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  • The Solution-focused Parent

    How to Help Children Conquer Challenges by Learning Skills

    by Ben Furman ...
    This practical book presents readers with a skills-based, child rearing approach to supporting a child’s growth and helping them overcome both minor and major developmental challenges.In contrast to conventional approaches to child psychology, this innovative approach focuses on developing children’s abilities rather than concentrating on and trying to fix their “problems.” Additionally, instead ... Read more

    21,97 €

  • 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

    36,63 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    108,53 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    42,92 €

  • 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

    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

    Was 43,96 € Now 39,07 €

  • Becoming a Counsellor

    A Student Companion

    by Kirsten Amis ...
    Becoming a Counsellor is a one-stop reference book for all new counselling trainees. Whether starting out on an introductory course or tackling a postgraduate diploma, this book will make the journey to professional qualification that little bit easier. It addresses the complexities and challenges of counselling training by confronting and unpicking the many potentially daunting issues and ... Read more

    61,47 €

  • Handbook of Humility

    Theory, Research, and Applications

    The Handbook of Humility is the first scholarly book to bring together authors from psychology as well as other fields to address what we know and don’t know about humility. Authors review the existing research in this burgeoning field that has well over 100 empirical articles and an increasing trajectory of publication. This work should form the basis for research in humility for many years.In ... Read more

    166,09 €

  • Speaking Freely

    My Life in Publishing and Human Rights

    What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Václav Havel to worldwide attention in his role as the father of modern human rights.Starting as an office boy ... Read more

    18,33 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    36,88 €

  • Developing Practice Guidelines for Social Work Intervention

    Issues, Methods, and Research Agenda

    Edited by Aaron Rosen, Enola Proctor ...
    This book bridges the gap between social work knowledge and empirically based practice. Although there is a significant need for the use of empirically tested and verified knowledge in social work practice, the empirical basis of support is nearly absent from practitioners'considerations as they make clinical decisions in routine practice. The authors advocate the development of readily available, ... Read more

    28,72 €

  • White Privilege Unmasked

    How to Be Part of the Solution

    by Judy Ryde ...
    All white people understand cultural differences from a platform of relative privilege, affecting their personal and professional interactions. How should they respond when confronted with this knowledge? This introductory book looks at the concept of whiteness, and shows how individuals can 'unmask' their own whiteness and take meaningful steps to break down unconscious bias and structural racism ... Read more

    17,06 €

  • Diriger au sein des nouvelles organisations sociales et médico-sociales

    Donner du sens à l'action

    En réponse aux orientations des politiques sociales et de la commande publique, les associations gestionnaires des ESMS se sont profondément transformées. Ces mutations impactent les fonctions politico-stratégiques relevant de la dirigeance (directions générales), en lien et par délégation de la gouvernance, les fonctions supports incarnées par « le siège », les fonctions de direction ... Read more

    23,99 €

  • Developing Trauma-Responsive Approaches to Student Discipline

    A Guide to Trauma-Informed Practice in PreK-12 Schools

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Building on comprehensive research conducted in US schools, this accessible volume offers an effective model of school leadership to develop and implement school-wide, trauma-responsive approaches to student discipline.Recognizing that challenging student behaviours are often rooted in early experiences of trauma, the volume builds on a model from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ... Read more

    26,86 €

  • Delivering Psycho-educational Evaluation Results to Parents

    A Practitioner’s Model

    Delivering Psycho-educational Evaluation Results to Parents presents a concrete and adaptable Feedback Model that efficiently communicates complex evaluation results to parents in an easily understandable manner.The book discusses a model rooted in basic learning principles, effective communication practices, and practitioner empathy towards the parent experience of the home-school relationship, ... Read more

    45,18 €

  • Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening

    Becoming an Unaccompanied Child

    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This book is about 20 young unaccompanied refugees who have sought refuge in Europe and how they experience and try to navigate their new situations, including their contacts with social workers, friends and family members left behind.The book contains stories of powerlessness and frustration from being held under suspicion, from meeting authorities and abstract people of power from "the system," ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy

    by Dennis Lines ...
    `Fascinating. There is much here that is controversial, thought provoking and very useful. It is encyclopaedic in its breadth and use of knowledge. [Like] rich food [it] needs to be taken in slowly, savouring every morsel!′ - Thresholds`[Spirituality] has been traditionally ′taboo′ within the counselling and psychotherapy profession. Denis Lines comes into this controversial scene with a rigorous ... Read more

    69,74 €

  • Trauma and Birth

    A Handbook for Maternity Staff

    Our book aims to provide those working in the maternity services, including those in general practices, with an understanding of what it means to be on the receiving end of care. Together with a description of various types of traumatic birth, we explain some of the reasons why women vary in terms of how traumatised they are by their birth experience. We provide information, encouragement and ... Read more

    45,18 €

  • Working With Troubled Men

    A Contemporary Practitioner's Guide

    This book offers a concise, readable, research-grounded synthesis of the special concerns mental health and other helping professionals need to address when working with men today, and explains a wealth of effective gender-specific approaches to assessment and intervention that result in more successful outcomes for male clients.Many more women than men seek counseling and therapy, and to some ... Read more

    61,05 €

  • Cognitive Therapy in a Nutshell

    Series series Counselling in a Nutshell
    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in a Nutshell - Second Edition is a concise introduction to one of the most widely-practised approaches to counselling and psychotherapy.Leading authors, Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden, explain the model and the core techniques used during the therapeutic process to:- elicit and examine negative automatic thoughts- uncover and explore underlying assumptions, rules ... Read more

    45,36 €

  • Violenze al bivio

    Quando la violenza di genere viene esercitata nei contesti sociali, professionali, familiari

    by AA.VV ...
    Il volume affronta il fenomeno della violenza di genere da una prospettiva interdisciplinare. Medici, psicologi, sociologi, demografi, filosofi, politologi, musicisti, letterati, economisti si sono confrontati sul tema: dagli elementi costitutivi della violenza a una lettura sociologica per delineare i contesti a rischio; dalla violenza nei contesti professionali alla violenza come fenomeno ... Read more

    30,99 €

  • Neuropsychosocial Intervention

    The Practical Treatment of Severe Behavioral Dyscontrol After Acquired Brain Injury

    Neuropsychosocial intervention is an innovative and clinically proven treatment approach to severe behavioral problems that can affect persons with acquired brain injury. This book outlines the nature and significance of behavioral dyscontrol, explains aggression, and details the neuropsychosocial treatment approach and the principles on which it i ... Read more

    222,27 €