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Fundamentals of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy helps therapists and counselors address the important questions of cognitive-behavior therapy—what to ask, how to respond to difficult exchanges with clients, and why to make chosen responses—and helps them get at the cognitive base of clients’ emotional disturbances more quickly. The book is unique in that it presents more than a textbook approach to problemsolving; it provides a wealth of data and philosophy that enables clinicians to respond more helpfully to client problems.
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November 17th, 2009
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In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Clinton McLemore— a leading expert on interpersonal relationships— gives you a powerful roadmap for promoting healthy and productive relationships. Toxic Relationships draws extensively from psychological research and Christian theology and is filled with practical strategies you can use to create better communication at home and at work. You will learn how to increase appreciation, tenderness, respect, comfort, and understanding in all of your relationships by recognizing the eight basic “default styles” that most of us use to respond to others. By using biblical examples, Dr. McLemore shows how we can change our own destructive behavior and influence the behavior of others by understanding these eight Toxic strategies:
Drifting
Intruding
Freeloading
Humiliating
Scurrying
Victimizing
Avoiding
Create loving and healthy relationships using these proven methods for transforming Toxic interactions with others.
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November 16th, 2009
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Both scholarly and practical, The third edition of this exceptional textbook continues its tradition of integrating clinical wisdom and scientific research to improve patient care and advocacy for children and families, commemorating Dr. Jerry Wiener’s immense contributions to The field of child and adolescent psychiatry.
Comprehensive, yet not so lengthy or detailed that it would discourage a resident in training or a busy practitioner looking for an update, this well-organized reference focuses on clinical issues (based on empirical research) and is thus extremely practical for everyday use.
Written by 88 distinguished experts, each of The 56 chapters in this informative work presents a summary of a core topic, blending clinical experience with evidence-based practices in assessment and treatment. Divided into 10 parts, this Third Edition has been revised and updated throughout to keep pace with accelerating progress in research on developmental psychopathology.
Clearly organized along diagnostic principles as presented in DSM-IV-TR, this textbook combines clinical wisdom with The latest in research. In addition to The many chapters that have been refreshed, some by adding junior faculty as coauthors, this third edition contains six new chapters and ten completely rewritten chapters with new principal authors.
- Two new chapters on economic issues and The role of culture and ethnicity.
- Three new authors on diagnostic interviews (structured and semistructured), rating scales, and psychological and neuropsychological testing
- New chapter on genetic testing
- The latest on schizophrenia and psychotic disorders and mood disorders in adolescents
- Four new authors on adjustment (and reactive) disorders, substance abuse disorder, and physical and sexual abuse of children
- Inpatient and partial hospitalization, residential milieu treatment, and group psychoTherapy
The third edition of this contemporary core textbook continues to be an invaluable addition to The libraries of generalist and specialist alike, from medical students and psychiatry residents to practitioners (e.g., child and adolescent psychiatrists, pediatricians, family physicians, general psychiatrists, advanced practice child psychiatric nurses, psychiatric social workers) and family law attorneys.
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November 12th, 2009
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Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman and Teresa M. Cooney’s Families in Context introduces foundational ideas and concepts about Families and applies them to issues and events relevant to today’s college student population. This comprehensive but concise paperback–written in clear, student-friendly language–fills the following needs not being met by existing texts:
* The text is structured consistently, featuring an overarching framework that combines family systems theory and ecological systems theory. This approach bridges both micro- and macro-perspectives on Families.
* Each chapter places Families squarely within their respective environments–their neighborhood, community, and national context–and provides conceptual linkages between the different aspects of family life.
* Diversity is integrated into each chapter. * The text’s emphasis on social context allows the exploration of Families in at least three ways: (1) how individuals live out their intimate experiences within Families and communities; (2) the impact of family groups on their neighborhoods and communities, and vice versa; and (3) the ways in which the larger social contexts influence Families within different class levels and racial groups.
* The book’s brevity and reasonable price allow ample time for instructors to easily supplement their courses with additional materials.
Each chapter opens with a “Did You Know?” box, detailing ideas related to chapter content and preparing students for the chapter’s topics. Similarly, a box entitled “Things to Think About” offers questions, definitions, or comments intended to provoke students’ critical thinking.
The text provides a “hands-on” approach by featuring critical-thinking activities at the end of each chapter, enabling students to apply learned concepts and principles. Finally, additional readings and a glossary of relevant theoretical concepts are provided.
A comprehensive electronic Instructor’s Manual/Testing Program accompanies the text–as well as a dedicated Website. In addition, an Interactive Student Study Guide is available.
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November 12th, 2009
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This text offers a practical and well-defined five-stage model of Social work practice with culturally diverse communities. While the book specifically looks at practice with persons of color (African-American, Asian -American, Latino, and First Nations people), it is intended to be relevant for culturally and ethnically sensitive practice with any individual or population.
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November 11th, 2009
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The disruptive and oppositional behavior of
Children with conduct disorders makes this population among the most difficult to treat. Yet even though well over half the
Children in therapy carry this diagnosis, there has been no empirically based, comprehensive approach to psychodynamic treatment. This new book admirably fills that gap.Written by an outstanding team of clinician-researchers working within an ego psychology and object relations framework, it presents three tested methods of treatment and shows how they can be used alone or in combination. The goal of each is to help the child manage aggression and express feelings in a way that is both communicative and safe. Individual play therapy seeks to strengthen the child’s ego; in parent-training therapy the therapist serves as a model of good parenting behavior; and in play group therapy peer interaction helps enhance the child’s sense of mastery and self-control.Rich transcripts from actual sessions and step-by-step exposition of play techniques and verbal interventions make this humane and practical book the ideal guide for both beginning and seasoned therapists.
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November 11th, 2009
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This practice-oriented text provides practical Strategies for counseling children and their families. The author stresses that children must be evaluated in terms of their whole environment, including whatever positive and/or negative parental influence exists. The author focuses on ways to involve parents in the counseling process. Because all children need to be approached as individuals, the author equips readers with the skills they need to be flexible and adaptive. A range of assessment and counseling techniques are presented–including play, art, and bibliotherapy–to give counselors diverse options. Case studies and dialogues illustrate how these techniques can be applied in practice. The book stresses that no one theory of practice can fit all children and adolescents.
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November 11th, 2009
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November 10th, 2009
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From the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), this text provides the reader with the information necessary to develop skills for assessing an individual’s health-related physical fitness. It provides a practical “how-to-do-it” approach for performing assessment skills effectively, and an understanding of the theory behind and the importance of each skill or assessment. This edition has a new chapter on postural analysis and body alignment assessments, new photographs of key assessments and techniques, and updated references to
ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Seventh Edition.
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November 10th, 2009
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“A fresh and exciting new voice in Italian crime fiction. Keep The translations coming.”-Booklist
It is 1946. De Luca suffers from insomnia and has lost his appetite. He’s got problems with women and a case that he can’t crack. In this second installment of The heralded De Luca trilogy, The Commissario is posing as a certain Giovanni Morandi to avoid reprisals for The role he played during The fascist dictatorship. Exposed by a member of The partisan police, De Luca is forced to investigate a series of brutal murders, becoming a reluctant player in Italy’s postwar power struggle.
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November 10th, 2009
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