This well-written and highly informative guide provides teachers and trainees with practical strategies for teaching gifted and talented children. Containing advice on key areas such as successful identification, developing a whole school working policy, creating challenges in the classroom and involving parents, this book will prove essential reading for teachers everywhere.

Kring, Davison, Neale, and Johnson's Abnormal Psychology sets the standard for clarity, cutting-edge coverage, authoritative content, and clinical emphasis. The authors invite students to examine the many different facets of psychopathology -- to search for clues, follow-up on hunches, and evaluate evidence on the origins of these disorders and the effectiveness of specific interventions.

Finally, a briefer version of the most authoritative and respected introductory text for the abnormal psychology course.  This allows instructors who prefer less detail to still use a research-oriented text.  As in their more comprehensive version, the esteemed author team of Jim Butcher, Sue Mineka and Jill Hooley offers students a...

'Access to European Union: Law, Economics, Policies - 16th Revised Edition - 2007' provides a comprehensive overview of European integration, offering guidance on European Union (EU) policies. It looks at the primary functions, objectives, and experience of the European institutions, as well as explaining EU measures, legal provisions, and economic programmes.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the scope of the Third Edition has been broadened to include the literature and theoretical movements that have taken place since the previous edition. Updated web links and expanded appendices provide cutting edge information on action research along with new case studies and examples as well as an expanded section on doing a literature review.

ADHD is a term used to classify extreme symptoms of inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity. This guide provides teachers with various strategies for teaching and managing pupils who are diagnosed with ADHD. It also provides guidance on medication such as Ritalin, and suggests a number of ways to get parents more involved.

ADHD is often cloaked by other psychological disorders, and the emphasis on ADHD in children has left teenagers and adults overlooked and undeserved. This book counters this trend, offering an assessment criteria, effective treatment strategies and examples.

Nine contributions from scholars and practitioners critically examine child sexual abuse laws in Europe and the U.S. that fail to distinguish between children and adolescents. Included are discussions of intergenerational sexual interaction, juvenile prostitution, and historical variations in the age of consent.

Recent advances in our understanding of the human brain suggest that adolescence is a unique period of development during which both environmental and genetic influences can leave a lasting impression. To advance the goal of integrating brain and prevention science, two areas of research which do not usually communicate with one another, the Annenberg...