Author: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
Publisher: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
Keywords: report, group, advancement, psychiatry, gap, cults, followers, psychiatric, perspective, religious, leaders
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1991-11
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0873182006
ISBN-13: 9780873182003

Psychiatrists are in a unique position to understand the personalities, needs, and motivations of cult leaders and followers. This report assumes that unique vantage point in its review of the cult phenomenon. What are the psychiatric attributes of cult leaders and followers? Why do individuals join cults? Can cults play a constructive role in an individual’s life? And how can psychiatrists help family and friends deal with cult members? Supported by numerous references, this report presents statistics and colorful descriptions of American cults and their effect on those who embrace them

Author: The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
Publisher: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
Keywords: psychiatry, group, advancement, report, gap, clinical, cultural, assessment
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-01
List price: $77.00
ISBN-10: 0873181441
ISBN-13: 9780873181440

Culture permeates human activity the world over. In todayAs technological Aglobal village,A people from very different cultures are interacting more closely and more often than everAmaking it critical for clinicians to understand and incorporate cultural dimensions into their daily practices. This volume offers a contemporary pragmatic understanding of how culture is inextricably intertwined with mental health and mental illness. In Chapter 1, the 17-member GAP Committee on Cultural Psychiatry begins by discussing the history (particularly within the last two decades) and scope of culture in

Author: American Association for the Advancement of Scienc
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: literacy, science, benchmarks, project
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1994-01-06
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0195089863
ISBN-13: 9780195089868

Published to glowing praise in 1990, Science for All Americans defined the science-literate American--describing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes all students should retain from their learning experience--and offered a series of recommendations for reforming our system of education in science, mathematics, and technology. Benchmarks for Science Literacy takes this one step further. Created in close consultation with a cross-section of American teachers, administrators, and scientists, Benchmarks elaborates on the recommendations to provide guidelines for what all students should know and b

Author: American Association for the Advancement of Scienc
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: technology, education, mathematics, science, reform, blueprints
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-07-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195124278
ISBN-13: 9780195124279

What would it cost the education system to adopt policies that emphasize science literacy for all students? How can we ensure that tests measure what educators, parents, and others want them to? How can universities set admissions policies that motivate K-12 institutions to produce science literate graduates? Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science believes that serious efforts to reform the K-12 curriculum in this country require an understanding of the whole of education. To gain this kind of perspective, Project 2061 commissioned experts to prepare report

Author: Group
Publisher: Group Publishing Inc
Keywords: teenagers, lessons, bible, important
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1993-06-01
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1559452617
ISBN-13: 9781559452618

Teenagers with a firm faith foundation, who know what they believe and why, aren’t easily swayed by others who might challenge their faith. Lessons use active-learning techniques to hold teenagers’

Author: Group
Publisher: Group Publishing
Keywords: groups, youth, games, blast
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1991-06
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1559450460
ISBN-13: 9781559450461

Author: CPM Group
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: trading, wiley, yearbook, silver, cpm
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2007-06-04
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0470049529
ISBN-13: 9780470049525

The CPM Silver Yearbook 2OO7Investors buy silver as a financial asset. It is seen as a hedge against economic, financial, and political upheaval. Many investors view silver as a companion to gold, while some investors prefer it to gold, due to its more volatile price behavior. In addition to all of these monetary and financial roles, silver is also an industrial commodity critical to photography, high-definition imaging, modern battery technology and electronics, engineering, chemical processes, and more.To truly understand the full range of silver’s applications, as well as its sources