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  • Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling Process

    by Arthur J. Clark ...
    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

    108,53 €

  • Person-Centred Counselling in a Nutshell

    by Mr Roger Casemore ...
    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

    42,92 €

  • 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

    43,96 €

  • 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

    28,08 €

  • 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

    34,18 €

  • 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

    Free

  • New Directions in Gestalt Group Therapy

    Relational Ground, Authentic Self

    by Daisy Anne Reese, Peter H. Cole ...
    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

    43,96 €

  • Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families

    A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

    Edited by Lynn Louise Wonders, Mary L. Affee ...
    Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families is a comprehensive guide that provides an integrative and prescriptive approach to creating customized treatment plans. It’s an excellent textbook for graduate programs in social work, counseling, and family therapy and an invaluable guide for practicing clinicians in all settings.After exploring and explaining the many modalities for ... Read more

    41,51 €

  • Cultivating Professional Resilience in Direct Practice

    A Guide for Human Service Professionals

    by Jason M. Newell ...
    Overwhelming empirical evidence indicates that new social workers, particularly those going into child welfare or other trauma-related care, will discover emotional challenges including the indirect or secondary effects of the trauma work itself, professional burnout, and compassion fatigue. However, the newly revised CSWE Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) does not mandate the ... Read more

    30,31 €

  • La Chabraque : l’effet cheval pour aider à grandir

    Ombres d’ados et lieu de rêves

    by Marie-France ARDON, Patrick ARDON ...
    « Renaître par les métiers du cheval est le défi proposé à des jeunes en rupture de lien social par La Chabraque, un lieu de vie et d’accueil situé à Sever, dans l’Aveyron. Par des récits courts, offerts à une lecture libre, l’ouvrage donne à la notion de « vivre avec » du sens, des couleurs et du son, empruntés à l’amour, la filiation, le temps partagé, les espaces de la vie quotidienne. Autant ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Exposing the Sex Industry – Interviews with the Players

    by Violet Ivy ...
    Welcome to my interviews book. These are some of the ‘out of the ordinary’ friends I have met in my travels. I meet a range of people due to my involvement in the sex industry. There is no way I can be judgemental and I think that comes across. Live and let live is my motto. Prostitutes have been judged and discriminated against since time began. I’m not about to judge another minority group who ... Read more

    1,81 €

  • The Political Economy of Welfare in Latin America

    Universalism Deferred

    by Juan Cruz Ferre ...
    This innovative book analyses the hurdles preventing Latin American governments from implementing universalist welfare regimes. Juan Cruz Ferre presents a unique quantitative analysis of the persistent inequalities in welfare policy across this region including a three-dimensional diachronic assessment spanning inclusion, generosity, and equity.In The Political Economy of Welfare in Latin America, ... Read more

    26,70 €

  • Teaching Discipline & Self-Respect

    Effective Strategies, Anecdotes, and Lessons for Successful Classroom Management

    by SiriNam S. Khalsa ...
    Manage your classroom with proven, positive techniques that promote appropriate behavior.Teachers want to be able to teach the content they were trained to teach. Yet most teachers find themselves faced with the challenge of achieving effective classroom management. Highly readable and engaging, Teaching Discipline & Self-Respect offers guidelines, specific strategies, and structured activities ... Read more

    31,05 €

  • Helping Relationships With Older Adults

    From Theory to Practice

    by Adelle M. (McCollum) Williams ...
    Series series Counseling and Professional Identity
    "A definite read for students in counseling programs for improving the lives of older adults!"–Amy Gray-Graves, Webster UniversityHelping Relationships with Older Adults: From Theory to Practice examines the fundamental theoretical perspectives of the aging process with an emphasis on the healthy aspects of aging. Taking a comprehensive approach, the text addresses various therapeutic methods as ... Read more

    93,59 €

  • Adventure Group Psychotherapy

    An Experiential Approach to Treatment

    by Tony G. Alvarez, Gary Stauffer, D. Maurie Lung, Kim Sacksteder, Bobbi Beale, Anita R. Tucker ...
    Adventure Group Psychotherapy: An Experiential Approach to Treatment explores what is necessary for an experiential therapy group to function effectively, and the practical skills needed to inspire success.The authors describe how to use activities in a manner that produces the greatest opportunity for clients to reach their goals. Issues such as how to actively assess client functioning in the ... Read more

    51,28 €

  • Partager aujourd'hui

    by Guy Gilbert, Yveline Nicolas ...
    Voici 1 600 ans, aux portes d’Amiens, un jeune officier romain, en plein hiver, partageait son manteau avec un mendiant. Ce geste, maintes fois rappelé, représente le premier devoir de tout homme devant la détresse. Aujourd’hui encore, pourtant, on meurt de froid. Aujourd’hui encore, on souffre de la solitude. Aujourd’hui encore, on meurt de faim. Le sens collectif de la solidarité semble souvent ... Read more

    7,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Work in the Hospital Setting

    Interventions

    by C'sar M. Garc's Carranza DSW ...
    The book is about social work interventions in the different units of the hospital, from the history of social work in the hospital setting to the different units of the hospital, including emergency room, medical intensive care units, and discharge planning. The book is important because it is about the different interventions of the social worker with patients and families. ... Read more

    4,23 €

  • Research Design for Social Work and the Human Services

    by Jeane Anastas ...
    Research Design for Social Work and the Human Services integrates a range of research techniques into a single epistemological framework and presents a balanced approach to the teaching of research methods in the "helping professions." Jeane W. Anastas begins with a discussion of the different philosophical perspectives within which social research occurs and continues with problem formulation, ... Read more

    65,50 €

  • Group Work in Schools

    Edited by Bradley T. Erford ...
    The third edition of Group Work in Schools is designed to prepare counselors in school settings to successfully implement task, psycho-educational, and counseling groups in public and private educational settings.The chapters of this book are written by experts in the counseling profession and cover foundational, systemic, and applied topics essential to training top-caliber school counselors. ... Read more

    62,27 €

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Perinatal Mental Health Disorders

    Edited by Amy Wenzel ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook of Perinatal Mental Health Disorders comprehensively presents the leading, global research in understanding and clinically treating perinatal mental health disorders.In this wide-ranging book, Wenzel invites a global community of scholars and practitioners working in perinatal mental health to discuss contemporary empirical research in the field and how this ... Read more

    59,83 €

  • Archetypal Coaching

    Creating Synergies Through Astrology and Dream Work

    by Alba Carod ...
    Archetypal Coaching offers a transformative approach to personal growth, blending ancient Greek astrological foundations and dream work with modern coaching techniques, somatic awareness, and Jungian active imagination.Astrological archetypes illuminate the roots of struggles and highlight potential resources, while dreams act as a focused lens, bringing attention to issues that require immediate ... Read more

    39,07 €

  • Proposing Prosperity?

    Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America

    by Jennifer Randles ...
    "Fragile families"—unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially—are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship skills, are predicated on the hope that married couples can provide a more emotionally and financially ... Read more

    53,31 €

  • Community Work

    Theory into Practice

    by Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett ...
    Written by community workers from diverse contexts, this highly accessible guide equips practitioners and students working in a range of community settings to make the best use of theory in their work. The book focuses on the hope, excitement and possibilities that contemporary theory brings to practice and is essential reading for all those concerned with social justice, inclusion and equality ... Read more

    37,83 €

  • Supercorporate

    Distinction and Participation in Post-Hierarchy South Korea

    by Michael Prentice ...
    Series series Culture and Economic Life
    What should South Korean offices look like in a post-hierarchical world? In Supercorporate, anthropologist Michael M. Prentice examines a central tension in visions of big corporate life in South Korea's twenty-first century: should corporations be sites of fair distinction or equal participation?As South Korea distances itself from images and figures of a hierarchical past, Prentice argues that ... Read more

    24,58 €