Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School by Catherine A Sanderson

Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School by Catherine A Sanderson

Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School is a skills-based textbook program that provides students with the most up-to-date, reliable health education information. It emphasizes current health and wellness issues and contains an abundance of classroom-tested activities to help students develop the skills they need to make good choices regarding their health and well-being now and throughout their lives. Covering topics ranging from substance use and abuse to nutrition to mental health and sexuality, Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School aligns with the National Health Education Standards and the National Sexuality Education Standards.

Catherine A. Sanderson is the Manwell Family Professor in Life Sciences (Psychology) at Amherst College. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology, with a specialization in Health and Development, from Stanford University, and received both masters and doctoral degrees in psychology from Princeton University. Professor Sanderson's research examines how personality and social variables influence health-related behaviors such as safer sex and disordered eating, the development of persuasive messages and interventions to prevent unhealthy behavior, and the predictors of relationship satisfaction. This research has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health.

Professor Sanderson has published more than 25 journal articles and book chapters in addition to five college textbooks, a high school health textbook, and a popular press book on parenting. In 2012, she was named one of the country's top 300 professors by the Princeton Review. Professor Sanderson speaks regularly to public and corporate audiences on such topics as the science of happiness, emotional intelligence, the mind-body connection, and the psychology of good and evil.

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ISBN 13	9781635633085
ISBN 10	1635633087
Title	Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School
Author	Catherine A Sanderson
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher
Year published	2018-01-26
Number of pages	736
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