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Sage Publications Ltd Solution-Focused Therapy: Theory, Research & Practice
This second edition of Solution-focused Therapy remains the most accessible yet comprehensive case-based introduction to the history, theory, research and practice of solution-focused therapy (SFT) within mental health care and beyond. Drawing on contemporary research and the author′s own extensive experience, the fully revised and updated new edition includes: " discussion of recent developments relevant to research and training " a new chapter on challenges to SFT and the integration of SFT with other therapeutic approaches " extended discussion on ethical issues " topical exploration of the application of SFT with patients with personality disorders and dementias " contemporary research on solution-focused coaching and approaches to organizational change " new case material. This highly practical guide should be on the desk of every student or trainee studying this strongly supported, growing approach. It is also a useful resource for practitioners wanting to update their core skills and knowledge.
£37.95
Peeters Publishers Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages
The present volume, number VI in the series "Groningen Studies in Cultural Change", offers a selection of papers presented at the International Conference 'Knowledge and Learning' held in Groningen in November 2001. It is the second of three volumes. The first (volume V in the series), entitled "Learned Antiquity: Scholarship and Society in the Near East, the Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West" has been edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey and Gerrit J. Reinink. The third one (volume VII in the series) bears the title "Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1600-1960" and will be edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald and Arend H. Huussen.The present volume, "Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages", contains new studies on a wide range of matters pertaining to scholarship (and to changes in scholarship, in the European West) from the early Middle Ages throught to the Renaissance and beyond. The disciplines discussed include: literature, philosophy, cultural history, and education.
£56.14
Peeters Publishers Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1560-1960
The present volume, number VII in the series "Groningen Studies in Cultural Change", offers a selection of papers presented at the International Conference 'Knowledge and Learning' held in November 2001 in Groningen. The first volume (number V in the series) is entitled "Learned Antiquity: Scholarship and Society in the Near east, the Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West", and has been edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey and Gerrit J. Reinink. The second (volume VI) bears the title "Schooling and Scholarship: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages", and has been edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald and Michael W. Twomey. The papers in the present volume, "Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1560-1960", written by scholars in such disciplines as science, education and cultural history, treat various matters concerning scholarship in the period from the Renaissance until the mid twentieth century.
£55.63
