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Book SynopsisThis book locates 101 practical coaching supervision techniques in their theoretical context. It is organised into ten chapters, each reflecting a different philosophical basis for the coaching supervision work: Existential, Gestalt, Person Centred, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic, Solution Focused, Systemic, Thinking Environment, Transpersonal and finally an Eclectic chapter.With contributions and insights from leaders in the field, this book outlines the different philosophies and their principles and explains their application in practice. The book will help readers determine which technique to use and when, as well as offering a step-by-step guide to implementing or adapting it for their own work. With a breadth of techniques, the book will help all supervisors broaden their repertoire and ultimately become a better practitioner.Accessible and practical, this book is a valuable resource for experienced and novice supervisors as well as their supervisees. ItTrade Review"… 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments is written for a primary audience of coaching supervisors, new and experienced. Lucas suggests that coaches may also benefit from the book, in developing their independent reflective practice. With ten philosophies and 101 approaches and techniques, Lucas’ book is a substantial addition to the existing publications in the field of coaching supervision. Its style, somewhere between a book and toolkit, will appeal to a wide audience in search of coaching supervision practices grounded in their own philosophical approaches."Extract from a review by Francoise Orlov in Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, November 2020, 63-64.Table of ContentsForeword, Introduction, Chapter 1: An Eclectic Approach to Coaching Supervision, by David Clutterbuck; 3-2-1: A Reflective Writing Technique by Liz Ford, Affirmations and Alternatives by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Arrivals & Departures with Picture Cards by Michelle Lucas and Charlotte Housden, Building Confidence: Authority, Presence and Impact by Julia Menaul, Capturing Journeys on a Big Scale by Michelle Lucas and Andy King, Deepening Reflection by Tammy Turner, Developing Behavioural Flexibility by Anne Calleja, Developing Coach Maturity by David Clutterbuck, Developing Courage: Naming Elephants and Speaking Truth to Power by Marie Faire, Dilemma Cards by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Exploring Boundaries by Angela Dunbar, Exploring Relationships with Clean Language by Angela Dunbar, Exploring the Supervisee’s Client with Clean Networks by Angela Dunbar, Feeling Stuck by Anne Calleja, Fishbowl Supervision by Michelle Lucas & Tammy Turner , I am Part of a System by Tammy Turner , Issues, Insights, Ideas and Intentions by David Clutterbuck, Keeping It Real by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Line of Enquiry by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Metaphor Magic Box by Lily Seto, Making Friends with our Inner Critic by Clare Norman, Mentor Coaching by Clare Norman, Misfits by Michelle Lucas, Quiet by Michelle Lucas , Reflecting Through Action Inquiry by Christine Champion, Reflective Writing by Michelle Lucas and Christine Champion, Rehearse, Review, Repeat… by Michelle Lucas, Tammy Turner and Carol Whitaker, Rush Writing by Clare Norman, Seven Conversations by David Clutterbuck, Situation-Thoughts-Consequences by Carmelina Lawton-Smith, Supervising with Developmental Action Logics by Claire Davey , Supervision with LEGO® by Damian Goldvarg, Tapping into The Client Perspective by Lesley Matile , The Supervisor in ‘Tutor’ Mode by David Clutterbuck, The Three C’s: Contract, Competence and Client’s Best Interest by Marie Faire, Tree Perspectives: growing your practice through creative reflective writing by Jackee Holder, Trial Triumph Trivia by Clare Norman, Use of Attachment Theory in Supervision by Henry Campion, Using AI in Supervision by David Clutterbuck, Using Vision Boards by Liz Ford, Writing the Labyrinth by Jackee Holder, Chapter 2: An Existential Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Ernesto Spinelli; Deliberately Self-Centred Supervision by Michelle Lucas, Harnessing Self-Doubt by Michelle Lucas, Intentions and Interventions by Benita Treanor, The Value of Noticing by Diane Hanna, Working with Shame Using Embodied Coaching by Tsafi Lederman and Jenny Stacey, Chapter 3: A Gestalt Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Julie Allan and Alison Whybrow; Giving an Object a Voice by Michelle Lucas, Inner Noticing by Julie Allan & Alison Whybrow, Supervision and Sensing by Claire Davey, Transformative Explorations Through Objects and Metaphor by Sue Congram, Two Chair Experiment by Alison Whybrow & Julie Allan, Working with Blocks by Julie Allan & Alison Whybrow, Working with Gesture by Alison Whybrow & Julie Allan, Chapter 4: A Person Centred Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Linda Aspey; Exploring Congruence by Michelle Lucas, Supervisee-led Supervision by Louise Sheppard, Chapter 5: A Positive Psychology Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Carmelina Lawton-Smith; 5% Sentences by Carmelina Lawton-Smith , eMotive Cards by Peter Duffell, FeedForward by Carmelina Lawton-Smith, Give Yourself An ‘A’ by Clare Norman, Good News by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker , Personal Strengths Review by Carmelina Lawton-Smith, Strengths Cards by Carmelina Lawton-Smith, Using Metaphor to Explore ‘at my best’ by Angela Dunbar, Chapter 6: A Psychodynamic Perspective: A Developmental Transactional Analysis Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Lynda Tongue; CHECKS Self Supervision Checklist by Lynda Tongue, Contracting using Four P’s by Michelle Lucas, Desert Island Fantasy by Michelle Lucas & Christine Champion, Discounting and the Steps to Success by Lynda Tongue, Exploring the Potential for Collusion by Michelle Lucas, Exploring Transference and Countertransference by Michelle Lucas and Anne Calleja, Focus on Feelings by Michelle Lucas and Carol Whitaker, Handling Relationship Conflict Using the Drama Triangle by Julia Menaul, Parallel Process by Lynda Tongue, STEPS for Supervision by Lynda Tongue, Using Time Structuring to Understand Intimacy in Relationships by David Crowe and Michelle Lucas, Chapter 7: A Solution Focused Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Evan George and Denise Yusuf; Sit in Three Chairs by Fredrike Bannink , Solution Focused Scaling Questions by Evan George, Sparkling Moments: Instances and Exceptions by Evan George and Denise Yusuf, Stopping and Starting by Carmelina Lawton Smith and Evan George, The Tomorrow Question by Michelle Lucas, Transferring Competence by Fredrike Bannink, Chapter 8: A Systemic Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Maren Donata Urschel; Mapping What Is by Maren Donata Urschel, One Step Towards Better by Maren Donata Urschel, Resourcing by Maren Donata Urschel, Systemically Oriented Questions by Maren Donata Urschel, Using Free Movement by Damion Wonfor , Working with the Seven Eyed Model by Michelle Lucas, Working with the Shadow by Clare Norman, Working with the Supervisee’s Dilemma by Damion Wonfor, Chapter 9: A Thinking Environment Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Linda Aspey; Dialogue by Linda Aspey, Rounds by Linda Aspey, Thinking Pairs by Linda Aspey, Chapter 10: A Transpersonal Approach to Coaching Supervision, by Hetty Einzig; Centring by Paul King, Healthy Self-feedback by Helen Reuben, Ideal Model by Hetty Einzig, Self-Preparation for Supervisors by Helen Reuben, The Two Dimensions of Growth by Hetty Einzig, Using the Outdoors by Liz Ford, What’s My Environmental Footprint? by Penny Walker, Wise Being by Hetty Einzig, Working our Sub-personalities by Hetty Einzig, Working with Emergent Purpose by Hetty Einzig,

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Book SynopsisInternal Family Systems Therapy: Supervision and Consultation showcases the skills of Richard C. Schwartz and other leading IFS consultants and supervisors. Using unique case material, models, and diagrams, each contributor illustrates IFS techniques that assist clinicians in unblending and accessing Self-energy and Self-leadership. The book features examples of clinical work with issues such as bias, faith, sexuality, and sexual hurts. Individual chapters focus on therapist groups, such as Black Therapists Rock, and on work with specific populations, including children and their caregivers, veterans, eating disordered clients, therapists with serious illnesses, and couples. This thought-provoking book offers an opportunity for readers to reflect on their own supervision and consultation (both the giving and receiving of it). It explores what is possible and preferable at different stages of development when using the IFS model.Trade Review"An admirable achievement. This is an innovative book of many parts with a rich diversity of voices, each one skillfully articulating how IFS can work its wonders in consultation and supervision. Open-hearted collaboration is key to the practice of IFS, and the authors are often vividly transparent in their writing, bringing the multi-faceted consultative work alive on the page. I believe all supervisors and consultants, whether IFS-trained or not, will benefit from a study of this pioneering text."Jim Holloway, independent counsellor and supervisor (BACP senior accredited)"Through a wealth of wide-ranging case studies, the book’s contributors demonstrate how bringing unconscious processes into awareness can bring clarity and resolve impasses. Particularly striking is the supervisory stance of respectful curiosity and use of their own internal system as a guide to the work. Although aimed at IFS practitioners, there is much in this very readable book that will speak to practitioners from other approaches." Els van Ooijen, author of Clinical Supervision Made Easy"Internal Family Systems Therapy is a truly important contribution to the IFS literature as well as to the entire supervisory endeavor. The breadth and scope of the chapters is matched by the depth of the material presented. The open-hearted and non-shaming approach of IFS supervision will help any clinician provide a safe and enlightening experience for their supervisees."Lisa Spiegel, MA, LMHC, author of Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children"For those committed to getting the model inside, this is a crucial addition to the IFS library. Internal Family Systems Therapy has many chapters in which authors model tracking their own parts and discerning what information from parts to share in the consultation process. This modeling helps consultees do the same, bringing authentic communication skillfully into the consultation room and then into the delivery to clients in therapy, education, and coaching. Chapters on implicit bias, training, and consultation to non-dominant groups give needed depth to the reader’s use of the model. Each author gives clear digestible steps toward enhanced practice."Rina Dubin, IFS lead trainer"Internal Family Systems Therapy is a primer to effective supervision using the IFS model. It’s also a guide to looking at therapeutic stuckness through the lens of the client’s parts, the clinician’s parts, the relational dynamics, as well as the supervisor’s parts. Case examples of supervision with particular populations, including those with eating disorders, BIPOC, veterans, and more make this usable, applicable, and understandable. This book is a must read for clinicians who want to do supervision in the IFS model."Marla Silverman, PhD, certified IFS therapist, psychologist, and faculty at The Gestalt Center"A fascinating read, even for readers (like myself) who find themselves curious about IFS and with great respect for IFS-trained colleagues, but who haven’t undertaken a formal IFS training. This is a timely and refreshing read and a valuable collection of not just the theory but the application of theory in practice. It offers rich glimpses and a multitude of voices exploring many facets of IFS supervision and consultation from racism and serious illness, to working with military veterans, and an opening interview with IFS founder Richard C. Schwartz. Much respect to all the contributors for a rich and engaging read."Emma Palmer, counsellor, body psychotherapist, supervisor, author, www.kamalamani.co.uk"Full of technical guidance about IFS consultation and supervision, this practical volume is highly accessible for beginners and experienced IFS therapists alike. Drawing links and distinctions between the provision of IFS therapy and IFS supervision/consultation, the authors subtly but profoundly shift the emphasis from those receiving IFS to those providing it. With an emphasis on humility and Self-energy, the author of each chapter touches on a vital aspect of the IFS model providing the reader with an abundance of real-world examples, principles, and strategies neatly presented in the context of a range of sound theoretical models." Shaun Dempsey, PhD, clinical psychologist in private practice, certified IFS therapist and approved clinical consultant"IFS consultants and trainers continually invite students and consultees to explore their internal systems to gain clarity, courage, and, most importantly, access to inner wisdom and Self-energy. Each chapter in Internal Family Systems Therapy offers robust case material and outlines the IFS perspective on countertransference. Even though our goal as IFS therapists and practitioners is Self-leadership, each case comes with its own unique challenges. How we approach issues related to the therapist's parts may change depending on a wide variety of circumstances. Whether new to IFS, already an IFS supervisor or working in other models, this book offers creative ideas and support for therapists as they navigate complexity while supporting clients to heal." Toni Herbine-Blank, IFS senior trainer and coauthor of Internal Family Systems Couple Therapy Skills Manual"As the global need for IFS healers continues to grow, so does the need for Self-led, competent, and inclusive IFS consultants and supervisors. Informed by decades of collective experience, this diverse collection offers clinical, theoretical, and personal applications and a depth of wisdom that cannot be understated. This invaluable resource helps IFS consultants clarify and develop their supervisory framework while respectfully challenging personal biases and assumptions. This book will strengthen and expand the next generation of Self-led IFS healers and deserves to be required reading for all IFS consultants and supervisors. I am delighted to recommend and welcome this important contribution to our IFS family."Laura Schmidt, LMFT, certified IFS therapist and consultant for certification, AAMFT-approved supervisorTable of ContentsIntroductionMARTHA SWEEZY1 An Interview with Richard C. SchwartzRICHARD C. SCHWARTZ AND EMMA E. REDFERN2 A Model of IFS-Informed Supervision and Consultation: Unblending from Struggle into Self-Led Clarity DAN REED AND RAY WOOTEN3 Facilitating Flow: Developing a Framework for Integrating IFS and Supervision in Private Practice in the UKLIZ MARTINS4 Parts Detecting Across Multiple Systems: The Application of IFS in Consultation to Therapists of Children and AdolescentsPAMELA K. KRAUSE5 Consultation for the IFIO Therapist ANN E. DROUILHET6 Creating Access to IFS Training and Consultation for BIPOC Therapists: Black Therapists Rock Leads the Way TAMALA FLOYD7 Trusting Self to Heal: Removing Constraints to Therapists’ Self-Energy Transforms Their Treatment of Eating Disordered Clients JEANNE CATANZARO8 Making the Unconscious Conscious in IFS Consultation of Sexual Abuse, Sexual Offending, and Sexual Compulsivity CasesNANCY WONDER9 Bias: How IFS Consultation Can Increase Awareness and Reduce HarmKATE LINGREN10 Keeping the Faith with IFS: Religious and Spiritual Parts of an Internal SystemMARY STEEGE11 Serving Those Who Served: Providing IFS-Informed Supervision and Consultation to Clinicians Treating Military Veterans SHARON COOPER AND KIMBERLY COREY12 Consultation with Therapists Who Have a Serious IllnessROBERTA RACHEL OMIN13 IFS Consultation: Fostering the Self-Led TherapistFRAN BOOTH14 In Search of Self 209EMMA E. REDFERNGlossaryAppendix: Methods of UnblendingDAN REED AND RAY WOOTEN

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook has been fully revised by expert therapists with advances in attachment science and emotionally focused therapy (EFT) practice, the integration of the EFT Tangoâa guide to the EFT processâand new chapters on working with both individuals and families.Suitable as a companion volume to The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy or as a standalone learning tool, it provides an easy road-map toward mastering the ins and outs of EFT with practice exercises, review questions, and compelling clinical examples.Invaluable for clinicians and students, this workbook takes the reader on an adventure: the quest to become a competent, confident, and passionate emotionally focused therapist.Trade Review"The second edition of Becoming an EFT Therapist: The Workbook extends and updates an exceptionally useful book. Not only is this the definitive workbook for learning emotionally focused couple therapy, it also covers the recent developments of Johnson’s attachment theory in practice treatment model in individual and family therapy. It provides the kind of hands-on how to do it information that therapists need and look for. A wonderful resource either in conjunction with a training program or as part of a therapist's individual development, this workbook has great value not only for those who wish to become practitioners of EFT but also for all therapists." -Jay Lebow, Ph.D., ABPP.; Senior Scholar and Clinical Professor; Editor, Family Process; The Family Institute at Northwestern and Northwestern University, Evanston IL"If you want to internalize the feel and the craft of EFT, this is your book. It takes you inside sessions, making you think about how you would respond and how you can go deeper. And this updated workbook shows the power of EFT to heal individuals and families as well as couples. Any therapist on the planet will benefit from reading it."-William J. Doherty, Ph.D.; professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota and co-author of Helping Couples on the Brink of Divorce: Discernment Counseling for Troubled Relationships "Whenever I teach or supervise EFCT, I always use the Workbook. I have not found a better book to help EFT therapists learn how-to-do-it. This second edition only intensifies that recommendation. In some ways the new edition is essentially a whole new book. There are new chapters on EFT with individuals (EFIT); the family chapter (EFFT) has been expanded; the approach of the EFT Tango is explicated; and the application of EFT to trauma is more in-depth. However, this second edition has maintained the central strength of its predecessor—its ongoing involvement with the reader as an active learner—asking the reader to state what they are learning while they are learning it, to apply various procedures to imagined cases, and to reflect on the personal ramifications of the material. The Workbook makes the learning come alive and shortens the bridge between theory and practice. For any therapist who is floundering with, "but what do I say now?" this is a must-read."-Hanna Levenson, Ph.D.; Professor, Wright Institute, Berkeley, CATable of ContentsSection I: Theoretical Overview and Intervention Summary 1. Introduction: The Nature of EFT 2. Theoretical Background to EFT 3. EFT Interventions Section II: EFT and the Couple Treatment Process (EFCT) 4. Stage 1: Alliance, Assessment, and Cycles 5. Stage 1: De-escalation and Stabilization 6. Stage 2: Withdrawer Re-engagement 7. Stage 2: Pursuer Softening 8. Stage 3: Consolidation Section III: EFT Applications 9. Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFIT) 10. Healing the Echoes of Trauma through EFIT 11. Facing Trauma Together through EFT 12. Emotionally Focused Therapy for Families (EFFT)

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed to support professionals with the sensitive and effective use of the storybook, Floss and the Boss, created to help young children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control.By defining domestic abuse and coercive control and exploring the effects upon children and their education, this guidebook puts the professional in a position to have important conversations with children about what to do if something at home does not feel right. When used with the storybook, it provides a vehicle for talking to children about staying safe and their emotional wellbeing. Key features of this book include: Page-by-page notes, with discussion topics and points for conversation around the Floss and the Boss story Activities for supporting children, safety planning strategies and guidance for taking on a key adult role A comprehensive list of helplines and organisations in place to Trade Review"The book is beautifully illustrated and carries a simple and extremely powerful story. The story itself is pitched just right for young children to engage with on a number of different levels. It would be useful for all children, regardless of whether they themselves are experiencing coercive control. The resources that accompany it are absolutely excellent for supporting professionals to use the book with children. With its vitally important message and engaging story, Floss and the Boss is an essential resource." Dr Emma Katz, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth, Liverpool Hope University, UK "Beautifully written with stunning illustrations, this is an excellent book for primary aged children." Social Work News "This sensitively written story has been created to help primary-age children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control… Use the book in the classroom to support the ‘healthy relationships’ element of your PSHE curriculum or to address the topic of domestic abuse and coercive control with either your whole class or individual pupils." Teach Primary Table of ContentsThe characters Page by page teacher / mentor notes Discussions and activities for supporting children, safety planning and supporting mothers How children experience domestic abuse and coercive control The impact on children and their education Helplines

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Book SynopsisConversational effectiveness is a barometer of human thriving and facilitating insightful conversations is a powerful method for accelerating psychological change and collaboration. This ground-breaking professional book provides a map of Breakthrough Conversations together with a practical toolkit for enhancing awareness, emotional resilience and creativity.Neuroscience, mindfulness and psychological research shows that awareness is pivotal to skilful conversations. By supporting clients to observe and manage their own body-brain states during conversation, they can learn to switch on the physiological systems that support more authentic, agile, and attuned interactions. Three body-brain states, reactive, habitual and reflective characterised as Red, Amber and Green (RAG) - are differentiated in terms of body-sensations and behaviours, and these correspond to predictable interactive patterns. Facilitated to experience more emotionally resilient conversations, clientsTrade Review"Most of us struggle to have skilful conversations, and it’s partly our lack of self-awareness and skill in this arena that’s got humankind in the trouble it’s in today. Lee lives up to his description of coach as ‘wilderness guide’, mapping out the territory of skilful dialogue, and accompanying us on a journey to discovery of what it takes to have meaningful courageous compassionate conversations. A generous treasure trove of resources, from accessible explanations of the underpinning science, to case studies, nifty tools and techniques, this timely book can transform our world, one mindful conversation at a time." Liz Hall, author of Mindful Coaching, editor of Coaching at Work magazine, leadership coach and mindfulness teacher"Graham Lee is at once a safe and an exciting pair of hands to be in, when you are navigating the choppy but rewarding territory of breakthrough conversations. His thinking is structured and clear, and his writing so transparent that you are struck, viscerally, by the powerful ideas that it carries. Lee’s intent is more than positive: it is transformational. He provides a trusty framework for the novice and the unsure, and a compendium of delights for the experienced and the confident." Alison Hardingham, Executive Professor at Henley Business School, Fellow of the British Psychological Society, APECS accredited Master Executive Coach and Coaching Supervisor, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist (Oxford)"Our shared future relies more than ever before on conversations that break down division, build trust, and generate collaboration. Graham Lee provides organisational consultants and coaches with a profound methodology for enabling their clients to engage in such conversations. Drawing on key ideas from the worlds of psychology and mindfulness, he presents practical tools that can be applied immediately in the workplace, so that conversational participants can remain resourceful and constructive, even in the toughest of situations." Peter Young, Leadership Coach and Consultant, Bladon Leadership Ltd."Graham Lee sets out a coherent and worthwhile theory of human functioning that provides a particularly convincing account of how we deal with emotions. I am of the opinion that Lee’s position has sufficient psychological depth even if the obligatory references to neuroscience are removed. The book is full of insightful ideas for practitioners that are based on robust knowledge and the rich professional expertise of the author. I will certainly be recommending it, not only to students of coaching but also to seasoned and discerning practitioners." Prof Tatiana Bachkirova, Professor of Coaching Psychology, Oxford Brookes University"Given the complexity of today’s world, developing the capacity to have breakthrough conversations is more important than ever. Graham provides us with a map that has both clarity and depth. In a digital age effective collaboration is becoming a key competitive advantage. Breakthrough Conversations is a rich and skillful guidebook that shows the way. For those interested in vertical development, it provides a beautifully accessible pathway into observing and transcending habitual and reactive patterns and in doing so, finding the balcony and expanded perspectives. These are important developmental moves for us all in navigating complexity and enabling transformational change." Mark McMordie, CEO, The Conscious Leader and co-author of Mindfulness for Coaches Table of Contents01. The Power of Conversations 02. Developing a Breakthrough Body-Brain 03. Awareness is the Key to Breakthrough 04. A Map of Breakthrough Conversations 05. Preparing the Ground 06. Managing Emotional States 07. Loosening Habit and Reactivity 08. Seeing the Dance from the Balcony 09. Harnessing Expanded Perspectives

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Book SynopsisPsychology for Coaches offers its readers a chance to ground their interpersonal skills in sound psychological theory and research. It provides a solid synthesis of current concepts and research results, translating them into hands-on recommendations and examples of tools.The book was written in response to questions asked by trainee coaches eager to make sure they are doing their best to provide a safe, professional, and valuable service. It offers clear, practical examples on how to apply presented concepts into coaching practice. It challenges popular strategies that may have unwanted side effects and offers to replace them with specific ideas on how to use coaching conversations to: support goal setting and consistent motivation encourage autonomy and responsibility assist self-reflection and manage learning increase awareness of emotions and manage them better identify and change beliefs and schemas build a healthierTable of ContentsChapter 1. Coaching and psychology Chapter 2. Psychology in operational coaching: Setting goals, maintaining commitment, and creative problem solving Chapter 3. Psychology in competence coaching: Supporting the process of learning Chapter 4. Psychological coaching: working with coachees’ emotions Chapter 5. Psychological coaching: personality, self-esteem, and changing schemas Appendix. When coaching won’t help: Deciding whether to coach or to refer the client elsewhere

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Book SynopsisCriminal Justice Internships: Theory Into Practice, Tenth Edition, guides the student, instructor, and internship site supervisor through the entire internship process, offering advice and information for use at the internship site as well as pre-planning and assessment activities. With increasingly more programs offering or requiring internships, the need for guidance is answered by McBride''s counsel, offering students a means of enhancing their credentials and gaining a foothold in a competitive job market. Divided into four sections?Pre-internship Considerations, Professional Concerns, The Role of the Organization, and Assessment and Career Planning?this book offers resources to enrich the student''s experience and lay the foundation for future professional success. Students learn basics such as choosing an internship site at either a public agency or a private firm, résumé-writing techniques, effective use of social networks, interviewing skills, and the importaTrade Review"I like that the chapters are straightforward, easy to comprehend, and typically full of pertinent information. I had reviewed several internship texts, and this was definitely my top pick."Professor Ann Dirks-Linhorst, Ph.D., J.D., Criminal Justice Studies, Southern Illinois University, EdwardsvilleTable of ContentsPreface PART I. Pre-Internship Considerations 1. Introduction to Internships 2. Preparing for Your Internship in the Age of Transparency 3. The Placement Process PART II. Professional Concerns 4. Setting Goals and Identifying Educational Objectives 5. Your Role as an Intern 6. Being a Participant-Observer 7. Intern Supervision 8. Ethics in Practice PART III. The Role of the Organization 9. Organizational Characteristics 10. Political, Economic, and Legal Factors 11. Organizational Goals and Relationships 12. Using Information and Technology as Crime-Fighting Tools PART IV. Assessment and Career Planning 13. Assessing Your Experience 14. Career Planning References Index

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Book SynopsisGroup Art Therapy: Practice and Research is the first textbook of its kind, taking into account practice-based evidence and using a transtheoretical approach to present a range of art therapy group interventions.The book covers essential topics including leadership, art making, successful therapeutic factors, and the basic stages of developing and facilitating groups. Offering practical information not only to students but also to experienced practitioners, the chapters provide details about preparation and practice, note-taking and documentation, and research tips. Adhering to the most up-to-date educational standards and ethical codes of art therapy, the book covers the full range of settings and art therapy approaches. This text will prepare art therapy graduate students and practitioners to lead groups in a variety of settings, theoretical approaches, and applications.Trade Review"Megan A. Robb’s book on the practice and research of art therapy groups is both timely and much needed. Beginning with an historical analysis of the evolution of group therapy, Robb effectively weaves together the neglected contributions of Black and brown art therapists and reviews the many formats in which group art therapy has been conceptualized and practiced. The book eloquently bridges theory and practice and advances diverse possibilities for art therapy." —Savneet K. Talwar, professor, Department of Art Therapy and Counseling, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA"In a new book on group art therapy, Robb brings a critical lens to previous texts that largely focus on a medical and psychodynamic model, missing out on the rich history of using group art therapy to build relationships, bridge communities, and address social issues. By including a range of theoretical orientations, multiple views of how to use the art, and a more humanistic view of membership and leadership in a group, this book will serve to inform and educate a new generation of art therapists to expand our understanding of art therapy." — Sarah E. Kremer, PhD, LPCC, ATR-BC, senior lecturer, Dominican University of California, USA; clinical director, Puente de la Costa Sur, USATable of Contents1. Theories of Art Therapy Groups 2. Types and Formats of Art Therapy Groups 3. Art Media 4. Dynamics That Work 5. Therapeutic Factors in Art Therapy Groups 6. Group Leadership 7. Stages of Group Development and Group Preparation 8. Beginning Stage 9. Working Stage 10. Ending Stage 11. Documentation and Evaluation of Groups

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Book SynopsisMeeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully introduces the Comprehend, Cope and Connect (CCC) approach, developed and evaluated within mental health services, to a wider audience who need to understand mental health issues, whether for themselves or to support others.The book deconstructs and normalizes mental breakdown, starting from the individual's inner experience, leading to practical ways of helping people out of distress and impaired functioning, towards the realization of their whole potential. It is based on an understanding of connections in the brain founded in cognitive science, which explains how human functioning can easily go astray. CCC provides a compelling rationale for putting mindfulness at the heart of the solution, along with other ways of coping with emotions and changing behaviour. The approach is brought to life through three illustrative case histories, giving a representative and realistic insight into both the experience of the indiviTrade Review'This book is clearly and engagingly written, and summarises complex information in an accessible way. I particularly like the way you have made connections with wider issues of social justice, racism, colonialism, climate change and our whole political economy – which are also the aspects the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) aims to re-introduce. Spiritual perspectives are presented in a way that will be acceptable and useful to people of all faiths/beliefs and none – an aspect that needs incorporating into our lens on distress.'Lucy Johnstone, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and lead author with Prof Mary Boyle of The Power Threat Meaning Framework'This is an excellent book for coaches and counsellors, or anyone who works in related fields such as student support, chaplaincy and Human Resources to understand mental distress is a part of human life and know how to support those who are experiencing difficulties. For those who read the previous book about Comprehend, Cope and Connect (CCC), they would find this book a great companion. In this book, Isabel Clarke has taken the CCC approach beyond the health service context to a wider audience. The basic ingredients of CCC are described in clear and simple language, making the approach more accessible.'Ho Law, Honorary Professor of Research & Psychology; Editor, Transpersonal Psychology Review; Chair and Convenor of Psychotherapy & Mindfulness Workshops; Chartered Psychologist; Registered Applied Psychology Practice Supervisor (APPS) and Coaching Psychologist; Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISfCP); Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society (BPS) & Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine Table of ContentsSection I. Foundations; 1. Being human and why it is difficult – a rethink; 2. Why the conventional wisdom about mental health needs challenging; 3. Turning therapy inside out; 4. Falling between the cracks: Self, relationship, spirituality and mental health; 5. Trauma and mental breakdown; Section II. Opportunity, emotions and the elusive self; 6. Emotion as problem, emotion as solution; 7. The elusive self: Compassion and potential; 8. Beyond consensual reality; 9 Reconfiguring mental health; Section III. How to help: Comprehend and Cope; 10. Meeting someone from the inside and getting the mind in gear; 11. Comprehend: Introducing the spikey diagram; 12. Coping skills: The basics; 13. Harnessing motivation and a new role for emotions: From problem to solution; IV. Forging new relationships: Connect; 14. Healing the relationship with the self; 15. Relationships with other people: Unravelling the tangles; 16. Aspects of self and putting the past in the past; 17. Beyond the self, beyond the consensus; Section V. Wrapping up and wider horizons; 18. The end is the beginning: Therapy as toolkit; 19. CCC in the wider world; 20. Conclusion and further implications.

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Book SynopsisThis unique set includes a storybook and practical guidebook. It is a powerful resource that can be used by teachers and support staff to highlight the importance of kindness. The storybook introduces Coco, Otto, Ollie and Ling as they negotiate the sometimes tricky world of friendships and relationships, observing the unkindness of some and using their superpower â kindness â to change the lives of others. Explore with them what it means to be unkind, why that choice is sometimes made and how usually there is another choice â to be kind. The guide that accompanies this book has detailed lesson plans with extensive guidance and photocopiable activity sheets to support individuals, groups or classes of children aged 7 and upwards.This set includes: Cool to be Kind: How to Negotiate the World of Friendships and Relationships â an illustrated storybook that explores and emphasises the importance of kindness A Practical Resource for Negotiating the World of Friendships and Relationships â a practical resource for use by teachers, support staff and therapists that contains details of sessions to use with children to promote kindness, friendship and self-compassion This set is a must-have resource for therapists, teachers and support staff in primary schools, particularly for use within primary PSHE lessons, to teach and promote kindness.

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Book SynopsisMen’s Accounts of Boarding School is a collection of writings by men about their childhood experiences of being sent away to boarding school. Trade ReviewMany readers will be shocked by this unique record of pain and shame, while it will also inspire awe for those who were brave enough to share their stories. It is a record of the hitherto concealed legacy of seamless transgenerational harm to families and of a social mindset that still perverts British politics. It will be a privilege for the uninitiated to read and should enlighten therapists beginning to engage with the normalised mental-health problems resulting from how the British educate their elites. Nick Duffell, author of The Making of Them and Wounded LeadersEach of the contributions to this book gives a vivid sense of the lasting distress borne by children who experienced early boarding.These tales offer a nuanced picture of an intergenerational scandal; a portrait of neglect and abuse of children across the world, all in the name of privileged education. The pain of these adult men as they look back and reflect on their child selves is profound. Professor Joy Schaverien, author of :Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the ‘Privileged’ ChildThese stories vividly portray the deep wounding that the boarding school experience has on children. There are common themes of bewilderment at leaving home and the difficulties of living, without love,in an institution. They describe ways in which boarding school has impacted on their adult lives,the sense they have made of their experiences and about their inability to trust, feel safe with others and love another…even those closest to them. This is a deep wounding to the soul. Darrel Hunneybell, Psychotherapist and leader of Men’s Boarding School Survivors Workshops'Many readers will be shocked by this unique record of pain and shame, while it will also inspire awe for those who were brave enough to share their stories. It will be a privilege for the uninitiated to read and should enlighten therapists beginning to engage with the normalised mental-health problems resulting from how the British educate their elites.' Nick Duffell, author of The Making of Them and Wounded Leaders'Each of the contributions to this book gives a vivid sense of the lasting distress borne by children who experienced early boarding. These tales offer a nuanced picture of an intergenerational scandal; a portrait of neglect and abuse of children across the world, all in the name of privileged education.' Professor Joy Schaverien, author of Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the ‘Privileged’ Child'These stories vividly portray the deep wounding that the boarding school experience has on children. There are common themes of bewilderment at leaving home and the difficulties of living, without love, in an institution. They describe ways in which boarding school has impacted on their adult lives, the sense they have made of their experiences and about their inability to trust, feel safe with others and love another… even those closest to them.' Darrel Hunneybell, Psychotherapist and leader of Men’s Boarding School Survivors Workshops Table of ContentsForeword: Nick Duffell; Introduction; 1. Memories; Introduction, Joy Schaverien; For My Own Good, Mike Timms; Tying it all Together, Crispin Ellison; Raining Pain, Khalid Roy; I was Wonderfully Good and Never Shed a Tear, John Duncan; A Five-year Old’s Rush to Prove Himself a Man, Philip Batchelor ; The Life of a Modern Boarder, Gareth Coleman; Surviving Boarding School, Ardhan Swatridge; Sursum Corda, Anupam Ganguli; 2. Reflections; Introduction; Leaving home, Mike Dickens; Life in the Ha Ha, Robert Arnold; As Secret as a Lady’s Handbag, Gordon Knott; All Self Left Behind, Peter Adams; How Did You Survive?, Simon Darragh; Schooldays, David Bennett; A Former Boarder’s Habits and Feelings, Jonathan Sutton; Antipodean Reflections, Andrew Patterson; 3. Recovery; Introduction; Emotional Courage, Thurstine Basset; Pulling it Together, Jonathan Burr; With Sadness comes Joy, Robert Arnold; The Metamorphosis…and Back, Lech Mintowt-Czyz; Afterword, Darrel Hunnybell

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible introduction to spiritually sensitive psychoanalysis, an analytic tradition characterized by sensitivity to the spiritual and religious dimensions of human life and oriented towards spiritual growth.Psychoanalysis has historically evinced severe suspicion to all ideas and ideals of religion and spirit. However, in recent years, a new analytic approach is emerging, which recognizes faith and spirituality as crucial parts of full, satisfying psychic life. This book explores the unique ways in which this approach refers to and understands core analytic issues such as transference, interpretation, psychopathology and psychic development. It goes on to expound the approach's understanding of the analytic relationship and the way it influences the spiritual person. It also discusses the tensions arising between this emerging school of thought and the existing body of psychoanalytic knowledge.Psychoanalysis is a practice that deals with the moTrade Review'A moving, searching book in which psychoanalysis and spirituality nourish, add to and enrich one another as complex, multidimensional realities continue to grow. Through interaction of overlapping experiential practices, possibilities of the human find new life. My congratulations to Gideon Lev for undertaking the task of doing each domain justice, while bringing out the power of their communion in clinical practice and appreciative reflection.'Michael Eigen PhD, author of The Psychoanalytic Mystic, Faith, and Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis'Lev’s book is both modest and extremely ambitious. He recognises that there has been a ‘spiritual turn’ in psychoanalytic therapy. He didn’t invent spiritually-sensitive psychoanalysis. But his achievement is to demonstrate a deep understanding that there remains a pressing need to mainstream this turn so that it ceases to be niche, or remain the property of ‘transpersonal’ or ‘Jungian’ therapies. The original way in which the book is structured achieves this important and timely goal. Of equal significance is the broad range of spiritual and religious traditions upon which Lev draws. This represents a necessary ecumenicalism. At a time when the fastest growing approach to spirituality is termed SBNR (spiritual but not religious), it is the moment for psychoanalysis to make a somewhat different contribution than it has up to now. Maybe spiritually-sensitive psychoanalysis is a new tradition within which spirit coils weaves its web? And maybe this book will find its way onto all relevant reading lists?'Andrew Samuels, author of Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy, Politics and A New Anatomy of SpiritualityTable of ContentsIntroduction: A breath of life Part I - Spirituality in context 1. Things in heaven and earth: Psychoanalysis and spirit 2. A very peculiar science: A brief cultural history of psychoanalysis Part II - A spiritual model 3. Religious instinct, sacred unconscious and the area of faith: Towards a new model of the psyche 4. God-representations, mystical addictions and spiritual bypasses: Adaptive treatment goals 5. Morality, selflessness, transcendence: Transformative treatment goals Part III - Essential spirituality 6. The window is the absence of the wall: Psychoanalysis as a spiritual practice 7. A love through cure: The spirit of analytic relationship Conclusion: Ecstasy and suffering resting in one another: The contribution of spiritually sensitive psychoanalysis

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Book SynopsisThe Contemporary Relational Supervisor, 2nd edition, is an empirically based, academically sophisticated, and learner-friendly text on the cutting edge of couple and family therapy supervision.This extensively revised second edition provides emerging supervisors with the conceptual and pragmatic tools to engage a new wave of therapists, helping them move forward together into a world of highly systemic, empirically derived, relational, developmental, and integrative supervision and clinical practice. The authors discuss major supervision models and approaches, evaluation, ethical and legal issues, and therapist development. They present methods that help tailor and extend supervision practices to meet the clinical, institutional, economic, and cultural realities that CFT therapists navigate. Filled with discussions and exercises to engage readers throughout, as well as updates surrounding telehealth and social justice, this practical text helps emerTrade ReviewReading this book reminded me just how much the literature on supervision is siloed, with the consequence that those of us in psychology are missing excellent work on supervision being written by our couples and family therapy colleagues (and presumably, vice versa). Lee and Nelson have drawn on their rich clinical experience and deep knowledge of the literature to write a book that not only provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of supervision, but does so in a clear, practical, and engaging way. I strongly recommend it to anyone, including fellow psychologists and psychology students, who want to deepen their knowledge of supervision.Rod GoodyearEmeritus ProfessorUniversity of Southern California and University of RedlandsContemporary Relational Supervision is a must read for supervisors of all levels. It provides a deep dive into the evidence-based literature for best practice in systemic clinical supervision. Essential topics related to diversity and inclusion are integrated throughout the text which is essential for the practice of Socially Just Supervision. Toni Schindler Zimmerman, PhD, LMFTMFT Program Director, Colorado State UniversityContemporary Relational Supervision (2nd ed.) is nothing short of a revolution in clinical supervision. No other text on the market covers the depth and breadth of topics tackled by Lee and Nelson in this impressive volume, encouraging readers to cultivate a personal style of supervision as well as guidance on highly relevant topics such as telesupervision. Written with incredible clarity, attention to context, and refreshing humility and charm, this text reinvents relational supervision and is a must-have for any systemic therapist beginning their supervisory journey.Katherine M. Hertlein Professor, Couple and Family Therapy Program University of Nevada, Las VegasIf Lee and Nelson’s Contemporary Relational Supervision was a client family in a session, this text would read like its genogram, with the authors skillfully laying out for us who in the field did what, when, and how—along with all of the nuance and detail one appreciates in the best kind of genogram narrative. The history of systems supervision ideas is only part of the package; in this book, Lee and Nelson’s scholarship on the practice of supervision in family therapy is as comprehensive and engaging as the suggested exercises and tasks at the end of every chapter. Just as with the best of genograms, this book invites the reader to consider the patterns of supervision scholarship and practice across the generations, while also inspiring us to make our own contribution to its sound future. Laurie L Charlés, Global Family Systems & Psychosocial Resilience, Project LeadMassachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (MGHIHP), Visiting LecturerThe Contemporary Relational Supervisor serves as bridge between the roots of couple and family therapy training and the ways of being that encourage ethical and equitable supervision practices. As a Canadian C/MFT and supervisor, it is challenging to find clinical and supervisory resources that speak to the regulatory and training contexts in Canada. In addition to pragmatic and gate-keeping roles as a supervisor, finding a scaffold on which to structure and communicate the how and why of relationally-based supervision within our regional, personal and professional environments is important. In reading this revised text, particularly Part III Cultural Considerations, I found myself reviewing my scaffold and revisiting the differences that make a difference personally, professionally and systemically. Said differently, this text places supervisors’ way of being in a recursive loop with the systems in which training C/MFTs occurs, the hopes and expectations of those who seek that training and the skills, knowledge and attitudes that make systemic practice a worthwhile contribution to relational well-being. Sharon RamsayPrivate Practice, Toronto, ONLee and Nelson establish a clear foundation for systemic supervision and therapies. This is an outstanding resource that uncannily speaks to both the seasoned supervisor and those working to hone their craft. The book will be incredibly valuable to new supervisors as they bridge the transition from training students to mentoring new clinicians. This work is theoretically cogent, emphasizing social awareness, and elaborating on the distinctive patterns within supervisory relationships. Each chapter opens my mind to research opportunities that could support systemic supervision training. This will be seminal literature for training doctoral students, educators, and mentors. I am grateful for the publication of this innovative work. If you could only buy one book on supervision, this is the one to buy.Scott KetringAssociate Professor and Director,Auburn University Marriage and Family Therapy Program…thoughtful, comprehensive and engaging resource.Olivia LoewyOlivia Loewy and AssociatesAAMFT Approved Supervisor…students have found it to be extremely practical and helpful.Megan Dolbin-MacNab, Associate Professor, Virginia TechTable of ContentsPART I: Understanding the Supervisory Process: An Overview; 1: Basic Ingredients in the Supervisory Process; 2: Systemic Supervisory Relationships, Roles, and Goals; 3: Getting Started: Readiness and Procedures; 4: Screening, Contracts, Core Competencies, Evaluation, and Feedback-Centered Supervision; PART II: Relational Supervision Practices; 5: A Closer Look at Supervision Formats; 6: Approaches to Supervision; 7: Effective Supervision According to the Literature; 8: Supervision Based on Core Competencies; 9: Supervising Manual-Based Models; PART III: Contextual Considerations ; 10: Contextual Aspects of Supervision: Settings, Culture, and Self; 11: Legal Aspects of Relational Supervision; 12: Ethical Considerations in Relational Supervision; 13: Self of the Therapist, Self of the Supervisor; PART IV: Troubleshooting and Writing a Personal Philosophy of Supervision Paper; 14: Troubleshooting and Pragmatics in the Relational Training System; 15: Developing Your Personal Philosophy of Supervision Paper

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Book SynopsisMindfulness for Young Adults: Tools to Thrive in School and Life is an interactive experience designed to enhance mindful awareness and to aid in teaching and learning the principles and practice of mindfulness.Blending theory, research, and practice to offer a comprehensive program for young adults to build well-being tools, each of the bookâs five modules includes engaging information, strategies, meditations, and activities designed to deepen understanding and application of mindfulness. It includes practical techniques to cope with emotions, work with thoughts, navigate stress, build resilience, make aligned choices, and be more present in life and relationships. In addition to the reflection and meditation activities found at the end of each module, the text also features a resources section complete with a mock exam, tips for course design, and resources for further study. Designed for both students and instructors, this workbook can be used independently or in the classroom as either a textbook to an introductory mindfulness course or as a supplement for teaching well-being practices in any discipline.Trade Review"Essential reading for students and educators alike! Trainings in mindful presence are the hope for our next generation and for the healing of our world." — Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion"This beautifully structured, practical, and comprehensive book brings mindfulness to the college-aged population and the adults who work with them. Whether you are a young adult or an educator trying to introduce mindfulness into your classroom, this book is sure to serve as a thorough and relevant guide to the power of mindfulness practice. —Diana Winston, director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center and author of The Little Book of Being"In this engaging and accessible approach to well-being, Linda Yaron Weston beautifully combines her expertise in mindfulness and education. She invites us into the present moment and captures the essence of mindfulness with fresh and interactive practices that build on one another. This is an important book for young adults who need a strong foundation to thrive. Highly recommended for students and the schools and organizations that serve them." —Arianna Huffington, founder & CEO, Thrive Global "Taking better care of ourselves, our families, and our communities is ever more critical for our nation’s students, especially now. Linda Yaron Weston gives us fascinating insights into the science and practice of mindfulness with evidence-based lessons for teachers and students drawn from the neuro, social, physiological, and psychological sciences. This book makes the powerful case that mindful learning enables higher and deeper levels of students’ academic and personal success, outcomes that we wish for each of our students." —Dr. Martha J. Kanter is CEO of College Promise in Washington, DC and the former U.S. Under Secretary of Education for the Obama Administration"Linda Yaron Weston supplies us with a comprehensive program to help bring mindfulness to the classroom. In "Mindfulness for Young Adults" she pairs mindfulness tools with day to day scenarios, offering students techniques to promote thriving in the classroom and in life. The course design provides avenues for deepening personal connections, maneuvering through emotions and supporting intellectual growth. This work will be of benefit to educational systems, teachers and students." —Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness and Real Change"Linda Yaron Weston’s work is an essential offering for the well-being of our young people and the health of our future. Mindfulness for Young Adults: Tools to Thrive in School and Life offers practical strategies in a comprehensive, interactive program to help calm the body, relax the nervous system, and create conditions for optimal healing, learning, and thriving. As our young people learn to care for themselves in this way, it does not only impact them—it impacts the health and wellbeing of our entire society. Thank you, Linda for your expertise and passion." —Jillian Pransky, author of Deep Listening: Practices to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, And Open Your Heart"This book taught me so many important lessons and techniques that have helped me learn and incorporate mindfulness into my everyday life. Cultivating mindfulness has shifted my mindset from one of fear and anxiety, to one of acceptance and gratitude. It has truly changed my life and has pushed me to evolve into a much more confident, compassionate, and positive person." —Jacqueline Berliner, USC undergraduate class of ‘20"Essential reading for students and educators alike! Trainings in mindful presence are the hope for our next generation and for the healing of our world." — Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion"This beautifully structured, practical, and comprehensive book brings mindfulness to the college-aged population and the adults who work with them. Whether you are a young adult or an educator trying to introduce mindfulness into your classroom, this book is sure to serve as a thorough and relevant guide to the power of mindfulness practice." —Diana Winston, director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center and author of The Little Book of Being"In this engaging and accessible approach to well-being, Linda Yaron Weston beautifully combines her expertise in mindfulness and education. She invites us into the present moment and captures the essence of mindfulness with fresh and interactive practices that build on one another. This is an important book for young adults who need a strong foundation to thrive. Highly recommended for students and the schools and organizations that serve them." —Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO, Thrive Global "Taking better care of ourselves, our families, and our communities is ever more critical for our nation’s students, especially now. Linda Yaron Weston gives us fascinating insights into the science and practice of mindfulness with evidence-based lessons for teachers and students drawn from the neuro, social, physiological, and psychological sciences. This book makes the powerful case that mindful learning enables higher and deeper levels of students’ academic and personal success, outcomes that we wish for each of our students." —Dr. Martha J. Kanter, CEO of College Promise in Washington, DC and the former U.S. Under Secretary of Education for the Obama administration"Linda Yaron Weston supplies us with a comprehensive program to help bring mindfulness to the classroom. In Mindfulness for Young Adults, she pairs mindfulness tools with day to day scenarios, offering students techniques to promote thriving in the classroom and in life. The course design provides avenues for deepening personal connections, maneuvering through emotions and supporting intellectual growth. This work will be of benefit to educational systems, teachers and students." —Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness and Real Change"Linda Yaron Weston’s work is an essential offering for the well-being of our young people and the health of our future. Mindfulness for Young Adults: Tools to Thrive in School and Life offers practical strategies in a comprehensive, interactive program to help calm the body, relax the nervous system, and create conditions for optimal healing, learning, and thriving. As our young people learn to care for themselves in this way, it does not only impact them—it impacts the health and wellbeing of our entire society. Thank you, Linda, for your expertise and passion." —Jillian Pransky, author of Deep Listening: Practices to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, And Open Your Heart"This book taught me so many important lessons and techniques that have helped me learn and incorporate mindfulness into my everyday life. Cultivating mindfulness has shifted my mindset from one of fear and anxiety, to one of acceptance and gratitude. It has truly changed my life and has pushed me to evolve into a much more confident, compassionate, and positive person." —Jacqueline Berliner, USC undergraduate class of '20Table of ContentsAbout the Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Module 1: Principles of Mindfulness; Module 2: Body; Module 3: Heart; Module 4: Mind; Module 5: Mindfulness in Daily Life; Conclusion; Resources; Index

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Book SynopsisBased on the award-winning Autism Friendly Training Program, created by the non-profit organization STARS for Autism, this book empowers the everyday professional to a better understanding and skill in working with, interacting with, serving, and teaching children and adults who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD).After a thorough explanation of ASD and how it affects children, adults, families, and communities, this guide describes the Autism Friendly Training Program and gives the reader insight into what it means to become autism friendly and to be an autism friendly training presenter. This text will enable those who are neurotypical to gain insight into the person, the stories, and the lives of those with ASD. It is a guide to understanding autism at a deeper level to enable relationship and support processes that define being autism friendly.Providing the needed information, tools, and confidence to be autism friendly, this book wTrade Review"The timely release of this book provides an accessible and informative appreciation of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). With the rapid increase in recognition and diagnosis of children and adults with ASD, there has not been a better time to understand more about this condition and have tools to best support, encourage and welcome those who are neurodiverse among us, in all sectors of our community.R. J. Grant, L. Barboa, J. Luck, and E. Obrey have written a sensitive account about autism that factors in the individual, family, groups, and organizations. It is a call to action, for not just mental health and education professionals that work with those with ASD, but also community leaders in all sectors, to build in systems to optimize function and contribution of those with ASD and to celebrate the strengths in our diverse communities that grow integrated, accepting, and flourishing societies." Jacki Short, counselling psychologist and Play Therapy supervisor, director of Sydney Centre for Creative Change in Sydney, Australia "As a practicing Speech-Language Pathologist, I highly recommend this book. It would be a great asset to parents, teachers, doctors, students, nurses, paraprofessionals, therapists, and family members. I wish I had this book as a guide 25 years ago, as I was entering the field of speech pathology. It really is that one book that has packed so many resources, stories, and easy to follow information into 10 chapters." Marti Clark, MS CCC-SLP"Parents of children with autism rally together to find professionals that will be an ally for them and a resource for their children’s needs. When a professional is found that 'gets' our kiddos we share with other families who have children with autism. Being autism-friendly for a professional is a benefit and a gift for families who are already facing many obstacles for care. This book is a must-have for professionals who are willing to go that extra mile to meet the needs of those individuals and families impacted by autism." Shelli Allen, BS, "That Autism Mom", author, speaker, advocate"Written by knowledgeable and experienced professionals in the field of Autism Spectrum Disorder, this excellent and timely resource is an essential book that could impact how professionals relate to and interact with individuals on the spectrum, whether it be in the workplace or the social arena." Renée Vajko Srch, author of Hope for Joshua and Miracle Moments"Thank you for a thorough, accurate guide to understanding autism! I will be recommending this book to all my parents and to those who provide services to my students." Brenda Bradshaw, PhD, director of Infinity Academy"I recommend this book for all the teachers, parents, and all those who deal with people with autism day by day. And yes, for the people with autism as well. That way maybe the children and adults with autism will not feel they are 'weird' but just unique. It will help the teachers to understand the children, and the parents will see it is not their fault as many people say. It is a book that should be on the list of every teacher, school, and every house where someone with autism lives." Els Speybrouck, mum of Robin who has ASD, Harelbeke, Belgium"Kindness, compassion, understanding – these are all traits that make our world a better place. But humans are not cookie cutter and understanding individuals with autism can be tricky or confusing at times. Not anymore! After reading this guide, I feel prepared, informed, and EXCITED to advocate and implement strategies to make my profession, and myself, more Autism Friendly!" Jen Hargove, LPC, MAC, NBCC, owner, Hargrove Counseling LLC"From our first Autism Friendly Training to our proclamation signing, the Stars for Autism program has assisted our City, staff, and our citizens to become more aware of social engagement and environmental factors that affect those individuals on the autism spectrum. It is a fundamental training for our employees." Renee Kingston, Assistant City Administrator/City Clerk, City of Camdenton, Missouri"I have had the pleasure of reading the book The Complete Guide to Becoming an Autism Friendly Professional. This is a book that every business should have on hand for their employees to read to help them become an Autism Friendly Professional. It will help people to deal with an individual on the spectrum under different situations with appropriate responses." Andrea Schultz, owner/founder of Schultz’s Tutoring and Playgroups"A refreshing book with wide and topical appeal, its in-depth understanding of autism will empower professionals and give them the confidence to engage positively with the autism community." Stella Waterhouse, author of Autism Decoded"As an attendee and guest speaker at an Autism Friendly Training, I highly recommend this book and program by the wonderful advocates of STARS for Autism." Eli Winfrey, autism advocate and president of Team Winfrey"Be aware; you have in your hands a powerful resource to make a difference and change lives. A necessary book for all of us who want to be fully equipped to educate, support, mentor, and include families on the autism spectrum. It’s instructional, functional, and transformational. As you open this book, you get access to powerful resources that can make a difference and change lives." Reverend Iromar Schreiber (aka Reverend Hugs), LCMS pastor, Hope Lutheran Church"This is truly an amazing all-rounded book on autism! The book is full of tremendous information and insightful ideas that help the reader to get a better understanding and to see things from an autistic point of view. It also goes a step further to explain how you could be a responsible citizen to turn your community into an autism friendly place. The objective of the book is at an entirely different level and perspectives which is definitely a must-read for those who would like to know more about autism. I wholeheartedly believe that this book could help a lot of autistic children, adults, their parents and families, as well as professional practitioners in the field." Canace Yee, MA (Psych), RPT, APPTA, licensed trainer, Lego®-Based Therapy, founder and director, yNOTplay Play Therapy Hong Kong "This book is an invaluable tool for individuals working and interacting with people with autism. It is a professionally written and thorough resource guide for professionals and the general public, who want a better understanding of how autism affects the individual and how to help them in a manner that is useful and significant for them. From diagnosis to integration into the community, this book provides a step-by-step action plan on how communities and organizations can provide an autism friendly environment, allowing individuals with autism the opportunity to experience a positive interaction. This book provides professionals an insight into the world of autism and how every individual’s experience is unique to them. The authors have provided a roadmap aimed at educating and bringing awareness to people who work and interact with individuals living with autism." Linda Mastroianni, Integration aide/Special Care counselor"Yes! I’m so thrilled to see this book by this group of trusted professionals! Many professionals desire to be more Autism Friendly and this book can help you refine your strategies for success! Working alongside these authors for many years has taught me that their ideas come from a place of compassion and practicality. Now, they share their collective wisdom by offering tried and true strategies for your success! I highly recommend this read!" Amy Stark Vaughan, OTD, OTR/L, BCP, Doctor of Occupational Therapy, Board Certified in PediatricsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: About Autism; Chapter 2: How Autism Affects Children; Chapter 3: How Autism Affects Adults; Chapter 4: How Autism Affects Families; Chapter 5: Autism and Communities; Chapter 6: Being Autism Friendly; Chapter 7: The Autism Friendly Training Program: The Presentation; Chapter 8: Being Autism Friendly: Information for Specific Groups; Chapter 9: Becoming an Autism Friendly Presenter; Chapter 10: Autism Friendly City Program; Conclusion; Appendices; Resources; References

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Book SynopsisIn Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists, and Clients: A Complete Guide to the Benefits of Personal Writing, more than 50 coaches, therapists, and journaling experts from around the world share their best practices and explain in detail how they use journaling to improve their work with clients. This edited collection brings together the leading voices of the journaling world into one ground-breaking volume, providing practical techniques and tools to use with clients. Applicable and accessible, over 50 journaling luminaries share their experiences and insights across eight sections, including the logic of journaling, techniques and applications, using journaling with clients, journaling in groups, journaling for mental health and wellness, growth and healing, spirituality, creativity, and more. Through theoretical and practical applications, it illustrates the transformational process of journaling in helping clients grow, heal, and achiTrade Review"This compendium of wisdom on journal writing offers sage advice on the promises, pitfalls, perils, and pleasures of journaling as a path of self-knowledge, insight, and healing. Eric Maisel, Joyce Chapman, Sheila Bender, Kathleen Adams and a host of other experts join voices in this book that holds everything you will ever need to know about what it means to love your journal as companion, mirror, and guide."Mark Matousek, Writing to Awaken: A Journey of Truth, Transformation, and Self-Discovery "I know the amazing benefits and transformational power of journaling firsthand, both in my personal life and in my work as a coach. Now I have this great resource to use, one that gathers together field-tested journaling exercises from all over the world. What an excellent addition to the coaching and therapy literature! Highly recommended."Jacob Nordby, life coach, author, The Creative Cure and Blessed are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives"Journaling can be as straightforward as taking pen in hand, opening to a blank page, and simply beginning. But imagine having access to a compendium of fifty journaling techniques and methods compiled by leading professionals from around the world. Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists, and Clients is just such a resource. A rich and practical contribution to this ever-growing field."Judy Reeves, writing teacher and author, A Writer’s Book of Days"I've been a therapist for more than fifty years and have been journaling since I was in college. This new book edited by Monk and Maisel is a powerful and practical resource for those who want to help themselves and help their clients survive and thrive in today’s topsy-turvy world. You could spend thousands of dollars at conferences developing new skills and not get the value you will receive from this wonderful book. I highly recommend it."Jed Diamond, PhD, author, The Enlightened Marriage and 12 Rules for Good MenTable of ContentsPart 1: The Logic of Journaling 1. A Therapist’s Guide to Using Journaling with Clients 2. Journal Therapy: Foundations of Practice 3. How Journaling Benefits Your Coaching and Your Clients 4. Journaling Your Way to a More Authentic Life 5. The Focused Journal Method Part 2: Using Journaling with Clients 6. Journaling for Busy Coaches and Clients 7. ‘Best Outcome’ Journaling 8. The Power of the Weekly Check-in 9. Mindfulness Writing: A Background for Coaches 10. Patricia’s Bold Journey from Confusion to Clarity Through Journaling 11. The Conflict Coaching Road Map for Journaling 12. Ideal Conversations Part 3: Journaling for Mental Health and Wellness 13. Creative Journaling for Self-Care 14. Writing Through Recovery 15. Journaling to Manage Anxiety 16. When the Words Won’t Come – Journal Keeping Without Words 17. Journaling for Dating Anxiety 18. Amplified Journaling Part 4: Journaling for Growth and Healing 19. Journaling Your Stories for Growth and Healing 20. The Dao of Expressive Writing to Heal 21. Writing to Your Future Self 22. Journaling and the Reinvention of the Self One Loop at a Time 23. Mindful Writing for Transformation 24. Visual Journaling: How to Create a Dialog With Your Subconscious Mind 25. Creating Change in Three Steps 26. The Trauma Sensitive Writing Process 27. Healing Organs through Nonverbal Color Journaling 28. Journaling for Coach and Therapist Self-Care Part 5: Spiritual and Nature Journaling 29. Meditate on Paper 30. Journaling and the Shadow 31. Journaling Through the Seasons 32. The Elements of Journaling 33. Nature Metaphors for Journaling and Therapeutic Writing Part 6: Journaling and Creativity 34. The Visioning® Process: Turning Dreams into Reality Through Collage and the Creative Journal Method (35. Weaving the Net: Journaling and Creative Productivity 36. Journaling with Your Inner Muse: 5 Simple Techniques to Overcome Creative Blocks 37. Altered Book Journaling: Re/voicing Re/finding of Self Part 7: Journaling with Groups and Leaders 38. Loving is a Creative Act: Facilitating the Four Practices of Writing Alone Together 39. Journaling in the Virtual Space 40. Journal Partners: Two People, Two Journals, More Benefits 41. The Women’s Writing Circle: Creating a Community Space through Writing and Sharing 42. Expressing Feelings in the Virtual Journaling Group 43. Positive Vision Days for Busy Leaders: How a Longing Created a Vision 44. Journaling in Leadership Workshops Part 8: Techniques and Applications 45. Journaling as a Transformational Coaching Tool: 5 Powerful Journaling Exercises for Coaches and Clients 46. Spontaneous Writing for Reluctant Clients 47. Journaling with Poetry: Embracing Change Through Poetic Process 48. Refreshing Experience with the Most Powerful of Writing Craft Tools 49. Writing and Not Writing 50. More Journals, Fewer Lesson Plans: Using Reflective Journaling to Create School Culture 51. Journaling as a Tool in Coaching Clients Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge second edition of The Craft of Family Therapy revisits some of Salvador Minuchin's most famous cases, guiding trainee therapists through basic techniques and ideas while illuminating the unique voice of Minuchin as the founder of Structural Family Therapy.The book begins by teaching readers the fundamentals of family therapy through the lens of rich commentary from Salvador Minuchin on some of his most interesting cases. It then moves on to three detailed supervision transcripts from Minuchin's former students, illustrating the struggles, fears, and insecurities that new family therapists face and how they can overcome them. In a new, ground-breaking third section, Reiter and Borda share their own lessons from Minuchin as well as expand his influential ideas, emphasizing a strength-based family therapy approach. Written in an accessible, practical style, The Craft of Family Therapy, 2nd edition draws on a wealth of fascinating case exampTrade Review"This is a uniquely fascinating book. The first edition presented the practical and poetic wisdom of Salvador Minuchin with the counterpoint voices of his trainees. Their lessons learned and their personal growth are a significant addition to the training literature. This second edition enlarges the prism by incorporating the incisive views of the trainee’s teachers, family therapy Professors Michael Reiter and Charmaine Borda. A must read for any clinician interested in enhancing their craft." – H. Charles Fishman, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine"In his final book, Minuchin gives us an in-depth master class in family therapy as developed over a 60-year career. Having worked with him, these classes speak true to his teachings throughout his career, breaking down the key skills of viewing families systemically. Minuchin gives voice to his key insights into the dynamics of the family dance that has made him one of the most influence figures in our field. Every family therapy student will appreciate the second part of the book which demonstrates the struggle and growth that student therapists have in becoming professional family therapists. The third part of the book fondly pays tribute to Minuchin’s masterful voice and how it continues to impact family therapists into the future." – Cloe Madanes, president, Madanes Institute, author of Changing Relationships"This is a uniquely fascinating book. The first edition presented the practical and poetic wisdom of Salvador Minuchin with the counterpoint voices of his trainees. Their lessons learned and their personal growth are a significant addition to the training literature. This second edition enlarges the prism by incorporating the incisive views of the trainee’s teachers, family therapy Professors Michael D. Reiter and Charmaine Borda. A must read for any clinician interested in enhancing their craft." – H. Charles Fishman, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine"In his final book, Minuchin gives us an in-depth master class in family therapy as developed over a 60-year career. Having worked with him, these classes speak true to his teachings throughout his career, breaking down the key skills of viewing families systemically. Minuchin gives voice to his key insights into the dynamics of the family dance that has made him one of the most influence figures in our field. Every family therapy student will appreciate the second part of the book which demonstrates the struggle and growth that student therapists have in becoming professional family therapists. The third part of the book fondly pays tribute to Minuchin’s masterful voice and how it continues to impact family therapists into the future." – Cloe Madanes, president, Madanes Institute, author of Changing RelationshipsTable of ContentsPart I. 1. The Craft of Family Therapy 2. Symptoms: Challenge to the Concept that the Symptom is Located in One Family Member 3. Unwrapping Family Member Identities 4. Deconstructing Family Member Organization: Exploring Subsystems 5. The Therapist’s Style 6. Utilizing the Family Therapist’s Pouch Part II. 7. Angela and the Way to Ask Questions 8. Olivia and Becoming a Supernanny 9. Learning From My Mistakes Sarah Walker 10. Too Close for Comfort Roseann Pascale 11. Six Lessons from Doctor Minuchin Helen Reynolds 12. Minuchin and the Wilsons Part III. 13. Ten Things I Learned from Dr. Salvador Minuchin Michael D. Reiter 14. Sage Advice from Salvador Minuchin Charmaine Borda 15. A Therapy of Hope and Strength 16. Honing One’s Craft in a Changing Field

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a timely, detailed, and comprehensive synopsis of dance/movement therapy (DMT) in the treatment of psychological trauma.Along with the foundational concepts of DMT, tied to traditional trauma theory and a neurobiological framework, contributions contain rich clinical examples that illustrate the use of dance, creative movement, and body awareness with a wide variety of populations including survivors of sex trafficking, military veterans, refugees, those with multigenerational trauma, and others. Chapters emphasize the underlying influences of power, privilege, and oppression on trauma, prompting practitioners to consider and understand the dynamics of sociocultural contexts and engage in continuous self-reflection.Featuring multiple perspectives, as well as cultural and contextual considerations, this book provides direct takeaways for clinicians and professionals and concludes with a roadmap for the trajectory of trauma-informed, healing-centered DMTTrade Review"This timely and remarkable book dedicated to dance/movement therapy for trauma survivors combines theory and population-specific applications in a very accessible, readable, and sensible format by experts in the field. Carefully curated, each chapter contains an important area of dance/movement therapy theory and practice for a large spectrum of trauma-related populations, with special attention to culture and the latest knowledge and practice. It is indispensable for researchers, educators, professionals, and students of dance/movement therapy. It really is a treasure trove for the field." — Rainbow Tin Hung Ho, PhD, director of Expressive Arts Therapy Program, University of Hong Kong"This text moves and stirs as much as it crumbles and activates. The authors demonstrate that authentic storytelling can go hand-in-hand with theoretical knowledge as they unpack the real- world challenges facing us in 2021. Alongside an overview of the latest science in trauma work from neurobiological, sociocultural, relational, somatic, movement and creative perspectives, lie clear, yet intimate case examples making it a must read for anyone working in the field of trauma." — Claire Stephensen, RMT, MIACN, FECC, AMTA, MMusThy, BMus, registered music therapist; clinical neuropsychotherapist; embodiment coach"Inherent in the very nature of their training, dance/movement therapists have specialized insights into complex mind-body relationships and how our most primal and precious resource, movement, influences a range of physical, emotional, cognitive, psychological, and spiritual domains. Dieterich-Hartwell and Melsom have thoughtfully compiled a broad range of authentic and diverse voices to explain the embodiment of trauma. A crucial addition to the literature and the first of its kind, this profound compendium illuminates the potentials of dance/movement therapy in clinical practice and offers relevant directions for collaborative research." — Juliet King, ABD, ATR-BC, LPC, LMHC, associate professor of art therapy, The George Washington University"This book beautifully and powerfully situates dance and movement therapy (DMT) as restorative, relational, and revolutionary. Through a social justice lens, the role of dance for individual and collective liberation is uniquely illuminated and interwoven in each section. From deep cultural wisdom to the neuroscience of movement, the chapters build a compelling case and provide valuable guidance for incorporating DMT into the work of healing trauma. I will be drawing upon this resource for my teaching, my professional practice, and my own self-care!" —Shelly Harrell, PhD, professor, Pepperdine University; director, The Soulfulness Center"This book is, quite simply, one of the best I have ever read in dance/movement therapy. By including both younger professionals as well as established leaders, it captures the broad range of historical roots and innovative branches as it tackles the complex topic of trauma in our world. The authors tell their own stories while also creating a unified ethos of social justice, and a broad and sensitive inclusion of many different peoples and their distinct needs and voices. The trauma field has needed this book for some time, as it has struggled to understand movement's role in healing deep wounds. Dance/movement therapy has also needed to more deeply investigate the sensitivities of trauma as it moves in and through systems, families, cultures, and identities. This book masterfully encompasses both these projects with bravery and with an eye on current crises and injustices. It looks both forward and outward, while having its feet firmly planted in the centrality of our moving bodies. Accessible to any therapist or health professional that values lived experience in their work, this book will contribute to all our fields in deeply meaningful ways." — Christine Caldwell, PhD, LPC, BC-DMT, NCC, ACS, professor emeritus, Graduate School of Counseling and Psychology; Somatic Counseling; Naropa University"Dance/Movement Therapy for Survivors of Trauma provides a comprehensive resource describing applications of dance/movement therapy as both a primary and adjunctive modality for trauma treatment. As the mental health community becomes trauma-informed, the unique value of movement-oriented therapies is being acknowledged and appreciated. In this impressive volume, editors Rebekka Dieterich-Hartwell and Anne Margrethe Melsom have assembled chapter authors who use personal and compassionate vignettes to describe applications and insightful strategies. The volume provides convincing evidence that joyful playful movement is an effective tool in the retuning of the neural and mental systems that will enable the survivor to lose the devastating grip of trauma." — Stephen W. Porges, PhD, distinguished university scientist and founding director, Traumatic Stress Research Consortium Kinsey Institute, Indiana University; professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"As a trauma psychologist who utilizes dance and movement therapeutically with diverse populations, I recommend Dance/Movement Therapy for Survivors of Trauma. This text is informative, accessible, and attentive to spirituality, cultural context, and oppression. Many trauma psychology books overlook historical trauma and the societal trauma of oppression, but this text gives them thoughtful, nuanced consideration. Dance/Movement Therapy for Survivors of Trauma provides a major contribution to the field and when applied can enhance the recovery of survivors." — Thema Bryant, PhD, author, psychologist, survivor, dancer"This impressive, in-depth and timely 18-chapter volume arrives when trauma has become a pandemic. The distinguished authors offer a critical view of how dance movement therapy/psychotherapy (DMT/P) addresses a wide range of populations suffering the effects of trauma. The foundations of DMT/P are married with neurobiology, relational concepts, and cultural healing practices. Finishing with trauma-informed DMT/P in the age of telehealth, the stewardship of trauma for helping professionals, and the implications for DMT/P education, practice and research, it takes DMT/P to another level!" —Helen Payne, PhD, professor, Reg. UKCP; Reg. ADMP UK, University of HertfordshireTable of ContentsSection 1: Foundational Concepts in Dance/Movement Therapy and Psychological Trauma 1. Theoretical Underpinnings of Dance/Movement Therapy in the Treatment of Psychological Trauma 2. Embodied Conversations: Culturally and Trauma-Informed Healing Practices in Dance/Movement Therapy 3. Neurobiological Considerations in the Treatment of Trauma from a Dance/Movement Therapy Perspective 4. Bridging the Chasm and Calming the Storm: The Relational Perspective on Dance/Movement Therapy for Trauma Section 2: Clinical Applications with Various Populations 5. Body, Brain, and Relationship: Dance/Movement Therapy with Children with Complex Trauma 6. Trauma, Oppression, and Dance/Movement Therapy with Adolescents: An Inside out Approach for the Counselor/Therapist 7. A Trauma-Informed Approach to Dance/Movement Therapy for Persons Living with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders 8. Dance/Movement Therapy: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Engagement in the Treatment of Substance Use 9. Dance/Movement Therapy: Renewing Purpose when Emerging from Sexual Abuse and International Human Sex Trafficking 10. Dance/Movement Therapy, Trauma, and Criminalization: Reflecting on Feminist and Participatory Approaches 11. Refugees Dealing with Complex Trauma: Dance/Movement Therapy for Survivors of the Genocide of the Yazidi 12. A Return to the Body: Trauma-Informed Dance/Movement Therapy for Individuals with Eating Disorders 13. Dance/Movement Therapy with Active Duty and Veteran Military Populations 14. Trauma-Informed Dance/Movement Therapy in the Context of Medical Illness Section 3: Widening the Scope of Dance/Movement Therapy 15. Trauma-Informed Dance/Movement Therapy in the Age of Telehealth 16. Multigenerational Cultural Trauma Considerations in Dance/Movement Therapy 17. Dance/Movement Therapy and Trauma Stewardship: A Practical Guide for Helping Professionals 18. Trauma-Informed Dance/Movement Therapy: Implications for Healing-Centered Education, Practice, and Research

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Book SynopsisRoutledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy is the first book of its kind to provide an overview of key aspects of play and play therapy, considering play on a continuum from generic aspects through to more specific applied and therapeutic techniques and as a stand-alone discipline.Presented in four parts, the book provides a unique overview of, and ascribes equal value to, the fields of play, therapeutic play, play in therapy and play therapy. Chapters by academics, play practitioners, counsellors, arts therapists and play therapists from countries as diverse as Japan, Cameroon, India, the Czech Republic, Israel, USA, Ireland, Turkey, Greece and the UK explore areas of each topic, drawing links and alliances between each. The book includes complex case studies with children, adolescents and adults in therapy with arts and play therapists, research with children on play, work in schools, outdoor play and play therapy, animal-asTrade Review"Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapyis a delightful collection of stories, research, experiences from play practitioners across multicultural contexts. What is most fascinating about this play potpourri is the range it is able to cover from children as play experts in co-research, to use of play in classroom, work place, health space to play as core medium for healing and therapy. This innovative handbook by Sue and Clive is an ultimate encyclopedia on play that will treasured by therapists, teachers, paediatricians, parents and play campaigners across the world for many generations. " - Shelja Sen, Family Therapist"Bringing perspectives from around the world to consider play across time and cultures and in a broad range of disciplines, artistic forms, settings and creative spaces, this handbook offers an in indispensable point of entry and a timely journey through this multifaceted field." - Dr Maggie O’Neill, NUI Galway"I celebrate Clive Holmwood and Sue Jennings in showing how "play and the arts are intrinsically linked." The silos of professions, and of the arts themselves, too often block access to this natural interdependence of imagination advancing the whole of life—even the workplace. Children model a life-affirming creative intelligence involving all of the senses, ways of playing needed to create, heal, and be in the world in the most complete and organic ways. Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy, and its global community of authors, reinforce the vital role of play in our common humanity." - Shaun McNiff, Professor, Lesley University"The importance of play for human development is paramount. Neurosciences showed that play is ingrained in our brain, generating the basic emotion of joy, and, at least since Froebel, we know that a large amount of what children learn, is learnt through play. Notwithstanding that, we can perceive everywhere what Roger Caillois called the ‘debasement of play’, the lacking of spontaneity, creativity and freedom. How can these virtues of play be recovered? This precious book offers a whole range of reflections on the matter in a multicultural perspective, and suggests many powerful ways to engage with play and restore its therapeutic potentiality." – Salvo Pitruzzella, Centro ArtiTerapie, Lecco, Italy"Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy is a delightful collection of stories, research, experiences from play practitioners across multicultural contexts. What is most fascinating about this play potpourri is the range it is able to cover, from children as play experts in co-research to use of play in classroom, work place, health space to play as core medium for healing and therapy. This innovative handbook by Sue and Clive is an ultimate encyclopedia on play that will treasured by therapists, teachers, paediatricians, parents and play campaigners across the world for many generations. " - Shelja Sen, Family Therapist"Bringing perspectives from around the world to consider play across time and cultures and in a broad range of disciplines, artistic forms, settings and creative spaces, this handbook offers an indispensable point of entry and a timely journey through this multifaceted field." - Dr Maggie O’Neill, NUI Galway, Ireland"I celebrate Clive Holmwood and Sue Jennings in showing how 'play and the arts are intrinsically linked.' The silos of professions, and of the arts themselves, too often block access to this natural interdependence of imagination advancing the whole of life - even the workplace. Children model a life-affirming creative intelligence involving all of the senses and ways of playing needed to create, heal and be in the world in the most complete and organic ways. Routledge International Handbook of Play, Therapeutic Play and Play Therapy, and its global community of authors, reinforce the vital role of play in our common humanity." - Shaun McNiff, Professor, Lesley University, USA"The importance of play for human development is paramount. Neurosciences showed that play is ingrained in our brain, generating the basic emotion of joy, and, at least since Froebel, we know that a large amount of what children learn is learnt through play. Notwithstanding that, we can perceive everywhere what Roger Caillois called the ‘debasement of play,’ the lacking of spontaneity, creativity and freedom. How can these virtues of play be recovered? This precious book offers a whole range of reflections on the matter in a multicultural perspective, and suggests many powerful ways to engage with play and restore its therapeutic potentiality." – Salvo Pitruzzella, Centro ArtiTerapie, Lecco, ItalyTable of ContentsPart I – Play 1. Play and childhoods: how are the relationships between researching play and children changing? 2. Lila: teacher´s play through the eyes of a child 3. Cultivating playfulness in the workplace 4. Playing memories: exploring the notion of play amongst participants of participatory theatre in Cameroon 5. The ness of being playful 6. Stages not ages: The emerging Developmental Play approach for differently abled children 7. Playful workshop toolkit for professionals working with children 8. Lilaloka: a place of play 9. Play with children in hospitals: the situation in Japan Part II – Therapeutic Play 10. Playwork as a therapeutic tool 11. Playfulness and other worlds: re-visiting A Midsummer Night’s Dream 12. ‘The Magic Drum’ in action: the use of therapeutic play group intervention to foster positive peer interaction among children with diverse abilities and needs in an international primary school in Prague 13. Planning successful therapeutic material engagements: charting a course from danger to the safe zone 14. Let’s get Messy! enhancing and enriching children’s learning and development through messy play 15. Neuro-Dramatic Play and a hero’s journey: a play-based approach in a UK junior school Part III – Play in Therapy 16. Using play as a counselling tool in a multicultural society 17. The Isle of Silliness: play and dramatherapy with addicted Palestinian men in Israel as a way of balancing in patriarchal society 18. Grannies on the run: into the wild spaces of autistic play 19. "Some body rlse": Harlequin’s journey in forensic sandplay and gender dysphoria 20. Playing together: the use of directed joint engagement activities in Dyadic Art Psychotherapy 21. The "terror of the school" learns to play 22. The international appeal of Filial Therapy: values, methods and its use in Turkey to empower children and families and the therapists who assist them 23. The color of play: breaking through walls within a child’s world 24. Listening to Pan: helping children who panic 25. The story of Angela Part IV – Play Therapy 26. Swings or roundabouts? The case for using a combined play therapy and dramatherapy approach as an effective intervention with children at risk of exclusion 27. Creative interventions with children and adolescents with complex trauma 28. Play therapy/therapeutic play with children with autism: the journey: wait, watch and wonder 29. Play therapy: the ideal environment for play development and the repair of play deprivation 30. Therapeutic use of self and the Play Therapy Dimensions Model 31. What am I doing out here?! Exploring the challenge for play therapy in the outdoors 32. School-based play therapy 33. The healing power of playful animals: Animal Assisted Play Therapy® as an intervention for childhood bullying in South Africa 34. Creating a safe space in a safe place: working creatively with young people in a secure setting 35. Healing through therapeutic play in Malaysia Afterword Closure

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Book SynopsisTrainees and practitioners need a trusted resource for mastering the essential skills and competencies necessary for effecting deep, lasting change in their clients. This second edition of Highly Effective Therapy: Effecting Deep Change in Counseling and Psychotherapy is that resource. It updates the 20 essential skill sets and clinical competencies needed for a highly effective and successful clinical practice. It illustrates them in action with evidence-based treatment protocols and clinical simulations to foster learning and competency. Sperry emphasizes the process of easily learning these research-based clinical competencies with added case examples and session transcriptions. New to this edition is trauma assessment, protective factors, and ultra-brief cognitive behavioral interventions. This second edition is written in an accessible format and is essential for practitioners, trainees, and instructors working in this field.Trade Review"Dr. Sperry is a master at writing very practical, insightful, and evidence-based contemporary advice for therapists who are in all stages of their career. In this revised edition of Highly Effective Therapy, he once again offers a must read, how-to book that should be embraced and followed by students and established therapists. If readers follow his approach with care both therapists and their clientele will likely benefit and even flourish."Thomas G. Plante, PhD, ABPP, Santa Clara University and Stanford University School of Medicine"Every academic program in the fields of psychotherapy has to decide whether they merely want to graduate students who meet professional accreditation standards or whether they want to train master therapists. Those students as well as all professional practitioners have to decide whether they merely want to go to work or whether they want to excel at their profession, whether they want one year of experience 20 times over or 20 years of deliberate experience and increasing competence. For the latter in all these areas, the second edition of Highly Effective Therapy is the only book that matters."James Robert Bitter, EdD, East Tennessee State University"Highly Effective Therapy, second edition builds on the success of the popular first edition. This book is unique in the mental health literature with respect to the clarity with which it explains the evidence-based support for 20 core therapy competencies. Whether beginner or expert therapist, you will benefit from the practical advice and detailed case examples that can be easily applied irrespective of theoretical orientation."Brian A. Gerrard, PhD, Western Institute for Social Research and University of San FranciscoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Developing Essential Clinical Competenciesand Deep Therapeutic Change 1. Making and Implementing Effective Clinical Decisions 2. Establishing an Effective Therapeutic Alliance 3 Assessing Readiness and Fostering Treatment Promoting Factors 4. Recognizing and Resolving Resistance and Ambivalence 5. Recognizing and Resolving Transferences and Countertransferences 6. Recognizing and Repairing Alliance Ruptures 7. Performing an Integrative Diagnostic Assessment 8. Developing an Accurate DSM Diagnosis 9. Developing a Highly Effective Case Conceptualization: Clinical Formulation 10. Developing an Integrative Case Conceptualization: Cultural Formulation 11. Developing an Integrative Case Conceptualization: Treatment Formulation 12. Drafting an Integrative Clinical Case Report 13. Establishing a Treatment Focus 14. Maintaining the Treatment Focus 15. Effecting Therapeutic Change 16. Planning and Implementing Culturally Sensitive Treatment 17. Recognizing and Resolving Treatment-Interfering Factors 18. Monitoring Progress and Modifying Treatment Accordingly 19. Evaluating Progress and Preparing Clients for Termination 20. Utilizing Supervision Effectively and Evaluating Competencies

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Book SynopsisFive Minutes a Day to an Upgraded Therapy Practice is a compilation of short, useful suggestions based on classic theory, current research, and wisdom gathered over fifteen years of clinical practice, supervision, and graduate teaching in psychology and counseling. Chapters include highly practical upgrades on standard therapy techniques and ideas for continual therapist development (that respect the busy life of the mental health professional!). The book is made up of ten sections, each with ten short chapters, each readable in under five minutes. It is an indispensable resource for practicing mental health clinicians, including counselors, clinical social workers, psychologists, and other helpers, as well as advanced students in counseling or similar graduate programs.Trade Review"If you want to continue to advance your skills and confidence as a therapist – but don’t want to add yet another ‘approach’ or ‘technique’ to your already overstuffed toolkit – this is the book for you. Ellis works on the assumption that you already have the knowledge and resources you need to be an effective therapist, and she provides a treasure trove of useful tips and easy-to-practice exercises to help you strengthen your therapeutic muscles and further refine your therapeutic techniques. There’s a reason we call what we do a ‘therapy practice’ – and although in our profession practice will never make perfect, it will certainly make you better – and Ellis’s nuggets of wisdom will certainly help you get there."Victor Yalom, PhD, founder and CEO of Psychotherapy.net"I don’t know how she did it, but Stephanie Ellis managed to cram half a graduate program's worth of foundational research on psychotherapy into a book that weighs less than a bag of coffee beans, and by some magic it reads more like an engaging mystery novel than a textbook! This book is everything you could hope for – knowledgeable and practical, challenging in the way that brings out your best, and lighthearted and endlessly entertaining."Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, host of The Psychology Podcast, author of Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization"Stephanie Ellis provides a relational approach to help therapists better themselves. Up-to-date information. Engaging read. Easily incorporates methods to improve your practice regardless of preferred theory or level of experience."Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD, director of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation"A valuable resource for new and experienced therapists alike, each chapter of Five Minutes a Day to an Upgraded Practice directs you to the foundational elements of effective psychotherapy, next-level nuances of theory and practice, and pragmatic ways to apply these concepts right away. If you want to improve as a therapist, use the advice we give to our clients and make small, consistent, and meaningful changes, and read one short chapter a day of this engaging, informative book."Joel Minden, PhD, psychologist, author of Show Your Anxiety Who's Boss: A Three-Step CBT Program to Help You Reduce Anxious Thoughts and Worry"Dr. Stephanie Ellis's masterfully written book is an excellent guide for therapists in all stages of their careers. In a fun and engaging manner, Dr. Ellis describes the bedrock concepts of the field and then transforms each principle into a practical tip. The wisdom throughout the book will be especially useful to novice therapists seeking powerful ways to enhance patient care."Kathryn H. Gordon, PhD, clinical psychologist, author of The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Skills to Reduce Emotional Pain, Increase Hope, and Prevent SuicideTable of ContentsIntroduction; Section One: How Does the "Talking Cure" Cure? (The Infrastructure of Therapy); Section Two: We’ve Got to Walk Before We Dance (Revisiting and Revamping Basic Skills); Section Three: Watch Your Mouth! (Therapeutic Language); Section Four: It’s Actually Not Magic (Exploration of Change Processes); Section Five: What We Can Get Away With (And What We Can, But Shouldn’t); Section Six: Deepening Knowledge (Without a Lot of Spare Time); Section Seven: Ethics for Practice (Not Just the School Stuff); Section Eight: It’s a Lifelong Journey (Real Professional Development); Section Nine: We Are Not Immune (Common Cognitive Distortions; Section Ten: We Can Only Be Who We Are (Self-as-Therapist); Parting Words; Index.

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Book SynopsisPerspectives on a Young Woman''s Suicide is a unique and updated analysis of a diary left behind by Katie, a young woman who took her own life. By drawing on clinicians, researchers, survivors of suicide loss, and those closest to Katie, this book delves into common beliefs about why people die by suicide and into the internal worlds of those who do, as well as ethical and moral questions surrounding those deaths. Several contributors discuss Katie's suicide from the perspective of recent theories of suicide, including Joiner's interpersonal theory and Klonsky's three-step theory. Two contributors who have lost a child to suicide look at Katie's diary from their perspective, one of whom discusses whether it is truly possible to prevent suicide. Finally, Katie's sister reveals her reactions to this project and her ex-boyfriend shares his account of her death. This book is a vital addition to the library of any researcher, academic, or professional interested inTrade Review"Lester and Gunn have provided a brilliant set of new essays on Katie's diary. This is a stunning and diverse collection of international and interdisciplinary views on the diary of a woman who died by suicide. The new edition continues to suggest that any singular view is inadequate and needs to be supplemented by others in efforts to fully understand suicide." — Steven Stack, PhD, Wayne State University, director of the Center for Suicide Research"Highly recommended to all suicide researchers and students. Reading Katie’s diary is like having Katie speaking to you directly, especially about all the pains she was going through. Katie’s diary was carefully analyzed by prominent researchers in this field through various contemporary theoretical frameworks and concepts, which further illustrates the complexity of understanding the suicidal mind." — Bob Lew, PhD, Department of Social Psychology, faculty of Human Ecology, Putra University of Malaysia Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Who is Katie? 3. Katie’s Diary: The First Month Commentaries; 4. The Complexity of Suicide: Exploring Katie’s Diary through a Bioecological Lens 5. Katie from the Perspective of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide 6. Using the Three-Step Theory of Suicide to Understand Katie’s Desire for Suicide 7. Understanding Katie’s Experiences from The Perspective of the Integrated Motivation Volitional Model of Suicidal Behavior 8. Katie’s Implicit Life Plan for the End of Summer: How Implicit Prospection May Influence the Course of Events 9. What is the Meaning Katie? Katie’s Diaries Read through a Meaning-making Lens 10. A Safe Place for Katie: A Gestalt Therapy Perspective on her Suicidal Experience 11. Writing to Remain: Two Diaries from Young Women Who Wrote to Survive 12. Why Are We So Bad at Preventing Suicide? Conclusions;13. From the Ashes of Suicide: A Life Repurposed 14. What Happened During Katie’s Last Few Days: Mark’s Account 15.Why Did Katie Die by Suicide?

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Book SynopsisCase Studies in School Psychology is the first textbook to comprehensively introduce the NASP Practice Model through active discussion of real-life, school-based examples of issues facing school psychologists. Incorporating all 10 domains of practice, these true-to-life scenarios span individual child, class-wide, school-wide, and district/community-wide organizational levels across multiple age and developmental ranges. Graduate students will better understand their expansive roles and potential avenues to make positive impacts as school psychologists in children's academic, social, emotional, and behavioral development.Table of Contents1. School Psychologists as Data-Based Decision-Makers 2. School Psychologists as Consultants and Collaborators 3. Providing Services in Academic Interventions and Instructional Supports 4. Providing Services in Mental and Behavioral Health Services and Interventions 5. Understanding School-Wide Practices to Promote Learning 6. Understanding Services to Promote Safe and Supportive Schools 7. School Psychologists as Family, School, and Community Collaborators 8. Ensuring Equitable Practices for Diverse Student Populations 9. Understanding Research and Evidence-Based Practice 10. Understanding Legal, Ethical, and Professional Practice

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Book SynopsisWe naturally create stories to help us make meaning of our world, but in conflict situations the kinds of stories we typically tell ourselves can actually make it harder for us to manage and resolve the conflict constructively. This book provides an accessible framework for understanding why people tell their conflict stories the way they do, and how to help them move away from conflict stories that prevent them from understanding and responding to conflict in an effective way. Presented using highly engaging and accessible cases, the book is designed to help people working with others in conflict to fully support them by understanding which areas of the conflict story to focus their attention on, and using practical techniques to support people to rewrite their story into a more constructive one to better manage the situation. The book also provides practical strategies to help people who are themselves in a conflict scenario to rewrite and enact a version of their conflict Trade Review"People in conflict tell stories about what they experienced – sometimes to mend the fabric of a newly-torn reality, or explore the meaning of what happened, or demonize their opponents, or justify their own behavior - but always to discover a way out, or return to their own un-conflicted selves, or tell the story in a way that imparts insight into the deeper reasons why it happened, allowing it to be forgotten. Samantha Hardy, a self-confessed "pracademic," brings a wonderful combination of practical coaching and mediation skills, a high level of emotional insight, and a profound understanding of the nature of narrative and melodrama to this excellent and immensely useful book. Every practitioner will learn something from it and walk away with a deeper understanding of the role of melodrama and tragedy in conflict stories, and a great many practical coaching and mediation skills to boot! It is an enjoyable read and well worth the price." - Kenneth Cloke, Mediator and author of The Dance of Opposites: Explorations in Mediation, Dialogue and Conflict Resolution Systems Design"Sam is inviting you to look at conflict through a whole new set of eyes. The unique and entertaining lens that she is offering is 'genres of literature'. She has uncovered and is taking you on a journey to discover healthy and unhealthy conflict story patterns. These insights provide you with the power to (re)-write your own, or help others (re)-write their own, conflict narratives in a way that helps define new ways for moving forward and find peace with the past. A must for conflict specialists and people who want to critically reflect on their own approach to conflict." - Claudia Butler, Professional Conflict Navigator, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: Conflict Stories 1. Conflict stories, narratives and genre 2. Melodrama 3. The melodramatic conflict narrative 4. Melodramatic victims 5. Melodramatic villains 6. Why is the melodramatic conflict narrative problematic? 7. Tragedy – the alternative conflict story 8. The shift from melodrama to tragedy PART II: Conflict Coaching to Support Story Development 9. Coaching to facilitate the shift 10. Simple to complex 11. Certain to uncertain 12. Passive to active 13. Dependence to agency 14. Past to future 15. Suffering to learning 16. The REAL Conflict Coaching SystemTM

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Book SynopsisThis 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 understand what is happening in the therapeutic alliance. With a reliance on psycholinguistic elements, this model can guide therapists who wish to reduce the premature termination of patients from therapy. Written in an accessible format, it provides case examples, including the patient's and therapist's inner experiences, and defines and describes the phases of therapy so that difficult transitions in the therapeutic process can be navigated with skill and compassion.This text is essential for providing early career as well as more seasoned therapists with excellent strategies to

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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, it is being recognized that spirituality, defined here as a multiform search for a transcendent meaning of life that connects them to all living beings and brings them in touch with God or âUltimate Reality,â is an aspect of almost every sphere and aspect of social life. It appears in humanityâs dealings with nature, home and community, healing, economics and business, knowledge, and education. The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions is a stimulating collection that summarizes the most important issues, frameworks, discussions, and problems relating to spiritually inspired activities in different fields of social life.The contributors explore how spirituality is a part of existence and present approaches and models for professionals working in diverse areas. Presented in seven parts, the book provides a full overview of current research and practice. Part II, Facets of spirituality, explores topics includTrade Review"In the morally ambiguous workplace of modern corporations, spirituality is a poorly understood topic, and yet one of the most important issues facing organizations today. Lack of spirituality is also a source of many contemporary problems. The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions brings together an impressive array of writers deeply exploring this topic from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels. This book offers the most important concepts, frameworks and examples for understanding spirituality in organizations and society. The book should be of great interest to both researchers and practitioners." - Paul Shrivastava, Professor and Director, Sustainability Institute, Pennsylvania State University, USA, and International Research Chair in Art and Sustainable Enterprise, ICN Business School, France"The immense damage that the relentless search for analytic truth in economic life has caused is now becoming tragically clear as environmental degradation, growing income and political inequality bring about political instability, violence and human suffering. The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions explores and shows how and why spirituality is an indispensable part our lives rather than some 'exogenous' factor that, for the sake of the mathematical elegance of some model, can be safely ignored. This outstanding volume is part of the growing effort of social scientists, philosophers and theologians to find the way out of this catastrophic path by reincorporating into economic thinking what makes us human." - Peter Rona, Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University, UK"The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions is a fantastic publication which provides a long term vision regarding the importance of spirituality in human lives. The handbook indicates the approaches of spirituality in all social sciences, fine arts, and professions. It establishes some guidelines from which future scholars can extend the frontiers of their work in doing research in various fields." - Manas Chatterji, Professor of Management, Binghamton University, USA, and President, Mahatma Gandhi International Research Center for Conflict Prevention and Management, Bangalore, India

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Book SynopsisRational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques presents 100 main features of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) to help therapists improve their practice.This new edition has been updated throughout to take account of changes in the field and to be more consistent with the ideas of the authors, which have been derived from their experience as trainers and supervisors of novice rational emotive behaviour therapists. Beginning with an introduction outlining the basics of the approach, this book offers thorough coverage of all the vital topics including: working alliance issues educational issues dealing with misconceptions about REBT encouraging clients to work at change dealing with obstacles to change using REBT creatively. This concise and highly practical book will be invaluable to psychotherapists and counsellors in training and practice, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the REBT approach.Table of ContentsPart 1 WORKING ALLIANCE ISSUES; Part 2 EDUCATIONAL ISSUES; Part 3 DEALING WITH MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT REBT; Part 4 TECHNICAL ISSUES; Part 5 ENCOURAGING CHANGE WORK; Part 6 DIALECTICAL EXAMINATION; Part 7 DEALING WITH OBSTACLES TO CHANGE; Part 8 CREATIVITY I: GENERAL ISSUES; Part 9 CREATIVITY II: THE USE OF REBT IN SINGLE-SESSION THERAPY; PART 10 DEVELOP YOURSELF PERSONALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY

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Book SynopsisFor effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the storybook. Both books can be purchased together as a set, Negotiating the World of Friendships and Relationships: A Cool to be Kind' Storybook and Practical Resource [9780367537807]This is a practical resource for use by teachers, support staff and therapists that contains session ideas for use with children to promote kindness, friendship and self-compassion. It includes detailed lesson plans with extensive guidance and photocopiable activity sheets to support individuals, groups or classes of children aged 7 and upwards.This guidebook can be used to: Help children understand the value of kindness, both to themselves and to others Nurture the moral development of children Support children who may be struggling with self-worth and self-kindness This guidebook is available to purchase as part of a two-componenTrade Review"An utterly charming and accessible resource for teachers and young students to grasp the importance of being kind."Bruce Hood, Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of Bristol, UK."It has a clear aim of enabling children to work their way through the often confusing and mind-blowing world of friendships and relationships in an age where acceptance and belonging is most important to them. It enables our children to incorporate new information and ideas about friendships and relationships into their existing thought patterns and experiences. With ongoing, daily support from staff, they are able to adapt their thoughts and thus responses, into their daily experiences… Cool to be Kind will be used not only as an intervention but also alongside our PSHE curriculum whole class as needed. As a resource, it upskills staff delivering it and enlightens their perception of what they thought might be happening. By opening dialogue and discussion between child and adult, you can see an increased understanding and empathy through a child’s lens. The aim to create the best version of themselves is only strengthened." Janet Raju, Deputy Headteacher, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Session 1 Cool Session 2 Coco and Kez Session 3 Otto and Indra Session 4 Ollie and Nina Session 5 Ling and Danny Session 6 Cool to be Kind Self Kindness Appendices: 1. Super-powers 2. Feelings 3. How might it feel? 4. Calm 5. My Map of Me 6. Thoughts 7. Send a Cool to be Kind Message 8. Like / Not Like Continuum Cards 9. Cool to be Kind Cards 10. Kind to Me Cards

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Book SynopsisCognitive Behaviour Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques is a crisp, concise elaboration of the 100 main features of the very popular and evidence-based CBT approach within the field of psychotherapy. In recent decades CBT has been applied to an ever-increasing number of problems (including anxiety disorders, substance abuse and eating disorders) and populations (children, adolescents and older people). With newly incorporated material on supervision, this extensively revised and updated third edition covers CBT theory and practice. Divided into helpful sections, the topics covered include: Misconceptions about CBT Teaching the cognitive model Assessmentâ'case conceptualizationâ'treatment planning Ways of detecting and answering negative automatic thoughts (NATs) Homework (between-session assignments) Conducting behavioural experiments Uncovering and restructuring intermediate and core beliefs Relapse management Resistance Supervision Third wave CBT This compact, usable book is an essential guide for psychotherapists and counsellors, both trainee and qualified, who need to ensure they are entirely familiar with the key features of CBT as part of a general introduction to the current major psychotherapies.Table of ContentsPart 1 CBT THEORY; Part 2 MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CBT; Part 3 CBT PRACTICE; Getting started; Ways of detecting NATs; Examining and responding to NATs; Homework; Ways of identifying underlying assumptions and rules; Revising assumptions and rules; Uncovering core beliefs; Developing and strengthening new/existing core beliefs; Towards termination and beyond; Other issues; Appendices; References

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Book SynopsisTreating Trauma in Trans People brings together key concepts from both gender-affirming treatment and trauma-focused care, with interventions focused on resolving physiological, intrapsychic, and interpersonal disruptions. Symptoms related to trauma and stress manifest in bodies, psyches, and interpersonal interactions. Gender, too, is impacted by bodies, psyches, and interpersonal interactions. With chapters that focus on each of these domains, this book provides a framework for clinicians eager to provide trauma-informed, gender-inclusive care. The book then broadens the lens to the systemic, acknowledging the limits of individual interventions when located within a larger framework of systemic oppression and asking clinicians to consider liberation and justice as treatment goals.Trade Review"Minshew’s Treating Trauma in Trans People meets a critical need for gender care and trauma care providers: guiding them in trans-affirming trauma-therapy strategies that are grounded in deep understanding of both the impacts of oppression and the healing of therapeutic and community liberatory practices."Finn Gratton, LMFT (they/them), author of Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults"Treating Trauma in Trans People is a valuable guide for clinicians tending to the health and well-being of transgender and gender diverse individuals and communities. The focus of this book is liberation, and it moves us in that direction with a combination of concrete, applicable treatment strategies paired with an examination of the structures that contribute to systemic inequality."Colt St. Amand, PhD, MD, (he/they), clinical psychologist, family medicine physician, and coeditor of The Gender Affirmative ModelTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Trans 101, 2. Trauma 101, 3. Intersectionality 101, 4. Traumatic and Stressful Experiences in the Lives of Trans People, 5. Physiological Features of Trauma, 6. Psychological Features of Trauma, 7. Interpersonal Features of Trauma, 8. Introducing the Triphasic Model, 9. Phase 0—Before Getting Started, 10. Phase 1—Safety in an Unsafe World, 11. Phase 2—Reprocessing, 12. Phase 3—Finding and Building Affirming Communities, 13. In Which We Come to the End of Our Time Together

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Book SynopsisDuring and after a traumatic experience, survivors experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, relational, and spiritual responses that can make them feel unbalanced and threatened. The second edition of Building Resilience to Trauma explains common responses from a biological perspective, reframing the human experience from one of shame and pathology to one of hope and biology. Using two evidence-informed models of intervention that are trauma-informed and resiliency-informedthe Community Resiliency Model (CRM) and the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)chapters distill complex neuroscience into understandable concepts and lay out a path for fostering short- and long-term healing. CRM develops natural leaders who share wellness skills throughout communities as primary prevention, and TRM focuses on training mental health professionals to reprocess traumatic experiences. Studies have demonstrated that the models' use leads to significant reductions inTrade Review"Elaine Miller-Karas’s second edition of Building Resilience to Trauma is a genuine act of empowerment. So many people have a lived experience of poor mental health through trauma, and she brings tools and hope to the many trying to manage and cope with these difficult and frightening sensations. Loud and clear we learn that we can do something about trauma if we follow the modeling she outlines clearly and concisely. I am proud to call Elaine a friend and her warmth and care shine through to empower us all!" Chris Underhill, MBE (Order of the British Empire), Skoll Foundation social entrepreneur, senior fellow with Ashoka Worldwide"As we face a global pandemic, violent conflicts that threaten world peace, impending climate catastrophe, and the inevitable tragedies that follow from these events, it’s hard to imagine a more urgent time to learn and share Elaine Miller-Karas’s revolutionary approach to cultivating resilience in the face of trauma. Now updated with insights about bringing these down-to-earth techniques to the systems level and scaling them to larger populations, this second edition promises to strengthen our collective will to bounce back from trauma and to make these basic human skills more accessible and available to all who need them. Which is to say, each one of us." Timothy Harrison, associate director for Cognitively Based Compassion Training, Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics, Emory University"We heartily recommend Building Resilience to Trauma. We have been friends and students of Elaine's for over a decade. We include elements from the community and trauma resiliency models in everything that we offer around the world. Elaine is a manifestation of courageous compassion and great generosity. She is a creative innovator in the wellness revolution. Her models are pragmatic useful tools that provide trauma recognition and healing into our natural resilience." Larry Ward, author of America's Racial Karma, coauthor with Peggy Rowe Ward of Love's Garden, and codirector of The Lotus InstituteTable of ContentsPart I: The Foundation 1. Introduction, Resilience, and Perspective 2. Trauma Defined 3. The Six Wellness Skills of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) and the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) 4. The Trauma Resiliency Model Reprocessing Skills 5. The Nervous System, Memory, and Trauma 6. Embodying Otherness to Us: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Part II: The Community Resiliency Model in Action 7. The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) in Public Health 8. The Disaster Relief Mobilization: Community Resiliency Model Preparation Program (DRM:CRM) 9. The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) and Law Enforcement Part III: Working with Children 10. Working with Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Developmental Perspective 11. Using CRM/TRM Wellness Skills with Infants, Children, and Teens Part IV: The Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) and Clinical Integration 12. Attachment Strategies and Adult Behavior 13. Veterans, Active-Duty Service Members, and Their Loved Ones 14. Addiction, Dependence, and Substance Use Disorder Part V: Research 15. Research on the Community Resiliency Model (CRM): Need, Theoretical Basis, Status, Tools, and Next Steps

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Book SynopsisThe Language of the Soul in Narrative Therapy uniquely bridges the gap between narrative therapy and spirituality to describe how the theory and practice of narrative therapy may be expanded and enriched by incorporating the language of the soul.Divided into three parts, the book begins by contextualizing the approach of narrative therapy and spirituality. Chapters then debate the complexity of the soul' as a term drawing on the work of Christian mystics and philosophers, such as Teresa of Avila, Edith Stein, Merleau-Ponty, and Bakhtin, to show how their theoretical ideas can be incorporated in counseling practice and spiritual direction. The book concludes by discussing how the language of the soul can be integrated and applied in postmodern practice.With case examples from faith belief systems, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Paganism, Wicca, and Yazidism, throughout, this book is essential reading for therapists, clinical social workers, and counsellors in Trade Review"A must-read for clinicians seeking to engage spirituality with comfort and competence. Laura Béres makes a major contribution to the theory and practice of narrative therapy in this wise, clinically grounded, justice-oriented book. I can’t wait to teach it!"Duane Bidwell, PhD, Professor of Spiritual Care & Counseling, Claremont School of Theology, USA."Laura Béres makes links between narrative therapy and monkish and Buddhist practices. She infuses these spiritual traditions with her own emphases and produces a rare thing – a fresh approach to spirituality. Since Freud, spirituality has been left out of therapy in the rush to have it recognized as a science. Laura Béres seeks to tackle these behemoths and what emerges is an exciting mix of spiritual practices and beliefs."John Winslade, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation and Counseling, California State University, USA."Addressing the lack of spirituality in narrative therapy, Laura Béres explores the wisdom of significant spiritual teachers which illustrates how mind or spirit, body and world are interconnected. Grounded in Laura Béres’s and David Crawley’s counselling experience, this will effectively resource practitioners to integrate the language of soul into narrative approaches." Fiona Gardner, PhD, Associate Professor, Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Australia."Laura Béres’s historical and philosophical tour of the language of the soul, the embodied soul, and the world soul as it relates to narrative practice is like going on retreat with a trusted spiritual advisor. We move from ‘discombobulation’ to peace and comfort by including the soul in our therapeutic practices."Sally St. George, Professor, School of Social Work, University of Calgary, and Dan Wulff, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work, University of Calgary.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Context and Approach: Narrative Therapy and Spirituality 1. The Self/Identity in Narrative Therapy 2. Critical Reflection and Contemplative Practices for Narrative Therapy Part II: The Language of the Soul 3. A Timeline for the Language of the Soul, from Plato to Current Day 4. Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle 5. Edith Stein’s Conceptions of the Person 6. The Embodied Soul: Considering Merleau-Ponty’s Contributions to the Language of the Soul Part III: Integrating the Language of the Soul into Postmodern Practice 7. I, Myself, and Bakhtin: Spiritual Direction and the Self 8. Possibilities Offered: Weaving the Language of the Soul into Narrative Practices 9. Concluding Reflections: A Dialogue on the Language of the Soul for Narrative Practices

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Your 7 Emotions explains how emotions help us to respond to the world around us and are fundamental to our existence.The book provides a detailed understanding of the main human emotions fear, sadness, anger, disgust, guilt, shame and happiness showing how to live with them and how to resolve problems with them. Each of the seven chapters also includes an emotional trap' to highlight what happens when we get stuck responding in unhelpful ways and explains how to get out of the trap. Grounded in emotion science and cognitive behavioural therapy, the book provides a powerful alternative to mental health diagnosis. Examples and exercises are provided throughout to help apply the ideas in everyday life and achieve health and happiness.This easy-to-read guide will help anybody who is interested in emotions or is struggling with common mental health problems to better understand how emotions work and improve their own and others'' mental health Trade Review'This is an excellent book. It is accessible and written in common-sense language, yet its evidence-base is broad and scientifically sound. Dr Howells has managed to cut through those aspects of mental health care that can mystify and pathologise, to focus on the central issue that matters most to us all: how we and those we work with can live rich, full and healthy emotional lives.' Peter Cairns, Clinical Psychologist, Norfolk, UK‘Given the importance of our emotional life to our sense of wellbeing and resilience it's surprising we give so little thought to understanding our feelings and how they work. This book, based on the emerging field of emotion science, will go a long way in helping anybody, especially young people, learn how to read their feelings differently, have new ways of coping with difficult emotions and accessing the positive ones.’Steve Killick, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Director of Feelings are Funny Things and author of Emotional Literacy at the Heart of the School EthosTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Fear; 2: Sadness; 3: Anger; 4: Disgust; 5: Guilt; 6: Shame; 7: Happiness; Afterword

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Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children with a parent who is suffering from depression. With engaging, gentle and colourful illustrations that can be used to prompt conversation, it tells the story of a girl who is helped to feel less isolated from her parentsâ depression.In this bundle, it is accompanied by the Storybook Manual, a resource that has been designed to support practitioners and caregivers with practical and creative ideas on how to use illustrated storybooks therapeutically with children.Key features include: An inviting and sensitively written fairy tale, with a story and illustrations that have been specifically designed to be used with children going through difficult life-events A supporting manual that offers a range of prompts, ideas and activities to encourage childrenâs imagination and creativity, develop confidence and emotional literacy as well as deepen engagement and understanding of storybooks. Downloadable worksheets to support the story, and explore specific themes further This is an invaluable resource for all professionals looking to use stories and images therapeutically with children with a parent suffering from depression. The resources can also be adapted for wider use with siblings and other family members.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides therapists with an understanding of displacement-related issues to help them better serve potential clients such as emigrants, expats, migrants, digital nomads all those who have left their original home country behind and moved to a different culture and place.With the spread of communication technologies, psychotherapists are expanding their practice to the online setting and into the unfamiliar waters of transcultural counselling with highly mobile and displaced individuals. Building on her research, the author brings up new concepts in therapy practice with emigrants, calling for a displacement-focused, transcultural approach for a modern psychotherapy practice, blended or online, in a world shaped by ubiquitous displacement. Giré's own experience of relocations and multicultural families have helped her develop a personal approach to universal topics of the therapeutic endeavour, such as displacement, multilingualism, and shame.Meeting displaceTrade Review"A psychotherapist and expatriate herself, Piatakhina-Gire speaks from the heart and her extensive clinical experience to the powerful and vital role online therapy plays in the lives of today's displaced and highly mobile citizens of the world." – Lawrence Rubin, PhD, ABPP, Psychotherapist, Educator, Author, and Editor of Psychotherapy.net“Online Therapy with Displaced and Highly Mobile Individuals is essential reading if you work therapeutically with displaced and highly mobile clients. It considers the essential, topical existential issue of displacement, at the personal, social and political levels. This book is packed full of ideas, connected to theoretical concepts which cross therapeutic modalities. It is meticulously researched and contains selected quotations from transcultural authors across disciplines. But at the heart of this book are the rich stories where the patients come to life, unlocked by Anastasia’s considerable therapeutic skills. The stories are beautifully told, often deeply moving and unfailingly authentic. To be bold, as a therapist, and to be authentic can be construed as an act of love. Anastasia chooses love in this impressive, beautifully written book." – Beverley Costa, DPsych, UKCP approved supervisor, MBACP, Author of Other Tongues: Psychological Therapies in a Multilingual WorldTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceIntroductionAcknowledgments1. Displacement2. Online Therapy3. Psychology of Displacement4. Addressing Displacement5. Importance of Working with Attachment6. Language7. Displacement and shame8. Distance therapeutic relationship9. The Gift of Therapy in displacement

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Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated picture book and guidebook set offers a broad introduction to childhood trauma and its legacies, with a focus on dissociation and DID. Written with clinical accuracy, warmth and accessibility to individuals of all ages and backgrounds, it provides a non-threatening understanding of dissociation and DID that will empower survivors and educate the friends, family and professionals who want or need to learn more about the condition. The set includes: Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder, a simple and accessible picture book that uses the metaphor of a house to explain how and why DID can develop. Additional guidance accompanies the story, explaining the metaphor in depth, offering advice regarding dissociative disorders, and signposting further help for both individuals and professionals. Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Guidebook for Survivors and Practitioners, provides practical exercises and opportunities for reflective discussion that will expand and deepen the understanding, application and usefulness of the picture book. This resource is accompanied by downloadable resources. This is an invaluable resource for survivors of trauma and for those who support them, counsellors, psychologists, social care workers and other professionals, as well as family and friends.

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Book SynopsisThis accessible guidebook has been created to be used alongside the picture book, Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder, as a broad introduction to childhood trauma and its legacies, with a focus on dissociation and DID. This clear and easy-to-read resource offers an insight into trauma, its continuing effects and the continuum of dissociation. Practical exercises and opportunities for reflective discussion are included throughout to encourage personal engagement either individually or through treatment. Written with clinical accuracy, warmth and compassion, it will expand the readerâs knowledge of DID and deepen the understanding, application and usefulness of the picture book.Key features include: Photocopiable and downloadable resources and activities designed to develop a richer and more personal understanding of the development of DID A page-by-page insight into images from the picture book Further reading suggestions and information about treatment and support for survivors, as well as for the family, friends and professionals who journey with them Bringing clarity to a complex issue, this is an invaluable resource for survivors of trauma and for those who support them, counsellors, psychologists, social care workers and other professionals, as well as family and friends. Trade ReviewLindsay’s wealth of experience, understanding and knowledge in this field - coupled with her gift and passion for educating others - makes this a book not to be missed by anyone with an interest in trauma and DID. Therapists embarking on work with clients in this field will find this a useful tool to add to their kit. Those with DID, along with their partners and friends will find this both reassuring, hopeful and wonderfully informative.Jennifer and PartsAn encyclopaedic gift to clinicians; an empowering tribute to survivors and a generous guidebook to all those who love and support them. This essential guide offers a rich tapestry of information, traversing trauma’s challenging landscape in a narrative that is relational, accessible, and expansive. It is instructive, illuminatory, and exploratory, a testament to humankind’s capacity for courage and resilience in the face of depravity and heinousness. We applaud the author in her phenomenal achievement of disentangling the complex web of dissociative disorders and thank her for her dedication to the field.Michele and PartsWell done to Lindsay Schofield for providing such a thoughtful, rigorous overview of key aspects of diagnosis, treatment and everyday life and aspirations. It provides a substantial companionship to the Picture Book but is also valid in its own right. Her tone is respectful and deshaming and helpful for survivors, survivor-professionals and clinical teams.Dr Valerie Sinason, Poet, writer and retired child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. Founder Patron of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and President of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability; 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award ISSTDThis guidebook around DID and its companion picture book provide a rare insightful and yet accessible set of resources. They should go a long way towards demystifying DID, addressing some of the common misconceptions, and offering hope and support to those impacted, as well as those walking alongside them.Dr Cathy Kezelman AM, President Blue Knot Foundation – National Centre of Excellence for Complex Trauma; lived experience survivorWow, this book is awesome! Very impressive. Lindsay has condensed the current knowledge in this field into a comprehensive and clear guide for people who are seeking to heal from trauma of all kinds. What a phenomenal resource!Dr Lynette Danylchuk, Past President ISSTD, 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award ISSTDThis wonderful book presents trauma science in a thorough and thoughtful way that is accessible to survivors, practitioners and allies. Lindsay imbues this resource with clinical wisdom and compassion that will empower survivors to understand complex trauma and dissociation, and guide both survivors and practitioners towards the goals of wellbeing and safety.Dr Michael Salter, Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, Postgraduate Coordinator UNSW AustraliaThis is a rich, practical, comprehensive and succinct resource gem that combines readable and understandable guidance for clinicians, clients, and their supporters about child & adult dissociation! It is a must read for all who come in contact with those with dissociation! Frances S. Waters, Author of Healing the Fractured Child: Diagnosis and Treatment of Youth with Dissociation, past president of ISSTD, & Chair of ISSTD Faculty Director of Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, TrainingThis book, beautifully written by Lindsay Schofield and beautifully illustrated by Cassie Herschel-Shorland, is for people with dissociative disorders, especially DID, and those who are aiming to help and support them. It is easy to read and yet provides in-depth and well-informed information and signposting to more technical material. It won’t tell you how to do therapy if you are a therapist, but it will set you on the path. I really like the way it addresses everyone, therapists and clients and families and friends alike, as people interacting with DID and related problems.The book provides a nice introduction to trauma, its effects and hope for healing, as well as how it leads to dissociation in varying degrees. It provides an overview of assessment, conditions and treatment models. A chapter for survivors is written in accessible language and includes a checklist to use when seeking help from professionals, along with handling flashbacks and grounding. A chapter for practitioners gives advice on tools and self-care. The guidebook moves on to reflect and comment on the sister book "Our House-Making Sense of Dissociative Disorder, showing survivors how to use the book and offering more resources.This book will make a difference in our field, making the mysterious accessible for everyone. Dr Fiona Kennedy, Director, GreenWood Mentors Ltd. BA (Hons) M Clin Psych D Clin CPsychol AFBPS CPsychol, Fellow BABCPThe concept of a picture book and accompanying guidebook is novel in the treatment of DID, providing a road map that is easy to navigate and a landscape that is well defined and refreshingly clear. Both books empower survivors, inform and reassure practitioners, whist gently supporting loved ones. The books are meteoric in their achievement, a timely and imperative gift to the field of complex trauma and worthy of prime space in every therapy room. Michele Leslie Jowett, ESTD Newsletter, December 2021Table of ContentsIntroduction What is Trauma? Dissociation – a Continuum Treatment Supporting Practitioners Supporting Recovery Reading Deeper Additional Resources Glossary of Terms

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Book SynopsisOur House tells the story of a child who has experienced something that children should never have to experience. It introduces the reader to the people who arrived to help them cope with the bad things, in the house that they all share.Accompanied by beautiful and gentle illustrations, the story takes a non-threatening approach to demystify dissociative identity disorder, using the metaphor of a house to explain what it is and how it develops. Our House can be read by individuals, or used as a treatment tool to stimulate discussion, and is suitable for all ages. It includes additional guidance which explains the metaphor in depth, as well as advice regarding dissociative disorders and signposts to further help for both individuals and professionals.Bringing clarity to a complex issue, this is an invaluable resource for survivors of trauma and for those who support them, counsellors, psychologists, social care workers and other professionals, as well as family aTrade ReviewThis book takes a complex condition and way of being and it explains it in a highly effective, yet simple, visual way. Those who are coming to terms with their own DID, or trying to explain it to others, will find this book easy to read and understand whilst providing clear explanations. Francesca & PartsThis book is great! It tells people about trauma and DID and how it helps us. The pictures stop it being too scary. Reilly & Molly & PartsThe field of trauma and dissociation has been waiting for this book! Pictures reach deep into us in a way that words rarely do. They bypass hurdles and filters and allow a connection of the deepest level. Here we also have words that help linked to the art in a combination that helps children, adults and families and all the professionals that work with them.Dr Valerie Sinason, Poet, writer and retired child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. Founder Patron of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and President of the Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability; 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award ISSTD I am delighted to welcome such an accessible resource to help demystify the frequently denied and sensationalised condition of DID. The pictures and simple text of the everyday can be readily understood and will go a long way to helping those struggling with a DID diagnosis or its effects, and those supporting them.Dr Cathy Kezelman AM, President Blue Knot Foundation – National Centre of Excellence for Complex Trauma; lived experience survivor.This is a wonderful book, and a great contribution to this field. The illustrations do an extraordinary job of conveying the reality of dissociation, how it's created to help the child survive, and how problematic it can be. Developed in picture book format, I would recommend it for all ages. It's profoundly helpful to be able to conceptualize something challenging and complex in such an easily understood manner. The additional Guidebook is an excellent compilation of knowledge and resources for survivors, their families, and professionals. Dr Lynette Danylchuk, Past President ISSTD, 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award ISSTDThis is a lovely book that is two-fold: a concise understanding of the dynamics of dissociation and a lovely pictorial story of how a child is impacted by trauma. It helps to make what is often confusing for the child and those around the child comprehensible!Frances S Waters, Author of Healing the Fractured Child: Diagnosis and Treatment of Youth with Dissociation, past president of ISSTD, & Chair of ISSTD Faculty Director of Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, TrainingThis book is a wonderful resource for survivors, their allies, professional and members of the public. With moving pictures and thoughtful text, this book brings to life the inner world of people with DID.Dr Michael Salter, Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, Postgraduate Coordinator UNSW AustraliaThis little and beautifully illustrated book is so accessible for individuals of all ages who want to know about DID and related conditions. That is important because DID usually feels so complicated, mysterious, and strange. Also, because people who have DID often experience themselves in child self-states or as having other "not me" child self-states in their body/mind. It is good when the person with DID can understand information from the perspective of all of their self-states, not just one. Built around the metaphor of a house, the book takes us through how DID develops in response to bad things happening, which a person may or may not remember. The illustrations are wonderful and communicate on an emotional level as well as aiding understanding. They also make difficult messages easier to hear.I recommend this book for people with DID or OSDD (Other Specified Dissociative Disorder) who want a compassionate understanding of themselves. Also recommended for family, friends, and for therapists who want to help their clients.Dr Fiona Kennedy, Director, GreenWood Mentors Ltd., BA (Hons) M Clin Psych D Clin CPsychol AFBPS CPsychol, Fellow BABCPThe concept of a picture book and accompanying guidebook is novel in the treatment of DID, providing a road map that is easy to navigate and a landscape that is well defined and refreshingly clear. Both books empower survivors, inform and reassure practitioners, whist gently supporting loved ones. The books are meteoric in their achievement, a timely and imperative gift to the field of complex trauma and worthy of prime space in every therapy room. Michele Leslie Jowett, ESTD Newsletter, December 2021Lindsay Schofield’s two volumes offer an invaluable vade mecum for clinicians in contemporary psychiatry and psychotherapy faced with the challenge of engaging with DID in the way that the many patients with this condition deserve.Gordon Barclay, British Journal of Psychiatry BulletinTable of ContentsWho is this book for? My Life is Like a House … An Overview for Grown-Ups Our House Dissociative Disorders When DID is Severe Symptoms – and what not to do! DID – It’s very real Further Help: For Individuals Further Help: For Professionals Additional Sources

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Book SynopsisDeveloping Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs offers an integrated, long-term plan to create safe and supportive learning environments. This user-friendly guide illustrates how to develop, implement, evaluate, and sustain multiple evidence-based programs that work. This book informs school mental health professionals, administrators, and teachers about multi-tiered service delivery, organizational development, and facilitating the implementation process. It describes the complementary roles of school administrators, counselors, and school psychologists, providing school staff with time, resources, and ongoing support to strengthen their skills and sustain programs they have embraced. It expresses empathy and appreciation for teachers, advocating for their personal growth, professional collaboration, and stress management. School leaders, facilitators, and teams are provided the knowledge, skills, and long-term plans to effectivelyTrade Review"This book is an incredible resource full of practical strategies for all school professionals engaged in school safety and mental health initiatives! Each chapter provides an overview of the research underlying evidenced-based practices while also focusing on the 'nuts and bolts' of how to establish effective school safety and mental health programs. It is a one-of-a-kind book that emphasizes critical strategies needed to help establish a multi-disciplinary team approach, with an emphasis on engaging teachers and parents. A strong focus is placed on a comprehensive approach to school safety and mental health programming that includes: how to integrate new initiatives within existing intervention frameworks, culturally competent practices, trauma informed approaches, threat and suicide assessment, and crisis prevention through intervention and recovery. The book concludes with strategies on how to conduct high quality professional development and sustain new initiatives, critical to schools in the era of limited resources and overwhelming needs. A must read for administrators, educators, school mental health professionals, school safety and security professionals and other key stakeholders invested in school safety and mental health!" —Melissa A. Reeves, PhD, NCSP, LCMHC, associate professor, School Psychology Program & Psychology Department, Winthrop University, past-president, National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)"This thorough, engaging, and accessible text is an excellent resource for both experienced educators and graduate students. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of school-based mental health services within a multi-tiered framework and offer clear and practical recommendations for implementation. While there is a clear and consistent focus on culturally responsive practices and social justice throughout the book, the standalone chapter on culturally responsive school mental health services and education is quite strong and provides a useful framework for developing educators' cultural competence, adapting interventions for different cultural groups, and addressing systemic factors that impact mental health of students from minoritized backgrounds."—Celeste M. Malone, PhD, MS, associate professor of School Psychology and program coordinator, Howard University School of Education; president-elect, National Association of School Psychologists, 2021-2022, member, APA Board of Educational Affairs"More than ever before, schools face an imperative to promote environments that are physically and psychologically safe, and support mental wellness among students, families, and staff. Doing so, however, requires significant planning, buy-in, and integration of efforts. Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs: An Integrated Approach offers a new and contemporary roadmap to help schools and districts address this challenge.Drs. Roth and Erbacher offer a rich and comprehensive, yet practical and application-focused reference that uniquely integrates efforts to ensure school safety and mental health. This volume highlights and brings together existing frameworks and approaches including trauma-informed care, crisis prevention and response, violence prevention, culturally responsive service delivery, positive behavior supports, and more. Just as importantly, Roth and Erbacher describe the important steps schools and administrators must take to build staff knowledge and buy-in, and effectively advocate for improved service delivery and program development. All education personnel, and particularly school-employed mental health professionals, would benefit from maintaining a copy of Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs on their bookshelves." —Eric Rossen, PhD, NCSP, director, Professional Development and Standards, National Association of School Psychologists (NASP); National Register Health Service Psychologist"I’ve been involved in school crisis prevention and intervention and student mental health for four decades and finally a book provides what we need to know to make the difference in student lives! This book is a timely masterpiece with a wealth of practical information to help school personnel truly focus on supporting student mental health and primary prevention. School psychologist practitioners Roth and Erbacher have hit one out of the park with this comprehensive, practical, must have book for school personnel. School psychology is blessed to have these two experienced professionals who have provided a wealth of information on how to develop and sustain safety and prevention programs much needed by schools today." —Scott Poland, EdD, LP, NCSP, professor at the College of Psychology, director of the Suicide and Violence Prevention Office, Nova Southeastern University; past-president National Association of School Psychologists"Each chapter of this book reads as an executive summary for practitioners covering the waterfront of school mental health programs and practices. It is packed with valuable, practical guidance succinctly presented in terse declarative prose and bullet lists covering key topics such as culturally responsive practices, multi-tiered systems of support, positive behavioral interventions and supports, social and emotional learning, and trauma-informed schools. It offers authoritative advice on effective school practices in mental health screening, social media monitoring, suicide assessment and violence prevention, among others. This is your one-stop resource for school mental health services." —Dewey Cornell, PhD, professor of Education and Clinical Psychologist, University of Virginia; director of the UVA Virginia Youth Violence Project; principal author, Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines"This book is a valuable and comprehensive resource for school administrators and mental health professionals. Foundational practices and considerations, such as positive school climate, culturally responsive teaching and mental health services, multi-tiered systems of supports, and family-school collaboration are reviewed. I especially appreciate the inclusion of a chapter on monitoring social media and technology, with its practical considerations and suggestions for a topic that challenges educators and parents. In this book, Jeffrey Roth and Terri Erbacher provide current and helpful guidance to schools on topics such as crisis prevention and preparedness, violence prevention, including threat assessment and intervention, and suicide prevention and postvention. Comprehensive approaches to promote positive behavior and mental health, including positive behavioral interventions and supports and social and emotional learning, with helpful case studies and tips for integrating these frameworks in the curriculum. The important topics of mental health screening and trauma-informed practices are also covered. In addition to this excellent content, Roth and Erbacher provide readers with detailed guidance about professional development and how to create and maintain an infrastructure to implement, evaluate, and sustain multiple programs. The balance of foundational and infrastructure issues with more specific content makes this book ideal not only for practitioners, but also for university professors teaching courses on school safety and system-wide prevention." —Amanda B. Nickerson, PhD, NCSP, professor of School Psychology, director, Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention; University of Buffalo, the State University of New York; Co-author, School Crisis Prevention and Intervention: The PREPaRE Model"This comprehensive book provides an expert analysis for school staff to learn how to keep their schools physically and psychologically safe. Drs. Roth and Erbacher have embedded research and best practice documents from a variety of school safety professionals and researchers. Their analysis provides a range of topics from trauma, social emotional learning, violence and crisis prevention, social media, positive school climate, and mental health delivery. This book has the power to provide any educator with a quick reference to support a safe school climate." —Christina Conolly, PsyD, NCSP, director, Division of Psychological Services, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland; Co-author, School Crisis Prevention and Intervention: The PREPaRE Model "Developing Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs: An Integrated Approach is an invaluable book focusing on school crisis, safety, and mental health that will be useful for school-based and other mental health practitioners, graduate students, and university faculty. Dr. Jeff Roth and Dr. Terri Erbacher provide numerous applied and feasible strategies and considerations that are not only drawn from evidence-based research, but also from their years of experience as practicing school psychologists. This book provides extensive information on a variety of critical topics, including suicide prevention, trauma-informed schools, culturally responsive school mental health services, and family-school collaboration. It is an invaluable resource that complements and expands upon other existing school safety and mental health publications." —Jacqueline Brown, PhD, NCSP, associate professor of Psychology, University of Montana-Missoula; Co-editor, Supporting Bereaved Students at SchoolTable of ContentsAbout the Authors; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Charles Barrett; Acknowledgments and Dedications; SECTION I Background; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Case for Comprehensive School Safety and Mental Health Programs; Chapter 3: Models Promoting School Safety and Mental Health Service Delivery; SECTION II Foundational Practices Supporting School Safety and Mental Health; Chapter 4: Positive School Climate; Chapter 5: Culturally Responsive School Mental Health Services and Education; Chapter 6: Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS); Chapter 7: Family – School Collaboration and Caregiver Education; Chapter 8: Monitoring Social Media and Technology; SECTION III: Programs and Practices Supporting School and Student Safety; Chapter 9: Crisis Prevention, Preparedness, and Response; Chapter 10: Violence Prevention, Threat Assessment, and Intervention; Chapter 11: Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention; SECTION IV School-Wide Programs Promoting Positive Behavior and Mental Health; Chapter 12: Universal Mental Health Screening; Chapter 13: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS); Chapter 14: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL); Chapter 15: Trauma–Informed Schools (TIS); SECTION V Professional Development for School Safety and Mental Health; Chapter 16: Developing Effective Professional Development; Chapter 17: Best Practices in Professional Development; SECTION VI Putting It All Together; Chapter 18: Implementing, Evaluating, and Sustaining Integrated Programs and Practices; Chapter 19: Integrating and Managing Multiple Programs and Practices; Appendix; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book takes you on a seven-day journey with your guides: 60 coaches and thought-leaders from around the world. Through storytelling, poetry and other creative approaches, readers can follow this programme alone or with others and take a practical and empowering look at the impact of the climate emergency on their practice and how they might respond. Ecological and Climate-Conscious Coaching: a Companion Guide to Evolving Coaching Practice describes methods for adapting your practice while making a livelihood, reframing your work with urgency and action through exploration of the five-stage Eco-phase' cycle, moving from Eco Curious', Eco-Informed', Eco-Aware', to Eco-Engaged' and Eco Active'. Designed to encourage discussion, raise awareness and increase confidence about stepping into a leadership role, the book explores the difference that coaching can make in the world as a result of greater eco-awareness and systemic understanding.Featuring powerful storieTrade Review'Raising awareness and knowledge around the urgency of the climate emergency and creating safe and challenging space to reflect and act is what we can and need to do. This challenging, and, by design, "uncomfortable" book offers just that – frameworks, tools, techniques that would allow anybody to understand the eco-phase cycle and find their way in contributing to the lasting solution.'Magdalena Nowicka Mook, CEO, International Coaching Federation'There are many important books on the climate crisis. Coaches have begun to recognise they have a role but also to begin for many the journey of moving from concern to action. What we have been missing is a guide to that journey and a framework for conceptualising the challenge we face. Ecological and Climate Conscious Coaching provides that guide and that framework. It takes us through the process of understanding how we might recognise and respond to the crisis confronting us all. Providing both concepts and tools for reflection and action it invites to rethink how we approach our role as coaches and our contribution as both professionals and citizens. I have worried about, puzzled over and pursued concerns for the health of the environment for more than fifty years. At times I have been despairing of our lack of action. This book makes me more hopeful that our profession can make a difference if we accept the authors invitation. Some books are important. This one is essential. I implore all coaches to both read and engage with the journey it offers. The world and our future demands no less.'Professor David A Lane, Professional Development Foundation'In our work, some of the richest material are the things not being talked about. And chief among those is climate change. How can coaches and mentors be concerned for the wellbeing of their clients if they avoid discussing the very environment in which the work takes place? This fascinating dialogue explores ways to open up a vital conversation that underpins the flourishing of us all. By turns philosophical, practical, spiritual and realistic, this fascinating and necessary read offers productive ways out of denial and into action.'Margaret Heffernan, CEO and Author, Wilful Blindness and Uncharted'In the face of the climate emergency and ecological breakdown, every profession is called to reinvent itself. It’s wonderful to see the coaching profession taking on the challenge is a profound and wise manner.'Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations'This book is a work of co-creative love. It is enriched by the comradeship between the authors, animated by their long and committed coaching experience and ecosystemic knowledge, and fuelled by their enduring love for the Earth and all who share this miraculous planet. The reader is invited to share a journey with them and the many others who people the pages through seven days of stories, information, poetry, provocations and helpful practices. While the authors do not flinch from laying out the facts this is anything but a book of doom. I found it a deeply absorbing and, dare I say it, enjoyable, gripping read as I was guided through lively conversations rich with images and personal adventure. This book is a vital offering in these times of devastation. It will support us to take our next steps and be our good companion on the long and perilous journey.'Hetty Einzig, leadership coach, consultant, author; the Association for Coaching Director of Publications Strategy & Executive Editor of Coaching Perspectives'Through following the 7 days of this book’s journey you will discover how to commit to spiritual action to create an empowering emerging future. May this book inspire readers so that if our collective grandchildren ask us, ‘what were you doing when the earth was being plundered?’ you will have an answer.'Ram S Ramanathan, Coacharya'A brilliant and thought-provoking book that captures the spirit of coaching. I enjoyed the narrative that weaves together multiple perspectives to raise awareness and deepen reflection. This book will definitely help leaders, coaches, OD practitioners, and individuals make a broader systemic impact through a climate-conscious mindset.'Anjali Nair, Founder-The HR Studio; Member, Board of Governors - International Association of Coaching; OD Consultant; leadership coach'A very timely and forward-looking collective masterpiece reminding us to redefine the role of our profession when it comes to focus on what needs to be sustained. The book inspires us all about how the world could be a better place when, as humans, we start living in harmony with ourselves and with the universe surrounding us. So a great companion in our journey from ego-centric to an eco-centric way of life…'Dr Riza Kadilar, EMCC Global President'Stop feeling isolated in grief about our climate challenge by joining global co-conveners who offer a poignant and practical companion guide for you to breakthrough inertia. Learn from direct experience shared by practitioners and become part of a community with a mutual commitment to feel deeply through the stages of curiosity, awareness, information, engagement and ultimately the ecological literacy essential to sustain useful eco-action. In the words of Jane Goodall, beyond passion and fantasy, real hope demands action and engagement. This guide is a timeless resource for every person to generate real hope for each other.'Janet M. Harvey, CEO inviteCHANGEThis book is timely and essential. Drawing the reader in with captivating stories from contributors across the world, the authors approach climate and ecological crisis in a fresh and thoughtful way. Coaching is on a path to reinvention, and this book will quickly become a staple of the new curriculum. A must read!Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There'This is a beautiful, inspiring and empowering treasure of a book, packed not only with resources and tips, but love, joy and hope.'Liz Hall, leadership coach and editor of Coaching at Work magazine'This is a book of insightful journeys over seven days, reflecting on the ecological and climate crisis and the important role coaching can play. Through the creative development of eco-engaged coaching, supervision and training, the authors provide a strategic vision and direction for the future. This exciting book will inform both trainee and experienced coaching practitioners with what they need to know about eco-engaged practice.' Stephen Palmer PhD, Faculty of Climate Change and Coaching Psychology, ISCP International Centre for Coaching Psychology Research'Many of us wonder what work we can do as coaches and human beings, to address the challenges of climate change. These authors don’t wonder, they do something that is quite remarkable and consequential! This brilliant book offers us practical ways to become eco-informed by articulating a framework for regenerative coaching which begins with our self-work, as the key to engaging differently with our clients be they individuals, teams, or broader organizations. Chapter by chapter the authors create an experiential workshop for use, offering provocative questions for our thoughtful consideration while enriching each chapter by sharing their own, to evoke our deepest reflections.'Pam McLean, Ph.D., Co-Founder & Chief Knowledge Officer, Hudson Institute of Coaching'In an ever-busier world, leaders have to fight harder and harder to escape from short-term thinking. Paradoxically, attending to the farther horizon of climate change and the wider eco-system enhances decision making in the now. This book provides an essential guide for future-focused leadership.'David Clutterbuck, Special Ambassador, EMCC'This companion guide to evolving coaching practice respectfully invites the reader on a journey around the eco-cycle with the understanding that this journey in non-linear and does not reach an end. I suspect that it is not only the eco-cycle that we will keep coming back to, but also this guide. On the journey, we receive guidance on how to introduce the ecology into our coaching work respectfully without being evangelical or unethical. The guide addresses supervision, eco-engaged coach development and training and ways of resourcing ourselves and our work – so we work from and are supported by ‘Source’. The book is written in a way as to invite people to work with others as they journey around the eco-cycle. Eve, Josie, Peter and Ali – as I read, I could hear your voices and feel your vulnerability as you spoke from the heart. You are right it is not a "comfortable" book but a vital resource to urgently have us move individually and collectively from ego-centric to eco-centric. I urge all of us to form hubs and to work through this guide and to action what emerges so that we can confidently answer our great grandchildren when they ask us what it is that we did.'Colleen Qvist, CQ Associates (Pty) Ltd, COMENSA Master Coach, COMENSA Master Mentor, National Vice President Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA), COMENSA representative In the Group of Signatories to the Joint Global Statement on Climate Change'This is literally an invaluable book. That as a species we need to change our behaviour is indisputable. Coaching is a profoundly effective approach to enabling that change.'Myles Downey, author of Enabling Genius, Effective Modern Coaching and The Enabling Manager'There is no doubt in my mind that this book is a labour of love, perseverance, and hard work. While incorporating experiential frameworks and activities, it also includes in-depth questions, scientific information, tools, techniques and reflections, making it a transformational book and agent of change. It impels us to embark on a journey that is both caring for mother earth and food for our souls.'Dr. Anne Dolly Kuzhimadathil, Founder & CEO, SALT & Immediate Past President, APAC'Ecological and Climate Conscious Coaching is a unique work: creative, spiritual, practical and thought-provoking. The authors highlight the idea that the ecological crisis is an epistemological crisis. In so doing, they demonstrate the value of coaching and the role it plays in transforming hearts and minds: by connecting with what matters, and challenging unhelpful thought patterns. The book is very much a journey of inquiry; one which makes a sincere, enlightened and focussed attempt to save our world. It comes at the right time.'Dr Caroline Horner, i-coach academy'It is said that we don’t just inherit the earth from our ancestors but borrow it from our collective children. This book addresses the most important issue facing our and many other beings, the climate and ecological crisis. It does so by drawing us in through the diverse and enticing stories from contributors worldwide, and through the passion, dialogue and compassion in its pages, taking us on a journey with trusted companions. If there is one book you buy that will touch your very being, I would recommend this.'Damian Goldvarg, Leadership Development expert and author. Past President, International Coaching Federation 'This very timely anthology captures deep and original insights from a collective of global voices to address the future of humanity and our planet. The authors pose a vital question: how can coaching, mentoring, supervising and training make the most beneficial contribution to the great challenges of our time? It is a call for all of us: how can climate and ecology be integrated into our practice? Based on a seven-day ‘eco-journey’ with four convenors, over 60 contributors ask and answer challenging questions about what it means to be a practising coach today – and in what way coaching needs to transform. What, in fact, are the wider responsibilities of a coach to society? And do practitioners enable those economic, political, and ecological systems that perpetuate themselves, thus dangerously harming the planet? David Lane points out, coaches work with decision makers in industries that have a big impact on the environment. Sir John Whitmore defined the purpose of coaching as raising awareness so that people would take responsibility and ownership for their choices. He apparently did so with full awareness of our impending climate and ecological crisis. If coaching is good at helping people take a larger view of their reality, then what can coach practitioners and supervisors do to help clients to transform their businesses?The book identifies a role for coaches to support leaders in transforming the rules of the game itself. But to shift our perspectives as coaches, we need to look at the ‘regeneration’ of coach development and training and develop the courage to act. This book asks difficult questions that as practitioners we need to begin to address urgently. As Peter Hawkins says, the coaching profession needs to move from being individual and ego centric to being eco centric.'Dr Sunny Stout-Rostron, University of Stellenbosch School of Business'This book is so much more than a book. In addition to its deeply informed systemic analysis and rich storytelling, Ecological and Climate-conscious Coaching offers a grounded guide for a revolution in consciousness, rich in conversations and camaraderie, packed with diverse perspectives and practices. This book is not only a must read for all coaching professionals and business and community leaders, it is also a template of transformation for anyone seeking understanding, support and agency in response to the ecological and climate crises. No matter who you are, find yourself a few companions and embark on this inspired interactive journey guided by the wise minds and loving hearts of its authors.'Sally Gillespie, PhD, author of Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our world and ourselvesTable of ContentsPreface 1. Welcome Letter 2. An Introduction to the Ecological and Climate Crisis: The Role Coaching Can and Needs to Play 3. Stories of Eco-Awakening: Day One Morning 4. Awakening in the Coaching Profession: Day One Afternoon 5. Eco-Informed "Listen to the Science": Day Two Morning 6. Listen to the Earth: Day Two Afternoon 7. Eco-Aware – Processing Our Emotional Responses: Day Three Morning 8. Eco-Aware – Shifting Our Thinking: Day Three Afternoon 9. Eco-Aware – Spiritually Connecting: Day Three Evening 10. Eco-Engaged Coaching: Day Four Morning 11. Eco-Engaged Coaching: Stories of Transforming Our Coaching: Day Four Afternoon 12. Eco-Engaged Supervision: Day Five Morning 13. Eco-Engaged Coach Development and Training: Day Five Afternoon 14. Eco-Active: Impacting the Wider World and Developing the Coaching Profession: Day Six Morning 15. Eco-Active: Developing our Vision, Values and Actions and Transforming our own Business and its Value Chain: Day Six Afternoon 16. Integrating Our Learning: Final Day Morning 17. Resourcing Ourselves for the Future Journey and Farewell: Final Day Afternoon Glossary of Key Concepts, Terms and Definitions Appendix A: Climate Coaching Alliance

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Book SynopsisMotherhood and Mental Illness offers an in-depth, comprehensive relational psychotherapeutic framework to provide effective treatment for those experiencing maternal mental illness.This book addresses a current deficit in mental health resources and treatment and is designed to be an accessible, practical guide into the types and manifests of disorders and the diagnosis, treatment and management of maternal mental illness. It gives a solid understanding of the nature and complexity of maternal mental illness and offers clear guidance on how to provide treatment for successful recovery. Then, using a relational approach, the book offers useful therapeutic interventions grounded in clinical experience and research, which are elucidated with case examples. Covering the most common presentations and the confounders (alcohol, single parenting, drug abuse, self-medication) this is a guide of how to plan treatment, common mistakes that can occur, myths that prevail, and ethTrade Review"This book is the culmination of many years of clinical experience of providing psychotherapy to women experiencing perinatal mental distress. Emma’s wisdom and compassion flow from the page and as you will see, her writing style is clear, accessible, and ‘speaks to’ not only the reader, but to the very women she is writing about. Haynes has provided our profession with a handbook for the psychotherapy of maternal mental illness that all psychotherapists- regardless of their theoretical orientation or modality can make use of. I am certain that many readers – myself included – will keep this book to hand and return to it often as a trusted practical guide when working with women who are experiencing perinatal mental health problems." Mark Widdowson, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, Senior lecturer in counselling and psychotherapy, University of Salford, UKTable of ContentsPART I Hear Us Speak 1. Transitions 2. A Silent Problem 3. Historical Aspects of Maternal Mental Illness 4. Pre-conception, Common Conditions & Confounders 5. Maternal Trauma 6. Postpartum Psychosis 7. Narratives of Maternal Mental Illness 8. Barriers to Treatment PART II Listening Beyond Words 9. A Relational Approach 10.Ethical Dilemmas in Motherhood 11. Treating the Cause of Maternal Mental Illness 12. Affect Regulation 13. The Therapeutic Role 14. Using Creativity and Creative Methods in Psychotherapy 15. Neurodivergence and Motherhood 16. Couples Work 17. Conventional Treatment of Maternal Mental Illness 18. A Lifetime Reduction in Mental Illness

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Book SynopsisCollaborative-Dialogic Practice provides professionals a humanizing approach in facilitating transformative dialogues with their clients, making a difference, and creating surprising possibilities in our fast-changing, diverse, and ever-shrinking world. Written alongside a collection of international experts, Harlene Anderson and Diane Gehart introduce collaborative-dialogic practice as a way to encourage relationships and conversations that create generative space and promote meaningful changes in clients, even in the most difficult situations. Split into theory and practice, Part 1 introduces collaborative-dialogue and locates it within traditional and contemporary challenges and practices, providing an overview of its conceptual framework. Chapters in Part 2 then detail the practice in a variety of contexts, cultures, and diverse populations, illustrating how readers can translate the concepts to their distinctive practice settings, and their clients' unique situatiTrade Review"In this time of social division and injustice, it can be hard to envision a way forward. This collection inspires hope that change and equity are possible. From healthcare and school systems to business and climate activism, each chapter illustrates the transformative potential of dialogue. Readers are invited to use tensions and differences as a resource, to "walk with" into uncertainty through a process in which all voices are heard and something new can emerge." -Carmen Knudson-Martin, PhD, LMFT; Co-author Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Guidelines for Equitable Theory and PracticeThe present work is both a precious and inspiring resource. The world’s future will depend on our capacities for dialogue across divides in belief, values, and ways of life. Challenged by increasing social fragmentation and polarization, we also confront our impoverished abilities. The present work points the way forward. It not only demonstrates the potentials for actively creating forms of dialogue, but offers an innovative orientation of broad and significant application. As the contributors to this work richly demonstrate, a collaborative-dialogic orientation bears fruit across multiple contexts - therapy, education, community building, business management, and more. Fascinating as well, such practices prove fertile across multiple cultural settings. This is a truly salutary work. -Kenneth J. Gergen; Author of Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community"This is a key text for those using relational approaches to psychotherapy, counseling, social work, health services, management, organization, law and politics. Collaborative-Dialogic Practice (CDP) is gaining traction as professionals realize the limitations of formulaic or method led ways of working with people, organizations and communities. Collaborative Dialogical Practice will be increasingly important in a world becoming less personal and more automated. In professional contexts, people tell us how they appreciate human connection guided by relational ethics and relational etiquette. This book covers all areas of relational practice addressing transcultural issues, power relations, and the philosophy of collaboration and dialogue. This edition contemporizes CDP by exploring how it can work across diverse communities and a range of professional contexts. It is an important, unique and practically useful text for new and experienced professionals by offering accessible essays which both explain and show what CDP looks like and how it can be used."-Dr Gail Simon, DProf, MA, BA Hons; CQSW, AFT & UKCP reg.;UKCGE Rec. Research Supervisor; Principal Lecturer in Systemic Practice and Programme Director Table of ContentsPart I: Conceptual Framework: Situating Collaborative-Dialogic Practice 1. Conceptual Framework: Emerging Orienting Sensitivities for Relationships and Conversations that Invite Transformation and Possibility 2. Expressions of the Philosophical Stance: Creating a Relational and Dialogic Space and Process for Generativity 3. A Relationally Responsive World: The Politics of Collaborative-Dialogic Practice 4. Dialogic Curiosity as Mindfulness Practice: Following the Moment-to-Moment Unfolding of Meaning Construction 5. This Lovely Thing We Do Together: Collaborative-Dialogic Practice through a Literary Lens Part II: Collaborative-Dialogic Practice in Action: Applications Across Contexts, Cultures and Disciplines 6. Collaborative Practices in 21st Century Healthcare 7. Community In-Conversation: Generating Collaborative and Dialogic Conversations in Community Context 8. Ancestral Knowledge and Postmodern Practices: Using Collaborative-Dialog to Restore Harmony in Indigenous Communities 9. Reflecting Processes in Working with Climate Justice Activist Collectives 10. Learning Through Collaboration: Practices that Challenge our Tradition of Education 11. Collaborative Responses Within a School Community: Reflections from the Covid-19 Experience 12. Collaborative-Dialogic Practices in Business Management: Transforming Local Communities Through Engaged Relationship 13. Merging Collaborative-Dialogic Practice within the Culture of an Internet Technology (IT) Company: Its Evolution Told through a Collection of Story Fragments 14. From Mechanized Systems to Living Ecologies: Way-Finding in Collaborative-Dialogic Research 15. Everyday Living as Inspiration for Collaborative Practices

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Book SynopsisThis book guides therapists trained in EMDR in the successful integration of the creative arts therapies to make the healing potential of EMDR safer and more accessible for patients who present with complex trauma.Contributors from the respective fields of creative and expressive arts therapies offer their best ideas on how to combine EMDR with these therapies for maximum benefit for people from diverse backgrounds, orientations, and vulnerable populations. Chapters offer detailed case studies and images, insightful theoretical approaches, and how-to instructions to creatively enhance clinical work. Additionally, the book addresses current critical issues in the field, including the importance of an integrative and open approach when addressing cultural, racial and diversity issues, and creative interventions with clients through teletherapy. Creative arts therapy practitioners such as art therapists, play therapists, and dance/movement therapists will find this a compTrade Review"An essential book for trauma-informed therapists! The authors eloquently describe the benefits and the necessity of taking a creative and integrative approach to treatment. They highlight the unique strengths of different paradigms and then deftly illustrate how these models can overlap, compliment, strengthen, and enhance each other. Case examples and a generous offering of creative strategies illuminate the powerful healing that comes from weaving together approaches that safely identify and metabolize the cognitive, emotional, somatic, and visual aspects of traumatic experiences and memories." Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA Author of "Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons From the Therapist’s Couch" "When treating trauma, the empowerment embedded in the healing approach must counter the intricacies and nuances of trauma’s complexity. EMDR and the expressive arts each have their own histories of support for successfully accomplishing this goal. Now, this curated group of talented clinicians lend their voices to articulating creative integrations of these modalities in a manner that dramatically extends their effectiveness and reach." Marshall Lyles, LMFT-S, LPC-S, RPT-S, EMDRIA approved consultant "Building on the interdisciplinary foundations of the expressive arts therapies, this text offers practical applications for integrating theory and practice strategies within an EMDR framework to improve clinical care for the treatment of psychological trauma. Collectively, the authors spearhead an inclusive approach that promotes service accessibility in a wider social-cultural context. The first of its kind, this book will bolster the utility of expressive therapies-informed EMDR practices and promote an awareness of complementary approaches to person-centered care." Juliet L. King (ABD), ATR-BC, LPC, LMHCAssociate Professor Art Therapy; The George Washington University Adjunct Associate Professor Neurology; Indiana University School of Medicine "Offering a well-integrated approach to understanding the complexities in trauma recovery, this book provides an incredible resource for integrating two powerful, evidence-based treatments to promote healing from trauma. Using a socio-political and culturally humble lens, the authors explore how integrated Art Therapy and EMDR facilitate recovery from interpersonal and community traumas in our global society."Amy Backos, PhD, ATR-BC Founder: Art Therapy Center of San Francisco Author: "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Art Therapy""This book is a treasure trove of out of the box and applicable EMDR interventions to enrich both the client and the therapist’s experience. If you are an EMDR therapist who already uses creative arts in your practice you’ll find yourself taking notes and eager to integrate these powerful yet gentle tools all while maintaining integrity to the AIP model and of EMDR." - Erica Wilcox, MS, LPC, Wilcox Wellness, LLC Table of Contents1. A Model for Supporting Complex Trauma Treatment Integrating the Power of Creative Arts Therapies 2. Inviting the Body, Movement, and the Creative Arts into Telehealth: A Culturally Responsive Model for Online EMDR Preparation 3. From Trauma to Recovery: Group Work with Refugees and Displaced Youth 4. Gen Z in Crisis: Blending EMDR and Art Therapy for a More Robust Therapeutic Experience 5. Art Therapy and EMDR: Integrating Cognitive, Somatic, and Emotional Processing for Treating Trauma 6. The Interweave of Internal Family Systems, EMDR and Art Therapy 7. Writing Therapy and EMDR 8. Three Dimensional Parts of Self Tool (3-D PoST): An Art Therapy-Based Modality in Preparation of Clients for EMDR Phase 4 Reprocessing 9. Dancing Mindfulness: Flowing Synchronicities with EMDR Therapy 10. Future Self: Developing a Felt-Sense for the Future as a Resource in EMDR Preparation 11. Work in Process: Expressive Arts Therapy Solutions For EMDR Therapists

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Book SynopsisRoles and Contexts in Counselling Psychology looks at the different contexts that counselling psychologists typically work within, offering a snapshot of the day job'. The book provides insights into roles that reflect the human lifespan from birth to death, focusing upon specific mental health experiences and considering roles external to healthcare settings such as expert witness and independent practice. Each chapter is written by a counselling psychologist and offers an overview of their particular specialism and their experiences within it, bringing a unique transparency and personal insight. The book describes the skills that are required for the different roles and their challenges and rewards. It also discusses how the philosophy of counselling psychology is maintained and explores the associated ethical and legal considerations. Further, it takes note of the issues relating to leadership and diversity.The bTrade ReviewThis book is an important collection which will be of use not only to counselling psychologists but also to many others in the field of mental health and human well-being. Counselling psychology is all too often considered to be simply counselling and, while that can form an invaluable part of the work, consists of very much more. This book eloquently highlights many of the other domains and endeavours which the profession works within.Christina Richards, Professor MSc DCPsych CPsychol EuroPsy FBPsSHCPC Registered Applied PsychologistLead Consultant Psychologist & Head of ResearchVisiting Professor Regent's University London‘What do counselling psychologists actually do? This exciting and innovative new collection of chapters throws light on the many different areas of counselling psychology practice, and the wide range of clients that counselling psychologists work with. A much needed addition to the literature in the field.’ Mick Cooper Professor of Counselling PsychologyDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of Roehampton | LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction, Mark Bradley, Helen Nicholas and Daisy Best; Section 1: Lifespan; 1.Working in perinatal mental health as a counselling psychologist, Claire Arnold-Baker; 2. Working with children and adolescents, Terry Hanley and Andre Etchebarne; 3.Working as a counselling psychologist in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services, Joanna Omylinska-Thurston and Charles Frost; 4. Older adults’ psychology, Philippa Capel; 5. Counselling psychology and end-of-life care, Raymond Dempsey; Section 2: Condition specific; 6. Working as a counselling psychologist in an adult learning disability team, Stephen Ollis; 7. Opposites attract? Counselling psychology in medical and physical health settings, Lesley Armitage; 8. Working with clients with neurological conditions, Tony Ward; 9. Working with people who have unusual experiences, Pam Jameson; 10. Working in an adult mental health affective disorders service, Jessica McCarrick; 11. Severe and enduring anorexia nervosa, Gabriel Wynn; 12. Working as a counselling psychologist in an NHS Occupational Health setting, Julia Ann Harrison; 13. Working relationally with trauma, Helen Nicholas; 14. Forensic settings, Janice Brydon; Section 3: Beyond healthcare; 15. Counselling psychologist as expert witness in family courts, Mark Bradley; 16. Working in independent private practice, Helen Nicholas and Daisy Best; 17. Working as a counselling psychology lecturer in higher education; Motivating, evolving and challenging, Daisy Best; Conclusion, Helen Nicholas, Daisy Best and Mark Bradley

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Book SynopsisPlay Therapy and Telemental Health gives clinicians the tools they need to bring their therapy sessions online. Chapters present the fundamentals of play therapy and telemental health therapy and introduce play therapists to a variety of special populations and interventions specific to telemental health. Expert contributors discuss using a wide variety of telehealth interventions including Virtual Sandtray, nature play, and EMDR with children affected by autism, trauma, and more. Readers will learn how the fundamentals of play therapy can be expanded to provide effective treatment in web-based sessions. This is a vital guide for any clinician working in play therapy in the 21st century.Trade Review"An auspicious and timely publication, Play Therapy and Telemental Health provides a critical and much needed resource. Dr. Stone has assembled an impressive panel of play therapy and telehealth professionals, who provide practical material, backed up with appropriate theory. This cutting-edge book belongs on the shelves of both practitioners and academics." —Daniel Sweeney, PhD, professor of clinical mental health counseling and clinical director of the NW Center for Play Therapy Studies at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon, USA"Relevant for this time of crisis and beyond, this book compiles evidence-informed foundations and interventions that answer the questions we have all been asking about play therapy in the time of telehealth practice. The question is not whether to read this important book but how soon." —Susan M. Carter, PhD, RPT-S, clinical director at the Center for Change and Growth, PLC, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA"Just as the play therapist adjusts to the minute needs of the child in the playroom, so too do they adapt and respond to major public health and safety measures in response to COVID-19. However, when one door closes, another entrance opens, and this text opens the virtual platform and digital doors into a new and exciting play-therapy world. The scope of this text links relevant theory to practice and provides pertinent discourse to critically reflect and connect to clients in a variety of contexts through telemental health. A valuable resource for those who are, or wish to be, digitally savvy play therapists." —Judi A. Parson, PhD, RPT-S, discipline lead, course director, and senior lecturer in play therapy at Deakin University, Victoria, AustraliaTable of ContentsSection 1: Foundation 1. Theoretical Roots and Branches of the Evolving Field of Play Therapy 2. Purposeful Application of Theory to Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning 3. Telemental Health Play Therapy 4. Cultural Humility in the Telehealth Playroom; Section 2: Special Populations 5. TraumaPlay™ and Telehealth: Innovations Through the Screen 6. The Power of Attachment in Telemental Health 7. Virtual EMDR and Telemental Health Play Therapy 8. AutPlay® Therapy and Telehealth: Strategies for Children with Autism 9. Telemental Play Therapy in Schools 10. Neurodiverse Older Teens and Young Adults in Teleplay; Section 3: Special Interventions 11. Using the Virtual Sandtray®© App: A Boy’s Journey to Healing 12. Foundations of Virtual Playrooms 13. Expressive Therapies in Teleplay 14. Nature Play Therapy and Telehealth: How Green Time and Screen Time Play Well Together 15. The Universe of You: Using Remote VR to Improve Psychoeducation Through Spatial Presence, Attention Allocation, and Interaction Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSelf-Care for Allied Health Professionals brings together a collection of self-care strategies into one easy-to-read volume, supporting Allied Health Professionals to do the best for their patients by caring for themselves.The book offers information and practical strategies to look after your physical and emotional wellbeing at home and in the workplace, exploring topics such as sleep and food, resilience and meditation, stress, conflict and adversity. Written to be a flexible tool that can be read cover to cover or dipped in and out of as needed, it offers rapid response self-care strategies alongside more lasting changes, supporting practitioners to make small steps to build healthy habits for the future.Key features of this book include: A combination of quick response strategies, like a five-minute breathing exercise you can use before a difficult meeting, and opportunities for deeper work, examining your purpose and aligning your role with your vTable of ContentsIntroduction The science and the art of self-care Our Physical Wellbeing Breathe Sleep Move Eat Our Emotional Wellbeing Resilience Meditation Bringing it into the workplace Antidotes to stress Our work environment Team Culture Conflict at Work Our Place in the World Purpose Adversity A better world

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Book SynopsisFacing the Storm is a self-care book which aims to assist readers in dealing with life-changing events and recovering in the face of adversity.Drawing on evidence-based techniques from CBT and mindfulness and acceptance approaches, and a lifetime of experience with people confronting their own death, this book will show readers ways to cope better in the face of life's storms. It guides them to make sense of what is happening, to make better choices in the face of disaster, build their ability to recover from the impact of events, and prioritise the things that matter most to them. This updated edition reflects recent research and new techniques while also addressing the changing world we have been living in especially the impact of the Covid19 pandemic.The book will be of interest to people struggling with the big challenges of life, and for the psychology, health and social care professionals who help them.Trade ReviewThis book is like a conversation with a wise helper. In life's inevitable storms, this book is a life-jacket of practical ideas and compassionate wisdom.Kathryn Mannix, Palliative Care Consultant, CBT Therapist, Author of "With the End in Mind" & "Listen"When peaceful seas are not the full story, this wise book shows you what to do: learn, care, plan, choose, do what’s possible, adjust. You may not control the storm, but you control how you relate to it. Highly recommended.Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. Originator of Acceptance and Commitment TherapyJust what I know to expect from Dr Ray Owen, a beautifully crafted, deep dive into the extraordinary traumas we humans face and how to deal with them; wise psychological strategies, ‘simple by design’, that work, even when you feel completely overwhelmed Lesley Howells, Lead Psychologist for Maggie’s Cancer Caring CentresA very timely revision to the original edition of 'Facing The Storm’. The pandemic and other global events give the whole notion of learning to manage life’s major adversities an added significance. Ray Owen’s trademark wisdom and clarity flows through this book once again. Highly recommended.Richard Bennett, Dr, University of Birmingham, co-author of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy- 100 Key PointsRay Owen has crafted a book that provides enormous solace and support for those of us who find ourselves weathering the storms of life: packed with useful strategies and tools to help you navigate trying times.Joe Oliver, Ph.D., founder of Contextual Consulting, co-author of The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Self-EsteemThe perfect companion for anyone going through any kind of crisis. Full of practical tips and psychological techniques, it will show you how to cope well and live meaningfully, despite the challenging, life-changing situations you find yourself in. Highly recommended.Mike Sinclair, Dr, Consultant Counselling Psychologist, author of Mindfulness for Busy People and The Little Anxiety WorkbookA brilliantly wise book on such a tough topic. A goldmine of practical ideas – which focus on the harder aspects to change when we are deep in loss – our thoughts. Ray is a totally trusted thinking partner who makes complex psychological issues totally accessible. This edition has such thoughtful and timely additions as we all try and navigate such a tsunami of loss and many new beginnings. Reading this book will significantly reduce the risk of complicated grief and promotes self-growth. Julie Stokes OBE Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Executive Coach, Founder of Winston’s Wish, author of "You’ll Be OK"This book is a practical and invaluable companion to major challenges at work, in our relationships or with our health. Ray is our compassionate guide and a master in his field, helping us recognise what’s happening and steer a course with purpose and authenticity.Ross McIntosh – Work Psychologist and host of the People Soup PodcastIncredibly comprehensive, informed by the fact that the author has lived this stuff for his entire career. In a heartfelt but practical tone, I felt like I was in the hands of an expert. Nic Hooper, University of Cardiff, author of The Unbreakable Student Table of Contents1. Storms Happen: Introduction; 2. Gale warning: Realising you’re in trouble; 3. Listening to the forecasts: Making sense of it & Taking Stock; 4. I can’t believe it’s going to hit us: Getting used to it; 5. What should we do? Making decisions; 6. Keeping going: Managing ‘normal’ daily life; 7. Thinking ahead: Preparing for afterwards; 8. Riding the storm: Dealing with thoughts and emotions; 9 The eye of the storm: Finding a quieter place in the middle of it all; 10. Rebuilding from driftwood: After the event (assuming you’re there); 11. All the different storms: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisRelating to Voices helps people who hear voices to develop a more compassionate understanding and relationship with their voices. In this book, authors Charlie and Eleanor create a warm and caring tone for the reader and a respectful tone for their voices. With the help of regular check-in boxes', the book guides the reader towards an understanding of what voices are, what they may represent, and how we can learn to work with them in a way that leads to a more peaceful relationship. It offers a shift away from viewing voices as the enemies, towards viewing them as potential allies in emotional problem-solving. This approach may be different to some others that readers have come across, which can often be about challenging voices, suppressing them, distracting from them, or getting rid of them. The Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) approach suggests that we can learn to relate to both voices and ourselves in a way that is less about conflict and more aTable of ContentsForeword by Professor Paul Gilbert; Some suggestions for how to use this book; PART 1: Before we start; 1. Voice-hearing: a normal human experience; 2. What is Compassion Focussed Therapy? And how can it help support voice-hearers?; PART 2: Beginning the journey; 3. Safety and safeness; 4. Developing a Compassionate Self; PART 3: The courage of compassionate relating; 5. Relating compassionately to yourself and your emotions; 6. Developing a compassionate understanding of voices; 7. Developing a compassionate relationship with your voices

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