a valuable resource for in-service educators and administrators at K-12 institutions.

Paperback. Condition: New. Most college students know that regular exercise can improve their health and overall well-being, but with essays to write, labs to complete, and chapters to read before class, who has time to exercise? You do! A Student's Guide to Exercise for Improving Health provides you with practical advice and suggestions that will help you balance a healthy, active lifestyle with academic success. You'll learn about a myriad benefits of exercise on your mental, emotional, and physical well-being, how to design an exercise program that works with your course schedule, and how to set realistic and attainable fitness goals that will improve your health and happiness. In helping you to develop healthy habits and a regular exercise program, this guide will help you achieve goals related not only to physical fitness, but to academic success as well. A Student's Guide to Exercise for Improving Health is part of the Cognella Series on Student Success, a collection of books designed to help students develop the essential life and learning skills needed to support a happy, healthy, and productive higher education experience.

Paperback. Condition: New. Third Edition. Another Way.Choosing to Change: Participant's Handbook - 26 Week Curriculum supports individuals as they progress through a facilitator-led, strengths-based, solution-focused batterer intervention program. The handbook presents participants with an intentional and strategic collection of questions and exercises designed to support transformational learning and promote empathy building. This edition is specifically tailored to support a 26-week program.This unique curriculum combines evidence-based clinical practices with adult learning principles to promote changes in the thoughts, feelings, and actions of participants. It educates participants on what constitutes abusive behaviors, encourages introspection, promotes personal responsibility for abusive behaviors, and teaches non-violent conflict resolution.The handbook progresses in tandem with the 26-week curriculum, providing participants with weekly interventions and actionable goals. Coping skills, spiritual and emotional healing, relationship management, parenting, socialization, recovery from trauma, mindfulness and relaxation, and personal growth, among a number of other topics, are explored in a group setting, allowing for meaningful discussion and support.Another Way.Choosing to Change is an exemplary curriculum to rehabilitate domestic violence offenders and, in doing so, increase safety and empathy for victims of violence.

Paperback. Condition: New. Their contributions are enduring. Their influence is profound. Their legacies touch our everyday lives. In Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women, communication, history, and government scholars and professionals Diana B. Carlin, Anita B. McBride, and Nancy Kegan Smith provide readers with an illuminating and highly personal exploration of the lives and legacies of U.S. first ladies.Readers learn about the role of first lady, from its origins under Martha Washington through its current iteration under Dr. Jill Biden. The book explores how first ladies have been uniquely positioned to influence American society, policy, diplomacy, and the life in the White House. Profiles of first ladies bring their histories, achievements, and legacies to life.Remember the First Ladies is a groundbreaking book showing the evolutionary role of first lady. It shines a light on the influential women who have broken barriers and made a mark on our country and, at times, our world during their tenures in the White House.

Paperback. Condition: New. The End of Social Work: A Defense of the Social Worker in Times of Transformation explores the deeply flawed status quo of the social work profession. Its message is clear: it is not acceptable for social workers to labor under intolerable working conditions and financial strain because they work with the poor and oppressed. Steve Burghardt addresses why social workers no longer have the income and status once shared with nurses and teachers. He addresses the leadership failures that cause social workers to be blamed for not ending poverty yet expected to handle burnout through self-care rather than collective action. He looks beyond nostrums of social justice to the indifference to systemic racism in the profession's journals and programs and explores the damage caused by substituting individuated measures of unvalidated competencies for grounded wisdom in practice. It is thus no accident that a profession committing to "care for everyone" undermines the herculean work that so many social workers do on behalf of the poor, marginalized, and oppressed. Situating the work in the crises of 2020, Burghardt ends with a proposed call to action directed at a transformed profession. Such a campaign would be situated within the national struggles for racial justice, climate change, and economic equality so that social work and social workers regain their legitimacy as authentic advocates fighting alongside the poor and oppressed-and doing so for themselves as well. A rallying cry for social work itself, The End of Social Work is an ideal resource for social work programs and practicing social workers driven to enact meaningful change.

Paperback. Condition: New. Seventh Edition. This book walks writers through the basics and gives quick tips for APA style, formatting, and citation as well as gender-neutral pronouns and unbiased language. Author Dona J. Young incorporates a reader-friendly approach: students readily connect with the conversational tone and clear examples that ease them into learning APA 7 style and bringing their writing to a higher level.As well as highlighting changes adopted in the 7th edition of APA (2020), this resource also covers essentials of academic, evidence-based writing: as pre-work for writing a literature review, it guides learners through the process of composing an effective thesis, introductory paragraph, annotated bibliography, and abstract. In addition, writers build editing skills by reviewing comma and semicolon usage, pronoun viewpoint, active voice, and capitalization (sentence and title case).Numerous examples of APA use are set off from the narrative to give readers quick access to them. Additional features include sample papers in APA style and a glossary of terms. Each chapter contains a short interactive activity to improve writing process, style, and skills.Designed to get readers on a path to using APA that brings them success, this supplementary text could be used in any course in education, psychology, health care sciences (nursing), and social sciences at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Paperback. Condition: New. Third Edition. Another Way.Choosing to Change: Participant's Handbook supports individuals as they progress through a facilitator-led, strengths-based, solution-focused batterer intervention program. The handbook presents participants with an intentional and strategic collection of questions and exercises designed to support transformational learning and promote empathy building.This unique curriculum combines evidence-based clinical practices with adult learning principles to promote changes in the thoughts, feelings, and actions of participants. It educates participants on what constitutes abusive behaviors, encourages introspection, promotes personal responsibility for abusive behaviors, and teaches non-violent conflict resolution.The handbook progresses in tandem with the 52-week curriculum, providing participants with weekly interventions and actionable goals. Coping skills, spiritual and emotional healing, relationship management, parenting, socialization, recovery from trauma, mindfulness and relaxation, and personal growth, among a number of other topics, are explored in a group setting, allowing for meaningful discussion and support.Another Way.Choosing to Change is an exemplary curriculum to rehabilitate domestic violence offenders and, in doing so, increase safety and empathy for victims of violence.

Paperback. Condition: New. Effective healthcare delivery requires teams and teamwork in all types of settings. Interprofessional Collaboration and Teams in Public and Community Health examines the use of teams and implications for public and community health to ensure effective services and support coordination, collaboration, and communication during planning, implementation, and evaluation of these services.The guide discusses the development and characteristics of teams, describes team leader and team member roles and responsibilities, and provides readers with real-world examples of teams and teamwork in public and community health services. Readers learn that effective interprofessional collaboration requires engagement from many stakeholders, including individual healthcare providers and healthcare organizations, with an emphasis on teams of providers that include input from health profession education, communities and government, insurers, health policy, health research, and consumers. As is true for all types of healthcare services, the book posits that the additional consideration of social determinants of health, equity, diversity and disparities, population health, and vulnerable populations is crucial for effective teamwork within the discipline. Interprofessional Collaboration and Teams in Public and Community Health is part of the Cognella Series on Public and Community Health Nursing, a collection of concise, informative guides that explore critical topical areas, their nursing application, and their relationship to nursing practice.

Paperback. Condition: New. Designed to support current standards and goals for health care, Leadership in Public and Community Health provides readers with an examination of leadership and its implications for public and community health services.The book focuses on leaders who demonstrate transformational leadership as they guide public health initiatives and plan for public and community health. Recognizing that effective leadership is essential in all types of public health organizations, the text posits that leaders need to support engagement from many staff and stakeholders and use effective collaboration, coordination, and communication, while also considering diversity, equity, and inclusion, accessibility, social determinants of health, disparities, and population health.Leadership in Public and Community Health presents a multidimensional and highly applicable model of leadership at all levels to well support a variety of health care organizations and initiatives. This book is part of the Cognella Series on Public and Community Health Nursing, a collection of concise, informative guides that explore critical topical areas, their nursing application, and their relationship to nursing practice.

Paperback. Condition: New. The Internship Handbook is designed to prepare students and then guide them through the internship experience. It combines theoretical knowledge to help readers better understand their personalities, traits, values, and strengths with practical activities such as discussion questions and activities to streamline the internship process.The handbook begins with self-assessment, encouraging readers to engage in self-awareness and exploration to identify their personal strengths and professional values. Succeeding chapters detail how to navigate the job market, emphasizing the importance of networking, and presenting strategies for the application process. The book offers insight into the dynamics of securing an internship, thriving within one, and transitioning smoothly at its conclusion. It places a strong emphasis on the development of soft skills alongside the acquisition of professional competencies, describing internships as pivotal to gaining practical experience while facilitating reflection on personal growth and career paths.The Internship Handbook is an excellent resource for students embarking upon the internship experience. It could also be used in courses or programs focused on career development and professional readiness.

Paperback. Condition: New. Third Edition. A Race Is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life is designed to help White people fully recognize and accept their racial identity, assume the proper responsibility for ending racism, and develop an understanding of how racism impacts their own racial group.This powerful text encourages positive racial adjustment and deeper levels of self-understanding. The book explores the meaning of race in society, the "color-blindness" movement, the problem of ignorance about Whiteness, the various phases of internalized racism, and other critical topics. Evocative and meaningful activities throughout the text foster reflection and increased levels of self-awareness and acceptance.The third edition features updated references and charts, as well as a new foreword by Dr. Allen Ivey.A Race Is a Nice Thing to Have is part of the Cognella Series on Advances in Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. The series, endorsed by Division 45 of the American Psychological Association, addresses critical and emerging issues within culture, race, and ethnic studies, as well as specific topics among key ethnocultural groups.

Paperback. Condition: New. Recognizing that the health care field has undergone significant changes in recent years, Case Management Adherence Guide 2020 helps health care professionals gain and integrate skills and methods for even more comprehensive assessments of clients, families, or their support systems. The guide supports improvements in care planning, care coordination, and care transitions.The guide is designed to help case management professionals achieve measureable outcomes with their interventions, rendering them more efficient, effective, and valuable to their employers, clients, and treatment teams. It provides readers with evidence-based assessment and intervention tools to improve patient treatment adherence. The tools found throughout the guide are in accordance with the standards set by the Case Management Society of America.Dedicated chapters cover the challenges in today's health care system, the important role that case managers play in improving outcomes, care coordination, and strategies for improving treatment and medication adherence. Seventeen appendices provide tools and references for PREPARE, shared decision-making, emotional intelligence, the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale, STEPSforward, care transition, telehealth resources, and more.Case Management Adherence Guide 2020 is an essential resource for future and practicing case management professionals.

Paperback. Condition: New. Elijah Muhammad-Original Man Know Thyself: A Pedagogy for Black Liberation introduces students to the works of Elijah Muhammad, a thought leader who championed the development of Black education and helped to raise the consciousness of Blacks in America between 1934 and 1975. The book examines Elijah Muhammad's works and accomplishments within the context of modern education.The text begins with a biographical sketch of Elijah Muhammad and an exploration of how his life can provide a blueprint for liberation through education. Following these contextual introductions, the volume features nine selections, one of which comes from the Muhammad Speaks newspaper and the rest of which are from Elijah Muhammad's classic books, Message to the Blackman in America, How to Eat to Live, and Our Savior Has Arrived. In addition to its focus on education, the book demonstrates how the teachings of Elijah Muhammad have contributed to Africana/Black Studies. Discussion questions throughout stimulate critical thinking and challenge readers to apply the excerpted works to contemporary educational practice.

Paperback. Condition: New. Critical Thinking and Composition introduces students to the basic components of philosophical writing, as well as techniques and principles for writing clear and precise arguments.The nine chapters of this book cover everything from building strong, logical arguments at the outset to the nuts and bolts of writing successfully in the philosophy sphere. The books focuses on avoiding vagueness and ambiguity when communicating arguments. Additionally, there is emphasis on learning how to recognize common fallacies of ambiguity and how to define terms in clear and precise ways. Excerpts from the writings of key philosophers including Aristotle, the Buddha, Hume, and Sartre (as well as introductions to contextualize each excerpt) deepen the reader's understanding of the elements of impactful philosophical writing. Full of relatable examples designed to engage students, each chapter also contains helpful resources such as learning objectives, keywords, and exercises.Critical Thinking and Composition is a must-have resource for undergraduate courses in composition, philosophy, and related social sciences, especially those with emphasis in critical reasoning and writing.

Paperback. Condition: New. Leadership Laboratory for Nurse Leaders is an innovative and interactive workbook that challenges readers to reflect upon their personal experiences in learning how to lead through the lens of new and established ideas in the literature of nursing, psychology, education, sociology, and anthropology. Readers are guided through a series of laboratories, encouraged to consider real-world examples of leadership successes and challenges from peers, and prompted to experiment with new leadership strategies drawn from research.The workbook features seven chapter laboratories that explore crucial elements of emotional mastery for nurse leaders, including wisdom of experience, motivation, boundary clarity, self-regulation, generativity, change agility, and finding strength in adversity. Each chapter features critical research, invitations and prompts for reflection, experiments, and suggestions of new behaviors sourced from expert counsel.Each chapter provides readers with personal insights and hands-on tools. Leadership Laboratory for Nurse Leaders is designed to be used as both an individualized course in leadership as well as an ideal supplementary workbook for any course or program in nursing, especially those with an emphasis on developing professional leadership skills.

Paperback. Condition: New. System Innovation: A Holistic Approach to Disrupting with Love and Human Caring inspires healthcare leaders and professionals to innovate healthcare habits, practices, policies, functions, and their own leadership style to achieve desired outcomes.It employs a holistic approach to leadership and management, providing practical actions for health systems to deploy to disrupt the current environment so a more connected culture, grounded in love and caring, can emerge. Frameworks and theories emphasized include cultural transformation theory, caring science, and design thinking. Calling for a brave visionary approach to leadership, System Innovation is an ideal resource for leadership courses at all levels of nursing and healthcare-related education, as well as in professional settings.

Paperback. Condition: New. Survival Guide for College Graduates provides readers with valuable advice to help them navigate their careers during ups and downs in the economy or during recessions. Readers learn how to prepare for challenges related to job scarcity, as well as how to compete successfully for professional positions that are available within their field.The book, written like a manual or guide, encourages readers to recognize their worth in the job market and identify the competitive skillsets they possess. It underscores the importance of self-awareness, valuing oneself, and how self-confidence can come across in an application or during a job interview. Readers learn how to research and better understand the condition of the economy and job market so they can make informed, confident decisions that align with their personal economic needs and situations. Dedicated chapters examine the personal issues and challenges they may encounter-including stress, anxiety, depression, interpersonal conflict, and substance use-and offer advice for cultivating positive habits to counteract these challenges. Each chapter features questions and prompts to inspire self-reflection and help readers consider how the material applies to their lives.The book answers common questions by undergraduate students and recent graduates, including:How do I survive during a major recession or economic downturn when jobs are scarce?How to I explain the value of my degree to others, including parents?What can I do with my bachelor's degree?Do I need to go to graduate school to get a well-paying, professional job?Is my bachelor's degree the same as a high school diploma? Do I have to move to better myself financially with my bachelor's?Do I have to get a job right away after I graduate, or can I take a break? What job skills do employers want me to have? What job skills should employers need me to have? How does graduate school differ from undergraduate school? What kinds of universities are best to go to for a graduate degree? Are there differences between them?How do I deal with stress, anxiety, and depression during an economic downturn or pandemic? What types of resources are available to me locally in my area to help me with stress, anxiety, depression, or mental health issues as I prepare for my career? Survival Guide for College Graduates is an essential resource for graduating seniors across all disciplines, as well as past graduates who are transitioning into the workforce and seeking jobs.

Paperback. Condition: New. LGBTQ People with Intellectual Disabilities: Stories from the Rainbow Support Group fills a gap in the literature by providing readers with insight into the experiences of LGBTQ individuals living with intellectual disabilities (ID). The book underscores the unique intersectionality of LGBTQ and intellectual disabilities through observations and accounts from the Rainbow Support Group, a gathering established in 1998 in New Haven, Connecticut, with focus on supporting queer members with ID. amp lt br amp gt amp lt br amp gt The book explores the challenges and breakthroughs related to sexual orientation and gender expression among the ID community in the Rainbow Support Group. It lays bare the often-overlooked reality that individuals with ID have complex sexual identities, challenging societal preconceived notions and biases. The book emphasizes the importances of creating affirming spaces for LGBTQ individuals who have been denied sexual expression opportunities, touching on themes of self-awareness, isolation, companionship, and the process of coming out. LGBTQ People with Intellectual Disabilities is an ideal text for courses that address intellectual disability, LGBTQ studies, social work, human rights advocacy, and community leadership. The book is part of the Cognella Series on Families and Social Justice, a collection of textbooks that support core curriculum within family-related disciplines with emphasis on issues related to social justice, diversity, and equity.

Paperback. Condition: New. Dona J. Young's The Writing Workshop: Grammar, Style, and Formatting for Academic Writing serves as a critical and engaging launchpad for undergraduate and graduate learners seeking to enhance their written communication. This accessible guide illuminates the fundamentals of grammar, style, and formatting essential for producing clear, professional academic writing. The guide also stresses the use of unbiased and gender-neutral language.Structured in 12 comprehensive workshops, the guide begins by instructing learners how to use online writing to build professional relationships, and then segues into strategies for overcoming writer's block. It simplifies the use of commas, semicolons, colons, and dashes, and clarifies the importance of pronoun usage and viewpoint. Readers gain valuable insights into using unbiased language, employing the active voice, and crafting parallel structures. The book concludes with a focus on conciseness, tone, possessives, capitalization, and the differences between MLA and APA formats. These essential topics not only enhance writing fluency but also adhere to the high standards of academic discourse. Interspersed throughout each chapter are exercises to give learners the practice they need to apply the principles in their own writing.The Writing Workshop is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in academic writing, research methodology, and any curriculum emphasizing written communication and critical thinking skills. As students delve into this rich resource, they develop and refine the skills necessary for academic and professional success, making the book an indispensable addition to their scholarly toolkit.

Paperback. Condition: New. 9th ed. Based on her experiences in classrooms, committees, and workshops, noted author, nurse educator, and community activist Peggy L. Chinn illustrates how every participant in a group can be valued as a leader in Peace and Power: New Directions for Building Community, Ninth Edition.The book provides essential hands-on guidelines for developing cooperative group processes and overcoming group interactions that lead to alienation and disappointment, particularly those dynamics that give privilege and power to a few, while disadvantaging many in the group based on class, skin color, or disability.The book:Describes how to create group interactions based on mindfully stated values arising from the group's purposes.Shows how to build meaningful relationships through nurturing and empowering group interactions and transformation of conflict.Illustrates how every person can be empowered and contribute to a group in ways that are often overlooked.In this thoroughly updated edition, Chinn draws on examples from her most recent anti-racism activities. She also discusses her work in groups that were exclusively online on Zoom, a critical reality of our post-2020 world. The new content addresses not simply the dynamics of group processes, but some of the challenges involved in understanding dynamics involved in making change, specifically confronting racism and working to become antiracist as a group.

Paperback. Condition: New. Recognizing that counselors are often the primary source of therapeutic care, A Counselor's Guide to Psychopharmacology and Alternative Treatments provides readers with an overview of the fundamentals of psychopharmacology so they can help facilitate medication-based treatment plans and more fully meet their clients' needs. The text bridges the gap between the content-knowledge of psychopharmacology and the intentional incorporation of medication-based interventions into a larger, counseling-driven therapeutic processThe book is organized into three parts, which explore the basics of psychopharmacology, medications, and additional considerations. Opening chapters discuss models of treatment, pharmacotherapy in mental health, the role of the counselor, and foundational information on neurobiology and pharmacology. Additional chapters discuss antidepressant, antianxiety, and antipsychotic medication, mood stabilizers, and the interplay of substance abuse and medication-assisted treatment. Closing chapters provide readers with alternatives to pharmacotherapy, including electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, and emerging alternatives, such as herbal supplements and hallucinogens. Medication noncompliance, malingering, and diagnostic considerations are also coveredIn addition to critical content, the text features application-based exercises designed to help readers hone skills related to the analysis of complex cases, as well as the navigation of client interactions in a deliberate, empowering, and holistic mannerA Counselor's Guide to Psychopharmacology and Alternative Treatments is a critical resource for future and practicing counselors at all levels.

Paperback. Condition: New. From Grad School to Private Practice: A Road Map for Mental Health Clinicians is an essential guidebook for anyone looking to succeed in the mental health profession. Featuring contributed chapters from experts in the field, this comprehensive resource equips readers with the necessary skills and resources to transition from academia to real-world practice.The book covers all aspects of building a successful private psychotherapy practice, including developing job interview skills, choosing a practice setting, deciding on postgraduate training, and making the most of supervision. Readers also learn essential tools for success, such as billing, marketing, and documentation through innovative mental health technologies. With this comprehensive toolbox in hand, mental health clinicians will be equipped to sustain a successful career and thrive as fee-for-service (FFS) clinicians. This invaluable resource is ideal for social work and mental health counseling courses, graduate students, and early career professionals. Whether starting their career or looking to expand their skills, From Grad School to Private Practice provides readers with a roadmap to success in the mental health profession.

Paperback. Condition: New. Community-Based Participatory Action Research: It's All About the Community is deeply grounded in the belief that social sciences research should have a direct connection to helping people and improving communities. This text explores how to achieve community engagement and community involvement to bring about positive change through research and action.The opening chapter introduces participatory action research, an inclusive process that involves researchers as well as subjects, leverages the strengths of all involved, and features strong social justice tenets that lead to a positive change outcome. Additional chapters provide an historical overview of community-based participatory research and its development, as well as models for defining and mapping communities. Readers explore the unique research processes and distinctions of participatory action research and community-based participatory action research (CBPAR). They are provided with a step-by-step guide to conducting CBPAR, grow to understand its transformative nature, and are encouraged to think through ethical considerations.An accessible and concise guide, Community-Based Participatory Action Research is an outstanding supplementary resource for courses with focus in social sciences research.

Paperback. Condition: New. What do you do when you are a newcomer in a cultural group and you must find your way? From the perspective of an ethnographer of communication, one of the most effective strategies you can take is to go from the inside out.Exploring Cultural Communication from the Inside Out: An Ethnographic Toolkit is a workbook that offers readers a hands-on approach to navigating new cultural environments. The text helps readers develop richer and more nuanced understandings not only of the different cultures they are members of but also their own roles in an increasingly multicultural and global society.The book is grounded in an interpretive theoretical/methodological framework of the ethnography of communication and speech codes theory, and guides readers through the process of applying this framework to any setting of their choice. Throughout, the text introduces theoretical concepts and pairs them with applied activities that require readers to engage in ethical fieldwork, data collection, and analysis. Readers are then challenged to document their experience, communicate what they have learned, and participate in deep reflection.Featuring a unique methodology and highly practical information, Exploring Cultural Communication from the Inside Out is exemplary for courses in intercultural communication, language and culture, sociolinguistics, and communication research.

Paperback. Condition: New. Healthcare Marketing: Creating a Culture of Excellence introduces healthcare professionals to comprehensive strategies for enhancing the patient experience and fostering excellence within healthcare organizations. The text focuses on combining marketing concepts with management principles, ensuring that patient satisfaction is incorporated throughout the patient experience. The book covers an array of topics-from understanding the healthcare environment, including types and characteristics of healthcare organizations and patient satisfaction roles, to the development and execution of effective healthcare marketing strategies. It explores the intricacies of patient experience surveys such as HCAHPS and CG-CAHPS and presents insights into the importance of professional sales in business-to-business marketing within healthcare. Chapters on navigating crises and building resilient teams are included, providing strategies to improve teamwork and manage challenging times effectively. The book emphasizes key aspects of healthcare marketing with practical scenarios and case studies that foster understanding and application of principles to real-world situations. The inclusion of professional insights from healthcare practitioners further enriches the material, anchoring theoretical concepts within the depths of industry experience. Recommended for courses in healthcare administration and marketing, the book provides foundational knowledge and strategic tools for those focused on optimizing the healthcare experience and the organizational culture that supports it.