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  • Person-Centred Counselling in a Nutshell

    Series series Counselling in a Nutshell
    Person-Centred Counselling in a Nutshell is a short, accessible guide to one of the most popular approaches to counselling.Using examples drawn from practice, Roger Casemore outlines, in a clear, jargon-free style, the main principles of the person-centred approach, using the core therapeutic conditions:- congruence- unconditional regard- empathyThis revised and updated second edition includes new ... Read more

    42,60 €

  • Therapeutic Journal Writing

    An Introduction for Professionals

    by Kate Thompson ...
    Series series Writing for Therapy or Personal Development
    Writing a journal is not just about keeping a record of daily events - journal writing provides a unique therapeutic opportunity for facilitating healing and growth.The author of this book guides the reader through developing journal writing to use as a therapeutic tool. Keeping a journal can help the writer to develop a better understanding of themselves, their relationships and the world around ... Read more

    27,97 €

  • Educazione Democratica, numero 5, gennaio 2013

    Rivista di pedagogia politica

    by Autori Vari ...
    Educazione Democratica è una rivista di pedagogia politica pubblicata dalle Edizioni del Rosone e rilasciata con licenza Creative Commons. In questo numero un dossier su Dewey: educazione e bene comune. ... Read more

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  • Essential Life Coaching Skills

    by Angela Dunbar ...
    Series series Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge
    Essential Life Coaching Skills provides a comprehensive guide to the complete range and depth of skills required to succeed as a life coach.Angela Dunbar uses theoretical background alongside practical examples to provide a clear understanding of what makes a successful life coach. This book focuses on seven essential skill sets that are necessary for effective life coaching, with each chapter ... Read more

    34,08 €

  • Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling Process

    What causes clients in therapy to resist change? What mechanisms and devices do they use to defend against therapeutic progress? How can a therapist identify and work with such defenses in their clients? Understanding defense mechanisms is essential to understanding clients, managing resistance, clarifying conflicted behavior, and engendering more adaptive functioning. In Defense Mechanisms in the ... Read more

    107,69 €

  • New Directions in Gestalt Group Therapy

    Relational Ground, Authentic Self

    Gestalt therapists often work with groups. Group therapists from a variety of theoretical orientations frequently incorporate insights and methodology from gestalt therapy. New Directions in Gestalt Group Therapy: Relational Ground, Authentic Self was written with particular attention to both gestalt and group work specialists in providing a comprehensive reference for the practice of group ... Read more

    43,82 €

  • Becoming an Effective Family Therapist

    Research, Practice, and Case Stories

    by Peter Rober ...
    This book explores the link between the effectiveness of the family therapist and the complexity of the therapeutic relationship.For family therapists the therapeutic alliance is complex because there are different family members and the therapist must have an empathic relationship with each of them. Furthermore, the therapist is focused on facilitating the development of trust between the family ... Read more

    43,82 €

  • Supervision in Counseling

    Interdisciplinary Issues and Research

    A cross-disciplinary look at the latest research and effective approachesClinical supervision is crucial for learning and provides valuable support and evaluation of expertise and knowledge regardless of the discipline. Supervision in Counseling: Interdisciplinary Issues and Research explores the latest conceptual and empirical research in the pursuit of effective education in counseling across a ... Read more

    42,61 €

  • Utopian Thinking and Social Work

    by Chris Horsell ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This book highlights the importance of employing imaginative sensibilities to thinking and action in social work and social policy practice.Exploring the question of how ideas about utopia and utopian method can be used in social work practice and policy practice to address social inequalities, it shows that central to this critique is the argument that contemporary social policy responses and ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Changing Missions, Changing Lives

    How A Change Agent Can Turn The Ship And Create Impact

    WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THE PIECE OF IT YOU’RE STANDING ON?Over the past twenty years, we’ve seen a paradigmatic shift in the view of corporate engagement in social change. More corporations are looking beyond their core business to find ways to engage with consumers and stakeholders as change agents, whether it’s to promote economic development in historically ... Read more

    11,45 €

  • Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia

    Edited by Christian Aspalter ...
    Series series Social Policy in Modern Asia
    This book identifies the main causes of welfare state system extension, as well as the differences in welfare state system design and their consequences for human behavior and the future financial stability of the systems in place in different parts of Asia.Providing ten in-depth country case studies from across the region, including India, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and South Korea ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation

    Implications for Policy and Practice

    Social workers today not only face competing claims concerning the rights and needs of children and youth, but they also confront contradictions between policy and practice. Social workers are expected to fight for the best interests of the child, even though financial support for children's welfare and education grows scarce. They are asked to save "children at risk," while, at the same time, ... Read more

    64,23 €

  • Debout pour nos métiers du travail social !

    Le travail social est « un sport de combat ». Devant les réformes qui modifient l’exercice de leurs métiers, les auteurs se mobilisent collectivement pour défendre leur histoire, leurs pratiques et leurs formations. Notre modèle social, nourri d’égalité et de solidarité, n’est pas qu’affaire de droits, d’allocations et de services. Pour les différents métiers du travail social, qui sont, quoi qu ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • The Art of Helping Others

    Being Around, Being There, Being Wise

    When searching for someone to help them reflect upon and improve their lives, people tend to be drawn towards those who are compassionate, committed and wise. This book is aimed at those who recognise these qualities in themselves and wish to develop their capacity to engage with and help others.The authors argue for ways of approaching helping and counselling that are rooted in care and ... Read more

    25,96 €

  • Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families

    Culturally Responsive Practice

    Edited by Alan Dettlaff, Rowena Fong ...
    Designed for students of social work, public policy, ethnic studies, community development, and migration studies, Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families provides the best knowledge for culturally responsive practice with immigrant children, adolescents, and families. This textbook summarizes the unique circumstances of Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino, South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern ... Read more

    36,14 €

  • Health Through Faith and Community

    A Study Resource for Christian Faith Communities to Promote Personal and Social Well-Being

    by James W Ellor ...
    Use your personal faith to spread the health!Health Through Faith and Community is a unique study guide that encourages Christian congregations to enhance the well-being of individual church members as well as society as a whole. Presented as eight study sessions that can be used independently or combined for an in-depth learning process, this notebook-size guide includes unique insights and ... Read more

    73,05 €

  • Another Crescent Moon

    by Josh Cook ...
    The story of Cliff Emerson, a man with cerebral palsy and a big heart but no voice, and his friendship with Ayo, a new caregiver who listens differently-and takes big risks to help him feel more human.Cliff's unheard narrative, told from his perspective, traces the history of his care, from his time in the state hospital to his move into the group home where he has lived for twenty years. Though ... Read more

    5,29 €

  • Roses in Concrete

    Giving Foster Children the Future They Deserve

    by Andre Chapman ...
    André Chapman left his lucrative Silicon Valley career in high-tech sales to work full time in the field of foster care. Some questioned that move. But twenty-five years later, Unity Care Group, the organization he founded and directs, serves thousands of foster children and families, while stimulating revolutionary improvements in the fields of foster care and public education.Through these pages ... Read more

    9,11 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gummy Bears for Breakfast

    The Financial Predation of the Elderly in America

    When William needed an advocate, Olivia refused to stand by and watch a system swallow him whole.In this powerful true account, veteran entertainers Olivia and William pull back the curtain on the hidden struggles facing America's seniors. After witnessing nursing facilities attempt to manipulate and separate them-one trying to physically remove William from Olivia's car, another using deception ... Read more

    9,11 €

  • School Counselling in East and South-East Asia

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Series series Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia
    This book explores trends in the practice of school counselling in East and Southeast Asia in response to socioeconomic changes, developments in education and schooling, the growth of technology, and the legacy of the recent COVID-19 pandemic.The volume adopts an ecological perspective, taking into account both schools’ institutional contexts and the sociocultural settings in which school ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Curare senza allontanare.

    Esperienze di home visiting per il sostegno educativo alla famiglia

    by AA. VV. ...
    Il volume pone alcune domande sulla efficacia della prevenzione e sulla valutazione di produttività delle scelte operate per la tutela dei minori. Cerca di raccontare, ragionando, ciò che è possibile fare e ciò che si potrebbe fare in più. ... Read more

    30,99 €

  • The Human World Shapers

    Dare to question everything you thought you knew about history's most influential figures.This book, The Human World Shapers, isn't just another list. It isn't a ranking. It's a deep dive. We explore lives of people like Muhammad, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius. We examine Newton, Einstein, Gutenberg, and Columbus. We also look at lesser known, like Cai Lun. We go beyond biographies. We analyze their ... Read more

    6,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hero’s Mask

    by Richard Kagan ...
    The Hero’s Mask is an engaging novel about Carrie, an eleven-year old girl and her friends who work together to stop the bullies picking on their classmates as they unravel mysteries in their school. The novel traces Carrie’s discovery of strengths within herself, her family and her friends, despite losses and hardships in her family, and how Carrie is inspired by a new teacher who helps her learn ... Read more

    23,12 €

  • Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity

    Learn to reach out to these hidden Christians! Offering a wide variety of points of view from the welcoming to the traditional, Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity addresses one of the crucial issues facing the church in these shifting times. Pastors of all Christian churches, whatever their denomination or theology, are likely to be faced with pastoral care or counseling of someone ... Read more

    54,78 €