Presents an investigation of the developmental and social processes mediating students' academic identities in settings posing challenges to their school achievement and personal development. Providing a framework for teachers in American schools, this book emphasizes examining the child, the school environment, and also the child in-context.

A comprehensive work on the nature, causes, assessment and treatment of child psychopathology. Balancing both theory and treatment, and relying primarily on the empirical literature, this updated edition incorporates both psychological and biological determinants and strategies.

This text focuses specifically on techniques for coding family interactions. It is designed to inform the reader about the concepts underlying a given coding system, and the methodology entailed in using it.

This volume is intended to appeal to researchers who work with nested data structures or repeated measures data, including biomedical and health researchers, clinical/intervention researchers and developmental and educational psychologists. It also has some potential as a graduate level text.

This volume summarizes the research achievements during the past 30 years, and relates those achievements to work on memory development conducted throughout the 20th century. It has been reorganized to better discuss the most important themes in memory development for the novice student.

Teachers need guidelines from educational researchers about integrating collaboration and communication tools into their classrooms. This volume presents research on collaborative technology as it facilitates, augments and redefines academic learning environments.

This text offers information to professionals in the area of health psychology and behavioural medicine. A range of health behaviours are covered, including smoking, excessive drinking and eating, illicit drug use and compulsive gambling. Theoretical models and constructs are also introduced.

This text describes the process of doing teacher action research. But it is much more than a dry presentation of methods . Filled with examples of teacher action research projects, provided by teachers themselves, the book places teachers at the heart of the action research processes.

This volume is the final product of the excellence project - a comprehensive research effort commissioned by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Research Foundation. It contains many new statistical analyses of the survey data and more details from the case studies.