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  • Promoting Health and Academic Success

    The WSCC Approach

    Edited by David A. Birch, Donna M. Videto, Hannah P. Catalano ...
    Promoting Health and Academic Success was the first book to cover the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model, now a widely accepted framework for promoting health and learning in schools. With increasing evidence that health and academic success go hand in hand, this second edition delves deeper into the WSCC approach to showcase best practices that truly put the child at the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Leveraging the Education-Health Connection

    How Educators, Physicians, and Public Health Professionals Can Improve Education and Health Outcomes throughout Life

    by David A. Birch ...
    On the interdependent relationship between health and academic achievement.Research indicates that healthy children are more likely to succeed in school and that individuals who attain higher levels of education are more likely to experience better health outcomes in adulthood. To promote and support children's academic success, educators must view student health as an education issue. At the same ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Performing Site-Specific Theatre

    Politics, Place, Practice

    Edited by A. Birch, J. Tompkins ...
    Series series Performance Interventions
    This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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    Strategies for Community Well Being

    by Larry Cohen, Vivian Chavez, Sana Chehimi ...
    The new edition of Prevention Is Primary provides models, methods, and approaches for building health and equity in communities. This comprehensive book includes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness social justice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness and injury. Ideal for students as well as practitioners, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition combines ... Read more

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  • Behavioral Science in the Wild

    Edited by Nina Mažar, Dilip Soman ...
    Series series Behaviorally Informed Organizations
    Behavioral Science in the Wild helps managers understand how best to incorporate key research findings to solve their own behavior change challenges in the real world – from lab to field.Behavioral Science in the Wild helps managers to implement research findings on behavioral change in their own workplace operations and to apply them to business or policy problems.As the second book in the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well-Being

    Edited by David Glen Mick, Simone Pettigrew, Cornelia (Connie) Pechmann, Julie L. Ozanne ...
    Daily existence is more interconnected to consumer behaviors than ever before, encompassing many issues of well-being. Problems include unhealthy eating; credit card mismanagement; alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and gambling abuse; marketplace discrimination; and ecological deterioration; as well as at-risk groups who are impoverished, impaired, or elderly. Opportunities for well-being via ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Aging, Society, and the Life Course

    by Leslie A. Morgan, PhD, Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD ...
    "[This] book’s unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology."-The GerontologistThis classic text, now in its fifth edition, is distinguished by its emphasis on social context, social processes, and social structures as part of a broader understanding of the sociology of aging and the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Elder Abuse and Mistreatment

    by Joanna Mellor, Patricia Brownell ...
    Provide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problemElder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect. Experts in the field provide insight into elder abuse with newly examined populations to create an understanding of how to design service plans for ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation

    Creating Behavioral, Environmental, and Policy Change

    Edited by Lawrence W. Green, Andrea Carlson Gielen, Judith M. Ottoson, Darleen V. Peterson, Marshall W. Kreuter ...
    A time-tested, landmark approach to health promotion and communication projects and everything that goes into making them successful.For more than 40 years, the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, developed in the early 1970s by Lawrence W. Green and first published as a text in 1980 with Marshall W. Kreuter, Sigrid G. Deeds, and Kay B. Partridge, has been effectively applied worldwide to address a broad range ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ageism: Where It Comes From and What It Does

    by Alan S. Gutterman ...
    According to the United Nations, the number of older-age adults across the world has almost quintupled in the last 65 years and by 2050 1 in 6 people in the world will be over the age of 65, up from 1 in 11 in 2019. Among the main drivers of the exponential growth in the older population in developed countries have been increases in the quality of life and life expectancy accompanied by decreases ... Read more

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  • Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society

    Edited by Rowena Fong, James Lubben, Richard P. Barth ...
    The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to address critical social issues facing society. The purpose of GCSWI was ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • From Early Child Development to Human Development: Investing in Our Children's Future

    by Young,Mary Eming ...
    It is never too early to become involved but it can easily be too late.'Armed with such alarming statistics as 125 million primary-school age children are not in school; another 150 million children drop out of primary school before they complete four years of education; and almost one-half of the children in the least developed countries of the world do not have access to primary education; the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD