Encyclopedia of School Psychology

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Encyclopedia of School Psychology

Steven W. Lee, Editor

Published by SAGE, 2005

This is an 8.5" by 11" hardbound book running to 656 pages including a lengthy index, plus 29 pages of preferatory material.

The book is what the title says it is: an encyclopedia of school psychology. As such it includes entries on psychological disorders of childhood (especially as they concern the educational process), child development topics, educational psychology, institutions, and educational policy issues. For a sense of what's included, here is the full list of entries in the "M" sequence:

• Mainstreaming
  
• Manifestation Determination
  
• Mastery Learning
  
• Mathematics Curriculum and Instruction
  
• Mathematics Intervention and Strategies
  
• Media and Children
  
• Memory
  
• Mental Age
  
• Mental Retardation
  
• Mentoring
  
• Middle School
  
• Montessori Schools
  
• Motivation
  
• Motor Assessment
  
• Multicultural Education
  
• Multidisciplinary Teams
  

The book is laid out in fairly large type, two colums per page. Articles are long-ish, and while they're pretty easy to read, they do assume a certain degree of background knowledge of psychology. However, it's not so much that non-psychologists will struggle heavily to understand it.

This is a decent book that fills a definite need.