Selected Recent Publications
Navigating Emotional Realities with Adults: Emotional Poverty at Work
by Ruby K. Payne and Jim Ott
The third installment in the popular Emotional Poverty series takes the conversation out of schools to talk about adults and emotional wellness at work.
Tactical Communication: Effective Interaction Tools for First Responders (3rd ed.)
by Jodi R. Pfarr, with Angel A. D. Tucker and Gary D. Rudick
Officers Rudick and Tucker brought a community-centered and trauma-informed policing perspective that reinvigorated this backlist title.
Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities (5th ed.)
by Ruby K. Payne, Philip E. DeVol, and Terie Druessi-Smith, with Eugene K. Krebs
In this edition, the authors confronted racism in a way aha! Process books had never done before. The impacts of George Floyd’s murder and the summer of racial reckoning that followed are at the fore of this book.
Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World: Building Your Resources for a Better Life (4th ed.)
by Philip E. DeVol
Guided, compensated group exploration for people experiencing poverty meant to foster leaders who work for change at the policy level.
Emotional Poverty, Volume 2: Safer Students and Less-Stressed Teachers
by Ruby K. Payne
Payne’s follow-up to the immensely popular Emotional Poverty added a more teacher-focused approach to the emotional wellness of classrooms and schools.
Before You Quit Teaching: Tools, Resources, and Hope for New Teachers in High-Poverty Classrooms
by Ruby K. Payne
I pitched this visuals-based ebook as a cross-platform loss leader, sourced the stock assets, published it on Instagram and other platforms, and created a free audiobook using Amazon Polly (text to speech).
A Framework for Understanding Poverty: A Cognitive Approach for Educators, Employers, and Service Providers (6th ed.)
by Ruby K. Payne
Important update in which Payne confronts the intersectionality of economic inequality, race, and cultural and linguistic marginalization. Framework has sold more than 1.8 million copies throughout its lifetime.
Emotional Poverty in All Demographics: How to Reduce Anger, Anxiety, and Violence in the Classroom
by Ruby K. Payne
Payne shifts her focus from economic class to emotional wellness. Drawing from respected psychology texts, pop psych, self-help, and experimental work in the field, this book is full of help for teachers and sells well.
Bridges Across Every Divide: Policy and Practices to Reduce Poverty and Build Communities
by Philip E. DeVol and Eugene K. Krebs
DeVol, a progressive, writes with Krebs, a conservative, about putting differences aside to focus on solving poverty in communities.