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Walden Authors From healthy families to healthy organizations, Walden faculty members are sharing their expertise in new books.
Dr. Raphael Becvar, Ph.D., faculty member in the School of Counseling and Social Service
This comprehensive, yet user-friendly survey of the field of marriage and family therapy emphasizes the systemic/cybernetic perspective. The systemic-cybernetic framework helps readers understand people and families in context. The text—divided into three sections, "The Systemic Framework," "The Practice of Family Therapy," and "The Systemic Practitioner"—includes historical information, current developments and ongoing debates. Various family and developmental theories are integrated into a “dynamic process model” for viewing and understanding family interactions and relationships. The family therapy models considered include psychodynamic, natural systems, experiential, structural, communications, strategic and behavioral/cognitive as well as several postmodern approaches. Within the context of practice, assessment; intervention; training/supervision; research; and epistemological challenges are described and discussed.
Beyond Going Postal: Shifting from Workplace Tragedies and Toxic Work Environments to a Safe and Healthy Organization Stephen D. Musacco, Ph.D., faculty member in the School of Psychology BookSurge Publishing, 2009
Beyond Going Postal examines the history of violence and toxic work environments within the U.S. Postal Service organization and its negative impacts on the health and psychological well-being of its employees. This book is, to date, the most comprehensive analysis available on postal workplace violence and postal culture in general, and it includes a blueprint for postal management and government leaders to make the U.S. Postal Service a healthier organization for its employees. Written with postal rank and file, union, management, and government leaders in mind, this book sounds a clarion call to action that cannot be ignored.
Howard C. Carlson, Ed.D., faculty member in The Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership Corwin Press, 2008
The opportunities and responsibilities in the crucial first years of a superintendency can be challenging as well as exciting. This practical resource provides ready-to-use techniques that help superintendents build the relationships and teamwork needed to face these challenges with success.
This insightful guide provides new superintendents with guidelines for making a positive difference while handling transitions, culture changes, financial issues, staff supervision, and team building. Using their combined experience as district administrators, the authors uncover the complexities of the job and offer candid discussions about how to:
Addressing the most common issues faced by new superintendents, this valuable reference provides the leadership tools to help a school district move forward.
Improving Teacher Knowledge and Pedagogy: Using Lesson Study as a Means of Professional Development Joanne Antrim, faculty member in The Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership VDM Verlag, 2008
Improving student achievement is the goal of educators, and teacher education is the key to improvement. Teachers must continually improve their own learning to meet the needs of their students. It is important for teachers to be involved in decision-making and to have access to the professional development required to inform their teaching, both content knowledge and pedagogy. Lesson study is a process that enables teachers to grow and learn together to improve their learning and collaboration to maximize student achievement. This book chronicles the lesson study experience of a group of elementary teachers in an urban school in the United States. The group employed a vertical approach to the process. The book concludes with the teachers' opinions about this promising form of professional development. This study should be of interest to teachers and administrators who are concerned with improving student achievement.
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Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration, Seventh Edition
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