This book shows counselors how an understanding of individual differences — cultural, ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and individual — can help them use existing strategies to their best advantage. Considers the powerful influences of a client's developmental stage and cultural background. Explores the lives and potential counseling problems of African American, Asian American, European American, Hispanic American, and Native American populations. Considers the impact of the counselor's cultural identity. Explores special perspectives in boxed features -- Gender Perspectives and Gay/Lesbian Perspectives. Uses Up Close and Personal vignettes to portray a child, an adolescent, an adult, and an elderly person within the family, within the culture, and within society. A Focus on Research boxes present studies and scholarly writings on counseling, development, and multicultural populations. Covers professional issues/future directions of the multicultural counseling field.
Suggested Reading Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1989 . Life in Mrs. Zajac's fifth grade class in Holyoke . Massachusetts , is reported by Tracy Kidder , who spent a year observing the class .
This facilitator's guide gives staff developers all the tools they need for planning and leading training events to help educators create successful and sustainable high-performing schools.
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克雷格.萊特 Craig Wright. 肖畫查克.克洛斯住人的面孔,而史.威爾舍(Stephen Wiltshire)正好相反,有目不的超力。 ... 克斯(Oliver Sacks)指出的,正的必須一個人化,在此中,創作者利用借來的材,「使其自身相,並以一種的、個人獨有的式出來」。
This book discusses four approaches to incorporating student achievement in teacher evaluation. Seven chapters discuss: (1) "Teacher Evaluation and Student Achievement: An Introduction to the Issues"; (2) "What is the...
Under NCLB, students with severe disabilities are expected to make progress on state academic content standards in language arts, math, and science. But what material should educators teach from these...
â¬SStephen Brookfield disturbs and enriches the entire field of adult learning with this brilliant piece of teaching.⬠Robert Kegan, Harvard University, USA. â¬SSimplifying without eroding the complexity of critical theory,...
Few changes in life are as difficult to handle as the aging of our parents. Your Aging Parents can help. Gently and straightforwardly, this book explains the physical and emotional...
In order to be reflective practitioners, to understand clients and their problems, helping professionals must have a working knowledge of developmental research. They must view clients in context - as...
Shows users how the keys to success in higher education are also the keys to success in life. Conversely, this text shows how the same academic and personal skills for...