Faculty Authored Books and Book Contributions

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  Training and Personal Development

  Thomas M. Cavanagh and Kurt Kraiger

  The latest Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology uses a psychological perspective, and a uniquely global focus, to review the latest literature and research in the interconnected fields of training, development, and performance appraisal.

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  Tree Line

  Judy Halebsky

  "Robert Frost believed a poem should begin in delight and end in wisdom, but in TREE LINE, Judy Halebsky proves a poet never has to choose between the two—her poems begin in both and end in both. Smart, sexy, thoughtful, and beautiful, Halebsky's lyrics are a masterful marriage of tradition and innovation. This remarkable book loves many things—language and landscape to be sure—but most of all, it loves this world and how we make our way in it."—Dean Rader

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  Best Practices in Driver's Education to Enhance Participation

  Miriam Monahan and Sherrilene Classen

  Nearly 22% of school occupational therapy practitioners work in school settings, creating demand for current, effective, and evidence-based best practices for students. Reflecting the extensiveness of occupational therapy practice in schools, this exciting publication contains best practices from preschool to postsecondary transitions, from ADLs to driving.

  ~publisher's description~

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  Chapter 7: Determining Environmental Values: Storytelling at BP.

  Jacob Massoud and David M. Boje

  To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical methods available to study environmental values as affected by sustainable development. The first part is methodological, looking at what values are, why they are important, and how to include values in sustainable development. The second part looks at how values differ across social contexts, religions and viewpoints demonstrating how various individuals may value nature from a variety of cultural, social, and religious points of view. The third and final part presents case studies ordered by scale from the individual and community levels through to the national, regional and international levels. These examples show how values can motivate, be incorporated into and be an integral part of the success of a project.

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  Community-based Mental Health Services

  Ruth Ramsey

  From basic principles and policy issues through the variety of settings to the future role of the OT, a noted authority in the field introduces you to all aspects of this rapidly expanding field of practice. You’ll be prepared to take on new roles, to take unusual risks, and to envision service in creative ways.

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  Economic Ethics

  Laura Stivers

  This survey text for religious ethics and theological ethics courses explores how ethical concepts defined as liberationist, which initially was a Latin American Catholic phenomenon, is presently manifest around the globe and within the United States across different racial, ethnic, and gender groups. Authored by several contributors, this book elucidates how the powerless and disenfranchised within marginalized communities employ their religious beliefs to articulate a liberationist/liberative religious ethical perspective. Students will thus comprehend the diversity existing within the liberative ethical discourse and know which scholars and texts to read and will encounter practical ways to further social justice.

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  How "American" are "All-American" Brands? A Case of Gap, Inc. as "Made in America" Brand

  Eulaia Wycoff and Rajeev Soorea

  In the wake of globalization, American businesses are changing their models and strategies in various ways to stay competitive. However, consumers may not always recognize how brand identity can get impacted in this process. This study examines the degree of “Americanization” of Gap, Inc. which is a leading “all-American” retail clothing brand. The study uses primary research to investigate how perception differs among three categories of retail clothing industry agents: consumers, low level employees, and senior management. The results indicate that there is an evolution in market perceptions regarding all-Americanness. Consumer perception of brand is aligned with the dictionary definition while management’s perception transcends the classic definition of “Made in America.” As people become more educated and acquire business knowledge and managerial expertise, style takes precedence over manufacturing location in the definition of what constitutes an all-American brand.

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  Occupational Therapy for People with Serious Mental Illness

  Ruth Ramsey

  Willard and Spackman’s Occupational Therapy, Twelfth Edition, continues in the tradition of excellent coverage of critical concepts and practices that have long made this text the leading resource for Occupational Therapy students. Students using this text will learn how to apply client-centered, occupational, evidence based approach across the full spectrum of practice settings.

  Peppered with first-person narratives, which offer a unique perspective on the lives of those living with disease, this new edition has been fully updated with a visually enticing full color design, and even more photos and illustrations. Vital pedagogical features, including case studies, Practice Dilemmas, and Provocative questions, help position students in the real world of occupational therapy practice to help prepare them to react appropriately.

  This market leading text provides the most comprehensive and current presentation of occupational therapy concepts and practice. The 12th edition of this classic text invites students with a fresh, four-color design and new photos and illustrations, as well as the fully updated text.

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  "Quiero estar con mi gente." La negociación de la identidad étnica en la escuela ("I want to be with my people." The Negotiation among the Migrant Population)

  Jennifer Lucko

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  Silvie's Life: Biography of a Baby Girl

  Marianne Rogoff

  "This story, about a severely brain-damaged baby who doctors warn will die within days, is beautifully told and exquisitely woven with subtlety and suspense..." ~ Patricia Holt

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  Tell Me Again: Poetry and Prose from The Healing Art of Writing, 2012

  Joan Baranow [Editor]

  For more than a decade The Healing Art of Writing conference has sought to strengthen compassionate understanding between healthcare providers and those who seek a state of well-being beyond the reach of surgery or pharmacology. Together, the participants share the belief that being cured of disease is not the same thing as being healed, and that a practice of expressive writing promotes both spiritual and physical healing. The writings presented at the 2012 conference, collected here in Tell Me Again, are a powerful testament to that belief. Within these pages you will hear, again and again, words of truth, words that uplift, words that heal.

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  Assessing, Treating, and Preparing Youth With Special Needs for Driving and Community Mobility

  Miriam Monahan

  The range of issues for driving and community mobility is vast and can extend across the lifespan. Occupational therapy professionals who are generalists or specialists have the knowledge and skills to address the important IADL of community mobility, including driving. Therapists, through evaluation, intervention, and consultation, can address not only driving and community mobility skills but also the underlying skills (visual, motor, or cognitive) and environmental and other contextual factors that enable and empower a person to participate in the community.

  This text, which is also available as a Self-Paced Clinical Course (earn 2 AOTA CEUs [25 NBCOT PDUs, 20 contact hours]), provides strategies to address community and driving across occupational therapy practice areas and settings, including administration and management, schools, acute care hospitals, rehabilitation centers and skilled nursing facilities, and outpatient clinics, and with clients with various disabilities or difficulties, including developmental, physical, sensory processing, vision, and mental health.

  Driving and Community Mobility: Occupational Therapy Strategies Across the Lifespan, which gathers researchers and clinicians in a team effort to offer expert guidance for occupational theray's work in the ever-developing practice area of driving and community mobility, includes a flash drive containing client resources, fact sheets, guide, assessments, articles, and Web resources.

  ~publisher's description~

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  Foad Satterfield: Toward Insight

  Foad Satterfield

  Foad Satterfield reproduces in full color 27 key works from his most recent series of urban landscapes and nature themes and includes a rich personal commentary about the early beginnings of his aesthetic development, sensibilities, and his love of nature.

  This lavish volume of painting and mixed media works introduces us to Satterfield's sensitivity and life long fascination with nature as subject, teacher and inspiration. His use of vivid color clusters in harmonious patterns move with urgency and purpose in the paintings while retaining reflective and contemplative qualities.

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  Importance of Driving and Community Mobility

  Miriam Monahan

  Covering the scope, theory, and approaches to the practice of occupational therapy, this title prepares you to care for adults who have physical disabilities. It takes a client-centered approach, following the advanced OT Practice framework as it defines your role as an OTA in physical dysfunction practice.

  ~publisher's description~

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  Occupational Therapy in Criminal Justice

  Jane Dressler

  Designed to provide readers with the most up-to-date information on the clinical applications of psychosocial occupational therapy, the thoroughly revised Third Edition of PSYCHOSOCIAL OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY: AN EVOLVING PRACTICE is an important addition to any occupational therapy library. With a novice friendly approach focusing on diagnosis, this book is filled with case illustrations to demonstrate therapy in clinical practice so that readers are prepared for working with actual clients in real-life contexts. Seven new chapters have been added to the third edition and cover topics such as recovery perspectives, mental health research in occupational therapy, mental health of infants, managing pain in occupational therapy, assessment and outcome measurement, psychosocial occupational therapy in the school setting, and occupational therapy in the military. With contributions from experts in the field and discussions of current developments in the profession, this book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in occupational therapy.

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  Seven Faces of Sin: A Study Guide to Biblical Models for How Evil Originates and How it can be Overcome

  Scott Gambrill Sinclair

  This book began as a series of classes that I gave to the monks at New Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur, California. The monks encouraged me to publish the material. Later when I was teaching a course on the New Testament at the School for Deacons in Berkeley, I remarked that every preacher should preach on "sin" at least twice a year. My students seemed surprised and intrigued and asked me to explain. I attempted to do so briefly, but the explanation was not adequate. Later another member of the faculty heard that I thought that deacons should at least occasionally preach on sin, and she was horrified. Apparently she thought, as I also do, that many sermons on sin are destructive, even sinful! This book is a longer and, I hope, more satisfactory explanation of why I feel the Church needs more sermons on sin, what those sermons should say, and what the biblical basis for that preaching might be. I am posting this book on line in the hope that my students, both past and present, and anyone else who might be interested may have access without cost to my more considered reflections.

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  Space/Gap/Interval/Distance

  Judy Halebsky

  The poems in Judy Halebsky’s Space/Gap/Interval/Distance, winner of the Sixteen Rivers Press 2011 Poets-Under-Forty Chapbook Contest, combine memory and depth of feeling with luminous observation and precision of craft. In a voice utterly and breathtakingly her own, Halebsky translates her experience of living in Japan into poems influenced by butoh dance, haiku, and, momentously, the Japanese language itself, finding in kanji, the basic written characters of Japanese, a rich source of insight, metaphor, and fresh associative power.

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  Teaching and Learning from the Inside Out: Revitalizing Ourselves and Our Institutions: New Directions for Teaching and Learning

  Margaret Golden

  By reclaiming the passions of our hearts and exploring insights and ideas, we begin a remembering of ourselves. As we begin to reclaim our wholeness, we also have the capacity to renew and revitalize our institutions from within.

  After a long career of writing and speaking about how living in congruence—without division between inner and outer life—allows for being present with ourselves and those who journey with us, Parker Palmer and colleagues at the Center for Courage & Renewal developed a process of shared exploration. This Circle of Trust approach encourages people to live and work more authentically within their families, workplaces, and communities.

  This issue explores the transformative power of engaging in a Circle of Trust. The authors examine its direct applications to teaching and learning, and they explore and discuss the research being done by the facilitators of this work.

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  The Liberation of Max McTrue

  Kim Culbertson

  Have you ever had an extraordinary day?

  Max hadn’t. Until one winter day when he met a girl.

  THE LIBERATION OF MAX MCTRUE takes place in a single day. The classic Boy Meets Girl story. Well, sort of: Boy meets homeschooled girl. Boy ditches school. Boy finds his future. And there’s an ice cream truck. And archery. It’s a bit like what would happen if Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Alchemist had a kid, well…a kid who was a YA eBook novella. You get the idea. Max took a day off and found his life.

  Who changed your life today?

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  Common Tongues

  Marianne Rogoff

  Since publishing A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women's travel writing of the year. This title is the seventh in an annual series-- The Best Women's Travel Writing --that presents inspiring and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves. The common threads are a woman's perspective and compelling storytell.

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  Disrupting Homelessness : Alternative Christian Approaches

  Laura A. Stivers

  Disrupting Homelessness unmasks the futile assumptions of our present approaches to homelessness and suggests ways in which Christians and Christian communities can create a prophetic social movement to end poverty and homelessness. The American dream, as conveyed by the media, includes owning a home. Increasingly, people are homeless or precariously housed because of joblessness, foreclosure, or dislocation. Ecclesial responses to homelessness and housing vary. Some Christian organizations focus on fixing the person and the behaviors that contribute to homelessness. Others promote home ownership for low income households. Employing disruptive Christian ethics, Laura Stivers criticizes both approaches, outlines an advocacy approach for churches to address the multiple causes of homelessness, and calls us to make a home for all in God's just and compassionate community.

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  Eki Mae Poems [Volume 3]

  Ilya Kaminsky, Yuka Tsukagoshi, Judy Halebsky, and Ayumu Akutsu

  Bilingual Japanese-English poetry journal.

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  Instructions for a Broken Heart

  Kim Culbertson

  Instructions for Getting Over One Pathetic Excuse (Key Word Ex) of a Boyfriend

  When Jessa catches her boyfriend, Sean, making out with Natalie “The Boob Job” Stone three days before her drama club’s departure to Italy, she completely freaks. Stuck with a front-row view of Sean and Natalie making out against the backdrop of a country that oozes romance, Jessa promises to follow all of the outrageous instructions in her best friend’s care package and open her heart to new experiences. Enter cute Italian boy stage left.

  Jessa had prepared to play the role of humiliated ex-girlfriend, but with Carissa directing her life from afar, it’s finally time to take a shot at being a star.

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  The Healing Art of Writing: Volume One

  Joan Baranow [Editor], Brian Dolan [Editor], and David Watts [Editor]

  The pieces in The Healing Art of Writing: Volume One originated a the conference of this name that brought together caregivers and patients who share a passion for writing about the mysterious forces of illness and recovery. A belief shared among all contributors is that being cured of a disease is not the same as being healed, and that writing poetry and prose brings us to a place of healing. Our subject is the body, our medical experiences widely diverse, our goal to express through literature what happens when a physical or mental anguish disrupts our lives.