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Navigating Tradition and Transformation: Lessons Learned in Higher Education
Andrew Hsu is the 23rd president of the College of Charleston, the oldest university in South Carolina and the 13th oldest in the United States of...
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How Can Social Workers Assess Clinically Meaningful Change in Their Clients? An Example from Children in Care
Social workers use interventions in the expectation that they will make a positive difference for their clients. However, research about the...
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The effect of parental involvement on young children’s independent literacy practice and achievement among preschoolers in China
Early childhood is a critical period for achieving the formation of literacy development in an individual’s life. Home literacy is critical in...
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An Introvert Leading Higher Education in Academic Nursing and Healthcare
This chapter describes the leadership journey of an introverted leader toward deanship at Florida State University College of Nursing, with lessons...
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Understanding Variation in Health Risks Across Development and Child Welfare Involvement for Youth in Foster Care
Children exposed to maltreatment and foster care (i.e., out-of-home care) experience disproportionately high healthcare utilization; however, the...
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Business Strategies and Disruption in Vision Care
This chapter provides a conceptual framework for understanding the types of innovation and the potential positive impacts of innovation on some...
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Russian and Soviet Psychology in the Changing Political Environments
Psychology in Russia and the Soviet Union has a long history influenced by several changes in the political environment. From Tsarist times to the...
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Handbook of Positive Youth Development : Advancing the Next Generation of Research, Policy and Practice in Global Contexts
This chapter introduces the Handbook of Positive Youth Development (PYD) aiming to advance PYD scholarship among youth and emerging adults from a...
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Brief Interventions for Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Young People: A Systematic Review
Rates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) increase sharply across adolescence and remain high in young adulthood. Across 50 years of...
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“I Ran to Make a Point”: Predicting and Preventing Youth Runaway from Foster Care
Youth who run away from foster care experience danger to health and safety and increased risk of adverse child welfare outcomes. By applying a...
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What Is a Family? Issues in Defining Family
The context for ongoing interpersonal violence is usually in a family or household. Research across many disciplines has focused on the dyad...
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Facilitators and Barriers in the Implementation of Trauma-Informed Approaches in Schools: A Sco** Review
The impact of trauma on the development and educational performance of school children and the benefits of trauma-informed practices have become more...
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Improving On-Task Behavior in Children and Youth with ADHD: Wearable Technology as a Possible Solution
The objective of this paper is to provide the rational and conceptual foundation used to develop a wearable device to improve on-task behavior. Time...
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Poetry and Music: Translations for the Soul
As we have observed in the previous chapters, it is the whole human being—thinking and feeling, curious and exploring—who is involved in creation of...
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Roles of School Professionals and Stakeholders in Systems Change
School change is complex, messy, and unfortunately not always a guarantee for improvement and enhanced student outcomes. While changes in policy,...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in India
This chapter aims to bring out the history of psychotherapy in India, the current status of the practice of CBT in India, and the adaptation of CBT...
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Implementation Drivers as Practical Measures of Data-Driven Decision-Making: An Initial Validation Study in Early Childhood Programs
Leveraging data to demonstrate program effectiveness, inform decision making, and support program implementation is an ongoing need for social and...
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The Seven Dimensions of Active Ageing in Response to Covid-19 in Indonesia
According to estimates, Indonesia's elderly population will increase in 2020 from 28.8 million (11% of the total population) to 80 million (28.68%)...
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Epistemological and Methodological Challenges of Subjectivity
Some may consider this chapter to be the most daring in the book. In my view it is the trickiest one—at least from my “subjective” point of view....
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Beyond formal innovation: family supportive supervisor behavior promote employee bootlegging behavior through thriving at work
Bootlegging behavior enables employees to better utilize their creativity to contribute more to their organization. Therefore, the facilitative...
