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In Praise of Ethics and Law for School Psychologists
"Jacob and Hartshorne have translated ethical-legal standards in both school psychology and special education into problem-resolution guidelines relevant to providing psychological services in school settings. This textbook is considered to be exceptionally valuable for both school psychology students . . . and school psychologist practitioners."âNew Challenges and Practice Guidelines Report of the Ethics Committee, Division 16, APA on the first edition.
"This book is most useful, and I would strongly recommend its purchase to other school psychologists. It serves as a readable sourcebook concerning the relationship of the Constitution and subsequent laws to the practice of school psychology; a helpful compendium of applicable standards; a useful presentation of implications of legal and ethical issues for diverse aspects of school psychology practice; and an excellent resource for decisionmaking in keeping with ethical and legal criteria."âCommuniqué, on the second edition.
The best safeguard against legal and ethical problems in the delivery of school psychological services is an educated practitioner. Students and professionals who want to understand the full spectrum of these issues need a single up-to-date sourcebook on ethics and law specifically written to meet the unique needs of the psychologist in the school setting.
This updated edition of the leading ethics and law text for school psychologists provides authoritative, timely information on professional standards and legal requirements pertinent to the delivery of school psychological services. Ethics and Law for School Psychologists, Third Edition covers a host of ethical and legal issues that are unique to the field, including psychoeducational assessment and intervention; schooling for students with special needs; and students' and parents' rights to privacy, consent, and confidentiality.
Offering a wealth of new information and added features, this book reviews recent changes in professional standards such as the 1997 revision of the National Association of School Psychologists' "Principles for Professional Ethics" and "Standards for the Delivery of School Psychological Services." It examines the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, as well as recent developments in special education case law, and presents an overview of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the Improving America's Schools Act, and the School-to-Work Opportunity Act.
Newly added questions at the end of each chapter help school psychology students focus on key concepts, while discussion topics and vignettes stimulate interesting classroom debate. Also new is a section on the training and credentialing of school psychologists.
Quite simply the most complete and up-to-date resource of its kind, Ethics and Law for School Psychologists, Third Edition is both a superior textbook and a truly indispensable reference for professionals who need the latest, most reliable information on the sensitive, complex, and crucial issues that confront school psychologists every day.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent resource!.......2006-12-14
This book is required as a reference tool for a course that I am taking and it is quite helpful. If you are seeking a degree as a mental health practicioner within or outside a school then this is the book for you!
Great job on the seller's part.......2006-02-25
Book was in excellent shape, received the book in a timely manner, overall great
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Sexual misconduct does occur in many secondary schools, and in most cases the response is limited to warning teachers and coaches about the legal aspects and liabilities involved. This book provides step-by-step training procedures that can be used as part of the schools' staff development program to teach educators about the importance of setting boundaries. Real-life case studies documenting inappropriate teacher-student relationships are included.
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Difference and Discrimination in Psychotherapy and Counselling (The School of Psychotherapy & Counselling)
Sue Marshall
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'Prejudice is, for good or ill, a part of our nature. It is instilled in us from birth onwards. All we can hope to do is to combat it, and the first tool in our armoury must be that of awareness. Without this, it is very difficult, perhaps impossible, for the psychotherapist or counsellor to explore how it might be influencing the psychotherapy relationship.
Sue Marshall has, in this book, performed a valuable task in that direction, and has done in it very cogently in a most difficult area. I applaud her' -
Joe Sinclair, Nurturing Potential
Difference, prejudice and discrimination are issues which all counsellors and psychotherapists need to address as part of their personal and professional development. Designed to support training on these complex issues,
Difference & Discrimination in Counselling & Psychotherapy helps therapists understand the experience of discrimination, as well as explore their own - often unconscious - attitudes to others, based on gender, sexuality, race, culture or mental health.
For most therapists an attitude of acceptance and non-judgmentalism is fundamental to their view of practice. However, in seeking to be non-judgmental, therapists may run the risk of concealing their own prejudices. It is only by facing up to these attitudes and exploring them that therapists are able to fully relate to their clients and help them effectively. Synthesising sociological knowledge with her experience of a practitioner, Sue Marshall powerfully demonstrates both the importance and the practicalities of developing awareness about difference.
Difference & Discrimination in Counselling & Psychotherapy offers a straightforward approach to some of the most difficult issues relating to practice, making it an ideal text for use in training and for qualified therapists continuing their professional development.
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With its exciting introduction of the Harley-Davidson focus company theme, this book continues to provide a solid, enduring foundation of the tools of modern theory while at the same time developing the logic behind their use. The “10 Principles of Finance” (formerly “Axioms” ) provide the framework, or “the big picture” of finance, which ties the major concepts of the book together.
A six-part organization covers the scope and environment of financial management, valuation of financial assets, investment in long-term assets, capital structure and dividend policy, working-capital management, and special topics in finance, and special topics in finance.
For an enduring understanding of the basic tools and fundamental principles upon which finance is based.
Customer Reviews:
Great textbook.......2006-10-04
I'm usually very critical of textbooks, but this one reads extremely well. It is clearly organized and progresses in a logical manner. The subject material is inherently difficult, but the authors do an excellent job explaining both the common-sense and mathematical basis for each topic. I have no formal background in finance or accounting but I'm doing well in a 300-level course with just this book to thank. Anyone who wants to educate themselves about stock/bond values, interpreting balance sheets, etc, would benefit greatly from this book.
Great Book for a hard course.......2006-03-27
The class is hard no matter what school you attend. The book is easy reading and has many great exercise for you to practice to help you understand the text. The exercises had help me tremendously.
Financial Management : Principles and Applications (10th Edition) .......2005-10-10
The Book was not plastic covered and plus there was no cd included in the book
EXCELENT BOOK.......2005-09-11
This is a very good and updated book. It brings excelent cases and is well designed and easy to read.
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Intended for any principles, financial, managerial, or computerized accounting course of accounting course where additional coverage of Excel is desired. The book also serves as a stand-alone core text for a computerized accounting course.
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Excel Applications for Accounting Principles (with Excel Templates Computer Disk).......2007-09-06
The book did not come with the CD (even though it was supposed to). It was noted on the packing slip that no CD was found. They should have contacted me instead of shipping the product. I had to pay shipping charges back to Owls Books. I WOULD NOT recommend using them.
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Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2003: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
Richard F. Larkin , and
Marie Ditommaso
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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The most practical, authoritative guide to not-for-profit GAAP
Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2003 is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to the accounting and financial reporting principles used by not-for-profit organizations.
It is written with the needs of the financial statement preparer, user, and attestor in mind. It provides a complete review of the authoritative accounting literature that impacts all types of not-for-profit organizations. At the same time, Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2003 features many examples and illustrations that will assist the reader in applying authoritative literature to real-life situations. Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2003 excels in providing financial statement preparers, users, and attestors with the most comprehensive and usable information because of these features:
- Easy-to-use information that enables the reader to find needed information quickly
- Coverage of accounting principles specifically related to not-for-profit organizations, as well as accounting principles applicable to all types of organizations
- Specific coverage of accounting issues for different types of not-for-profit organizations
- A comprehensive disclosure checklist that helps financial statement preparers and attestors ensure all disclosures required by GAAP have been considered
- Many examples and illustrations that make putting accounting theory into practice an easy task
This 2003 Edition also includes new information covering:
- FASB Statement No. 143, which provides guidance for accounting for asset retirement obligations
- FASB Statement No. 144, which amends the accounting for the impairment or disposal of long-lived assets
- FASB Statement No. 145, which provides technical corrections to several FASB Statements
- FASB Statement No. 146, which provides guidance for accounting for costs associated with exit or disposal activities
- Latest information on the FASB's project for accounting for combinations of not-for-profit organizations
Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2003 strives to be a thorough, reliable reference that you'll use constantly. It's designed to be kept on your desk rather than on your bookshelf.
And don't forget to add Wiley Not-for-Profit Accounting Field Guide 2003 to your library!
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Accounting for Resources, 1: Economy-Wide Applications of Mass-Balance Principles to Materials and Waste
Robert U. Ayres , and
Leslie W. Ayres
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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This innovative book presents new research on the increasingly important need to account for the use of resources, and the dispersion of waste materials. It considers resource accounting both at the process level and at the materials level, and in addition offers policy suggestions for waste and resource accounting.
The book opens with an introduction to industrial metabolism and its various implications. It then goes on to examine resource accounting at the national and sectoral level, through the systematic application of the mass-balance principle to estimate materials losses at different stages of the production process. It then examines one cluster of industries (related to chlorine) in greater detail. At the process level the use of chemical process simulation software in the estimation of waste emissions is examined, specifically focusing on cases where emissions data is unavailable or unreliable. Finally it introduces, for the first time, a common single measure for evaluating and comparing process or sectoral resource and waste flows between time periods, between sectors and between regions and nations. This measure is known as exergy, and although not new in itself, it has never before been used systematically for these purposes. In conclusion the author summarizes the main problems of resource and waste accounting and offers some policy recommendations for the implementation of accounting for resources.
Accounting for Resources, 1 will be welcomed by environmental managers and scientists, economists, practitioners and government policy makers.
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accounting for byproducts called pollutants.......2006-07-01
The authors make an eloquent case for metrics to support informed consideration of environmental issues: "we need physical measures to know what we have, what we have gained, what we have lost, where we are and where we are going." They compile input/output statistics about certain industries: agriculture; forest-products; fuels; chemicals. Their dedication, erudition, and thoughtfulness are praiseworthy.
As one illustration of the value of material balances, the authors mention a prior paper (Ayres, 1997) that noted an imbalance between mercury estimated (by the U.S. Bureau of Mines) as purchased by U.S. chlor-alkali factories circa 1990 versus mercury reported by companies as released to the environment. "The discrepancy is obvious and shocking," they write. Their rediscovered insight, known during the early 1970s, is a thoughtful use of input/output analysis, yet their assumption that companies were "using accounting sleight of hand to avoid reporting wastes as either discharges or transfers" seems largely unwarranted. In any event, during the subsequent 15 years, these factories have voluntarily reduced mercury consumption by more than 90 percent via technological and operational advances. Their lessons are spreading to factories outside the U.S. as well, positive environmental progress on an international scale.
The authors state "halocarbons are very rare in nature." In fact, 2,000 halocarbon compounds of natural origin have been identified by analytic chemists. Salt, containing the halogen chlorine, is ubiquitous and essential to many species. It is only to be expected that life forms interact with and generate halocarbons. The authors add: "A number of halocarbons are toxic." This seemingly implies an assumption that some substances are intrinsically non-toxic. Yet, even water and oxygen are toxic in sufficient doses. While substances greatly vary in terms of toxicities, all substances can be toxic, in sufficient dose. Calling some halocarbons toxic is surpassingly banal.
How substances influence health, and how society comes to brand one "toxic" while another is not so labelled, are important to how pollutant issues are perceived. Such issues cut to the heart of this book. The authors make strongly worded suggestions about how to improve a US waste reporting system called the Toxics Releases Inventory via inclusion of products and material balances. Yet what if society has a hard time identifying dose-dependent risks associated with trace chemical exposures? What if all products and materials can be labelled "toxic", heedless of exposure? What if reporting the volume of products were to reveal business secrets to competitors, without providing any health gains? Is U.S. society attacked by releases of toxic materials from callous manufacturing industries or does extracting pure materials from low concentration raw materials inevitably entail unwanted residues? How is environmental progress best advanced, by decentralized economic decision-making, marketplace responsiveness to customers, and engineering solutions to meet specific needs, or is it better advanced by political planning, relying on interpretation of public data like the TRI by academics?
"Chlorinated solvents, such as methylene chloride (a paint remover), trichloroethylene (a vapor decreaser), perchloroethylene (dry cleaning fluid), and methyl chloroform (also a vapor degreaser) were being used in steadily increasing amounts until it was realized that they could be toxic or carcinogenic to humans with continued exposure, even at low levels." Yet many natural ingredients in our diets could be classified as carcinogenic if tested, owing to the nature of the tests themselves. Professor Bruce Ames and others have made a persuasive case that more than 99 percent of our exposure to carcinogens comes from the natural ingredients of foods. This book seems to rely on shaky, though commonplace, pharmacological science foundations.
One curious statement: "Opportunities for waste reduction in the chemical industry are not particularly great, as the industry is now structured." Generally, in competitive economies, manufacturing makes incremental improvements that become large across the fullness of time. Such improved efficiency is good for the environment. An assumption that the chemical industry cannot reduce waste is unduly pessimistic. Many manufacturing processes use more effective catalysts than decades ago and use energy more efficiently. How the chemical industry should be otherwise "structured" is unexplained and may imply political shaping by those less practically informed.
This is a book for readers interested in environmental policy topics. The authors mention: "As the Chinese proverb has it, the longest journey begins with a single step." In this book, they present thoughtful ideas that can contribute to raising the level of public debate about some arcane, though not unworthy, issues. The journey may still prove long, because some steps in other directions may also serve the public good.
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The emphasis of the text offer's the reader a wholesome perspective of management applications and principles in this globalization era.
Book Description
Management Accounting: Principles and Applications adopts a new and accessible approach to helping readers understand how management accounting contributes to decisions in a variety of organizational contexts. This book sets out clear explanations of practical management accounting techniques in the context of the application of these techniques to decisions. It recognizes practice through case studies and summarizes published research. Uniquely, it examines the analytical and critical issues that often influence decision makers operating within private and public sector organizations.
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- Case studies of varying complexity that will allow students to work at their own level
- Summaries of important research articles
- Key learning objectives and end of chapter questions
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Telecommunications in Business: Strategy and Application
John J Vargo , and
Ray Hunt
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Telecommunications in Business: Strategy and Application explains the primary principles of how networks may be used as strategic tools in business. Students are introduced to practical applications of networking in business through case studies and to the major principles of local and wide area networks. They will also learn the methodologies and skills necessary to analyze the networking requirements of a specific organization and how the proper selection of a network solution will suit the organizations in question. Telecommunications in Business: Strategy and Application is suitable for upper-level undergraduate and MBA students concentrating in Information Systems in business schools, particularly those taking the core curriculum course called Data Communications or Telecommunications.
Customer Reviews:
High level and Dated.......2000-04-21
i'm sure it was great in 1996, but it describes the world wide web as an emerging technology, with Mosaic being the most popular browser. Too bad it's required text for my Masters Degree. I'm returning it.
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Wiley GAAP for Governments provides all the promulgated accounting principles applicable to financial accounting and reporting, as well as up-to-date, insightful, and practical implementation information. This guide is a comprehensive, practical research tool for use by state and local governments and their auditors to guide them through governmental accounting and financial reporting. Covers school districts, public authorities, and individual pension plan financial statements. Warren Ruppel, CPA (Woodcliff Lake, NJ) is Assistant Comptroller of Accounting in the City of New York, and a Partner at DiTommaso & Ruppel, CPAs.
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- The Handbook of Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs
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