Against the Odds: How "At-Risk" Students Exceed Expectations -- by Janine Bempechat (Author) (Book)
"From an original position that isolates the factors which predict academic performance, Harvard professor Janine Bempechat shatters the myths about success and failure among poor and minority...
All Ages
Age groups: Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice (Program)
EDJJ examines the overrepresentation of youth with disabilities at-risk for contact with the courts or already involved in the juvenile delinquency system. We provide professional development and...
All Ages
Age groups: Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
The Suicidal Patient: Clinical and Legal Standards of Care -- by Bruce Bongar (Author) (Book - Parent)
' "Dr. Bongar proposes a working model for the assessment, management, and treatment of suicidal patients in both inpatient and outpatient contexts. His suggestions for optimal clinical practice...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
How the Other Half Lives -- by Jacob Riis (Author) (Book)
"How the Other Half Lives is a riveting account of life in New York's Lower East Side tenements of the last century written by one of the Progressive Era's preeminent reformers. Drawn from the...
All Ages
Age groups: Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
In the Shadow of the White House: Drugs, Death, and Redemption on the Streets of the Nation's Capital -- by Mike Tidwell (Author) (Book)
Mike Tidwell's story of counseling homeless drug addicts begins with the startling contrast of the pomp and circumstance of the President's inaugural ceremonies to the desperate poverty in the...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Psychopathology and Violent Crime -- by Andrew Skodol (Author) (Book)
"The psychiatric community has debated for years the significance of the relationship between mental disorder and serious violence. Psychopathology and Violent Crime goes to the heart of this...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Ethical and Legal Issues in Professional Practice with Families -- by Diane Marsh, Richard Magee (Authors) (Book)
"Imagine how much simpler your professional life would be if therapeutic efficacy was the sole criterion against which professional ethics were measured. For better or worse, that isn't the case, and...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Legal Referral (Parent Handouts and Info - Parent)
Suicide : Prevention, Intervention, Postvention -- by Earl Grollman (Author) (Book - Parent)
"Provides information on suicide statistics and gives advice on how to recognize the warning signs of a potential suicide attempt, how to intervene when a suicide has been attempted, and how to...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty, and Prostitution -- by Jody Raphael (Author) (Book)
"Listening to Olivia is the compelling account of her descent into poverty and abuse together with her hard fought recovery. By assimilating new research on the women and girls in prostitution?in...
All Ages
Age groups: Adulthood (22+)