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Hardiman, Mariale – Corwin, 2012
"The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model for 21st-Century Schools" serves as a bridge between research and practice by providing a cohesive, proven, and usable model of effective instruction. Compatible with other professional development programs, this model shows how to apply relevant research from educational and cognitive neuroscience to classroom…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Teaching Models, Brain, Learning Experience
Seiffge-Krenke, Inge – 1998
The primary aim of this book is to integrate findings on health and illness in adolescence. The book is geared towards those in the health psychology field as well as others concerned with the issues of adolescent health. It argues the value of following a developmental approach to the study of health or illness in general, and especially for…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Coping, Developmental Stages
Sours, Floyd P. – 1979
This book presents a crisis management model that effectively bridges the areas of substance abuse and crisis intervention. A crisis alternatives model which can be incorporated into drug counseling programs is discussed, along with a four-step crisis intervention plan for use by crisis workers that includes: (1) establishing rapport; (2)…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Coping, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Qualifications
Henderson, Nan; Milstein, Mike M. – 1996
This book is about developing "resiliency," a new paradigm of student and staff development that offers schools a coherent, research-based framework for the achievement of success and lifelong learning for all. A six-step plan of action for resiliency building is introduced. The resiliency model offers hope based on scientific evidence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Miller, Thomas W., Ed. – 1998
Clinical theory and practice models are provided along with current concepts in diagnosis and treatment. Theoretical formulations, hypotheses, issues, and implications related to life stress measurement are addressed and applied to medical and mental health concerns. Contributions include: (1) "Stress Response and Adaptation in Children:…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Child Development, Children
Diver-Stamnes, Ann C. – 1995
This analysis of causes of poverty in the Watts section of Los Angeles (California) and other inner-city communities and of the effects of poverty on children considers exogenous factors that affect lives and behaviors, focusing on the situations of high school students. The first five chapters are arranged around issues cited by those who blame…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Causal Models, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education
Thoreson, Richard W., Ed.; Hosokawa, Elizabeth P., Ed. – 1984
The promotion of employee assistance programs (EAP) in higher education is considered in 24 chapters, with an emphasis on enhancing resources and the academic environment for faculty and staff. Seven topical areas are addressed: history of EAP; characteristics of higher education; alcoholism and other risks in the academic life-style; EAP models…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Clinical Diagnosis, College Faculty, Emotional Problems