Edited by Wayne Sailor Glen Dunlap George Sugai Rob Horner 2009 In 1998, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) of the U.S. Department of Education awarded a cooperative agreement to the University of Oregon to establish a national technical assistance Center on Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS).
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Margaret Semrud-Clikeman Phyllis Anne Teeter Ellison 2009 Assessment and Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders The human brain represents the product of an ongoing, six-billion-year construction project. In its physical form and function, the human brain represents millions upon millions of trial-and-error adaptive adjustments. Comprised of an estimated 100 billion neurons and many more glial cells it is organized into thousands of […]
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Carl G. Leukefeld • Thomas P. Gullotta Michele Staton-Tindall Editors 2009 Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment This is a book about how some young people use substances to intensify or alter perceptions, feelings, and understandings. On one level, the purpose of this volume is straightforward. Identify and share those practices that appear to be most efficacious.
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Henry Kellerman 2008 Prevailing wisdom in the clinical arena has had it that each psychological symptom is a separate lock requiring its correspondingly unique key. Thus, it has been thought with respect to symptoms, that there are an infinite number of locks and a correspondingly infinite number of keys.
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Ranjan Roy 2008 In Search of Evidence The idea for this monograph came to me following a review of my book Chronic Pain, Loss and Grief by Professor Harold Merskey, a leading figure in the field of chronic pain. He wrote that he was happy to see a book that had departed from the idea of “one treatment […]
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Stephen J. Morewitz 2008 New Research and Clinical Perspectives Until recent decades, there was little emphasis on studying death threats as a social or psychological phenomenon. However, since the 1960s, attacks on public officials and celebrities and the ubiquitous nature of homicidal threats in face-to-face relations have spawned research and new organizational responses to death threats and related behaviors, […]
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Sherry H. Stewart Patricia J. Conrod Editors 2008 The Vicious Cycle of Comorbidity The idea for this book originated with an invitation from Dr. Martin Antony in the fall of 2002 to contribute an authored or edited book on the topic of anxiety disorder co-morbidity with substance use disorder, to his planned series of books on anxiety disorders. […]
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Edited by Nikolaos Kazantzis Luciano L’Abate 2007 Research, Practice, and Prevention The aim of this Handbook of Homework Assignments in Psychotherapy: Research, Practice, and Prevention is to provide comprehensive resource on the role of homework assignments in psychotherapy and prevention. However, the process of generalizing in-session therapeutic work through between-session activity has a long history in psychotherapy.
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Vera Sonja Maass 2007 This book represents a broad-based approach to a narrow but complex issue. The issue causes distress for many and has been instrumental in family disruption and divorce. Women’s sexual desire—whether it is too little or too much—has become an issue of growing concern and vague promises for solution.
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Edited by John P. Wilson Catherine So-kum Tang 2007 This book attempts to break new ground in the field of traumatology. As the field has advanced in its scientific knowledge, it has also become more globalized in nature as this body of scientific and clinical information has been utilized in nearly all parts of the world, especially in […]
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