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Banning Transgender Conversion Practices is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of how conversion practices targeting transgender people are regulated around the world.

Health Behavior Change in the Dental Practice presents an overview of health behavior change, focusing on the spirit of motivational interviewing. Targeting the clinical application of the principles, the book applies lessons learned from the field of general and behavioral medicine to the dental practice. By presenting a series of clinical examples and accompanying dialogue, the book guides the reader in using motivational interviewing techniques as tools for oral hygiene education, tobacco use cessation, and dietary counseling. Health Behavior Change in the Dental Practice supports the trend towards risk management in oral health care, offering practical guidance to promote health behavior change in patients.

This book describes the reasoned action approach, an integrative framework for the prediction and change of human social behavior. It provides an up-to-date review of relevant research, discusses critical issues related to the reasoned action framework, and provides methodological and conceptual tools for the prediction and explanation of social behavior and for designing behavior change interventions.

Discover strategies grounded in neuroscience that help teachers foster a truly calm classroom environment supportive of emotional awareness, psychological safety and belonging, and connected relationships.

The authors of this comprehensive text discuss the root causes of disruptive behaviour, tackle assessment issues and develop effective intervention strategies that will be of practical use to teachers and other educators. Whilst theorising behaviour management from a range of perspectives: psychodynamic, behavioural and socio-cultural, the authors remain firmly focused on practical issues of policy making, assessment and intervention, and address a wide range of related issues, such as: policy in relation to behaviour in schools at local authority, national and international level cultural concerns, race, gender, school discipline and exclusion medical perspectives of topical interest such as ADHD, autism and diet assessment at district, community, classroom and individual level, and how these underpin theory. This book will appeal to anyone for whom behaviour in schools is a key concern, such as student teachers, teacher educators, senior school managers and practising teachers undertaking further study in the field. Chapter 1: Understanding Inclusion and behaviour manaagement, Chapter 2: Everyday explanations: student or environment? Chapter 3: Societal understandings, Chapter 4: Cultural understandings of learning and behaviour, Chapter 5: Biological and medical explanations of behaviour, Chapter 6: Psychological understandings of behaviour, Chapter 7: Asessment of students' behaviour, Chapter 8: Working at individual level, Chapter 9: Working at class-wide level, Chapter 10: Addressing behaviour at school-wide level, Chapter 11: School, home and community working together, Chapter 12: Developing school policy Janice Wearmouth is senior lecturer in the faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University. She has previously published with RoutledgeFalmer, Hodder Arnold, Wiley and Fultons. Ted Glynn is Foundation Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Waikato, NZ. Mere Berryman manages the Ministry of Education Research and Development Centre (Special Education Group), which seeks to improve the quality of education for Maori students with behavioural problems.

Behaviour is the number one concern for most early career teachers so this accessible book provides a range of research informed and road-tested strategies to support the development of positive classroom systems and structures. It offers key psychological insights into the factors that lie behind different behaviours, helping you understand and manage your own behaviours as well as those of the children and young people you teach. Chapters cover understanding individuals, the classroom environment and the wider school context, as well as working with parents and carers. Ultimately the book enables you to successfully work with groups of children and young people so that they can learn effectively and make progress.The Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers series provides accessible, carefully researched, quick reads for early career teachers, covering the key topics you will encounter during your training year and first two years of teaching.  They complement and are fully in line with the new Early Career Framework and are intended to assist ongoing professional development by bringing together current information and thinking on each area in one convenient place.

Addressing the issue of behaviour problems in the early years, this book offers early years practitioners a practical and well-researched resource covering subjects such as: the nature and extent of behaviour problems in the early years definitions of behaviour problems theoretical frameworks and factors screening and assessment a blueprint for early identification and intervention. This resource is based on the author’s own experience and research in early years practice and she uses a range of practical tips, strategies, activity ideas, forms and checklists to convey her message. Papatheodorou shows that successful early identification and management of behaviour problems requires informed practice that takes into account existing theoretical and conceptual works. All professionals working in an early years environment will find this an invaluable read. Part 1: Understanding Behaviour Problems 1. Introduction: behavioural problems in the early years 2. The nature and extent of behaviour problems in the early years 3. Definition of behaviour problems 4. Behaviour problems in educational and early years settings 5. Factors associated with behaviour problems Part 2: Support for Positive Behaviour 6. Behaviour management (i): habitual preventative strategies 7. Behaviour management (ii): approaches and strategies for early intervention 8. Screening and primary prevention 9. Assessment of behaviour problems 10. Planning for early intervention 11. Traits, knowledge, skills and competencies Epilogue: Professionals' Traits, Skills and Competencies 'This book is highly recommended for all existing and prospective practitioners working with young children and has particular significance, given the important role early years professionals now play within the current context of government policies for early intervention.' - Early Years