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Teaching Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties Practical Approaches

Teaching Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties Practical Approaches

First published in 1991. This book provides a comprehensive view of the needs of pupils with severe learning difficulties and considers the attitudes of parents teachers administrators and the pupils themselves. It offers practical approaches to assessment and curriculum design; the management of the classroom environment; approaches to classroom evaluation; pupils from minority groups; collaboration with other professionals; integration and stress and the classroom teacher. | Teaching Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties Practical Approaches

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The Collective Unconscious in the Age of Neuroscience Severe Mental Illness and Jung in the 21st Century

The Collective Unconscious in the Age of Neuroscience Severe Mental Illness and Jung in the 21st Century

The Collective Unconscious in the Age of Neuroscience brings the connection between C. G. Jung’s theory of a collective unconscious neuroscience and personal experiences of severe mental illness to life. Hallie B. Durchslag uses narrative analysis to examine four autobiographical accounts of mental illness including her own and illuminate the interplay between psychic material and human physiology that Jung intuited to exist. Durchslag’s unique study considers the links between expressions of the collective unconscious such as myth fairy tales folk tales and ‘big dreams’ and the experiences of those diagnosed with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder. The author’s personal narrative account of a psychotic episode is at its heart bringing both an intimate foundation and exceptional insight to the book. With reference to neuroscientific and genetic research throughout The Collective Unconscious in the Age of Neuroscience highlights gaps in depth psychological notions of etiology and treatment highlights patterns of collective material in the qualitative experience of these genetic and biological disorders and explores how the efficacy of pharmacological treatment sheds light on Jung’s theoretical model. The Collective Unconscious in the Age of Neuroscience will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies consciousness neuroscience and mental health. It will also provide unique insight for analytical psychologists interested in severe mental illness and the collective unconscious. | The Collective Unconscious in the Age of Neuroscience Severe Mental Illness and Jung in the 21st Century

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Dogs in the North Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

Dogs in the North Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

Dogs in the North offers an interdisciplinary in-depth consideration of the multiple roles that dogs have played in the North. Spanning the deep history of humans and dogs in the North the volume examines a variety of contexts in North America and Eurasia. The case studies build on archaeological ethnohistorical ethnographic and anthropological research to illuminate the diversity and similarities in canine–human relationships across this vast region. The book sheds additional light on how dogs figure in the story of domestication and how they have participated in partnerships with people across time. With contributions from a wide selection of authors Dogs in the North is aimed at students and scholars of anthropology archaeology and history as well as all those with interests in human–animal studies and northern societies. | Dogs in the North Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

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Dogs in Schools Pedagogy and Practice for Happy Healthy and Humane Interventions

Dogs in Schools Pedagogy and Practice for Happy Healthy and Humane Interventions

Using a wealth of infographics and classroom examples Dogs in Schools sets out the pedagogical principles that schools can employ to work with school dogs in a way that promotes the well-being of all participants and creates a safe environment for all. This is the first book to combine theory and research with the views of experienced teachers and professionals working around the world from the United Kingdom to India from Australia to mainland Europe. Their perspectives illustrate the wide-ranging interest in school dogs but also highlight common concerns. For policymakers this is a book not to ignore because it shows how dogs have the potential to make a significant contribution to children's well-being at a time of growing concern in this area. Simultaneously the authors endorse the views of contributors who call for the introduction of humane regulations and fulsome guidance so that school dogs are viewed as sentient companions and not relegated to the latest educational fad. This is a must-read book for all those who are serious about humane education and ensuring the well-being and happiness of both children and dogs. | Dogs in Schools Pedagogy and Practice for Happy Healthy and Humane Interventions

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Police and Military Dogs Criminal Detection Forensic Evidence and Judicial Admissibility

Police and Military Dogs Criminal Detection Forensic Evidence and Judicial Admissibility

It is essential that those in the criminal justice system understand the tasks that police dogs perform and the evidence that their work produces. Police and Military Dogs: Criminal Detection Forensic Evidence and Judicial Admissibility examines the use of police and military dogs for a wide variety of functions and explores canine biology and behavior as it applies to police work. The book begins with an overview of the changes that have occurred in the field in the past four decades as discoveries have been made about canine capabilities. The author examines how a canine handler’s work with a skilled police dog can affect the subsequent investigation and prosecution of the crime. He discusses optimal procedures for finding and processing evidence and describes the boundaries of admissibility of evidence produced by police dogs. The book examines the many diverse detection functions police dogs are being trained to perform ranging from cadaver detection to the discovery of explosives. It also describes the use of dogs to apprehend criminals and in search and rescue operations. Written for a wide audience including canine handlers forensic scientists attorneys and the judiciary this volume covers topics pertinent to all aspects of the police dog in contemporary law enforcement. | Police and Military Dogs Criminal Detection Forensic Evidence and Judicial Admissibility

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Treating Chronically Traumatized Children The Sleeping Dogs Method

Treating Chronically Traumatized Children The Sleeping Dogs Method

When children refuse or seem unable to talk about their traumatic memories it might be tempting to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’. However if left untreated the memories of childhood abuse and neglect can have a devastating effect on the development of children and young people. How can these children be motivated and engage in trauma-focused therapy? Treating Chronically Traumatized Children: The Sleeping Dogs Method describes a structured method to overcome resistance and enable children to wake these sleeping dogs safely so these children heal from their trauma. The ‘Sleeping Dogs method’ is a comprehensive approach to treating chronically traumatized children first preparing the child to such an extent that he or she can engage in therapy to process traumatic memories then by the trauma processing and integration phase. Collaboration with the child’s network the child’s biological family including the abuser-parent and child protection services are key elements of the 'Sleeping Dogs method'. The underlying theory about the consequences of traumatization such as disturbed attachment and dissociation is described in a comprehensive easy-to-read manner illustrated with case studies and is accompanied by downloadable worksheets. This new edition has been updated to include the clinical experience in working with this method and the most recent literature and research as well as entirely new chapters that apply the ‘Sleeping Dogs method’ to the experiences of children in foster care and residential care and those with an intellectual disability. Treating Chronically Traumatized Children will have a wide appeal including psychologists psychiatrists psychotherapists counsellors family therapists social workers child protection frontline foster care and youth workers inpatient and residential staff and (foster or adoptive) parents. | Treating Chronically Traumatized Children The Sleeping Dogs Method

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Recovery Meaning-Making and Severe Mental Illness A Comprehensive Guide to Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy

Recovery Meaning-Making and Severe Mental Illness A Comprehensive Guide to Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy

Recovery Meaning-Making and Severe Mental Illness offers practitioners an integrative treatment model that will stimulate and harness their creativity allowing for the formation of new ideas about wellness in the face of profound suffering. The model Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) complements current treatment modalities and can be used by practitioners from a broad range of theoretical backgrounds. By using metacognitive capacity as a guide to intervention MERIT stretches and strengthens practitioners’ capacity for reflection and allows them to better use their unique knowledge to help people who are confronting the suffering and chaos that often comes from psychosis. Clinicians will come away from this book with a variety of tools for helping clients manage their own recovery and confront the issues that accompany an illness-based identity. | Recovery Meaning-Making and Severe Mental Illness A Comprehensive Guide to Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy

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Very Special Maths Developing Thinking and Maths Skills for Pupils with Severe or Complex Learning Difficulties

Very Special Maths Developing Thinking and Maths Skills for Pupils with Severe or Complex Learning Difficulties

All children require mathematical understanding to access as full a life as possible. This practical book explores the curriculum required to accommodate the various difficulties faced by children with severe and profound learning difficulties. It describes how children’s mathematical thinking first develops and how it can be nurtured to ensure real understanding and support essential life skills. Chapters explore key concepts including: quantity recognition and counting sequence and measurement comparisons space and shape time monetary value. Mindful of the diverse challenges faced by teachers and pupils the book explains the neurological and pedagogical theories that underpin the development of early mathematical thinking. It considers how mathematical skills that will best support children’s everyday functioning can be developed. Practical ideas and activities for application in the classroom are further supported by illustrative diagrams case studies and detailed online reading to deepen teachers’ understanding and confidence when working with pupils. An essential and inspiring guide for teachers special educational needs coordinators teaching assistants and parents this text proves that with the appropriate strategies each child is able to develop the mathematical skills essential to everyday living. | Very Special Maths Developing Thinking and Maths Skills for Pupils with Severe or Complex Learning Difficulties

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A Different View of Curriculum and Assessment for Severe Complex and Profound Learning Disabilities

A Different View of Curriculum and Assessment for Severe Complex and Profound Learning Disabilities

A Different View of Curriculum and Assessment links a theoretical pedagogical model with a sympathetic practical model of curriculum and assessment difference for those with PMLD CLD and SLD. Split into two parts this accessible resource combines theoretical explanations with first-hand accounts of how this works in educational establishments through the analysis of evidence-based practice carried out in a number of English special (specialist) schools. The expert authors challenge the notion that a national or common core standards curriculum however expertly differentiated is fit-for-purpose for the PMLD CLD and SLD populations in any country. A Different View offers cogent and reasoned arguments for considering that irrespective of age such learners learn differently to their neuro-typical conventionally developing peers. If they learn differently this book shows how we should be teaching them differently. Reflecting the centrality of process over product this book will clearly explain how each individual learner might be enabled and facilitated to become the best they can be and do the best they can do in order to fully realise their potential as equal and independent citizens. | A Different View of Curriculum and Assessment for Severe Complex and Profound Learning Disabilities

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The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

Fascinated by them unable to ignore them and imaginatively stimulated by them Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens’s city so too did they populate his fiction journalism and letters. In the first book-length work of criticism on Dickens’s relationship to canines Beryl Gray shows that dogs real and invented were intrinsic to Dickens’s vision and experience of London and to his representations of its life. Gray draws on an array of reminiscences by Dickens’s friends family and fellow writers and also situates her book within the context of nineteenth-century attitudes towards dogs as revealed in the periodical press newspapers and institutional archives. Integral to her study is her analysis of Dickens’s texts in relationship to their illustrations by George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne and to portraiture by late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists like Thomas Gainsborough and Edwin Landseer. The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination will not only enlighten readers and critics of Dickens and those interested in his life but will serve as an important resource for scholars interested in the Victorian city the treatment of animals in literature and art and attitudes towards animals in nineteenth-century Britain.

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Populations At Risk In America Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century

Populations At Risk In America Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century

As this century draws to a close and the new one approaches the United States is still struggling with serious and persistent social problems. These troubling dilemmas including poverty homelessness discrimination and severe inequity afflict some subgroups of the population more than others and it is the plight of these at-risk groups—childr | Populations At Risk In America Vulnerable Groups At The End Of The Twentieth Century

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Disaster Resilience in South Asia Tackling the Odds in the Sub-Continental Fringes

Disaster Resilience in South Asia Tackling the Odds in the Sub-Continental Fringes

This book considers the challenges of building disaster resilience in South Asia – a region that frequently experiences some of the most severe and devastating impacts of disasters. Despite significant work to assist affected communities many smaller South Asian countries remain particularly vulnerable in terms of fostering disaster resilience. Drawing on examples from Bangladesh Bhutan Maldives Nepal and Sri Lanka the book offers rich insights and narratives on disaster resilience policy and practice. It considers the possibilities for advancing community resilience and capacity building through an exploration of different aspects of governance and policy. Given the diversity of these countries and recent disasters a variety of perspectives are considered: institutional and policy frameworks risk management governance recovery operations building codes and policy and media discourse. The book offers a collective understanding of practice which can offer global lessons to a world increasingly beset by disasters and with uncertain environmental futures. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars practitioners and students in the fields of disaster risk reduction and management climate change adaptation public policy and sustainable development. | Disaster Resilience in South Asia Tackling the Odds in the Sub-Continental Fringes

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Cities in Crisis Socio-spatial impacts of the economic crisis in Southern European cities

Cities in Crisis Socio-spatial impacts of the economic crisis in Southern European cities

In recent years European societies and territories have witnessed the spatial impacts of a severe financial and socio-economic crisis. This book builds on the current debate concerning how cities and urban regions and their citizens deal with the consequences of the recent financial and socio-economic crisis. Cities in Crisis examines the political and administrative implications of austerity measures applied in southern European cities. These include cuts in local public spending and the processes of privatization of local public assets as well as issues related to the re-scaling recentralization or decentralization of competencies. Attention is paid to the rise of new ‘austerity regimes’ the question of their legitimacy and their spatial manifestations and in particular to the social consequences of austerity. The contributions to this book lay the foundation for recommendations on how to improve and consolidate qualified governance arrangements in order to better address rapid economic and social changes. Such recommendations are applicable to cities and urban regions both within and outside of Europe. It identifies possible approaches tools and partnerships to tackle the effects of the crisis and to prepare European cities for future challenges. | Cities in Crisis Socio-spatial impacts of the economic crisis in Southern European cities

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Households and Financialization in Europe Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-Peripheries

Households and Financialization in Europe Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-Peripheries

Households and Financialization in Europe develops a processual relational and critical transdisciplinary approach to household financialization in Europe utilizing a range of national and local case studies. It does so by drawing on debates in Marxist feminist and radical IPE anthropology and other fields. The book explores the household as simultaneously a micro-level social institution specializing in social reproduction distribution and other activities; a building bloc of larger economic and social structures; and an object of multiple systems of power/knowledge. Putting this conceptualization to use in original research the authors identify geographically and historically situated ways in which financialization transforms households and their relationships with the wider economy and society. The book traces these transformations in case studies of variegated financialization in Eastern and Southern European (semi-) peripheries where households have faced particularly severe financial issues since the global financial crisis such as over-indebtedness and asset devaluation. Key themes recurring throughout the book include: the key role of housing in household financialization the co-constitutive relationship between financialization and social and spatial inequalities specific patterns in the relations of financial actors and households in semi-peripheries and the implications of semi-peripheral forms of real and financial accumulation for household financialization. With its transdisciplinary approach this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of finance financialization household economics international and global political economy uneven development economic anthropology and economic sociology. The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4. 0 license. | Households and Financialization in Europe Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-Peripheries

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Social and Dialogic Thinking and Learning in Special Education Radical Insights from a Post-Critical Ethnography in a Special School

Social and Dialogic Thinking and Learning in Special Education Radical Insights from a Post-Critical Ethnography in a Special School

Drawing on a three-year post-critical ethnography this volume counters deficit-based notions of disability to present a new social and dialogic theory of thinking and learning for students with significant support needs. Dismantling ideas around ableism/disableism Social and Dialogic Thinking and Learning offers a uniquely theoretical and conceptual contribution to special education and capability research. Illustrating how students exhibit varied practical social and creative abilities possess agency and perform identity chapters present a challenge to the restrictive ways in which disability is constructed through prescriptive forms of teacher-student interaction and instruction. The text ultimately offers a powerful re-imagining of how educators and researchers can perceive observe and respond to students beyond current institutional and cultural norms. This text will benefit researchers academics and educators with an interest in inclusion and special educational needs disability studies and the theories of learning more broadly. Those specifically interested in educational psychology and the study of severe profound and multiple learning difficulties will also benefit from this book. | Social and Dialogic Thinking and Learning in Special Education Radical Insights from a Post-Critical Ethnography in a Special School

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The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis Contributions from Metacognitive and Mentalization Based Oriented Psychotherapy

The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis Contributions from Metacognitive and Mentalization Based Oriented Psychotherapy

The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis details specific therapeutic approaches as well as considers how treatments can be individually tailored and adapted to help persons whose mental health challenges may be either mild or more severe. By focusing on basic elements of the experiences of persons diagnosed with psychosis and exploring the broader meanings these experiences have each of these treatments offers distinctive ways to help persons define and manage their own recovery. The book includes measurable therapeutic processes an empirically supported conceptual basis for understanding disturbances in self-experience and rich descriptions of the recovery process. The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis moves beyond approaches which dictate what health is to persons with psychosis through education. It will be essential reading for all clinical psychologists and psychotherapists working with people diagnosed with psychosis. | The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis Contributions from Metacognitive and Mentalization Based Oriented Psychotherapy

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'Progress' in Zimbabwe? The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

'Progress' in Zimbabwe? The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation. At wider levels too the concept of progress is fitting. It underpins 'modern' 'liberal' and 'radical' perspectives of development pervading the social sciences and humanities. Yet perceptions of 'progress' are subject increasingly to intensive critical inquiry. Their gruesome end is signified in the political projects of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF. John Gray's Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia indicates this. It is expected that participants will engage directly in debates about how the idea of 'progress' has informed their disciplines - from political science and history to labour and agrarian studies and then relate these arguments to the Zimbabwean case in general and their research in particular. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. | 'Progress' in Zimbabwe? The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

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Mentalizing the Body Integrating Body and Mind in Psychotherapy

Mentalizing the Body Integrating Body and Mind in Psychotherapy

Mentalizing the Body brings together theory and practice with the latest neurobiological and developmental psychological findings to understand the relevance of the body in a wide range of mental disorders especially personality and somatization disorders. Ulrich Schultz-Venrath provides insight on individual bodily phenomena within psychotherapeutic treatments – experienced by patients as well as therapists – and focuses on the importance of the intentionality of bodily symptoms and how they can be integrated in the talking cure. Mentalizing the Body expands the work of Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy adding the “body mode” in contrast to the popular concept of “embodied mentalizing. ” Promoting mentalizing in psychotherapy while taking the body into account helps not only patients with somatoform and eating disorders but also those whose psychological complaints have a missing connection to the body. Schultz-Venrath provides detailed insight on the range of therapies and treatments available from individual and group psychotherapies to body art and music therapy with clinical case studies and diagrams throughout. Mentalizing the Body will be of great interest to practitioners and researchers – from psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to psychiatrists and psychologists seeking to understand the mentalization model and all healthcare professionals working with severe mental disorders. | Mentalizing the Body Integrating Body and Mind in Psychotherapy

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Elasticity and Toughness Ethnography of Minban Teachers’ Policy Implementation in Rural Chinese Society

Elasticity and Toughness Ethnography of Minban Teachers’ Policy Implementation in Rural Chinese Society

This book examines minban teacher policies and their implementation in China between 1949 and 2000 when rural areas were in severe shortage of qualified teachers. During this period of time minban teachers made great contributions to education doing the same work as state-employed school teachers while receiving much lower salaries due to non-official status. With solid fieldwork on oral history of minban teachers and policy actors and deep examination of a wealth of policy documents in private and governmental archives the author records the life history of minban teachers the process of minban teacher policies and the interaction between policies and individual strategies in M county (pseudonym) located in northern Jiangsu province of China. The book reveals many interesting and sometimes surprising findings about the characteristics of educational policy implementation in China. While China’s minban teacher policies have come to an end rural education continues to be a major concern of policymakers and researchers alike. The book is an important piece of scholarship for the readers interested in rural education in China and in how state society and culture interact to influence teacher policies and management in the Chinese context. | Elasticity and Toughness Ethnography of Minban Teachers’ Policy Implementation in Rural Chinese Society

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Soviet Perceptions Of The Oil Factor In U.s. Foreign Policy The Middle Eastgulf Region

Soviet Perceptions Of The Oil Factor In U.s. Foreign Policy The Middle Eastgulf Region

How Soviet leaders perceive U. S. intentions capabilities and actions plays an important role in the formation of the Soviet Union's foreign policy and its relations with the United States. This book focuses on one set of Soviet perceptions-how the oil shortages and subsequent developments influenced U. S. policy in the Middle East-Gulf region and what the implications of that policy are for the Soviet Union. Although the 1973 energy crisis and related events all represented severe blows to Washington there were costs for Moscow as well; negative developments for one superpower says Dr. Sawyer do not necessarily result in unadulterated gains for the other. Emphasizing this theme he assesses Soviet perceptions of the 1973 energy crisis and the intensification of U. S. interest in the Middle East-Gulf region; the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli Treaty; the impact of the Iranian revolution on U. S. and Soviet positions in the region; the effect of the Soviet invasion of Afganistan on U. S. policy; the Iraqi-Iranian war; and the Soviet response to Washington's concern over U. S. energy vulnerability. | Soviet Perceptions Of The Oil Factor In U. s. Foreign Policy The Middle Eastgulf Region

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Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction

Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction

Ways in which poverty can be reduced in both countries and regions through business entrepreneurship and government has been a hot issue for researchers and policymakers in recent years. Governments can play an important role in helping the poor people by non-profit organizations and others that help to seed business among the poor. Businesses increasingly also see the large number of people in severe poverty not only as an issue for social concern but also as a potentially large untapped market of consumers for goods and services. Some scholars have called for poverty reduction through entrepreneurship owing to the fact that it can be an efficient path to also change the poor's attitudes and behaviours from a passive mode to a more active mode towards poverty reduction economically and socially. In addition the sharing economy brings opportunities where everyone is a micro-entrepreneur. There is a recognition that these types of entrepreneurship above could offer the greatest single potential means to move individuals out of poverty in the nations and regions in the next 5-10 years. This book provides new and valuable analyses of poverty and business entrepreneurship and innovation in current nations and regions including developing and developed countries. As business entrepreneurship and innovation can help to generate greater business activity in settings of severe poverty they will help to solve poverty as individuals in severe poverty are able to both generate greater incomes and accumulate greater assets as they participate with large firms in those activities. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. | Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction

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Losing Ground in the Employment Challenge The Case of Paraguay

Losing Ground in the Employment Challenge The Case of Paraguay

Most developing countries face significant and sometimes dramatic challenges in generating stable jobs that provide reasonable incomes and decent working conditions. For developing countries that have undergone lengthy periods of economic stagnation these challenges are especially acute and popular dissatisfaction correspondingly marked. Paraguay is a case in point. It is unlikely that any employment policy could lead to a major improvement in the quality of labor market outcomes unless designed and implemented in a sophisticated and coherent way. Such an approach has been infrequent in developing countries in general and especially so in those that like Paraguay also suffer severe institutional weaknesses of governance. Paraguay's past failure in employment creation is mainly the result of a number of structural weaknesses described in this volume. Its current crisis is also the accumulated legacy of over a quarter century of economic stagnation and political failure fl owing from those weaknesses. The new reformist administration of President Fernando Lugo has raised hopes that the future might be better than the past. This study aims to contribute to improved policy making by analyzing the source of the problems and providing policy recommendations. The chapters describe the potential contribution of various policy areas in the face of a dauntingly negative track record and identify a number of steps that have to be taken if success is to be achieved. They put into perspective the reforms that have been undertaken to date by the country's previous administration. Paraguay's experience offers insight into the problems faced by other developing countries in today's global economy. The central message is that policy improvements must be made in a number of areas and implemented in a coordinated fashion for there to be any reasonable hope of success. | Losing Ground in the Employment Challenge The Case of Paraguay

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Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools Tavistock Approaches

Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools Tavistock Approaches

This book investigates the experiences of severely troubled children and their families teachers and child psychoanalytic psychotherapists working together in primary schools. The book begins by looking at children’s emotional life during the primary school years and what can disrupt ordinary helpful social development and learning. It examines what child psychoanalytic psychotherapy is how it works and why it is offered in primary schools. The following chapters intersperse accounts of creative child psychoanalytic approaches with interviews with parents carers teachers and clinicians. A section focusing on mainstream primary schools presents parent–child interventions for a nursery class; child group psychotherapy with children from traumatized families; and consultation to school staff with personal accounts from parents a kinship carer a family support worker a deputy head and a child psychotherapist. Chapters then focus on alternative educational settings featuring a school for children with severe physical and cognitive disabilities; a primary pupil referral unit; and a therapeutic school. These chapters show psychotherapy with a non-verbal boy with autism; therapy groups with children who have missed out on the building blocks of development alongside reflective groups for school staff; and child psychotherapy approaches at lunchtime and in breaks with insights from a parent a clinical lead nurse a head teacher and a child psychotherapist. Finally there is an evaluation of evidence about the impact of child psychotherapy within primary schools. Recognizing the increasing importance of attending to the emotional difficulties of children whose relationships and learning are in jeopardy this book will be invaluable to all those working in primary schools to commissioners of child mental health services to parents and carers and to experienced and training clinicians. | Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools Tavistock Approaches

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Philanthropy in Practice Pragmatism and the Impact of Philanthropic Action

Philanthropy in Practice Pragmatism and the Impact of Philanthropic Action

Philanthropic foundations are experiencing a crisis of professional identity. They attract considerable hopes due to an unusually high degree of independence and freedom of manoeuvre which theoretically places them in a privileged position to find novel solutions to societies’ most severe and intractable problems. However the field is said to suffer from a pervasive lack of orientation as to how these aspirations can be realized. Compared to other professions it can be said that there exists neither reliable knowledge nor established practices which might guide the strategy development and the daily practice of foundations. This void is frequently filled by changing fads which present easy to grasp recipes and often make bold promises of how foundations can change the world. Yet none of them has ever met these expectations. Philanthropy in Practice shows how philanthropic organizations can effectively address this predicament. Drawing on the public philosophy of Pragmatism it argues that to be effective they need to go for the solution of social problems of middle range. The book puts at center stage the crucial role of niches in terms of bounded protected and stable social spaces which are rich in resources. They render possible the experiments required to develop effective interventions and facilitate the retention of novel solutions to social problems. The model builds upon and is illustrated by four in-depth case studies from the UK Germany and Switzerland. With its sharp analytical eye and substantial evidence Philanthropy in Practice will reshape the way we think about the questions of what impact philanthropy can reasonably hope to achieve and by which means. | Philanthropy in Practice Pragmatism and the Impact of Philanthropic Action

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Time to Talk Implementing Outstanding Practice in Speech Language and Communication

Time to Talk Implementing Outstanding Practice in Speech Language and Communication

Time to Talk provides a powerful and accessible resource for practitioners working to improve children’s language and communication skills. Showcasing effective approaches in schools and settings across the country from the early years through primary and secondary education it summarises research on what helps children and young people develop good communication skills and highlights the importance of key factors: a place to talk a reason to talk and support for talk. This timely second edition has been fully updated to reflect Pupil Premium curriculum assessment and special needs reforms and can be used by individual practitioners as well as supporting a whole-school or setting approach to spoken language. It includes: whole-class approaches to developing all children and young people’s speaking and listening skills; ‘catch-up’ strategies for those with limited language; ways of differentiating the curriculum for those with difficulties; ways in which settings and schools can develop an effective partnership with specialists to help children with more severe needs; models schools can use to commission their own speech and language therapy services; examples of good practice in supporting parents/carers to develop their children’s language skills; and answers to practitioners’ most frequently asked questions about speech and language. Now in full-colour this practical and engaging book is for all who are concerned about how to help children and young people with limited language and communication skills – school leaders teachers early-years practitioners and the speech and language therapists they work with. | Time to Talk Implementing Outstanding Practice in Speech Language and Communication

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