Take Your First Step Toward True Evolution Ever wonder why you repeat the same negative thoughts in your head? Why you keep coming back for more from hurtful family members, friends, or significant others? Why you keep falling into the same detrimental habits or limiting attitudes--even when you know that they are going to make you feel bad? Dr. Joe Dispenza has spent decades studying the human mind--how it works, how it stores information, and why it perpetuates the same behavioral patterns ove...
This book offers a look at behaviour modification principles and their application in clinical, home, school and work settings. By including both applied research and clinical intervention techniques, Kazdin's text provides a balance between research and practice. Readers are shown how behaviour-change principles can affect a range of behaviours, including psychological and medical problems, academic performance, self-care skills and safety.
'The addiction field has long needed a comprehensive set of exercises counselors could use to guide patients through good treatment. The workbooks developed by Dr. Perkinson take the patient from the beginning of treatment to the end. They are written in such a manner that Dr. Perkinson is your mentor and is conversing with you, sharing with you his vast area of expertise and knowledge about recovery. These patient exercises meet the highest standards demanded by accrediting bodies' - Dr. Bob Ca...
Inside the Minds of Sexual Predators (Non-Series)
by Katherine M Ramsland and Patrick McGrain
A 12 WEEK JOURNEY TO PEACE OF MIND Will help anyone who experiences any of the following: Stress at home or in the workplace General Anxiety State or Anxiety Disorders such as OCD and Phobias Panic Attacks Depression, Low Mood or Melancholia Low Confidence and Self-Esteem If you have reached Breakdown or Burnout, this unique and life changing book will be invaluable to you. Whilst working in a mental health setting for 30 years Mary Heath soon discovered that everyone she encountered shared a si...
Victim Assistance (Springer Series on Family Violence)
by Christine Edmunds and Thomas A. Underwood
Based on the acclaimed professional certificate program, Advanced Institute on Victim Studies: Critical Analysis of Victim Assistance, this book identifies core content areas essential for practitioners working with crime victims. Recognizing the multidisciplined, multisystem field that encompasses victim assistance, the contributors present a solid foundation of the varying concepts and theories on victims and victims services. The balance of the text addresses the skills and strategies needed...
This book recounts the author's personal and professional journey as a therapist and her movement beyond therapy. She argues that the dominant scientific and psychotherapeutic worldviews perpetuate the addictive processes they seek to cure, and she describes, for the first time in writing, her living process work - the unique model she has devised for healing addictions. Finally, she presents a new theory culled from the theoretical and philosophical issues that have emerged from her journey and...
Treating Abuse in Families : A Feminist and Community Approach
by Elaine Leeder
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
When he was eight years old, David Schwarz saw his father killed in front of him in a domestic dispute gone wrong. Despite going on to become a star footballplayer, playing 11 seasons with the Melbourne Football Club, the effect of this early shocking experience would shadow him throughout his successful sportingcareer. This is David Schwarz's honest and courageous story, told in full for the first time. Starting with the trauma of losing his father and riding the highsand lows of his football c...
Gay Writers add Their Stories to the Literary Canon of the deep South; What is it about the American South that continues to inspire its sons to write? Long caricatured and lampooned, the American South continues to fascinate and provide fertile fields for storytelling for its natives, especially its young gay men. These tales, now told by the current generation, still spring from the hearts, minds and groins. Told in the soft accents of the gay men who know both the horror and tenderness that i...