psychological aspects

Uses letters, stories, and informational text to help children cope with moving to a new home.

Describes the feelings that you might have when your pet dies and discusses how to cope with these feelings.

Examines significant moments in championship basketball playoffs of the past and discusses the psychological stresses they involved.

A modern-day fable, told in a richly illustrated children's book format. Tear Soup, a recipe for healing after loss, centers around an old and somewhat wise woman, Grandy. Grandy has just suffered a big loss in her life and so she is headed to the kitchen to make a special batch of Tear Soup. There she chooses the size pot that is right for her loss, and she puts on her apron because she knows it's going to be messy. Slowly the pot is filled with tears as the old woman steeps away. To season her soup Grandy adds memories like the good times and the bad times, the silly and the sad times. She does not want to forget even one precious memory of her loss. Includes advise on making tear soup and a list of websites relating to loss and grief issues.

A guide to helping children fully understand texts that explains how teachers can make the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental by creating links between the concrete and the abstract through writing, discussion, song, art, and movement.

A collection of articles about how the brain functions and how learning occurs; includes advice on how to use the current research about brain functions to create classroom activities that increase a child's focus and learning ability.

A guide to assist the family of a terminally ill person to recognize the processes many exhibit as they are dying including descriptions of a spiritual reunion, worry over someone they are leaving, and much more.

Explores the different nature of stepfamilies, examining the difficulties, pleasures, and issues involved in becoming part of a stepfamily.

Collects essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to video games, including what impact they have on players' health, how they affect society, and whether or not they portray minorities fairly.

Identifies obesity as a health crisis of epidemic proportions in the United States, examines the health problems associated with obesity, looks at some of the reasons why people become overweight, and discusses the problem of discrimination against people society considers too big.