Founded in 1973, Guilford Press has built an international reputation as a publisher of books in mental health, education, geography, and research methods. We pride ourselves on teaming up with authors who are recognized experts, and who translate their knowledge into vital, needed resources for practitioners, academics, and general readers. Our dedicated editorial professionals work closely on each title to produce high-quality content that readers can rely on.
Focuses on how to provide effective instruction to K-12 students who find writing challenging, including English language learners and those with learning disabilities or language impairments. This work illuminates the nature of writing difficulties and offers suggestions for building students' skills at the word, sentence and text levels.
Helps teachers to set up and manage a successful writing workshop in a high school classroom. After introducing the workshop's fundamental principles and methods, this book explains how to guide students through the writing process, from planning and drafting to revising, giving and receiving feedback, editing and publishing their work.
Presents a framework for making methodological decisions and conducting research and evaluations that promote social justice. This work shows how to formulate research questions based on community needs, develop researcher-community partnerships grounded in trust and respect, and apply qualitative and mixed-methods data collection strategies.
Offers a framework for making methodological decisions and conducting research and evaluations that promote social justice. This book shows how to formulate questions based on community needs, develop researcher-community partnerships grounded in trust and respect, and apply quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods data collection strategies.
Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks
Suitable for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. It also includes many practical examples and accessible explanations of concepts and statistical procedures.
Presents approaches to planning, carrying out, and analyzing research projects with children and youth. This book discusses data collection methods that include drawing, photography, the Internet, games, interviewing, focus groups, and observation. It emphasizes the need to attend to the social setting in which research with children is done.
Integrates cognitive-behavioral and biological knowledge into a conceptual framework. This work - on the cognitive model of schizophrenia and its treatment - comprehensively examines the origins, development, and maintenance of key symptom areas: delusions, hallucinations, negative symptoms, and formal thought disorder.
Explains the 'whats' and 'how-tos' of metacognitive therapy (MCT), a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy with an empirical evidence base. This book shows that much psychological distress results from how a person responds to negative thoughts and beliefs - for example, by ruminating or worrying - rather than the content of those thoughts.
Reviews the scientific knowledge on subjective well-being (SWB): its definition, causes and consequences, measurement, and practical applications that may help people become happier. This work explores the connections between SWB and a range of intrapersonal and interpersonal phenomena, including personality, health, wealth, religion and culture.
