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  Nontoxic: Masculinity, Allyship, and Feminist

  Ben Almassi

  This chapter introduces the concept of toxic masculinity—as a useful hermeneutical resource, an object of critical scrutiny, and a reminder of the need for alternative normative visions for what men and masculinity should be. It also identifies the major theoretical and methodological priorities guiding my approach throughout this book in evaluating existing visions for alternatives to toxic masculinity and making the case for allyship masculinity as one such alternative not only compatible with but grounded in feminist values and practices.

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  Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds

  Ben Almassi

  “One of the penalties of an ecological education,” wrote Aldo Leopold,” is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality matters as much as the wounds themselves. Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds discusses the possibilities and practices of reparative environmental justice. It builds on theories of justice in political philosophy, feminist ethics, indigenous studies, and criminal justice as extended to non-ideal environmental ethics. How can reparative environmental justice provide a useful perspective on ecological restoration, human-animal entanglements, climate change, environmental racism, and traditional ecological knowledge? How can it promote just practices and policies while enabling effective opposition to business as usual? And how does reparative justice look different when we go beyond narrowly construed human conflicts to include relational repair with ecosystems, other animals, and future generations?

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  Corporate Planning, Avalanches, and String

  Phyllis R. Anderson

  A corporate executive, business leader and collegiate educator, Dr. Phyllis Anderson has studied the world of business and corporate planning for more than forty years. Now, she has published her innovative ideas for everyone interested in long-range strategic business planning. Corporate Planning, Avalanches and Strings is the ideal business person’s guide to long-range strategic planning. Dr. Anderson discusses the "tried and true" techniques of old fashioned corporate planning, disclosing their failures and the reasons for them. In Corporate Planning, Avalanches and Strings, she introduces the new and exciting approach of the bird dog that seeks out opportunities, and the innovative methods to implement these strategies. Corporate Planning, Avalanches and Strings is also an excellent advanced text for students who want to learn the latest techniques in long-range strategic business planning. Dr Anderson’s clear prose and excellent examples guide the student through the morass of esoteric business terminology, clarifying the real world issues and presenting equally real world business solutions. Corporate Planning, Avalanches and Strings is a must for every professional’s library, for corporate strategists and for business students.

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  How to Increase Your Company's Profits by Using PIMS Program

  Phyllis R. Anderson

  The PIMS Program began at General Electric Company, under CEO Jack Welch. Using the PIMS findings, Welch built GE into one of the most profitable companies in the world. The PIMS program was expanded under the Strategic Planning Institute (SPI) of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Phyllis Anderson was a member of the SPI staff. Later, she was hired away by a client company where she was placed in charge of a $25 million division that had been a chronic money loser. Under Dr. Anderson's direction, using the PIMS principles, the division soon became a profit leader. Dr. Anderson left to form her own management consulting firm, which has over 400 clients ranging in size from Fortune 100 corporations to one-person shops.

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  Africa: The Definitive Visual History of a Continent

  Morenikenji Asaaju , et. al

  Spanning more than 200,000 years, from the emergence of the first humans to the rise of megacities, Africa explores the history and cultures of the world's second-largest continent in vivid detail. It brings to life the stories that shaped Africa and the world around it, from powerful and influential empires and kingdoms such as Mali and Benin, through the struggle against colonization and the fight for independence, to Africa's place on the global stage today. You will meet some of Africa's most important political and military leaders, including Hannibal, Mansa Moussa, Oba Ewuare, Shaka Zulu, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, and Ellen Sirleaf. Lavish photography showcases the great art and architecture that African civilizations have created, while engaging text written by experts of African heritage covers every facet of African cultures, from music and literature to religions, mythology, and languages. Exclusive CGI illustrations recreate iconic buildings and life in lost cities such as Timbuktu and Great Zimbabwe. Beautifully illustrated and unparalleled in scope, Africa is the perfect book for anyone who is looking to deepen their understanding of Africa's vital and inspiring history.

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  Rehabilitation Research, 6th Edition

  Catherine H. Balthazar and Ann Vendrely

  Discover how to use evidence to improve your practice! Providing thorough, contemporary coverage of the full range of rehabilitation research with a clear, easy-to-understand approach, Rehabilitation Research: Principles and Applications, 6th Edition helps you learn to analyze and apply research to practice. It examines traditional experimental designs, as well as nonexperimental and emerging approaches, including qualitative research, single-system designs, epidemiology, and outcomes research. Ideal for students and practitioners in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology, this user-friendly resource emphasizes evidence-based practice and your development as a true scientist-practitioner.

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  Yaka

  Arthur P. Bourgeois

  The Yaka, a tribe in the southwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have for over a century produced figurative statuettes, masks, and other objects that have fascinated Western scholars, collectors, and explorers. This impressive book brings together some of the earliest examples, as well as some of the most visually striking, and explores their uses in installation and initiation ceremonies and curative rituals, examining their relationship to leadership, divination, and sorcery. Colonial influences as well as “anti-fetish” religious movements are studied for their impact on Yaka traditional art. The book includes 21 black-and-white illustrations and drawings accompanying the text, 62 color plates with commentary, and an annotated bibliography.

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  10 Powerful Strategies to Support Literacy Using Bilingual Books / 10 estrategias poderosas para apoyar la alfabetización con libros bilingües

  Valerie Butron and Rita Guzman

  Bilingual books are powerful! Explore these 10 practical and evidence-based strategies to help your students develop proficiency in both languages. Teachers can support literacy development through engaging and thoughtful use of bilingual books.

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  Everything is Different Here. Again. Welcoming Gustavo / Todo es Diferencia Aquí. De Nueva. Le Tenemos la Bienvenu a Gustavo

  Valerie Butron and Rita Guzman

  Have you ever been on a long journey? Gustavo has. Gustavo, his Mother, and cousin Luz went on a very long journey from Guatemala to the United States. They have just arrived to live in their new community in the United States. Everything is different here. Again. What will Gustavo's first day of school be like and how can his new teachers and classmates help him feel welcome? How can Gustavo's new teachers and classmates support him emotionally and socially?

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  We Celebrate Juneteenth Unidos: Inspired by a True Story

  Valerie Butron and Rita Guzman

  Grandma Joy is coming to visit and she's especially excited to take her granddaughter Joy to the park today. Joy's abuelos - grandparents, are joining them too! But why? Joy's entire family and her neighbors will celebrate Juneteenth unidos - united. Inspired by a true story of different communities learning how to enjoy the holiday together, WeCelebrateJuneteenth Unidos honors history, celebrates community, language and shared values.

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  We're Going to the Guelaguetza / Vamos a la Guelaguetza

  Valerie Butron and Rita Guzman

  Rufina's abuelo has exciting news to share when he picks her up from school. Their family will travel to Oaxaca in July to celebrate the Guelaguetza! Rufina is curious to talk to her family members in English and Spanish to find out about the things she will see, taste, touch, smell, and hear while they celebrate. El abuelo de Rufina tiene noticias emocionantes que compartir cuando la recoge de la escuela. ¡Su familia viajará a Oaxaca en julio para celebrar la Guelaguetza! Rufina siente curiosidad por hablar con los miembros de su familia en inglés y español para conocer las cosas que verá, saboreará, tocará, olerá y oirá mientras celebran.

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  City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island

  David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan

  While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are detainees awaiting the settlement of their cases, a smaller population have already been convicted and are serving sentences deemed too short for the state prison system. These stints are called “city time.” The sentences range from a few days to a year, and are generally served within large, open dormitories lacking in privacy and sanitation. Within these spaces, incarcerated people reproduce an elaborate set of rules, rituals, and relationships, as a means both of survival and of giving meaning to the time taken from them.
  Written by David Campbell and Jarrod Shanahan, who both served sentences at Rikers, City Time reflects its authors’ personal experiences and observations of short-stay incarceration to present a nuanced and vivid account of a social world kept locked away from the public eye. The authors reconstruct the daily realities of sanitation, nourishment, recreation, work, and other necessary activities, and emphasize the complex interpersonal relationships that emerge in response to city time. Simultaneously, they paint a grim and urgent picture of structural racism, class violence, and the disastrous lack of mental health and substance abuse resources for poor New Yorkers, who are shuttled in and out of city time sentences as “frequent flyers.”
  Beginning with the authors’ own processes of intake, and ending with the ritual of late-night release, City Time takes readers behind the splashy headlines to depict, in intimately human terms, the rich and variegated social world unfolding, at this very moment, on Rikers Island.

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  Albert Ellis Revisited

  Jon Carlson and William Knaus

  Albert Ellis was one of the most influential psychotherapists of all time, revolutionizing the field through his writings, teachings, research, and supervision for more than half a century. He was a pioneer whose ideas, known as Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), formed the basis of what has now become known as Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), the most widely accepted psychotherapeutic approach in the world. This book contains some of Ellis’ most influential writings on a variety of subjects, including human sexuality, personality disorders, and religion, with introductions by some of today’s contemporary experts in the psychotherapy field. The 20 articles included capture Ellis’ wit, humor, and breadth of knowledge and will be a valuable resource for any mental health professional for understanding the key ingredients needed to help others solve problems and live life fully.

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  Alfred Adler Revisited

  Jon Carlson and Michael P. Maniacci

  Alfred Adler was one of the most influential thinkers in psychotherapy – a physician, psychiatrist, author, and professor who wanted to answer the questions that plagued people during a significant time in history. His original ideas serve as a foundation for most modern theories of counseling and psychotherapy, ideas and writings that are brought back to life in this volume. Within, contemporary experts comment and introduce Adler's work through the lens of the 21st century. In doing so, they pay tribute to, analyze, and disseminate his classic, seminal papers that have significantly impacted the therapy field. The 23 papers included were chosen because of their relevance to today's issues, and their importance in Adlerian theory and practice. They detail the core elements of his theory, the tactics he used to advocate change in individuals and systems, and emphasize how contemporary his ideas are. Alfred Adler Revisited not only plays homage to a great professional, it revives his ideas and encourages debate over fundamental human issues.

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  How Master Therapists Work: Effecting Change from the First through the Last Session and Beyond

  Jon Carlson and Len Sperry

  How Master Therapists Work engages the reader in experiencing what really happens in therapy with master therapists: who they are, what they do, and how they bring about significant change in clients. It examines one master therapist’s actual six-session therapy (also available on DVD) that transformed a client’s life, resulting in changes that have been sustained for more than seven years. Session transcriptions directly involve the reader in every aspect of the therapeutic change process. This is followed by the commentary of a master therapist-psychotherapy researcher who explains how these changes were effected from a psychotherapy research perspective. Next, the master therapist who effected these changes explains what he was thinking and why he did what he did at key points in the therapy process. Then, the client shares her thoughts on this life changing therapeutic experience. This is a must have, one-of-a-kind book that will greatly enhance the therapeutic understanding and skills of both practicing therapists and therapists-in-training.

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  Intimate Couple

  Jon Carlson and Len Sperry

  As important as intimacy is in our personal and professional lives, intimacy as a theoretical and clinical factor still remains a phenomenon. Contributors to this work examine the many definitions of intimacy, putting forth a provocative discussion of the multi-faceted topic and offering the best possible clinical methods of creating intimacy and addressing its challenges.

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  Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships: A Clinician's Guide

  Jon Carlson and Len Sperry

  The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult—but also one of the most common—factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical, evidence-based guidelines on which clinicians can depend as they wade through the intense emotions and fragile bonds of couples in crisis. With care and sensitivity, the book's authors analyze the increasingly complex context in which the cycle of intimacy develops, wanes, and recovers. The chapters delve into diverse populations' attitudes toward intimacy and provide an entire section on cultural, gender and religious issues.

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  The Disordered Couple

  Jon Carlson and Len Sperry

  Experienced researchers and clinicians from a wide variety of theoretical background have come together to give a comprehensive analysis of couples diagnosed with major psychopathology, personality disorders, and social challenges. Bipolar disorder, panic disorder, psychosis, sexual disfunction, physical illness, narcissisistic/borderline diagnoses --these are among the common problems addressed in this text as the contributors tackle the complex task of assessment, offering definitions, interpretations, interventions and instructive case material along the way.

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  Family Therapy Techniques: Integrating and Tailoring Treatment

  Jon Carlson, Len Sperry, and Judith A. Lewis

  Family Therapy Techniques briefly reviews the basic theories of marriage and family therapy. It then goes into treatment models designed to facilitate the tailoring of therapy to specific populations and the integration of techniques from what often seems like disparate theories. Based on the assumption that no single approach is the definitive approach for every situation, the book leads students through multiple perspectives. In teaching students to integrate and tailor techniques, this book asks them to take functional methods and approaches from a variety of theoretical approaches, without attempting to reiterate the theoretical issues and research covered in theories courses.

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  Rehabilitation Research: Principles and Applications, 4th Edition

  Russel Carter, Jay Lubinsky, and Elizabeth Domholdt

  Covering the full range of rehabilitation research with a clear, easy-to-understand approach, this resource will help you analyze and apply research to practice. Rehabilitation Research: Principles and Applications examines traditional experimental designs as well as nonexperimental and emerging approaches, including qualitative research, single-system design, outcomes research, and survey research. Clinical case studies and references will enhance your skills as a scientist-practitioner. Written by noted educators Russell Carter and Jay Lubinsky, this book emphasizes evidence-based practice within physical therapy, occupational therapy, and other rehabilitation professions.

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  40 Years of Breaking the Color Line in Healthcare Management

  Collins Charlotte, Daniels Forrest, Rupert Evans, and Dane Howard

  The National Association of Heathcare Services Executives (NAHSE) describes their 40 year history in this book, known as the NAHSE History Project. Thanks to meticulous note taking, collection and recording of correspondence and newsletters, and the cataloguing and safekeeping of 40-years of pictures, mementoes, and factoids, Nathaniel Wesley, Jr. single-handedly preserved the organization's history. His personal interest in preserving NAHSE's history led to the culmination of this book. Mr. Wesley through collaboration and partnership with the NAHSE Research Committee during a 20 month process completed a labor of love for the participants and will serve as testimony to the leadership and fortitude of the Association's founders, officers, committee chairs, and members. The formation of NAHSE fits squarely into the political and social turbulence of the 1960s. In 1968, Whitney Young, the president of the National Urban League, was the invited speaker at the American Hospital Association's Annual Meeting. In his speech, he made the connection between the blight in urban America and the role of non-profit hospitals as economic engines in these communities. He challenged these hospitals to employ and promote black leadership and to administratively reflect the community in which they resided. Young's eloquence in advocating for employment opportunities for racial minorities in hospitals was the impetus for the formation of NAHSE. The NAHSE story begs to be told in the context of the times in which events unfolded. This will enable the reader to fully understand the achievement it represents and why that legacy must continue. It is a story steeped in the experience and events of the civil rights struggle and the conditions leading up to that time.

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  Patuxent Institution: An American Experiment in Corrections

  James Coldren Jr.

  Is rehabilitation dead in American corrections? This socio-political analysis of the fifty-year history of Patuxent Institution, a treatment-oriented maximum security prison in Maryland, studies the organizational challenges faced by this unique American prison, and the social and political forces that work to ensure its survival.

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  Are We Thinking Straight? The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement

  Daniel K. Cortese

  This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a "straight" identity as a social movement tool in order to successfully achieve the movement objectives. This book is based on his doctoral dissertation research at the University of Texas.

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  The Learner-Centered Curriculum: Design and Implementation

  Roxanne Cullen, Michael Harris, and Reihnhold R. Hill

  Most of the scholarship on learner-centeredness is focused on individual classroom pedagogy, but this book takes learner-centeredness beyond the classroom and asks academic leaders to consider the broader implications of making their institutions fully learner-centered. Systemic change is needed, and curriculum is at the heart of what higher education does. To truly effect change, the curriculum needs to be examined and aligned with learner-centered practices. In this book the authors offer both design specifications for a learner-centered approach to curriculum as well as practical recommendations for implementation and assessment. The book covers the need for redesigning curriculum, curriculum design in the instructional paradigm, learner-centered design in practice, implementation, program assessment (including a helpful rubric for this), innovating through technology, and learning spaces that support learner-centered curricula.

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  Consultation: Creating School-Based Interventions, 3rd Edition

  Don Dinkmeyer Jr. and Jon Carlson

  Grounded in Adlerian Psychology, the methods presented by Don Dinkmeyer, Jr. and Jon Carlson in Consultation are based upon the assumption that problems in the home and the classroom result not only from the direct actions of disruptive students, but also from the expectations of teachers and parents. This text shows how counselors can encourage change in these supposed 'problem' children by helping authority figures recognize and alter the part they may be playing in exacerbating the negative actions of the student. Also included is a supplementary DVD depicting actual individual and group interviews with teachers and parents.