One of the targets of the Govermnent White Paper, The Health of the Nation, was to reduce the suicide rate of severely mentally ill people by at least 33% by the year 2000. It is this target which the present manual (one of a series of Thematic Reviews) aims to address, by providing guidance to purchasers and providers of mental health services. The review brings together the salient aspects of what is known about suicide risk and its assessment and management when expressed by people who present themselves to mental healthcare services.

Suicide Prevention: The Challenge Confronted : A Manual of Guidance for the Purchasers and Providers of Mental Health Care

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hill, Peter

Coleman, John

Farrar, Michael

Kerfoot, Michael

Psychology & Counseling

The Stationery Office/Tso

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education. This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people. It provides a critical insight into strategies for improving relationships in the classroom and helping both adults and teenagers cope better with this stage of life. Dr John Coleman shows how teachers and students can contribute to healthy brain development. The book includes information about memory and learning, as well as guidance on motivation and the management of stress. Underpinned by his extensive work with schools, Dr Coleman offers advice on key topics including the importance of sleep, the social brain, moodiness, risk and risk-taking and the role of hormones. This book is extensively illustrated with examples from classrooms and interviews with teachers. It explicitly links research and practice to create a comprehensive, accessible guide to new knowledge about teenage brain development and its importance for education. Accompanied by a website providing resources for running workshops with teachers and parents, as well as an outline of a lesson plan for students, The Teacher and the Teenage Brain offers an innovative approach to the understanding of the teenage brain. This book represents an important contribution to teacher training and to the enhancement of learning in the classroom.

Routledge

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education. This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people. It provides a critical insight into strategies for improving relationships in the classroom and helping both adults and teenagers cope better with this stage of life. 
Dr John Coleman shows how teachers and students can contribute to healthy brain development. The book includes information about memory and learning, as well as guidance on motivation and the management of stress. Underpinned by his extensive work with schools, Dr Coleman offers advice on key topics including the importance of sleep, the social brain, moodiness, risk and risk-taking and the role of hormones. This book is extensively illustrated with examples from classrooms and interviews with teachers. It explicitly links research and practice to create a comprehensive, accessible guide to new knowledge about teenage brain development and its importance for education. 
Accompanied by a website providing resources for running workshops with teachers and parents, as well as an outline of a lesson plan for students, The Teacher and the Teenage Brain offers an innovative approach to the understanding of the teenage brain. This book represents an important contribution to teacher training and to the enhancement of learning in the classroom.

This book presents the most contemporary and comprehensive description of the acoustics of the sounds used in American English. Intended to serve as an introductory text for students and professionals interested in acoustic phonetics, linguistics, physics, electrical engineering, and computer science, the authors bring to the subject the points of view of both linguistics and physics. The book uses numerous examples of acoustic spectrograms to show the continuities and variability of natural speech. The book begins by introducing the basic concepts of phonetics, phonology, and linguistics to readers whose background is in physics or engineering and introducing the physics of sound generation and analysis for speech scientists and linguists. The authors then use the tools developed in the first part to examine the characteristics of individual phonemes as well as the changes introduced when individual sounds are combined in speech. Modern applications of speech acoustics, especially speech synthesis and recognition, are also discussed.

Acoustics of American English Speech: A Dynamic Approach (Communications and Control Engineering (Hardcover))

Reference

Greenwood, Alice

Olive, Joseph P.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Springer

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of The Nature of Adolescence, places added emphasis on such areas as female adolescent development, the increasingly important lifespan development theory, and the effects on teenagers of parental separation or divorce. Finally, there is a new chapter on the issue of work, unemployment and leisure.

The Nature of Adolescence

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The School Years

"The School Years" presents a collection of essays on key issues affecting young people in the school setting. This new edition takes into account the major social changes which have occurred since 1979, changes which have had a direct impact on education and young people. Poverty and unemployment, training of post 16-year-olds, the problems of sexual and emotional abuse, the phenomenon of AIDS, issues of gender, race, and equal opportunities, increasing divorce rates - all these have affected the lives of children and adolescents. In addition, in the UK and many other countries, education reforms have altered the organization and ethos of the school setting, inevitably creating even greater challenges for the students. The contributors explore the fundamental questions about human development in the school setting, focusing on such aspects as the learning of gender roles, the origin of the concept of self, the role of the peer group, the development of morality and the causes of delinquency.

The School Years (Adolescence and Society)

As we all know, sexuality is not an easy topic for parents and carers to deal with once their children enter adolescence. We are all aware of the need to discuss sex with our kids, the only question is, how to start the conversation?  This practical, down-to-earth book offers tips on how to broach the subject and gives advice on a range of problems from the bodily changes at puberty through to coping with relationships, contraception and HIV.  And in light of modern society's ever changing attitudes towards sexual behaviour, more controversial issues are addressed such as sexual orientation and STDs.  Written in a very open, honest style, yet based on a solid bedrock of scientific information this book will help you to help your teenager to cope with their own sexuality. * Written by a very well respected academic  * Includes useful lists of organisations and further reading  * Will empower you to develop a deeper, more satisfying relationships with your teenage kids

Sex and Your Teenager: A Parent's Guide (Family Matters)

wiley

This book reviews current theories of the sound-structure of words and syllables. Dr. Coleman presents technical arguments showing that the contemporary theories are too complex and that a simpler theory, Declarative Phonology, is adequate. This theory is exemplified with detailed accounts of the sound-structure of words and syllables in English and Japanese.

Phonological Representations: Their Names, Forms and Powers (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 85)

Words, Language & Grammar

Cambridge University Press

Assuming knowledge of only the very basics of linguistics, this major new textbook provides a concise and accessible introduction to speech and language processing. Students are introduced to topics such as digital signal processing, speech analysis and synthesis, finite-state machines, automatic speech recognition, parsing and probabilistic grammars, and are shown from a very elementary level how to work with two programming languages, C and Prolog.

Introducing Speech and Language Processing (Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics)

Computers & Technology

Software

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Suicide Prevention: The Challenge Confronted : A Manual of Guidance for the Purchasers and Providers of Mental Health Care

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain

Acoustics of American English Speech: A Dynamic Approach (Communications and Control Engineering (Hardcover))

The Nature of Adolescence

The School Years (Adolescence and Society)

Sex and Your Teenager: A Parent's Guide (Family Matters)

Phonological Representations: Their Names, Forms and Powers (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 85)

Phonological Representations: Their Names, Forms and Powers (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 85)

Introducing Speech and Language Processing (Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics)