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The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes Forester
Working from accounts of practitioners in urban and rural settings, North and South, this text shows how skillful deliberative practices can facilitate practical and timely participatory planning processes. In so doing, it provides a window onto …
Outliners The Story of Success Malcom Gladwell
Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us …
7 Habits of Highly Effective Families Stepehen Covey
The long awaited book that offers precious lessons in creating and sustaining a strong family culture in a turbulent world.With the same profound insight, simplicity, and practical wisdom that propelled The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to …
My Dearest Enemy My Dearest Friend Dorothy Rowe
Stories about siblings abound in literature, drama, comedy, biography, and history. We rarely talk about our own siblings without emotion, whether with love and gratitude, or exasperation, bitterness, anger and hate. Nevertheless, the subject of …
How to Live Forever or Die Trying Bryan Appelyard
dazzling, funny, alarming, entertaining and thought–provoking look at immortality and how some believe it will soon be within our reach. ‘I want to live forever’ sang the kids from FAME — and they are not alone. The search for immortality has …
Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Mental Health Disorders J Resetar Volz, T Snyder & M Sterba
Research and experience show that children and adolescents who struggle with emotional, behavioral and social problems do improve when they learn prosocial skills. Social skill instruction, therefore, can be a vital component in the treatment …
Methamphetamine Addiction J M Roll, R A Rawson & W Ling
Separating myth from fact, this authoritative work reviews the breadth of current knowledge about methamphetamine addiction and describes the most promising available treatment approaches. Leading experts present state-of-the-art information on …
Princess Who Believed in Fairy Tales Marcia Grad
The Princess Who Believed in Fairy Tales is an enchanting and inspiring modern day story set in olden times that symbolizes the journey we all take through life as we sort out illusion from reality, come to terms with our childhood dreams and …
Social Work Practice with Men at Risk Rich Furman
Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice with men. Focusing on veterans, displaced workers, substance abusers, mental health consumers, and …
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Older People Ian Andrew James
The development of 'ageless' mental health services means that an increasing number of clinicians are now required to work with older people. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is recognised by all recent meta-analyses as the most effective therapy, …
The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology Suzanne Kirschner & jack Martin
The sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological subjects, such as the mind and the self, as processes that are constituted, or 'made up,' within specific social and cultural practices. In other words, though one's distinct psychology is …
Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be …
Doing Couple Therapy Robert Taibbi
Wise, compassionate, and highly practical, this engaging text covers the entire process of therapeutic work with couples, from opening sessions and assessment through skills building, addressing core issues, and termination. Students and novice …
People who are the most likely to be traumatized and to develop PTSD are often the least likely to receive treatment. These special populations often have limited social support and resources and face multiple life challenges. These factors, …
The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships R W Firestone & J Cattlett
Author, artist, and clinical psychologist Robert W. Firestone and collaborator Joyce Cattlet dig deep into the psychology of destructive behavior—both its source and how it manifests itself in personal relationships between men, women, couples, …
Grief in Childhood: Fundamentals of Treatment in Clincal Practice Michelle Pearlman
Children vary in their response to the death of a loved one. Some children develop relatively few symptoms or problems, while others face significant or prolonged symptoms, such as posttraumatic stress disorder or anxiety. Similarly, children …
Ethical Dilemmas in Fertility Counseling Judith Horowitz & Joann Paley Galst & Nanette Elster
Ethical Dilemmas in Fertility Counseling addresses the many quandaries encountered by mental health professionals who practice in the field of reproductive medicine. This book sets the standard for psychologists who work with donors and …
Phychoanalytic Aesthetics Nicky Glover
'This is a book to which the attention of students of art theory and criticism, and all those interested in the important application of psychoanalysis to other fields of study, should be drawn. 'Psychoanalytic Aesthetics' rethinks the classical …
Handbook of Individual Difference in Social Behavior Mark R Leary and Rick H Hoyle
How do individual differences interact with situational factors to shape social behavior? Are people with certain traits more likely to form lasting marriages; experience test-taking anxiety; break the law; feel optimistic about the future? This …
The Woman Within Rafael Lopez Corvo
Many will consider this book irreverent or disrespectful of ideas or institutions, but they should also perceive it as a defender of women and their unquestionable transcendence throughout history. The main ideas it shares are ones the author has …
The Organic and the Inner World Ronald Doctor and Richard Lucas
Psychiatry and psychoanalysis have often been perceived to be in opposition to one another, to the detriment of both disciplines. Rather than see “organic” psychiatry on one side and “dynamic” psychiatry on the other, the British Psychoanalytical …
Studies in Extended Metapsychology Donald Meltzer
The work of Wilfred Bion, being a major step forward in the psychoanalytical model making of the mental apparatus, will undoubtably require many years for its full assimilation into the thought and practice of workers in the field. To assist this …
Psychoanalysis has, from its inception, been a discipline concerned with overcoming the ill effects of certain social taboos. Freud’s understanding of the underlying cause of the emotional disturbances of his hysterical patients was that they …
Soul Making D Finiello Zervas & F Donfrancesco
Donfrancesco examines artistic experience with the eye of an analyst, and analytic experience with the eye of an artist. His writing is involved, understood and practised as an operation, a process which, particularly through the use of image, …
Ordinary Families, Special Children M Seligman & R Darling
This popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability and its effects on family life. The volume examines how child, family, ecological, and sociocultural variables intertwine to shape the ways …
The Imprinted Brain Christopher Badcock
'The Imprinted Brain' sets out a radical new theory of the mind and mental illness based on the recent discovery of genomic imprinting. Imprinted genes are those from one parent that, in that parent's interest, are expressed in an offspring …
The Fertile Body Method Shanie Hugo
The Fertile Body Method is a complete guide to working with fertility and related issues using hypnosis and other mind-body approaches. It offers in-depth information about infertility and possible causes and provides practitioners with a …
Psychological Science in the Courtroom J L Skeem, K S Douglas & S O Lilienfeld
This rigorous yet reader-friendly book reviews the state of the science on a broad range of psychological issues commonly encountered in the forensic context. The goal is to help professionals and students differentiate between supported and …
Group Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders A Cotugno
Given the significant core deficits in social interaction and communication that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrate, it is critical to understand and develop interventions which directly address these needs. This book …
Art as an Early Intervention Tool for Children with Autism Nicole Martin
The early years are the most critical period of learning for a child with autism. Therapeutic art-making can be a useful tool to tap into their imaginations and help them to express their thoughts and feelings. 'Art as an Early Intervention Tool …