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Mental Health in Schools: A Guide to Pastoral and Curriculum Provision

Mental Health in Schools: A Guide to Pastoral and Curriculum Provision

Mark Prever

(2006)

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Abstract

This book is a practical guide for teachers, explaining the difference between counselling and counselling skills, as well as looking at how mental health issues affect children's behaviour, self-esteem, motivation and achievement and so on, and what the school can do about this.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
PREFACE Vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION xi
1 The technical principles of drying 1
The purpose of drying 1
Principles of drying 1
Packaging of the dried product 3
Socio-economic considerations 4
2 Traditional drying methods 9
Sun drying 9
Shade drying 11
Smoke kilns 11
Cooking fires 12
3 Improved drying technologies 13
Solar driers 13
Mixed driers and artificial driers 15
4 Illustrated equipment guide 18
Sun and air drying 18
Direct and indirect solar driers 20
Driers not dependent on solar energy 27
Direct driers 27
Indirect driers 29
Small mechanical driers 31
Tray driers 31
5 Project planning checklists 35
Product preservation drier applications 35
Product refinement drier applications 35
6 Case studies 37
Cashew-fruit snackfood from Honduras 37
Yachaq Mama (Power to the Women) in Peru 38
Banana drying in Thailand 39
Desiccated coconut production in Bangladesh: the 'Surjosnato' project 40
Potato drying in India 42
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING 44
CONTACTS 48
Africa 48
Asia 48
Europe 49
Central and South Africa 49
Pacific 49
North America 50