Product Description: Make a professional commitment to developing knowledge and awareness of your students' cultural differences. Multicultural Issues in School Psychology presents theoretical and empirical models that provide a framework for addressing cross-cultural concerns and introducing culturally specific services in school psychology practice...read more

Product Description: School-Based Mental Health Services fills an important gap by challenging school psychologists to think broadly about how to best use their training and skills to empower individuals, schools, and communities. The authors urge readers to choose not only efficacious programs but also programs that are effective through sensitive adaptation and modification on the basis of ethnicity, race, and culture of local schools and communities...read more

Product Description: In addition to the traditional use of participant observation, interviews, and surveys, qualitative researchers have developed a variety of other methods to obtain information in their studies. Visual data from film and still photographs are now supplemented with video and computer techniques and are used in many settings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: For years, children of alcoholics (COAs) have been a hidden, at-risk population within the school setting. Despite the vast COA literature, little is available on identifying and working with these children in the schools. Written specifically for school professionals, this book presents useful guidelines for the design, evaluation, and implementation of interventions with COAs that can be easily integrated into existing academic and health education programs...read more