La edición europea de Macroeconomía se basa en la experimentada edición estadounidense y en la experiencia de ediciones europeas anteriores en lenguas nacionales —francés, alemán, español e italiano—

This book offers a strengths-based, family-focused approach to improving the educational performance and school experience of struggling Black and Latino students. The book discusses educational challenges faced by low-income families of color and the different strengths within Black and Latino family life that can affect these challenges. It focuses building on these strengths within the childrens home environments that can serve as a foundation for subsequent learning. The chapters describe a wide range of family practices and beliefs, including development of interventions to support families that promote early language and literacy, early mathematics, and social skills. The chapters also present quantitative and/or qualitative studies using a strengths-based approach to parents socialization of their childrens early academic skills.Topics featured in this book include:Latino and Black parental resources, investments, and beliefsAcademic socialization in the homes of Black and Latino preschool childrenDevelopment of culturally-informed interventions to promote childrens school readiness skillsFamily-school partnerships as a tool for improving educational opportunities.Directions for future researchAcademic Socialization of Young Black and Latino Children is a must-have resource for researchers, educators, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in diverse fields including education, developmental and school psychology, family studies, counseling psychology and social work, and sociology of culture.

This volume discusses the importance of positive schooling in producing responsible and potentially productive adults. Students are generally more motivated to do well and to realize their full potential in schools that have a positive schooling climate, where they feel safe, included and supported. Nevertheless, the reality in today''s schools is very different. This volume discusses the major challenges faced by children and adolescents in schools, including problems with curricula, safety issues, lack of inclusive policies, non-availability of teachers, ineffective teaching, insensitivity towards students issues, improper evaluation methods, harmful disciplinary measures, and so on. Experts in child psychology and education discuss these issues at length in this volume and offer viable solutions for policymakers, school administrators, teachers and parents to make suitable changes and create a positive atmosphere in educational institutions. This volume further discusses the role of various stakeholders---school principals, teachers, counsellors and psychologists---in addressing these challenges. In addition, it raises other, emerging issues which have not been covered in previous volumes on this topic and offers evidence-based suggestions to address them. The intended readership of the volume is researchers and students of psychology, education, sociology, social work and public health, and school teachers, administrators and teacher-trainers.

This book examines new directions in home-school relations from an international perspective. Unlike other current literature that concentrates on traditional models of family-school partnerships in Western countries, it focuses on the contributions of immigrant and minority parents, especially those in Asia and South America. This book brings together international scholars who explore home-school relations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Mongolia, Sweden and the United States.

El programa SEA pretende mejorar en los jóvenes su capacidad para reconocer los sentimientos propios y ajenos así como su habilidad para manejarlos, es decir, pretende mejorar su inteligencia socioemocional.El programa se estructura en 18 sesiones semanales en las que se llevan a cabo distintas actividades tanto individuales como colectivas. A lo largo de las sesiones se trabajan diferentes aspectos para el entrenamiento en habilidades socioemocionales tales como la Atencion y comprension emocional, la Regulacion y reparacion emocional y la Regulacion y adaptacion social. Todo ello a la vez que se trabaja de forma transversal la atencion plena (mindfulness), empleada como recurso de apoyo en la mitad de las sesiones.Para favorecer el dinamismo de las sesiones las tecnicas utilizadas son diversas e incluyen desde actividades de relajacion y role-playing, hasta sesiones de escucha o de visionado de videos. Todas ellas cuentan con un formato bien estructurado y todos los materiales necesarios para facilitar el desarrollo de la sesion.El programa ha sido especialmente diseñado para su empleo en el ambito escolar, pudiendose ajustar la duracion a una sesion de tutoria. Sin embargo, puede ser una herramienta de gran utilidad en otros contextos (clinico, social, etc.) en los que se trabaje con jovenes.

This timely resource analyzes home visits as a primary intervention for at-risk families with infants and young children and details innovative programs for home service delivery. Focusing on family violence, mental illness and alcohol and substance abuse as major challenges to child development, the book presents practical strategies for home visitors to address and prevent problems while fostering an improved environment for raising children. Contributors offer a realistic framework for planning, developing, and training an effective home visitation workforce and tailoring interventions to fit individual family dynamics. And the book''s international focus provides a variety of perspectives on evidence-based programs that support families raising children in distressed neighborhoods.Among the featured topics:Home visitation as a primary prevention tool for violence.Developmental parenting home visiting to prevent violence.Supporting the paraprofessional home visitor.Engagement and retention in home visiting child abuse prevention programs.Addressing psychosocial risk factors among families in home visiting programs.Home visitation programs in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean.Home Visitation Programs: Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Early Child Development is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students and professionals in child and school psychology, social work, educational policy, family advocacy and public health.

This volume focuses on how family-school partnerships are conceptualized, defined, and operationalized as well as the research that is needed to advance these foundational issues. Each chapter integrates prevailing approaches into a research-based framework for supporting learning from pre-K through high school. The book incorporates structural and relational methods into the larger context of educational processes to promote research about collaboration and to improve the academic and behavioral development of students. Diverse theories and models of family-school alliances demonstrate approaches and interventions that are goal-directed and strengths-based, respectful and responsive. In addition, the book analyzes cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal aspects of partnership and discusses different methods of assessing parental involvement and student outcomes.Included in the coverage are innovative, agenda-setting discussions on:Definitions and conceptual frameworks of family-school partnerships.Need-satisfying partnerships.Diverse parent perspectives and participation.Measurement of family-school partnership constructs over time.Foundational Aspects of Family-School Partnership Research is an essential resource for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, family studies, developmental psychology, sociology of education, sociology, and anthropology.

This volume focuses on context considerations in family-school partnership research. The book examines how cultural diversity, including differences in parenting (e.g., race, education, family history) and diverse school variables (e.g., location, population, organization,) can affect family-school partnerships. Its bioecological perspective pinpoints critical areas that studies need to address for real-world utility, such as parental commitment and developmental considerations. Although the books focus is research, chapters present program designs and evaluations along with ideas for community involvement and policy. The authors also explore the changing landscape for home-school partnerships resulting from the impact of technology, which is rapidly becoming a central player in organizing research and bringing interventions to life.Topics covered include:- Complexities in field-based partnership research.- Family-centered, school-based interventions.- A district leadership approach to school, family, and community partnerships.- Research issues to forward a policy agenda supporting family-school partnerships.- Testing statistical moderation in research on home-school partnerships.- Integrating current and evolving knowledge toward future directions for research.Contexts of Family-School Partnerships is a valuable resource for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, family studies, developmental psychology, sociology of education, sociology, and anthropology.

Con su notable don para exponer con claridad sus teorías e investigaciones, Lefrançois nos ofrece descripciones excepcionalmente vividas del desarrollo del niño.Esta nueva edición contiene los temas mas vitales y las teorias mas recientes sobre los niños, con todo lo que implican para padres y maestros.Tambien incluye material nuevo relacionado con descubrimientos geneticos sobre la reproduccion y los defectos al nacer,a vances de la medicina para niños prematuros, peligros ambientales y sus efectos sobre el desarrollo de los niños, las repercusiones sociales y culturales de las minorias que van en aumento, el efecto de las corrientes sociales relacionadas con el consumo de drogas, el divorcio, la atencion a los niños sin familia, el embarazo adolescente y la violencia en los medios de informacion

Useful as a textbook for students studying motor development and motor behaviour, this work also serves as a reference for motor development, motor behaviour, and early childhood specialists.It describes motor development during the first two years of a child''s life, focusing mainly on the crucial first year, during which the greatest changes occur in relation to the entire life span. It integrates information from a variety of disciplines in order to encourage a broader perspective to the understanding of infant motor development.Including the development of voluntary movements such as posture, stability, balance and orientation, manual control of reaching and grasping, and locomotor control of creeping and walking, it looks at motor development difficulties faced by premature infants, who require special assessment and intervention strategies, and examines two specific disabilities: Cerebral Palsy and Down Syndrome.

For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from dropout prevention to improved outcomes for lifelong learning. This robust expansion has led to numerous lines of research across disciplines and are brought together clearly and comprehensively in the Handbook of Research on Student Engagement.The Handbook guides readers through the fields rich history, sorts out its component constructs, and identifies knowledge gaps to be filled by future research. Grounding data in real-world learning situations, contributors analyze indicators and facilitators of student engagement, link engagement to motivation, and gauge the impact of family, peers, and teachers on engagement in elementary and secondary grades. Findings on the effectiveness of classroom interventions are discussed in detail. And because assessing engagement is still a relatively new endeavor, chapters on measurement methods and issues round out this important resource.Topical areas addressed in the Handbook include:Engagement across developmental stages.Self-efficacy in the engaged learner.Parental and social influences on engagement and achievement motivation.The engaging nature of teaching for competency development.The relationship between engagement and high-risk behavior in adolescents.Comparing methods for measuring student engagement.An essential guide to the expanding knowledge base, the Handbook of Research on Student Engagement serves as a valuable resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in such varied fields as clinical child and school psychology, educational psychology, public health, teaching and teacher education, social work, and educational policy.

This book provides a comprehensive overview and in-depth analysis of research on psychosocial skills, examining both theory and areas of application. It discusses students psychosocial skills both as components of academic success and desired educational outcomes in grades K through 12. The book describes an organizing framework for psychosocial skills and examines a range of specific constructs that includes achievement, motivation, self-efficacy, creativity, emotional intelligence, resilience, and the need for cognition. In addition, it reviews specific school-based interventions and examines issues that concern the malleability of psychosocial skills. It addresses issues relating to the integration of psychosocial skills into school curriculum as well as large-scale assessment policies. Topics featured in this book include:Development of psychosocial skills in grades K-12.Assessment of psychosocial skills.Conscientiousness in education and its relation to meaningful educational outcomes.Creativity in schools, including theory, assessment, and interventions.Academic emotions and their regulation through emotional intelligence.Resilience and school-based programs aimed at enhancing it.Psychosocial Skills and School Systems in the 21st Century is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, clinicians, mental health professionals, and policymakers in child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, public health, social work, developmental psychology, and educational psychology.

Se ha recogido lo mejor de las nuevas investigaciones y estudios de los últimos años, como la genética de la delincuencia, la nutrición infantil, el trastorno bipolar y del espectro autista o la importancia del vinculo temprano, entre otros.

- Segunda edición de este práctico libro que incluye modificaciones en casi todos los capítulos, sobre todo en derecho penal, derecho civil y en el marco autonómico. - El libro establece la secuencia de intervención: detección de casos, veracidad y gravedad de las denuncias, evaluación diagnóstica de cada caso. - De aquí se pasa al tema central: la toma de decisión, con las posibles alternativas para los niños (separación, adopción, acogimiento). - Estudia el tratamiento de las familias dirigido a su rehabilitación. - Trata de forma especial la prevención y el tema del abuso sexual por requerir unas pautas de actuación totalmente diferentes. - Permite que profesionales y estudiantes muy diversos aborden el tema en las Escuelas de Trabajo Social, Facultades de Psicología, Pedagogía y Cursos Especializados.

La presente obra describe algunos de los tratamientos que han demostrado ser más eficaces para el abordaje de los trastornos de mayor prevalencia en la niñez y adolescencia.

El A-EP es una sencilla y atractiva prueba para evaluar la autoestima en alumnos de 4º a 6º de Primaria. Sencilla porque emplea un lenguaje llano y claro, ajustado a estas edades, con preguntas breves y sin negaciones. Atractiva, porque incluye ilustraciones a todo color que acompañan a cada uno de los 17 elementos de la prueba. Estas dos caracteristicas la hacen idonea para estos cursos. Ademas, su aplicacion y su correccion resultan breves y faciles, lo que hace que sea una prueba muy adecuada para la deteccion de alumnos con baja autoestima.