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Book SynopsisThis new and fully updated edition of the bestselling Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide brings this essential guide for ICF coaches up to date for 2024 and onwards. This book equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the ICF Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your practice is well-informed by evidence and is up to the highest professional standards.The book will also help you as you undertake any coaching training program, deepening your understanding of the core skills to be a coach and broadening your thinking as to how these can be applied with real clients in your own coaching practice. 

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Book SynopsisPart 1: Theoretical and Historical Context.- 1. Psychopathology revisited. Keys for a cultural understanding of pathologisations/de-pathologisations and their relationship with conceptions of mental health.- 2. "Defend yourself from madness": stigmatisation of mental illness in mental hygiene literature in Latin America at the beginning of the 20th century (1920-1960)".- 3. Approach to the aesthetic ways of the Pathos.- 4. The limits of the enunciation on the subject and the Pathos in psychoanalysis: The case of Autisms.- 5. Pathos and networks: notes for study on a circular relationship.- Part 2: Case Studies in Latin America.- 6. Care: following the micropolitics of pathologisation and depathologisation of children in Chilean schools.- 7. Pathologisation and depathologisation: a point of view based on psychoanalysis in Brazil.- 8. At risk or a risk: Latinas migrants in Europe, from vulnerability to social agency.- 9. Some guidelines to understand social discourses on pathologisation and well-being in public sports policies: a case study in Chile.- 10. Violence Saturation in the Lives of Black People in Latin America: The Pathology of Coloniality and What We Can Do About It.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction to Positive Psychology: A new paradigm for the wellness of students in universities.- Chapter 2: Examining Positive Psychology Interventions to boost mental health of students in universities in India.- Chapter 3: Effectiveness of gratitude focused-positive psychology interventions to enhance students’ mental health in higher education.- Chapter 4: Using Personal Growth Mindset Positive Psychology Interventions (PPI’s) to Boost Well-being of Students in Universities.- Chapter 5: Programmes for Promoting University Students' Well Being.- chapter 6: Self-control-positive psychology interventions to enhance mental health of students in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 7: Adoption of Positive Spirituality and Religiosity to Strengthen the Well-being of Students in Universities in Uganda.- Chapter 8: Positive psychology interventions: Navigating Social relationships to enhance mental health and well-being of students in Universities in Africa.- Chapter 9: Meaning of life based positive psychology interventions and mental health of students in universities: Implications for inclusive education.- Chapter 10: Unmasking Positive Psychology Interventions Utilized to Boost the Psychological Well-Being of Students in Universities in Africa.- Chapter 11: Optimism-based positive psychology interventions for well-being of students in Africa.- Chapter 12: Benefits of character strengths and virtues in enhancing the well-being of students: An integrated literature review.- Chapter 13: Benefits of happiness interventions in positive psychology frameworks to boost the well-being of students in universities.- chapter 14: Using Mindfulness Strategies in Strengthening the Well-Being of Students in Universities.- Chapter 15: Positive-Empathy-oriented interventions and well-being of students in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 16: Multilingualism as a resource: A systematic review on the use of translanguaging for the well-being of students in primary education.- Chapter 17: Utilizing strength-based positive psychology interventions to enhance students' well-being and mental health in African universities.- Chapter 18: Utilizing positive psychology initiatives to enhance inclusion of people with disabilities in research: The emancipatory approach.- Chapter 19: The organizational trust - the magic ingredient of well-being among students in higher education institutions.- Index.

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Book Synopsis1 Introduction: Lacan and Italy.- 2 The History of Italian Lacanianism.- 3 Clinic.- 4 Politics.- 5 Aesthetics.- 6 Conclusion: Towards an Affirmative Real.

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Book SynopsisThe issue of adolescents and young adults amid a pandemic and civilizational crisis: an explosive cocktail that urgently needs to be resolved.A complete and transdisciplinary view of extremism and violent radicalization processWhy do we need positive existential psychology to address this complex phenomenon?.- I: Initiatory rites, the hero's journey, and strategies for preventing violent radicalizationand risky behaviors.- II: Positive psychology and education can help meet basic psychological needs through socio-emotional learning and character strengths.- III: Positive psychology and education can meet the needs for belonging and connections, particularly through resilience mechanisms.- IV: Positive existential psychology and education can offer responses to the needs for identity, meaning and spirituality.- V Existential positive psychology as a cross-cutting approach in education.- I: Initiatory rites, the hero's journey, and strategies for preventing violent radicalizationand risky behaviors We have descript the extremism process in term of anti-initiatic.- II: Positive psychology and education can help meet basic psychological needs through socio-emotional learning and character strengths.- III: Positive psychology and education can meet the needs for belonging and connections, particularly through resilience mechanisms.- IV Positive existential psychology and positive education can offer answers to the needs for identity, meaning, and spirituality.- V Existential positive psychology as a cross-cutting approach in education.

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Book Synopsis1. The Good, the Bad, and the Radical.- Part II Theory.- 2. Compassion and Justice: Integrating the Two Roles of Radical.- 3. (Anti)Capitalist Therapeutics: Analyzing Psychotherapy’s Role within Capitalism and Proposing a Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy (CLP) Alternative.- 4. Radical Epistemologies for Radical Psychologists.- Part III Practice.- 5. The Radical Circle: Toward a Psychological Counter-Hegemony.- 6. Personal and Social Liberation: Necessary Foundations for Radical Therapy.- 7. Transformative Therapies for Holistic Liberation.- 8. Psychoanalysis, Revolution, and the Red Clinic.- 9. Working as a Therapist in an Unjust Mental Health Care System.- Part IV Context.- 10. For the Breathless to Breathe: Frantz Fanon’s Clinic.- 11. Working as a Therapist with Victims of Social Injustice.- 12. Radical Youth Work: A Community Based Approach to Working with Youth, Young Adults and Families.- Part V Sublation.- 13. Self-death As a Symbol of Radical Freedom.- 14. How to Ruin Your Clients – Mindfulness as Cruelty.- 15. Facing the Abyss: Daoist Contemplative Psychology as Old/New Paradigm.- Part VI Concluding Thoughts.- 16. To Arms! Psychotherapy as Class Warfare.

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Book SynopsisJoseph Pieper and Marinus van Uden have proposed a book consisting of previously published papers on the topics of religion, coping, and mental health care. It covers quite a bit of territory: the complex relationships between religion and mental health, surveys that present the views of therapists and patients about the interface between religion and mental health, a case study of a religious patient struggling with psychological problems, empirical studies of religious coping among various groups, and a method for teaching the clinical psychology of religion. Although the papers are diverse, they are unified by several themes. First, the papers convey a balanced approach to religion and psychology. They speak to the potentially positive and negative contributions religion can make to health and well-being. Second, several of the papers focus on the role of religious coping among patients in the Netherlands. This focus is noteworthy since the large majority of this theory and research has been limited to the USA. Third, they underscore the value of a cross-cultural approach to the field. Their surveys point to the importance of religious/worldview perspectives to many patients (and therapists) in the Netherlands, even though the culture is more secularised than the USA. However, their papers also suggest that the manifestation of these religious/worldview perspectives may take different shape in the Netherlands. Fourth, the papers have clinical relevance. The case history of the obsessive-compulsive patient by Van Uden (ch. 4) contains an excellent example of the way in which religious resources can be accessed to counter dysfunctional behaviours. This volume shows initial effort in a newly emerging area of study. It is encouraging to see a significant body of research and practice on the psychology of religion and coping coming out of the Netherlands. It could stimulate further advances in a more cross-culturally sensitive, clinical psychology of religion. – Kenneth Pargament, Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University in Ohio, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Ch. 1: Mental Health and Religion: A Complex Relationship Ch. 2: Religion in Mental Health Care: Patients’ Views Ch. 3: Religion in Mental Health Care: Psychotherapists’ Views Ch. 4: Psychotherapy and Religious Problems: Illustration by Means of a Case History Ch. 5: Religious Coping in Two Samples of Psychiatric Inpatients Ch. 6: “When I Find Myself in Times of Trouble …”: Pargament’s Religious Coping Scales in the Netherlands Ch. 7: “Bridge over Troubled Water”: Further Results Regarding The Receptive Coping Scale Ch. 8: Clinical Psychology of Religion. A Training Model Bibliography Subject Index About the authors

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Book SynopsisIn Heidegger and the Question of Psychology: Zollikon and Beyond, Mark Letteri acquaints a broad readership (such as psychotherapists and counselors, not just professional philosophers) with Martin Heidegger’s connections to psychology and related concerns, and offers specialists one of the few monographic treatments of the topic. He provides an accessible and relatively non-technical treatment. Keenly aware of the standard difficulties with Heidegger (whether real or perceived), Letteri endeavors to render the most relevant points in a clear and succinct way. The book serves as a companion to Heidegger’s Zollikon Seminars and Being and Time as it concerns psychological and associated matters.Trade Review"Mark Letteri’s Heidegger and the Question of Psychology introduces psychologists and psychotherapists to a number of key ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger—the most influential and controversial philosopher of the 20th century. Letteri’s book is at once engaging and informative. Its scope of argument provides readers with a clear and accessible grounding for Heidegger’s concerns and their implications for the ways they might think about—and “do” —psychology. Revealing a depth of scholarly knowledge and acumen, Letteri challenges readers to consider Heidegger’s greatest challenge to psychology: to re-construe its dualist and reductive image of the human being. This is a book I unreservedly recommend to all professionals and trainees who view psychology as something more than a technological tool." – Professor Ernesto Spinelli, PhD, Director, ES AssociatesTable of ContentsEmmy VAN DEURZEN: Guest Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Being in the World Da-sein: Opening Thoughts Da-sein: Integral Realities Part Two: Ways of Being Da-sein as Possibility Further Connections Conclusion Works Cited About the Author Index

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