After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges, and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance, corruption, development, security, and economics. How the United States manages the transition is vital for any hopes of creating a secure Afghanistan, as well as preventing the reemergence of the Taliban and other terrorist groups. The Afghan War in 2013 honestly assesses the benefits, costs, and risks involved in transition. It is essential reading for an in-depth understanding of the complex forces and intricacies of the United States’ role in Afghanistan and the difficulties involved in creating a stable Afghanistan in 2014 and beyond. Afghanistan is still at war and will probably be at war long after 2014. At the same time, the coming cuts in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and cuts in military and civil aid, along with the country’s fractious politics and insecurity, will interact with a wide range of additional factors that threaten to derail the transition. These factors, examined in this three-volume study, highlight the need to make the internal political, governmental, economic, and security dimensions of the transition as effective as possible. This will require a new degree of realism about what the Afghans can and cannot accomplish, about the best approaches to shaping the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), and the need for better planned and managed outside aid.

This issue of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, guest edited by Drs. Adele Martel and Catherine Fuchs, aims to bridge the current state of knowledge about risk and resilience during the transition to adolescence for young people with mental illness with the need for developmentally-attuned and culturally–competent strategies to engage and maintain them in treatment. Topics covered in this volume include, but are not limited to: Developmental Psychopathology and Resilience; Conceptualization of Mental Illness in Transitional Age Youth; Suicidal Behaviors and Suicide; Substance Abuse; Working with Parents/Family; Social Media; Youth Transitioning from Foster Care; Heading to College with a Psychiatric Diagnosis; Issues of Diversity, Integrated Identities and Mental Health in Transitional Age Youth; and Autism Spectrum Disorders, among others.

Note: This book is available in several languages: Dutch, English. For trainers free additional material of this book is available. This can be found under the "Training Material" tab. Log in with your trainer account to access the material. This book describes a process framework for business information management: the Business Information Services Library (BiSL®) a public domain standard that is consistent with the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Application Services Library (ASL). BiSL establishes a bridge between IT and business processes, and between business information administrators and information managers. The BiSL process model provides an insight into all of the primary processes within their field of operations and into the relationship between the various processes. It offers a starting point for the improvement of these processes using best practices, amongst other things, and it provides uniform terminology. This book explains BiSL, a process framework for business information management, encompassing the best way to manage and execute business information management in day-to-day practice, and explains how the framework BiSL can help to improve business processes and the alignment of business and IT. Additional Training material is available for free for APMG accredited trainers. If you want to have this sent to you, please send an e-mail to: info@vanharen.net Click here for an overview of the second of BiSL, the ASL BiSL Foundation s Business Information Services Library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABBrno62uo

Integrating practitioner research with Buddhist philosophy, business and clinical psychology, this book provides a new perspective on leading change in organisations, supporting leaders and change professionals with insight into useful practices for today’s business environment. It identifies the unseen and overlooked complexities of the transition space, helping leaders to recognize patterns in their own leadership practices. This volume includes approaches for working at the intersection of complexity and ambiguity, and discusses how different mindsets impact behavior and outcomes which may get in the way of change agendas. It focuses on approaches for navigating the challenges of organisational transitions, while developing sustainable transition capabilities and practices A comprehensive new framework for understanding and shaping business management, Transition Leadership is a valuable resource for students and researches of business practices, work psychology, and transition and change, as well as current and future business and organizational leaders.

This Open Access book presents feedback from the ‘Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with agroecological transition: diversity of agriculture models, management of uncertainties, polycentric governance, autonomies, and role of actors’ networks; ii) an operational and original participatory process and associated boundary tools to support local stakeholders in shifting from a shared diagnosis to a shared action plan for transition, and in so doing developing mutual understanding and involvement; iii) an analysis of the main effects of the methodology on research organisation and on stakeholders’ development and application; iv) critical analysis and foresights on the main outcomes of TATA-BOX, provided by external researchers.