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Designed to enhance learning in content areas by improving reading, writing, and studying strategies. Begins with an historical overview of content area literacy. Discusses theory, the experiences of successful learners, the role of literacy in conceptual learning, and textbook and literature selection.

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

There are approximately 40,000,000 refugees and displaced people in the world. This volume offers mental-health professionals, scientists and policy administrators a conceptual, factual and clinical resource for understanding and addressing the challenges posed by this growing problem.

A must-read for students both within doctoral programs and contemplating pursuit of their Ph.D., this book focuses on the major concerns of individuals embarking upon protracted programs of graduate study at the doctoral level. It will discuss in detail the potholes and mine fields that doctoral students and candidates confront across all disciplines, and provide strategies to effectively overcome those obstacles. All original contributions, each chapter contains overview comments by Lumsden.

Do you overthink before taking action? Are you prone to making negative predictions? Do you worry about the worst that could happen? Do you take negative feedback very hard? Are you self-critical? Does anything less than perfect performance feel like failure?If any of these issues resonate with you, you're probably suffering from some degree of anxiety, and you're not alone. The good news: while reducing your anxiety level to zero isn't possible or useful (anxiety can actually be helpful!), you...

The need for evidence-based practice to enhance current and future police training and assessment has never been greater. This need focuses on the procedures and findings of research within the field of police work along with the philosophy guiding these research approaches and commentaries on the methods being used. With many future directions for the science of police training and assessment, the focus on new training techniques and technologies for improving performance is of the upmost impor...

Applied sport, exercise, and performance psychology practice has diversified considerably over the years, as consultants have explored various theoretical models to guide them in helping their clients. Applied Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology: Current Approaches to Helping Clients provides in-depth and critical coverage, from a global perspective, of the common approaches practitioners now use with clients. Chapters are supplemented with case studies showing the approaches in action....

Based on groundbreaking research on the working conditions of airport check-in workers in two countries, a previously unstudied category of predominantly women workers, Ellen Rosskam describes a form of work characterized as modern-day Taylorism. An occupation greatly affected by new forms of work organization and management practices-caught in the throes of rapid change due to international competition, alliances, mergers, and the application of cost-efficiency strategies-check-in work has been...

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.