Trusting What You Know shows that building genuine trustworthy relationships between teachers and students is pivotal in students??? capacity to learn. Based on an extended research study by Miriam Raider-Roth, an educational researcher and former elementary school teacher, Trusting What You Know reveals what students think about their relationships in the classroom and how these relationships affect their ability to learn. The book includes guiding principles for teachers, researchers, educators, and parents who want to understand the ways that human relationships at school fundamentally influence what children learn, know, and trust.
This book explores the nature of intimacy by revealing how the influence of individual, interpersonal and wider social factors create variations in self-disclosure, intimacy games and relationship habits. It describes how the dynamics of power and control in relationships give rise either to mutual satisfaction or to the unraveling of intimacy.
What to do when a good girl falls for a bad boy? Here, at last, is a book that provides desperately needed help for anxious parents. It offers specific, usable tactics for confronting teen dating abuse, including: What to say to a daughter before she begins dating Twenty-three warning signs that a girl is in an unhealthy relationship Nine steps a best friend can take if dating violence is suspected Ten ways to intervene effectively and open up the lines of communication How to break the cycle of controlThroughout the book are the voices of girls and their parents, as well as the insights of psychologists who outline prevention strategies and discuss the most effective ways to communicate with a daughter when the last thing she wants is her parents' advice.
This book is a guide for three groups of people: the psychologists and social workers who send clients to psychiatrists; the psychiatrists who prescribe the drugs; and the clients who are often caught in the middle. A guiding principle is that collaboration, rather than coercion, is most likely to promote, achieve, and sustain recovery. Diamond and Scheifler discuss the often-competing agendas of these groups of people: "what does everyone want out of this relationship" and "how can we make these relationships easier and more beneficial for the client?" The book will also speak to each group of readers, explaining how they can participate more effectively in the process. For example, what questions should a therapist be asking of the psychiatrist; how is the best way to communicate? What is the best way to forge a strong relationship? What should the consumer do to make sure that she is getting the best treatment? Important topics addressed include: how to set goals with clients so that everyone is on the same page with the treatment regimen; how to manage inevitable conflicts that will arise; helping clients deal with medication side effects; working with clients to choose when medication is changed; how to focus on recovery as a goal and not just medication management. .
This volume focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that exchange. The distinguished contributors discuss trade on a range of scales—from a solitary confinement cell to trans-oceanic networks—in settings around the world and over the past 3000 years. They address themes such as exchange as a communicative act, the ways in which exchange transforms the relationship between people and things, the significance of agency and power in contexts of trade, and how sites of consumption and discard speak to processes of exchange. The volume merges traditional archaeological concerns about trade and exchange with more contemporary issues of agency, identity and social meaning.
Motivational author and speaker Jonathan Robinson shares his recipe for surefire success in a book designed to help any reader revitalize relationships, enhance health, and achieve a peak-performance life. Robinson has distilled his own experience and that of his teachers and peers, from Anthony Robinson to Ram Dass, into a roadmap to the quickest and smartest ways to achieve happiness, fulfillment, and a healthy, prosperous life. In clear, no-nonsense terms, the author encourages readers to remove the roadblocks to personal success and to realize their dreams, while taking more vacations, finding greater intimacy in relationships, and living more healthfully. In his most vital book to date, Robinson shows that success is not a destination but a journey.
"Let's Talk Relationships" offers a multitude of creative ways to get young people aged 13-19 talking about positive relationships, helping them to stay safe, healthy and happy. Ideal for groups or one-to-one work, this resource features over 90 tried and tested activities. Focusing on peer friendships, personal relationships and family dynamics, issues covered include peer pressure, relationship bullying, decision-making, managing conflict at home, and family values. Activities come complete with photocopiable worksheets and include ideas for storyboard work, games, role-play and quizzes, as well as suggestions for creative projects including drama, music and art activities. They are designed to build assertiveness skills, encourage young people to make positive choices and help them to talk about their feelings. This second edition is fully updated and contains over ten new activities in each of the five sections. This is an invaluable resource for all those working with young people, including youth workers, teachers and voluntary sector youth leaders, helping them to make sessions valuable, educational and enjoyable.
A professional therapist and a recovering codependent worked together to develop this special resource based on an adaptation of the Twelve Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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