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Walden Authors From classroom skills for nurse educators to applied change management, Walden faculty and alumni are sharing their expertise in new books. Urban Teacher Education and Teaching: Innovative Practices for Diversity and Social Justice
This volume illuminates the most pressing challenges faced by urban schools, teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher training programs and offers a range of insights and possibilities for urban teacher education and teaching. Covering issues spanning the broadly theoretical to the urgently practical, it goes beyond the traditional discourses in teacher education to focus on diversity, social justice, democratic schooling, and community building. What emerges is an emphatic message of hope for those committed to the ongoing project of improving urban teacher education and working in urban settings.
Contributors from Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean bring rich and divergent knowledge, perspectives, and cultural experiences to their discussion of the three central themes around which the book is organized:
This book is intended for all students, practitioners, and researchers involved in urban education. It is appropriate as a text for student teaching and field experience seminars, and for courses dealing with social issues, educational policy, curriculum development, and multicultural teacher education.
Theoretical Foundations of Health Education and Health Promotion
Theoretical Foundations of Health Education and Health Promotion introduces readers to common theories from behavioral and social sciences that are being used in health education and promotion today. With its accessible language and emphasis on practical application, this text helps students grasp new theories easily and shows students how to use these theories effectively when designing programs in community, school, work-site, or patient care settings.
The Elements of Disaster Psychology: Managing Psychosocial Trauma, An Integrated Approach to Force Protection
This book is designed to aid in practical, day-to-day, on-the-scene disaster response and crisis intervention by all interveners. The elements are the basics of any discipline; knowledge of them is critical to achieving success. The Elements of Disaster Psychology: Managing Psychosocial Trauma focuses on those basics that are needed by crisis and disaster responders in the field by providing an integrated approach to force protection and acute care.
The presentation is ordered in such a way as to provide quick and easy access to the information needed—from the initial deployment to the final debriefing. The point of this approach is to help the reader accomplish what needs to be done and in the most expeditious and effective manner possible.
This book will help responders to be effective when handling the psychosocial problems of victims and of responders as the problems present. It reflects what is known in the field without all the theory that often accompanies other texts. Much of the confusion about procedures and how to deal with crises has been eliminated. The lists, procedures, suggestions, and guidelines are field-tested and directly related to field situations.
Those who want theoretical depth are guided to other sources in the bibliography that can provide such information. The table of contents is prescriptive in nature so that it can be used as a self-contained guide to disaster response. Two additional indices are included to help guide users to specific types of crises or to procedures and techniques and to the chapters of the book that are related.
The book can be most appropriately used as a supplemental text in related emergency management, crisis intervention and disaster psychology classes, and first- and second-responder training. The experienced disaster intervener can use this book independently in the field, in training, and in the office.
Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, Pages, and Sites
Designed for both the novice and the experienced user, this comprehensive guide includes all the need-to-know aspects of using the World Wide Web to support student learning. Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom covers the language of the Web, describes Web-editing software, and shows how to use Web tools that offer unique learning opportunities for students.
This book examines issues of student safety, appropriate “netiquette,” and copyright and other legal considerations, and provides field-tested strategies, examples, and reproducibles to help teachers create powerful learning opportunities. Educators will be able to meet International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) as they
Featuring a list of key terms in each chapter, this timely resource will motivate your students and help make technology a seamless part of your classroom instruction.
Minority Student Retention: The Best of the Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice
Student retention continues to be a vexing problem for all colleges and universities. In spite of the money spent on creating programs and services to help retain students until they achieve their academic and personal goals, and graduate, the figures have not improved over time. This is particularly true for minority students, who have a greater attrition rate than majority students. Demographic information shows that the minority population in the United States is growing at a faster rate than the majority. It is imperative that educational institutions find ways to help improve retention rates for all students, but particularly for minority students. Retention rates should not differ appreciably among different racial/ethnic groups.
The Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice is the only scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted solely to college student retention. It has published many articles on minority student retention, and this topic continues to garner much attention. This book is a compilation of the very best of these articles, selected on the basis of reviews by a cadre of experts in the education field. The articles discuss African American, Latino/Latina, Asian and Asian Pacific, Native American, and biracial students, and institutional commitments to retaining a diverse student population. For those interested in this vital area, the collection will teach and inspire them to achieve greater heights and pay additional attention to retaining minority students in our colleges and universities.
Africa's Youth Define Leadership
If They All Had First Class Parents
The job of educators would be much easier if all students had first-class parents. Since they don’t, this book provides educators with specific strategies to not only get parents involved, but how to go the extra mile to make up for the void when parents are not there for so many students.
The book is being used around the country in staff development sessions and workshops to increase parental involvement.
Malingering, Lies, and Junk Science in the Courtroom
This book presents a scholarly examination of some of the most popular psychiatric disorders, psychological syndromes, trauma disorders, addictions, and emotional injury claims in an attempt to determine if these are merely forms of malingering being used to achieve financial gain through litigation, or as a means of escaping criminal or civil responsibility. The book also examines unreliable and unsubstantiated treatment and assessment methods used by the mental health industry which find their way into the courtroom.
There has been a significant amount of research (and anecdotal evidence) recently presented in the scientific literature regarding many of the above-mentioned topics. In addition, there is a seemingly never-ending parade of legal cases in the media which are examples of some of the topics of this book (e.g., the Andrea Yates case).
What distinguishes this edited book from others is 1) it does not shy away from confronting the unusual and even bizarre psychological phenomena which the legal profession must deal with; 2) it provides a solid theoretical review from renowned psychologists, psychiatrists, and lawyers; 3) it provides the latest psychological research findings relating to various questionable disorders and methods; 4) it presents real-life experiences from the courtroom; and 5) relevant case law is discussed.
This book will be of monumental use to practicing attorneys and law students, practicing psychologists and psychiatrists, and students in mental health and criminal justice. The book will allow for a clear understanding of “syndrome” evidence, its uses and abuses, malingering, phony and bogus “diseases” and “addictions,” and how patients, clients, and defendants (as well as psychiatrists, psychologists, and lawyers) abuse the mental health and legal systems in order to escape criminal culpability, attain benefits or make a case.
Dr. Kitaeff is currently completing a textbook on forensic psychology for Prentice Hall.
Lag: A Look at Circadian Desynchronization Lag: A Look at Circadian Desynchronization is focused on stress that resulted from jet lag, shift work, and fatigue in aviation. Many of the principles included here transfer over to other industries like commercial overland transportation, law enforcement, and health care.
Author Bill Ragan is a lifetime member of Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology, a member of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and affiliated with the United States Army Medical Department Regiment. Ragan’s research interests include many aspects of clinical and aviation psychology.
Numerous concepts discussed in this book came from observations Ragan made when he worked in military aviation. His experiences and training on the Bell UH-1 Huey, the Bell AH-1 Cobra, and the Bell OH-58 Kiowa helicopters motivated him to pursue aviation psychology and this investigation into lag.
Guilty until Proven Innocent: A True-Life Legal Drama
D. Corbett Everidge cannot vote, own a firearm, or hold public office: He is a convicted felon. But did he actually commit the crime?
In this true-life legal drama, former magistrate D. Corbett Everidge chronicles the events of the summer of 2005 and the ensuing criminal trial that led to a felony conviction and the end of his criminal justice career. He then asks you to assess the evidence and make your own reasonable decision about whether he is, indeed, innocent or guilty as charged.
Everidge gives personal insight into his career and background to illustrate that guilt in a complex society is not always a matter of black and white. He also challenges many beliefs regarding the modern criminal justice system in the United States, effectively drawing a line between the theoretical and the actual.
Ultimately, Guilty Until Proven Innocent is an intriguing literary criminal trial in which you decide the outcome. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what is your verdict?
Born Beating the Odds
Born Beating the Odds does not advocate “action steps” toward personal development and improvement. This book requires that you become the change that you seek. It is a no-nonsense discourse on the challenges we each face daily and, in his signature way of advocating that we turn the search light on ourselves, Makai challenges us to become the overcomers we truly are. If anything can be learned from this book, it is that it is not an option to improvise, overcome, and adapt. Makai writes that if we are to become whole and co-authors of our full destiny, we must learn to make it a lifestyle.
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