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Graduate students in social work are dedicated to gaining the skills and knowledge to promote individual, family, and community well-being. Yet, students often struggle with translating research concepts into best practice. They must garner the skills to...

Not Just Bad Kids: The Adversity and Disruptive Behavior Link explores the theory that all behavior makes sense in context. If you understand a person's frame of reference - their background, history and experience - you can imagine what might be driving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Motivational) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780060897833Author Alexandra StoddardFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305048Author Luigi ZojaFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 628g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061435638Author Alexandra StoddardFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 434g

`This is an excellent book. It builds well on Peter Jenkins' admirable earlier contribution to our knowledge of the many legal matters that are of vital concern to counsellors (Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law, SAGE 1997) It is mY intention, as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305925Author Regina AbtFormat HardbackPage Count 478Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 1134g

Resilience is a biopsychosocial phenomenon-it encompasses personal, interpersonal, and community experiences. Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience reviews the current research and details differing levels and approaches to...

Widely used by scientists, practitioners,students, and translators, the two-volume English-German / German-English Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry is generally regarded as the most exhaustive bilingual compilation of terminology in these fields...

In Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film, Harry Trosman demonstrates that a psychoanalytic point of view can vastly enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. Drawing on current psychoanalytic views of the...

This volume provides a reflexive social history of the development of the psychology of women as an academic field of research and teaching. Core areas of concern in feminist psychology are examined, including discrimination, power and social control,...

This book provides an historical and contemporary overview of the concept of transference in psychotherapy. The traditional view of transference is contrasted with the more modern relational view. The 'old' model views transference as a displacement of...

"Doctors Mezzich and Hernandez have produced a comprehensive, progressive, and readable volume on a difficult and important topic. " -Library Journal Drawing from its vast intellectual resources, the World Psychiatric Association established a...

Michael Stern, PhD, is a clinical psychologist practicing in New York and New Jersey. He is an adjunct associate professor at Teachers' College of Columbia University, and a clinical supervisor in a number of other academic institutes. He has worked and...

In this fine book, Dr. Steven A. Frankel paints the portraits of his collaborating patients vividly, graphically and with consummate compassion. Treatment for Frankel is never a discussion and surely not one filled with the therapist's abstinence; it is...

`This book will be of use to counsellors seeking to develop existing skills in school settings. The authors present clear descriptions of various counselling skills, and practical ideas around working with secondary aged pupils' - Education Psychology in...

Following the Roman poet Virgil metaphorically, T. Byram Karasu unflinchingly plunges into the depths of our collective unconscious. With this luminous book of poems, he draws on profound psychological insights to reveal much about the human mind. Karasu...

In 1932 Einstein asked Freud, `Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?' Freud answered that war is inevitable because humans have an instinct to self-destroy, a death instinct which we must externalize to survive. But nearly four...

This selection of essays by one of C. G. Jung's favorite and most creative students explores important connections between analytical psychology and the study of literature and art. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788178990514Author Jennifer GazeFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Sai Towers PublishingPublisher Sai Towers Publishing

A simple step-by-step science-backed system that actually affects your anxiety ridden brain and is guaranteed to transform everypreviouslyfearful public speakerinto a much admiredpresenter. Do you break into a cold sweat when you have to give a speech?...

Eagerly awaited by many counsellors and psychotherapists, this new edition includes an updated preface, new content on recent research and new developments and debates around relational depth, and new case studies. This groundbreaking text goes to...

While current textbooks in health psychology offer the reader some conceptual reasoning about different aspects of the discipline, there is no one source which provides an accessible, navigable and cross-referenced analysis of the major models and ideas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783952446829Author Regina Abt-BaechiFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint Living Human Heritage Publications Professor Dr. Theodor AbtPublisher Living Human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305123Author Robert HinshawFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 846g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305840Author Mary Ann MattoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 939g

An inspirational, illustrated gift book for couples at any stage of matrimony features a parable in which an elderly couple counsels a young bride and groom about the challenges they will face and reveals twelve qualities that can safeguard marital...

Is it "right" for children to believe in myths? By encouraging such myths, are parents lying to children? Moreover, do these imaginary figures undermine religious faith and encourage materialism in children? This text explores how the children themselves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061491153Author Deborah Kwan, Kevin AaronsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 448g

The problem of free will arises from ordinary, commonsense reflection. Shaun Nichols examines these ordinary attitudes from a naturalistic perspective. He offers a psychological account of the origins of the problem of free will. According to his account...

Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world. What causes a person to kill innocent strangers in the name of religion? As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion, James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to...

Psychology has become a global profession. Professionals are now readily able to practice in geographic areas far from where they were trained. In practice, psychology has a social contract with the public to promote human and societal welfare, all the...

In Sherrington's Loom, Alan McComas provides a historical account of the research that has led to recognition of key mechanisms underlying consciousness. Evidence is assembled from a rich variety of sources--neurological patients, animal behavior,...

God and Psychology: How the Early Religious Development of Famous Psychologists Influenced their Work examines the impact their religious background had on the lives and work of several famous psychologists. These are fascinating stories often overlooked...

Exploring Lifespan Development, Fourth Edition , the shorter, essentials version of Development Through the Lifespan , Seventh Edition, covers the same topics and contains the same number of chapters, but presents only the essential information, with an...

The malaise of melancholia has a long tradition in literature, theory, and the visual arts, from Durer's famous sixteenth-century engraving (Melencolia I) and Milton's "Il Penseroso," to Walter Benjamin's Arcades and Lars Von Triers' recent film...

Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist...

A lot of what is marketed to the public as psychology is actually quite unscientific. Attempting to counteract the tide of misinformation about what psychology really is, Popular Pscyhology: An Encyclopedia is a concise guide for anyone seeking to...

Is maternal instinct fact or fiction? What special challenges do adoptive parents face? What kind of daycare is better, one with many caregivers or one with few? When is separation anxiety normal in a child? Do the experiences of early childhood always...

US psychologist Abraham Maslow's A Theory of Human Motivation is a classic of psychological research that helped change the field for good. Like many field-changing thinkers, Maslow was not just a talented researcher, he was also a creative thinker -...