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  • Migration and Wellbeing

    Towards a More Inclusive World

    This timely and comprehensive book delves into this complex and multi-faceted phenomenon of migration and illuminates its diverse facets and its profound influence on societies across the globe.In an era marked by unprecedented global mobility, as people move across continents in search of better lives, it has never been more crucial to explore the intricate tapestry of human migration. This ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Diversity, Inclusion and Culture Wars in Psychotherapy

    Edited by Del Loewenthal ...
    For the psychotherapist/psychological therapist, notions of diversity and inclusion, such as intersectional feminist, trans*, critical race/whiteness, migration, (in)equality, queer, disability, post-colonial, decolonial, approaches and studies, are both increasingly important, and yet increasingly difficult. This book explores these developments and raises the important questions: Are these ... Read more

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  • Decent Work, Inclusion and Sustainability

    This content-rich and inspirational book offers complementary theoretical and practical perspectives from detailed research and analysis of decent work, inclusion and sustainability issues in Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States and West Africa.In today’s turbulent world marked by risk and uncertainty, the values of decent work, ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Social Research

    Critical Methods for Social Change

    This text provides an easy-to-read introduction to qualitative research methods in social work, taking into account contemporary contexts and social conditions.Drawing from a range of social work perspectives, it allows the reader to make the connection between social work values, theory and specific research methods and approaches.Comprised of 11 chapters, it covers overarching epistemological ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Everyday Leadership

    Taking Charge in the Real World

    Everyday Leadership examines how individuals in everyday, relatively small settings can succeed in leadership positions.The book provides tools for tackling the unique psychological and external challenges that everyday leaders face, and offers principles that they can adapt to their own situations. Dr. Ahron Friedberg, who regularly advises leaders and would-be leaders, emphasizes the social ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Time and Trauma in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy

    The Wisdom of Andean Shamanism

    by Deborah Bryon ...
    This book explores the experience of time in psychoanalysis and Andean shamanism. It plots ways to work through unresolved trauma by expanding how we conceptualize both implicit and nonverbal atemporal experience, drawing from the rituals, narratives, and medicine of Andean shamans and quantum theory.Shifting between subjective states in time is fundamental in trauma work and psychoanalysis. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Eating Disorder Group Therapy

    A Collaborative Approach

    This is the only book that teaches clinicians how to run an effective, evidence-informed, and multi-disciplinary eating disorder group, incorporating psychoeducation, process group dynamics, and experiential elements.Whereas group therapy for eating disorders is widely used across many levels of care, the outpatient setting is uniquely poised to deliver effective, multi-disciplinary group therapy. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Children and Young People who Stammer and their Parents

    A Practical Guide from the Michael Palin Centre

    This book offers speech and language therapists, and other allied health professionals, a practical resource for working in a distinctive way with children and young people, and their parents, to achieve their ‘best hopes’ from therapy. The authors share a wealth of knowledge and experience from the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering about how they use Solution Focused Brief Therapy to enhance ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Challenges of Integrating Religion and Spirituality into Psychotherapy

    Integrity, Competence, and Cultural Pluralism in Clinical Practice

    Series series Advances in Mental Health Research
    This book examines personal and professional understandings of religion in psychotherapy and advocates for integrity, competency, and cultural pluralism in clinical practice.A major feature of this book is that it confirms the massive proliferation of religion-oriented approaches to counseling and therapy in recent years. It attributes this rise to opportunism and exaggerated individualism among ... Read more

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  • Studying Christian Spirituality

    Studying Christian Spirituality proposes a framework to discover how spirituality can be understood beyond the conventional boundaries that religions have established.Its nine chapters discuss a wide variety of issues and questions, which include: definitions of spirituality; the impact of models of God; human-spiritual development; the importance of context; historical criticism; anthropology; ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Interviewing and Diagnostic Exercises for Clinical and Counseling Skills Building

    This text is specifically designed to meet the needs of those teaching and learning interviewing and diagnostic skills in clinical, counselling, and school psychology, counselor education, licensed clinical social workers, and other programs preparing mental health professionals.It offers a rich array of practical, hands-on, class- and workshop-tested role-playing and didactic exercises. The ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Mourning Companion Animals

    Guiding Clients from Loss to Legacy

    Mourning Companion Animals is a guidebook for mental health clinicians searching for effective, compassionate resources to guide their clients through the often-devastating experience of animal companion loss.Chapters offer powerful and comprehensive strategies to heal animal companion loss based in sound, evidenced based, theoretical perspectives. The included author-generated inventory, the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

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  • Social Work and Common Sense

    A Critical Examination

    Rooted in a lively, critical approach to social work education and practice, Social Work and Common Sense challenges readers to think critically and more deeply about core facets of social work knowledge and ‘received ideas’. Garrett draws on the work of Antonio Gramsci to develop new, and often provocative, insights on attachment theory, creativity, anger, human rights, the ‘unmarried mother’ in ... Read more

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  • Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown

    This book introduces readers to the known psychological aspects of climate change as a pressing global concern and explores how they are relevant to current and future clinical practice.Arguing that it is vital for ecological concerns to enter the therapy room, this book calls for change from regulatory bodies, training institutes and individual practitioners. The book includes original thinking ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • 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

    $39.99 USD

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  • Foundations of the Psychological Intervention

    A Unifying Theoretical and Methodological Framework

    Foundations of the Psychological Intervention presents a new General Theory for Psychological Intervention (GTPI), delving into how its methodology can be applied across diverse psychological contexts.Rooted in semiotic cultural psychology and guided by the GTPI framework, this book offers a cohesive perspective of psychology, addressing the prevailing fragmentation evident in various domains of ... Read more

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  • Psychoanalytically Informed Play Therapy

    Fantasy-Exposure Life-Narrative Therapy

    Psychoanalytically Informed Play Therapy: Fantasy-Exposure Life-Narrative Therapy is a structured manual for the execution of FELT, an integrative play therapy that marries the analytic, relational, and psychodynamic aspects of traditional Play Therapy with the scientific rigor and replicability standards of clinical empiricism.Jason Steadman’s FELT model creates a structured, empirically derived ... Read more

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  • Managing Without Power

    Seven Alternative Ways to be Influential

    Largely inspired by the work of the American social psychologist Dr. Claude Steiner and the theory of Transactional Analysis, this book explores alternatives to power and how we can use these to work and manage more effectively, with integrity and joy.Within this book, the authors examine and expand on Steiner’s idiosyncratic views on the role of ‘power’ in our lives and work, which led to a new ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families

    A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

    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

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  • Polyvagal Power in the Playroom

    A Guide for Play Therapists

    Polyvagal Power in the Playroom shows therapists how to treat children using play therapy to address the hierarchy of autonomic states. What do children need and how do play therapists purposefully use the principles of play to increase the feeling states of safety and regulation? Step inside the playroom and discover how trained play therapists are addressing treatment using polyvagal theory when ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • World's End: Unravelling the Mysteries of Apocalypse Theories

    by SREEKUMAR V T ...
    "World's End: Unravelling the Mysteries of Apocalypse Theories" delves into the fascinating and often chilling realm of apocalyptic theories that have captured human imagination for centuries. From ancient prophecies to modern scientific hypotheses, this book explores the diverse beliefs and predictions surrounding the end of the world.Through meticulous research and engaging storytelling, the ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • KARA SWISHER

    The Adventures of a Journalist in a Tech-Obsessed World

    Get an inside look at the fascinating field of tech journalism by reading "Kara Swisher: The Adventures of a Journalist in a Tech-Obsessed World." Come along as daring Silicon Valley reporter Kara Swisher reveals the inner workings of the tech sector from its start to its current dominance on a worldwide scale.You are given access to an exciting story full of insightful observations, candid ... Read more

    $6.56 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art Therapy Directives

    An Intervention Toolbox

    Art Therapy Directives: An Intervention Toolbox is an all-inclusive manual of art therapy directives designed to be a comprehensive and organized resource for art therapists and other trained mental health professionals. Art therapy directives are directions for creating art and often require use of specific art media, both of which are tailored to the client’s particular need. Using this book, ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Navigating Ruptures, Repairs, and Termination Within the Therapeutic Process

    This book explores the importance of the therapeutic relationship, the tensions or disagreements that may emerge during a therapy session, and how they can be repaired.Dr. Koenigsberg introduces a two-part transtheoretical, psycholinguistic model which focuses on the connection between ruptures and the termination phase of therapy, emphasizing the verbal and nonverbal nuances of language, to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD