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Positive Learning Environments : Creating and Maintaining Productive Classrooms

By: John De Nobile,Gordon Lyons,Michael Arthur-Kelly

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Positive Learning Environments : Creating and Maintaining Productive Classrooms

By: John De Nobile,Gordon Lyons,Michael Arthur-Kelly

How do you create a learning environment that’s productive; one where students are engaged, learning and happy? And how do you ensure that inappropriate behaviours are kept to a minimum? The second edition of Positive Learning Environments: Creating and Maintaining Productive Classrooms introduces the key concepts teachers need to know to create and maintain their classroom as a positive learning environment. It begins by introducing four essential components that are the cornerstones of creating a positive, productive learning environment. These positive practices set readers on the pathway to success and help them establish classrooms that recognise and encourage appropriate behaviours while reducing the probability of inappropriate behaviours. It then examines in turn each of the four main groups of evidence-based approaches to managing student behaviour: behavioural, cognitive behavioural, psychoeducational and social justice approaches. For each it discusses the theories that inform them, their practical applications for fostering appropriate behaviours and also when and how to use them to proactively intervene, if necessary. By the end, readers are empowered to select appropriate theories, approaches and strategies and bring these together to develop their individualised classroom management plan: one that suits their own theoretical beliefs, professional philosophy and teaching style. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools cengage.com.au/mindtap

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0170439135

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Classroom Management

Creating Positive Learning Environments

By: Gordon Lyons,Margot Ford,Michael Arthur-Kelly

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Classroom Management

Creating Positive Learning Environments

By: Gordon Lyons,Margot Ford,Michael Arthur-Kelly

Classroom Management empowers you to develop an individual classroom management plan that suits your professional philosophy and teaching style. This third edition has been fully revised and introduces the Lyford model, a new framework that illustrates the many elements of successful classroom management. Using the Lyford model as a scaffold, the authors: * compare and contrast the main theories and models that currently inform practice in Australian classrooms; * explore key practices for creating positive learning environments that engage students and reduce the chance of disruptions; and * discuss a range of intervention strategies to consider when faced with challenging student behaviours. As you work towards developing your own approach to classroom management, engaging stories from early-career teachers help you to apply the concepts to real-life situations.

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0170187128

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9780170187121

Regression Analysis for the Social Sciences

By: Rachel A. Gordon

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Regression Analysis for the Social Sciences

By: Rachel A. Gordon

The book provides graduate students in the social sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish basic regression models using contemporary standards. Key features of the book include: interweaving the teaching of statistical concepts with examples developed for the course from publicly-available social science data or drawn from the literature. thorough integration of teaching statistical theory with teaching data processing and analysis. teaching of both SAS and Stata "side-by-side" and use of chapter exercises in which students practice programming and interpretation on the same data set and course exercises in which students can choose their own research questions and data set.

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Routledge

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1136307745

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9781136307744

The TEX86 Paleotemperature Proxy

By: Gordon N. Inglis,Jessica E. Tierney

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The TEX86 Paleotemperature Proxy

By: Gordon N. Inglis,Jessica E. Tierney

The TEX86 paleothermometer is based upon the distribution of archaeal membrane lipids ('GDGTs') in marine sediments. GDGTs are ubiquitous, abundant and relatively resistant to degradation; as such, the TEX86 paleothermometer has been used to reconstruct sea surface temperature (SST) during the Cenozoic and early Mesozoic. We review the principles of the TEX86 proxy and developments made over the last two decades. We also discuss its application as a paleotemperature proxy and explore existing challenges and limitations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108847528

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Emerging Patterns in Proterozoic Lipid Biomarker Records

By: Gordon D. Love,J. Alex Zumberge

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Emerging Patterns in Proterozoic Lipid Biomarker Records

By: Gordon D. Love,J. Alex Zumberge

Diverse and abundant lipid biomarker assemblages have been reported from a variety of Proterozoic marine environments from the careful analysis of well-preserved rocks and oils. These molecular biosignatures have provided unique insights into the communities and the environmental conditions which characterized the Proterozoic marine biosphere. We summarize some of the major temporal patterns evident in Proterozoic lipid biomarkers found to date, whilst emphasizing the scale of local heterogeneity found within Neoproterozoic oceans from region to region, and their relationship with the evolving ecological, climatic and ocean/atmospheric redox conditions. Short commentaries on a selection of papers published from the last 15 years of biomarker literature are given. The focus here is on key studies, highlighted for further reading, which have helped to better constrain the timing of the ecological expansion of eukaryotes in Proterozoic oceans or which have impacted on our knowledge of the biological sources of Proterozoic biomarkers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108847536

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Biographical Dictionary of North American and European Educationists

By: Richard Aldrich,Peter Gordon

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Biographical Dictionary of North American and European Educationists

By: Richard Aldrich,Peter Gordon

This is a guide to the lives and work of more than 500 Americans, Canadians and Europeans in the categories subsumed under the term "educationists". Entries are almost entirely restricted to those with main careers in the 19th and 20th centuries; none of the subjects is still living.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000948358

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9781000948356

Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences

By: Rachel A. Gordon

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Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences

By: Rachel A. Gordon

Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish statistical models using contemporary standards. The book targets the social and health science branches such as human development, public health, sociology, psychology, education, and social work in which students bring a wide range of mathematical skills and have a wide range of methodological affinities. For these students, a successful course in statistics will not only offer statistical content but will also help them develop an appreciation for how statistical techniques might answer some of the research questions of interest to them. This book is for use in a two-semester graduate course sequence covering basic univariate and bivariate statistics and regression models for nominal and ordinal outcomes, in addition to covering ordinary least squares regression. Key features of the book include: interweaving the teaching of statistical concepts with examples developed for the course from publicly-available social science data or drawn from the literature thorough integration of teaching statistical theory with teaching data processing and analysis teaching of both SAS and Stata "side-by-side" and use of chapter exercises in which students practice programming and interpretation on the same data set and course exercises in which students can choose their own research questions and data set. This book is for a two-semester course. For a one-semester course, see http://www.routledge.com/9780415991544/

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1136484175

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Multilingualism, Language in Education, and Academic Literacy

Applied Linguistics Research in the Language Centre

By: Adika, Gordon S.K.,Asante, Charles C.

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Multilingualism, Language in Education, and Academic Literacy

Applied Linguistics Research in the Language Centre

By: Adika, Gordon S.K.,Asante, Charles C.

The Language Centre was founded in 1970 as a language research department in the University of Ghana, under the then Faculty of Arts. Its mandate was to focus on research and teaching related to the improvement of performance in English, the official language, and the various Ghanaian languages as vectors of education, culture and community interaction. Since the 1970s, the Centre has been focusing on research related to language learning, teaching and assessment, language endangerment and documentation, multilingualism, intercultural communication, and the interconnected areas of language and literature. This book, in essence, reflects these research areas, but more than that the constitutive research articles were produced jointly or severally by different generations of directors and research fellows of the Centre, over the four decades of the organization's existence. The ten chapters of this commemorative anthology comprise selected research articles from a very large pool of previously published works with continuing relevance, as well as more recent works that have not yet been published. The book is not designed for release as a discrete and independent publication. On the contrary, it feeds into a much wider set of commemorative collections from diverse units, all of which are thematically linked in a manner designed to project the mission of the University of Ghana.

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Sub-Saharan Publishers

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9988550111

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9789988550110

Testing Times

The Uses and Abuses of Assessment

By: Gordon Stobart

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Testing Times

The Uses and Abuses of Assessment

By: Gordon Stobart

Assessment dominates our lives but its good intentions often produce negative consequences. An example that is central to this book is how current forms of assessment encourage shallow ‘for-the-test’ learning. It is true to say that as the volume of assessment increases, confidence in what it represents is diminishing. This book seeks to reclaim assessment as a constructive activity which can encourage deeper learning. To do this the purpose, and fitness-for–purpose, of assessments have to be clear. Gordon Stobart critically examines five issues that currently have high-profile status: intelligence testing learning skills accountability the ‘diploma disease’ formative assessment Stobart explains that these form the basis for the argument that we must generate assessments which, in turn, encourage deep and lifelong learning. This book raises controversial questions about current uses of assessment and provides a framework for understanding them. It will be of great interest to teaching professionals involved in further study, and to academics and researchers in the field.

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Routledge

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1134137036

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The Psychology of Learning

An Introduction for Students of Education

By: Gordon R. Cross

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The Psychology of Learning

An Introduction for Students of Education

By: Gordon R. Cross

The Psychology of Learning: An Introduction for Students of Education provides a comprehensive coverage of educational psychology. The title tackles various psychological variables that play a critical role in education. The text first deals with learning theories, such as classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and the Gestalt theory. Next, selection deals with the concept of memory, which includes perception, short- and long-term memory, and forgetting. The text also talks about motivation, along with skills and language. Chapter 7 covers thinking and problem-solving, while Chapter 8 tackles intelligence and ability. The coverage of the title also includes personality and morality. The book will be of great use to student teachers, instructors, and behavioral scientists.

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1483181650

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9781483181653

Continental Divide

By: Peter E. Gordon

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Continental Divide

By: Peter E. Gordon

In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of philosophy: What is human finitude? What is objectivity? What is culture? What is truth? Over the last eighty years the Davos encounter has acquired an allegorical significance, as if it marked an ultimate and irreparable rupture in twentieth-century Continental thought. Here, in a reconstruction at once historical and philosophical, Peter Gordon reexamines the conversation, its origins and its aftermath, resuscitating an event that has become entombed in its own mythology. Through a close and painstaking analysis, Gordon dissects the exchange itself to reveal that it was at core a philosophical disagreement over what it means to be human. But Gordon also shows how the life and work of these two philosophers remained closely intertwined. Their disagreement can be understood only if we appreciate their common point of departure as thinkers of the German interwar crisis, an era of rebellion that touched all of the major philosophical movements of the dayÑlife-philosophy, philosophical anthropology, neo-Kantianism, phenomenology, and existentialism. As Gordon explains, the Davos debate would continue to both inspire and provoke well after the two men had gone their separate ways. It remains, even today, a touchstone of philosophical memory. This clear, riveting book will be of great interest not only to philosophers and to historians of philosophy but also to anyone interested in the great intellectual ferment of Europe's interwar years.

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Harvard University Press

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0674064178

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9780674064171

Grammar and Syntax

Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills

By: Monica Gordon-Pershey

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Grammar and Syntax

Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills

By: Monica Gordon-Pershey

Grammar and Syntax: Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills provides insight for clinical speech-language pathologists (SLPs) as well as students and faculty in communication sciences and disorders programs. Offering a practicing speech-language pathologist’s perspective on school-age language development, this professional reference book focuses on later language development and the crucial role oral grammar and syntax plays in successful academic performance. This resource synthesizes the four main components of professional expertise for SLPs: academic and theoretical knowledge, strategies for gathering diagnostic evidence, the ability to seek, understand, and apply evolving scientific evidence, and the application of therapeutic strategies. Designed to encourage creative approaches to curriculum-based speech-language therapy practices, Grammar and Syntax: Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills provides the foundation SLPs need to help children and adolescents achieve academic success. Key Features: * Anticipation guides at the beginning of each chapter stimulate readers to prepare for reading * Bolded key terms and a comprehensive glossary improve retention of material * Related resources in addition to cited sources provide jumping off points for deeper understanding * Tables of language development references to use at-a-glance * An evidence-based approach that references many primary and historical sources, including the “big names” in each content area * A unique combination of the perspectives of language development and language disorders with literacy development and literacy difficulties

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Plural Publishing

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1944883568

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9781944883560

The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice

By: Gordon S. Bates

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The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice

By: Gordon S. Bates

How a groundbreaking advocacy organization has helped shape Connecticut's criminal justice system since 1875 The Connecticut Prison Association and the Search for Reformatory Justice looks at the role the Connecticut Prison Association played in the formation of the state's criminal justice system. Now organized under the name Community Partners in Action (CPA), the Connecticut Prison Association was formed to ameliorate the conditions of criminal defendants and people in prison, improve the discipline and administration of local jails and state prisons, and furnish assistance and encouragement to people returning to their communities after incarceration. The organization took a leading role in prison reform in the state and was instrumental in a number of criminal justice innovations. Gordon S. Bates, former Connecticut Prison Association volunteer and executive director (1980 – 1998), offers a detailed history of this and similar voluntary associations and their role in fostering a rehabilitative, rather than a retributive, approach to criminal justice. First convened in 1875 as the Friends of Partners of Prisoners Society, then evolving into the Connecticut Prison Association and CPA, the organization has consistently advocated for a humane, rehabilitative approach to prisoner treatment.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819576778

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9780819576774

Environmental Medicine

By: Jon Ayres,Roy Harrison,Gordon Nichols,Robert Maynard CBE

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Environmental Medicine

By: Jon Ayres,Roy Harrison,Gordon Nichols,Robert Maynard CBE

Environmental Medicine is an indispensable aid to the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of environmentally-acquired disorders. It brings into sharp focus the increasing importance of the practice of environmental medicine, drawing together the many different strands that make up this modern discipline, and putting topical and

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CRC Press

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1444128442

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9781444128444

The Theory of the Marketing Firm

Responding to the Imperatives of Consumer-orientation

By: Gordon R. Foxall

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The Theory of the Marketing Firm

Responding to the Imperatives of Consumer-orientation

By: Gordon R. Foxall

The marketing firm is that business organisation which responds to the imperatives of consumer-orientation. Its style of management is marked by its adherence to the criteria of goal separation, participation in marketing transactions, entrepreneurial sovereignty and reciprocal entrepreneurial management, all of which are explored in this pioneering book. It assumes the proposition, uncontroversial enough to marketing academics and students, that contemporary firms can survive and prosper – achieve their financial goal, be it the maximization of profit or sales or growth – only if they respond appropriately to those imperatives: specifically, the forces that promote consumer discretion and consumer sophistication. Surprisingly, however, theories of the firm, based on economics, strategic management or behavioural science, show scant recognition of this observation which is abundantly clear from the most elementary treatment of marketing management. Renowned scholar Gordon R. Foxall argues that this proposition should form the starting point of a theory of the firm and explores its implications for marketing theory in the light of the findings of consumer behaviour analysis and research on the marketing firm. Hence, while pursuing a competence theory of the marketing firm based on the idealised implications of the imperatives of consumer-orientation, the book rests its conception on a groundwork of empirical evidence on consumer behaviour and corporate action.

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Springer Nature

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3030861066

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9783030861063

Sovereign Wealth Funds

Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power

By: Gordon L. Clark,Adam D. Dixon,Ashby H.B. Monk

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Sovereign Wealth Funds

Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power

By: Gordon L. Clark,Adam D. Dixon,Ashby H.B. Monk

The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of these financial institutions, examining their governance and investment management, and issues of domestic and international legitimacy. Through a variety of case studies--from the China Investment Corporation to the funds of several Gulf states--the authors show that the forces propelling the adoption and development of sovereign wealth funds vary by country. The authors also show that many of these investment institutions have identifiable commonalities of form and function that match the core institutions of Western financial markets. The authors suggest that the international legitimacy of sovereign wealth funds is based on the degree to which their design and governance match Western expectations about investment management. Undercutting commonplace assumptions about the emerging world of the twenty-first century, the authors demonstrate that even small countries with large and globally oriented sovereign wealth funds are likely to play a significant role in international relations. Sovereign Wealth Funds considers how such financial organizations have altered not only the face of finance, but also the international geopolitical landscape.

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Princeton University Press

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140084651X

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9781400846511

Learning Disability

A life cycle approach

By: Grant, Gordon,Ramcharan, Paul,Flynn, Margaret

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Learning Disability

A life cycle approach

By: Grant, Gordon,Ramcharan, Paul,Flynn, Margaret

Learning Disability' uses a life-cycle approach to show how those with learning disabilities can he helped most at different stages in their lives.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335238432

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9780335238439

Ethics and Inclusive Education

Disability, Schooling and Justice

By: Roger Slee,Gordon Tait

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Ethics and Inclusive Education

Disability, Schooling and Justice

By: Roger Slee,Gordon Tait

This book reveals the entanglement of ethics, rights and justice in education. It aims to develop everyday philosophy to guide choices as we continue to attempt to make schools places for all comers. The authors offer education as a social good, a building block for inclusive communities. This assumes an ethical predisposition. Ethics and inclusive education takes the reader on a journey through the conceptual foundations of ethics, rights and justice to assist us to build a formulation of the fair or just society and the way ethical approaches to schooling may support or unravel that.

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3030974359

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9783030974350

Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Problems, Second Edition

A Clinician's Guide

By: Carolyn S. Schroeder,Betty N. Gordon

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Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Problems, Second Edition

A Clinician's Guide

By: Carolyn S. Schroeder,Betty N. Gordon

This popular book guides clinicians and students in assessing and treating common childhood problems. Written in a highly accessible style, the volume presents an overview of healthy development, examines risk and protective factors for psychopathology, and spells out a behaviorally oriented model of assessment and treatment planning for children aged 2-12. Each problem-focused chapter reviews the literature on the topic at hand and provides step-by-step guidelines for practice, illustrated with helpful case examples. Featuring appendices that describe widely used assessment instruments, the book also contains more than 20 reproducible measures, clinical forms, and parent handouts, ready to photocopy and use.

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Guilford Press

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1606234226

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9781606234228

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