In our programs, we start each meeting with an introduction of ourselves, and go around the room: I am .......and I am wonderful because God created me, there will never be another me.
I believe that each of us can be, as Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt as well as others across the centuries and nations have told us, HAPPY. Fulfilled, no matter what. Jesus told us to GO and sin no more. I do not believe he ever meant a list of things to memorize and use to gossip and put other persons down about. I do not believe he meant a long list of things to beat ourselves up to conclude that God made a huge mistake in creating US.
JOY What is it? It is strength of self. To me it is learning EARLY to depend on GOD for calm, peace and courage in life, to be grateful for what is, the best we can, and to change things, to possess the calm and peace that need to be possessed to figure out what needs to be changed to make life better, for ourselves and others, and with God’s help, to make the changes.
Straddling the Barbed Wire, and then one day during a really heavy racial tension project decided it was more like straddling electrified razor wire to be multi racial.........multi-cultural, multi-modality educated, seeing men AND women, NOT fights, seeing FAMILIES, not generational disputes. Seeing starvation, war, genocide, rather than what we, as humans could do on this earth each day, to help others, to maintain and restore nature, to create a better world for the next seven generations and pass that duty on.
Straddling the Barbed Wire, and then one day during a really heavy racial tension project decided it was more like straddling electrified razor wire to be multi racial.........multi-cultural, multi-modality educated, seeing men AND women, NOT fights, seeing FAMILIES, not generational disputes. Seeing starvation, war, genocide, rather than what we, as humans could do on this earth each day, to help others, to maintain and restore nature, to create a better world for the next seven generations and pass that duty on.
A year out of our lives, not just as an individual, a city, county, state, or nation, the entire world was brought down by the virus known as Covid-19. HOW can we unify and work together, as a family, a block, a school, a city, a county, a state, a nation and a global family of different nations.
OLD MAN THINGS and MARE’S TALES. this is a fun book about old horse trainers I met along the way. My husband used to call the old man stories “old man things”, which are those enchanting and often very effective methods of horse, pet, and even child rearing. I always said I brought up my children and my students the same as I had trained horses and dogs......I meant that horses and dogs had taught me a lot of sensible, humane ways to bring up an individual, caring, and dream realizing adult who was HAPPY and loved.
PARENTS CAN LIVE and raise great kids. Parents CAN either live, or be alive, surviving and often suffering....as YOU read and interpret the title of this series and this book, you CAN figure it out for YOUR life.
CAROUSEL HORSE started at an event where we met a producer who has a son who LOVED equine therapy. The Father said, write it in a screenplay. Bring it to my office. I just need it copyrighted to read it, we will get a screenwriter and staff, but I want to make this movie, Sadly, by the time we got the book copyrighted and drove to his office, nothing but a copy machine was left and the woman in the office across the hall said, OH, they moved out, I am just waiting for the man to pick up the copy machine fro them. On contact, we were told his producer had moved back east and was not doing production anymore had a new business. SO, we had a children's book, with a screenplay in it. We began to use it as a teaching tool for high risk youth and their families, both those who came to our equine therapy programs and those that were not able to get to the stable. Some years later, we wrote a new book train people to start their own equine therapy programs, and included some of Carousel Horse into that manual. Then Covid19 came, and we started getting calls from people who had their own problems with children, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews who had no school to attend, and felt they needed help. We even got email from adults who had been through our programs and said, HEY, people need you. We revised Carousel Horse to 2020 for parents, and others, to read and have children and teens work with them to read the screenplay together.
Rez Cheese, a book about many thoughts. Mainly started from the thought of the huge blocks of mostly cheap left over military surplus cheese sent to the reserves to meet the treaty mandates to provide food to the Natives in exchange for stopping the fighting for their own land. Rez Cheese 2 is about not giving up. We have many inspirational people in our heritage, both local nations, and across the Americas. Suicide, drug addiction, sex trafficking and addiction to pornography are NOT our ways, they demean a person’s soul and the person dies, or kills themselves.
“Happily ever after” is a short book on starting to heal America, and what YOU can do to make your own life “Happily ever after” as well as move that happiness through your family, city, county, and state and America. Written in simple English for teaching programs and families with young children or families where English is a second language.
The original Carousel Horse is a children’s book, an inclusion book for teaching young people who may or may not be able to attend on-site equine therapy. We have found using a screenplay allows young people to integrate the material even though they are not able to attend an on-site program.
WARNING: This book is for court mandated domestic violence education and self turn around for women (or men) who let their boyfriends abuse, torture, molest and murder their children. We have heard in the groups, often, that the women lived similar lives as children, they have NO other experience to raise their own children. Others are addicted to drugs, drinking and men so much that they will allow a man to abuse, torture, molest and murder their children rather than get their own lives straightened out. Many of these women live in taxpayer supported housing, supported by public assistance, these programs HAVE taken a mandatory treatment approach. WE as a country HAVE to resolve these issues, and help these women stand up for themselves and their children. THEY, over the past 12 years have helped to shape their workbooks and groups with those who work with them. From Psychiatrists, to the children of the mandated members of the classes, their input is considered and the books HAVE to reach them. If this material offends you, find another group.
This book started out to be stories about all our years of teaching, and include stories from other teachers. As we drafted, it became what it is....The second volume of this book will be a lot more stories and how we learned to be teachers. We are still learning, and we are retired.
Does it feel like no matter where you look or what the issue is, everyone seems to be fighting about everything? We live in the information age, with more access to knowledge than ever before, flowing to us in a never-ending digital stream of updates, statistics, polls, opinions, news, and narratives from those on opposing sides of any issue. And while we’d assume this influx of information would help us find a good, informed way forward in our culture, it actually stirs up all sorts of anger, anxiety, and even loneliness. This all contributes to an increasingly defensive society that feels like it’s not only fracturing, but could go up in flames at any moment. If you’re anything like the contributors to World on Fire, you’ve realized that all this knowledge isn’t the same thing as wisdom. While our world relies on expected, reflexive, status-quo, earthly wisdom to make a way forward or take a side on any given issue, Christ would rather us rely on his unexpected, counterintuitive, going-against-the- grain, heavenly wisdom as outlined in his famous Beatitudes. This surprising wisdom is not a call to be removed from the fire we feel blazing around us, but one to engage and tame it—beginning with our own hearts. Whatever those nearest you seem to be arguing about today, and no matter what the fire looks like in your neck of the woods, Jesus has an answer for the ways his kingdom citizens should walk as they navigate the flames in his power and posture. In their own unique voice and in their own unique way, each contributor in World on Fire welcomes you to come explore not only some of the polarizing issues of our day, but how the unexpected wisdom of Jesus might help us be more discerning and Christlike amidst them.
The third in the Straddling Razor Wire series is aTrilogy of novels and screenplays about real work with high risk children, teens, veterans, first responders and their families in equine therapy programs utilizing each group to design programs to heal themselves, one another and others in Native American traditions of both healing and education. While no real person or life is contained in this trilogy, much of the content is from a compilation of many of the stories of riders over the decades. The stories ad screenplay contain work, both fiction and from the heart of a military and VA Psychiatrist who worked both in the field and VA hospitals. Her stories are based on many stories and do not represent any one patient or therapist. God bless.
In closing, each area of this book is an area you can find one or more ways to make the world better that is easy and often is just YOU making up your mind, to believe and live peace, no matter what the rest of the world is doing. As an example, I have worked for many areas of peace for decades, some projects I worked on, invented, or volunteered to help are today amazing examples of just thinking, praying and believing bringing a tiny bit more peace and balance to this world. Many times I am so sweetly surprised that others have grabbed an idea, or listened in a conference and come home to make their world a better place! That action inspired others and the ideas and better world grew! Many believers of all back grounds over centuries, over thousands of years have found that a job too big, too scary for one person, done in tiny parts by many is successful! Peace.
Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work Assessment in Practice. Since then, significant advances have occurred, including the use of technology to organize and manage the assessment process and increased reliance on assessment findings to make key decisions aimed at enhancing student learning. Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Black offer 49 detailed current examples of good practice in planning, implementing, and sustaining assessment that are practical and ready to apply in new settings. This important resource can help educators put in place an effective process for determining what works and which improvements will have the most impact in improving curriculum, methods of instruction, and student services on college and university campuses.
Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WIAT(r)-II and KTEA-II The Wechsler(r) Individual Achievement Test, Second Edition (WIAT(r)-II) and the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Second Edition (KTEA-II) are two popular measures of individual achievement. Both tests assess adult and child performance on academic skills and problem-solving abilities. Essentials of WIAT(r)-II and KTEA-II Assessment provides the definitive guide to administering, scoring, and interpreting the WIAT(r)-II and the KTEA-II. Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. The best source of information on the WIAT(r)-II and the KTEA-II, Essentials of WIAT(r)-II and KTEA-II Assessment provides students and practitioners with an unparalleled resource for learning and application, including expert assessment of relative strengths and weaknesses, valuable advice on clinical applications, and illuminating case reports. Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series: * Essentials of WISC(r)-IV Assessment * Essentials of Stanford-Binet (SB5) Assessment * Essentials of Assessment Report Writing * Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment * Essentials of WJ III(r) Cognitive Abilities Assessment * Essentials of WJ III(r) Tests of Achievement Assessment * Essentials of WAIS(r)-III Assessment * Essentials of WPPSI-III Assessment * Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment * Essentials of KABC-II Assessment
Comer and Gould's Psychology Around Us demonstrates the many-often surprising, always fascinating-intersections of psychology with students' day-to-day lives. Every chapter includes sections on human development, brain function, individual differences and abnormal psychology that occur in that area. These "cut-across" sections highlight how the different fields of psychology are connected to each other and how they connect to everyday life. Every chapter begins with a vignette that shows the power of psychology in understanding a whole range of human behavior. This theme is reinforced throughout the chapter in boxed readings and margin notes that celebrate the extraordinary processes that make the everyday possible and make psychology both meaningful and relevant. The text presents psychology as a unified field the understanding of which flows from connecting its multiple subfields and reinforces the fact that psychology is a science with all that this implies (research methodology, cutting edge studies, the application of critical thinking).
Provides the knowledge and tools needed for the future of survey research The survey research discipline faces unprecedented challenges, such as falling response rates, inadequate sampling frames, and antiquated approaches and tools. Addressing this changing landscape, Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research introduces readers to a multitude of new techniques in data collection in one of the fastest developing areas of survey research. The book is organized around the central idea of a "sociality hierarchy" in social media interactions, comprised of three levels: broadcast, conversational, and community based. Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research offers balanced coverage of the theory and practice of traditional survey research, while providing a conceptual framework for the opportunities social media platforms allow. Demonstrating varying perspectives and approaches to working with social media, the book features: New ways to approach data collection using platforms such as Facebook and Twitter Alternate methods for reaching out to interview subjects Design features that encourage participation with engaging, interactive surveys Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research is an important resource for survey researchers, market researchers, and practitioners who collect and analyze data in order to identify trends and draw reliable conclusions in the areas of business, sociology, psychology, and population studies. The book is also a useful text for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses on survey methodology and market research.
An innovative, student-friendly textbook covering the major elements of the field of Family Communication Family Communication, a rapidly growing sub-discipline within Communication Studies, explores the processes and factors involved in family interactions and relationships. Communication in Family Contexts is a clear and accessible survey of the essential principles, theories, and concepts of the field. Unlike textbooks that present a vast amount of material across only a few chapters—this innovative textbook features brief, easily-understood chapters ideally-suited for undergraduate courses on the subject. The text provides concise yet comprehensive coverage of a diverse range of topics, from fundamental aspects of caretaking and sibling communication, to topics not covered in other textbooks such as estrangement and marginalization. 33 chapters cover theories of family communication, family communication processes, and communicating in family relationships. The authors, noted researchers and educators in the field, complement discussions of standard topics with those of growing contemporary interest, such as LGBTQ family communication, step-family and half-sibling relationships, and the influence of technology on family. This textbook: Provides a well-rounded examination of the major elements of Family Communication studies Explains the foundational theories of the field, including Family Communication Patterns Theory and Relational Dialectics Theory Features numerous practical application exercises to enable students apply theory to practice Includes a complete set pedagogical features, such as case studies, visualizations and models of theories, illustrations, and discussion questions Offers a flexible organizational structure that allows instructors to pick and choose chapters to meet the needs of their courses Communication in Family Contexts: Theories and Processes is an important resource for instructors and students in the field of family communication, the wider discipline of Communication Studies, and related areas such as social psychology and sociology.
This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing academic portfolios. The book includes an extensively tested step-by-step approach to creating portfolios and lists 21 possible portfolio items covering teaching, research/scholarship, and service from which faculty can choose the ones most relevant to them. The thrust of this book is unique: It provides time-tested strategies and proven advice for getting started with portfolios. It includes a research-based rubric grounded in input from 200 faculty members and department chairs from across disciplines and institutions. It examines specific guiding questions to consider when preparing every subsection of the portfolio. It presents 18 portfolio models from 16 different academic disciplines. Designed for faculty members, department chairs, deans, and members of promotion and tenure committees, all of whom are essential partners in developing successful academic portfolio programs, the book will also be useful to graduate students, especially those planning careers as faculty members.
The classic text--now updated with a new interpretive approach tothe WAIS?-III Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, the classic text fromAlan Kaufman and Elizabeth Lichtenberger, has consistently providedthe most comprehensive source of information on cognitiveassessment of adults and adolescents. The newly updated ThirdEdition provides important enhancements and additions thathighlight the latest research and interpretive methods for theWAIS?-III. Augmenting the traditional "sequential" and "simultaneous"WAIS?-III interpretive methods, the authors present a new approachderived from Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory. This approachcombines normative assessment (performance relative to age peers)with ipsative assessment (performance relative to the person's ownmean level). Following Flanagan and Kaufman's work to develop asimilar CHC approach for the WISC?-IV, Kaufman and Lichtenbergerhave applied this system to the WAIS?-III profile of scores alongwith integrating recent WAIS?-III literature. Four appendices present the new method in depth. In addition to adetailed description, the authors provide a blank interpretiveworksheet to help examiners make the calculations and decisionsneeded for applying the additional steps of the new system, andnorms tables for the new WAIS?-III subtest combinations added inthis approach. Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence remains the premierresource for the field, covering not only the WAIS?-III but alsothe WJ III?, the KAIT, and several brief measures of intelligence,as well as laying out a relevant, up-to-date discussion of thediscipline. The new, theory-based interpretive approach for theWAIS?-III makes this a vital resource for practicing psychologists,as well as a comprehensive text for graduate students.
Bonus web content includes a PowerPoint presentation on CSR and short video clips." to: "Bonus web content includes a PowerPoint presentation on CSR implementation.
Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics provides a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of plant gene expression. Unique in explaining the subject from a plant perspective, it highlights the importance of key processes, many first discovered in plants, that impact how plants develop and interact with the environment. This text covers topics ranging from plant genome structure and the key control points in how genes are expressed, to the mechanisms by which proteins are generated and how their activities are controlled and altered by posttranslational modifications. Written by a highly respected team of specialists in plant biology with extensive experience in teaching at undergraduate and graduate level, this textbook will be invaluable for students and instructors alike. Plant Genes, Genomes and Genetics also includes: specific examples that highlight when and how plants operate differently from other organisms special sections that provide in-depth discussions of particular issues end-of-chapter problems to help students recapitulate the main concepts rich, full-colour illustrations and diagrams clearly showing important processes in plant gene expression a companion website with PowerPoint slides, downloadable figures, and answers to the questions posed in the book Aimed at upper level undergraduates and graduate students in plant biology, this text is equally suited for advanced agronomy and crop science students inclined to understand molecular aspects of organismal phenomena. It is also an invaluable starting point for professionals entering the field of plant biology.
Doing Ethnography Today explores the methodologies and theories behind contemporary, collaborative ethnography and provides an opportunity to cultivate experience with included exercises. • Presents ethnography as creative and artful rather than analytical or technical • Emphasises the collaborative nature of ethnography • Structured exercises cultivate practical experience • Includes a discussion on indexing and interpreting project materials • Provides guidance on interview questions and selecting appropriate field equipment
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