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  Never Be Lonely Again: The Way Out of Emptiness, Isolation, and a Life Unfulfilled

  Pat Love and Jon Carlson

  n our fast-paced world of longer working hours and quick distractions, it's difficult to develop and maintain relationships that soothe the soul. Even as relationship and behavioral experts, both Pat Love and Jon Carlson each found themselves battling the plague of loneliness. It was only after a momentous meeting with the Dalai Lama that Love and Carlson began to develop an effective approach that would recalibrate the way they understood relationships. Now with Never Lonely Again, readers will learn how to find the necessary time to maintain friendships, be truly present for a partner, and reach out to people when in need. - See more at: http://www.hcibooks.com/p-4100-never-be-lonely-again.aspx#sthash.CrR00ohT.dpuf

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  Working with Immigrant Families: A Practical Guide for Counselors

  Adam Zagelbaum and Jon Carlson

  Working With Immigrant Families examines the theoretical and practice-based issues that must be considered by counseling professionals when performing family therapy with immigrant clients. It provides practitioners with insights into why immigrant families come to the United States, the processes that unfold while they do, and the steps that can be taken to help these families make the most of their experience in their new country.

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  Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships: A Clinician's Guide

  Jon Carlson and Len Sperry

  The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult—but also one of the most common—factors in the destruction of any relationship. Recovering Intimacy in Love Relationships lays out practical, evidence-based guidelines on which clinicians can depend as they wade through the intense emotions and fragile bonds of couples in crisis. With care and sensitivity, the book's authors analyze the increasingly complex context in which the cycle of intimacy develops, wanes, and recovers. The chapters delve into diverse populations' attitudes toward intimacy and provide an entire section on cultural, gender and religious issues.

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  Duped: Lies and Deception in Psychotherapy

  Jeffrey A. Kottler and Jon Carlson

  In this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room. What do clients lie about and why? When do therapists mislead or withhold information from their clients? What does it all mean? In their exploration of this taboo material, the authors interview and share stories from dozens of their peers from all practice areas and modalities and ranging from neophytes to established master practitioners. Their stories and reflections cast some light on this fascinating topic and will help to start a more honest dialogue about difficult subject matter.

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  Guidance of Young Children, 8th Edition

  Marian M. Marion

  Based on her belief that adults need to have realistic expectations of children, Marian Marion's Guidance of Young Children emphasizes understanding young children's development, using a developmentally appropriate approach to guidance, and thinking critically in making wise guidance decisions.

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  Jay Haley Revisted

  Madeleine Richeport-Haley and Jon Carlson

  Jay Haley Revisited brings together influential professionals in psychotherapy and counseling to introduce, analyze, and put into context 20 of the most interesting and significant papers Jay Haley produced, both published and unpublished. Jay Haley was one of the most influential thinkers in psychotherapy who revolutionized the field through his writings, teachings, research, and supervision for more than half a century. The seminal classic papers found in this volume capture the wit, humor, and the ability to look at a field and offer critique that leads to constructive change. This book will delight readers who, in one volume, can trace the birth and development of the field of family therapy, and the revolution from traditional ideas to modern therapy approaches, in the voice of one of the field’s most gifted teachers.

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  The Psychology of Courage: An Adlerian Handbook for Healthy Social Living

  Julia Yang, Alan Milliren, and Mark Blagan

  Courage refers to the willingness for risk taking and to move ahead in the presence of difficulties. The purpose of this book is to present courage as the main foundation of understanding and training for mental health in the three life task areas described by Adler: Work, Love, and Friendship. It explores the meaning of each life task and problems of fear, compensation, or evasion, as well as Adlerian insight on socially useful attitudes of approaching the task under discussion. Socratic dialog boxes are included throughout each chapter to encourage the interactivity between the text and readers’ thought processes. Also included is a set of twenty-two helping tools that were creatively designed for self-exercise or to be used to help others uncover or acquire courage. For those in the helping professions, this text will be a unique and valuable handbook for not only working with and helping their clients, but also for their own personal development.

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  40 Years of Breaking the Color Line in Healthcare Management

  Collins Charlotte, Daniels Forrest, Rupert Evans, and Dane Howard

  The National Association of Heathcare Services Executives (NAHSE) describes their 40 year history in this book, known as the NAHSE History Project. Thanks to meticulous note taking, collection and recording of correspondence and newsletters, and the cataloguing and safekeeping of 40-years of pictures, mementoes, and factoids, Nathaniel Wesley, Jr. single-handedly preserved the organization's history. His personal interest in preserving NAHSE's history led to the culmination of this book. Mr. Wesley through collaboration and partnership with the NAHSE Research Committee during a 20 month process completed a labor of love for the participants and will serve as testimony to the leadership and fortitude of the Association's founders, officers, committee chairs, and members. The formation of NAHSE fits squarely into the political and social turbulence of the 1960s. In 1968, Whitney Young, the president of the National Urban League, was the invited speaker at the American Hospital Association's Annual Meeting. In his speech, he made the connection between the blight in urban America and the role of non-profit hospitals as economic engines in these communities. He challenged these hospitals to employ and promote black leadership and to administratively reflect the community in which they resided. Young's eloquence in advocating for employment opportunities for racial minorities in hospitals was the impetus for the formation of NAHSE. The NAHSE story begs to be told in the context of the times in which events unfolded. This will enable the reader to fully understand the achievement it represents and why that legacy must continue. It is a story steeped in the experience and events of the civil rights struggle and the conditions leading up to that time.

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  Cross Cultural Awareness and Social Justice in Counseling

  Cyrus Marcellus Ellis and Jon Carlson

  Many societal and cultural changes have taken place over the past several decades, almost all of which have had a significant effect on the mental health professions. Clinicians find themselves encountering clients from highly diverse backgrounds more and more often, increasing the need for a knowledge of cross-cultural competencies. Ellis and Carlson have brought together some of the leaders in the field of multicultural counseling to create a text for mental health professionals that not only addresses diversity but also emphasizes the counselor’s role as an advocate of social justice. The theoretical foundation for this book rests on research into diversity, spirituality, religion, and color-specific issues. Each chapter addresses the unique needs and relevant issues in working with a specific population, such as women, men, African Americans, Asian Americans, Spanish-speaking clients, North America’s indigenous people, members of the LGBT community, new citizens, and the poor, underserved, and underrepresented. Issues that enter into the counselor-patient relationship are discussed in detail for all of these groups, with the hope that this will lead to a greater understanding and sensitivity on the part of the counselor for their patients. This is an important and timely book for both counselors-in-training and those already established as professionals in today’s highly diverse and constantly-changing society.

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  Teaching Science for All Children: An Inquiry Approach, 5th Edition

  Ralph Martin, Colleen Sexton, and Teresa Franklin

  Comprehensive and engaging, the fifth edition of Teaching Science for All Children prepares elementary teachers to help students grasp the nature of science, construct understanding of and connections between science content area materials, apply scientific processes, and understand the interactions between science, technology, and society. The more than 60 featured lessons in the text employ the “Engage, Explore, Explain, Expand, Evaluate” Learning Cycle model and incorporate National Science Education Standards across all K-8 grade levels and science disciplines–earth, space, life, and physical. Authoritative coverage of science safety, new technology, national standards, and strategies for teaching diverse learners are the hallmarks of this well-respected text.

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  The Therapist's Notebooks Volume 3: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy

  Catherine Ford Sori and Lorna L. Hecker

  The Therapist's Notebook Volume 3 includes clinician field-tested activities for therapists who work with individuals, children and adolescents, couples, families, and groups. The reproducible handouts are designed to be practical and useful for the clinician, and cover the most salient topics that counselors are likely to encounter in their practices, with various theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a "Reading and Resources for the Professional" section that guides readers toward useful books, videos, or websites that will further enhance their understanding of the chapter contents. This book is an excellent tool for both experienced and novice counselors for increasing therapeutic effectiveness.

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  The Therapist's Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy

  Lorna L. Hecker and Catherine Ford Sori

  The Therapist’s Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy, is the updated classic that provides mental health clinicians with hands-on tools to use in daily practice. This essential resource includes helpful homework assignments, reproducible handouts, and activities and interventions that can be applied to a wide variety of clients and client problems. Useful case studies illustrate how the activities can be effectively applied. Each expert contributor employs a consistent chapter format, making finding the ’right’ activity easy. The Therapist’s Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy, includes innovative field-tested activities to assist therapists in a wide range of applications, including adults, children, adolescents and families, couples, group work, trauma/abuse recovery, divorce and stepfamily issues, and spirituality. Format for each chapter follow by type of contribution (activity, handout, and/or homework for clients and guidance for clinicians in utilizing the activities or interventions), objectives, rationale for use, instructions, brief vignette, suggestions for follow-up, and contraindications. Three different reference sections include references, professional readings and resources, and bibliotherapy sources for the client. Various theoretical perspectives are presented in The Therapist’s Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy, including: cognitive behavioral narrative therapy solution focus choice theory and reality therapy REBT strategic family therapy experiential art and play therapies couples approaches including Gottman and Emotionally Focused Therapy medical family therapy Jungian family-of-origin therapy adventure-based therapy

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  Are We Thinking Straight? The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement

  Daniel K. Cortese

  This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a "straight" identity as a social movement tool in order to successfully achieve the movement objectives. This book is based on his doctoral dissertation research at the University of Texas.

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  The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling I: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy

  Karen B. Helmeke and Catherine Ford Sori

  Learn to initiate the integration of your clients’ spirituality as an effective practical intervention. A client’s spiritual and religious beliefs can be an effective springboard for productive therapy. How can a therapist sensitively prepare for the task? The Therapist’s Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling is the first volume of a comprehensive two-volume resource that provides practical interventions from a wide range of backgrounds and theoretical perspectives. This volume helps prepare clinicians to undertake and initiate the integration of spirituality in therapy with clients and provides easy-to-follow examples. The book provides a helpful starting point to address a broad range of topics and problems. The chapters of The Therapist’s Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling are grouped into five sections: Therapist Preparation and Professional Development; Assessment of Spirituality; Integrating Spirituality in Couples Therapy; Specific Techniques and/or Topics Used in Integrating Spirituality; and Use of Scripture, Prayer, and Other Spiritual Practices. Designed to be clinician-friendly, each chapter also includes sections on resources where counselors can learn more about the topic or technique used in the chapter—as well as suggested books, articles, chapters, videos, and Web sites to recommend to clients. Each chapter utilizes similar formatting to remain clear and easy-to-follow that includes objectives, rationale for use, instructions, brief vignette, suggestions for follow-up, contraindications, references, professional readings and resources, and bibliotherapy sources for the client.

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  The Therapist's Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling II: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy

  Karen B. Helmeke and Catherine Ford Sori

  More activities to tap into the strength of your clients’ spiritual beliefs to achieve therapeutic goals. The Therapist’s Notebook for Integrating Spirituality in Counseling II is the second volume of a comprehensive two-volume resource that provides practical interventions from respected experts from a wide range of backgrounds and theoretical perspectives. This volume includes several practical strategies and techniques to easily incorporate spirituality into psychotherapy. You’ll find in-session activities, homework assignments, and client and therapist handouts that utilize a variety of therapeutic models and techniques and address a broad range of topics and problems.

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  Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction

  Rosemary Erickson Johnsen

  By examining the feminist interventions of contemporary women writers working in this subgenre, Johnsen advances the existing critical discussion of women's crime fiction. The writers studied here bring research expertise to bear on their chosen historical settings, creating a powerful but widely accessible statement about women in history.

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  Supervision, 3rd Edition

  Georgia J. Kosmoski

  Hardcover textbook on supervision and evaluation of teachers and administrators (352 pages hardcover) with on-line software for Windows and Macintosh entitled The Adventures of Integrity Gonzales

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  Toward Deprivatized Pedagogy

  Becky Nugent and Diane C. Bell

  This book discusses a toll for shaping classroom practice--deprivatized pedagogy. Deprivatized pedagogy draws on postmodern critical theory and experiences at the university and in the writing classroom. The purpose of this text is neither to fan the smoldering embers of theory wars, nor to offer step-by-step instructions for teaching. Rather, it is to demonstrate the times, places, and situations in which theory and practice can and will intersect. The terms deprivatized pedagogy carries with it a conceptual model that will not fit into existing language. Although it is fraught with problems, the authors have selected the terms deprivatized for highly specific reasons. Deprivatized pedagogy may be briefly defined as a way to interrogate classroom practices which are traditionally and inexplicably privatized. A deprivatized pedagogy is a conscious effort to work against traditional, often invisible classroom practices that privilege the construct of the autonomous individual, whether that individual is a teacher or a particular student. In short, it is a strategy for bumping against and breaking down transparent barriers of unthinkingly ritualized practices in the classroom. The authors hope to provide a space to raise questions, evoke critiques, and embark on the path to self-reflexivity in the practice of teaching and learning.

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  Engaging Children in Family Therapy: Creative Approaches to Integrating Theory and Research in Clinical Practice

  Catherine Ford Sori

  A common question at the initial meeting of a family therapist and a new client(s) is often whether or not to include a child or children in the counseling sessions. The inclusion of a child in the family therapy process often changes the dynamic between client and therapist -- and between the clients themselves -- within the context of the counseling sessions. And yet, although this is such a common experience, many counselors and family therapists are not adequately equipped to advise parents on whether to include a child in therapy sessions. Once the child does make an appearance in the counseling session, the therapist is faced with the challenges inherent in caring for a child, in addition to many concerns due to the unique circumstance of the structured therapy. Counseling a child in the context of a family therapy session is a specific skill that has not received the attention that it deserves. This book is intended as a guide for both novice and experienced counselors and family therapists, covering a wide range of topics and offering a large body of information on how to effectively counsel children and their families. It includes recent research on a number of topics including working with children in a family context, the exclusion of children from counseling, and counselor training methods and approaches, the effectiveness of filial play therapy, the effects of divorce on children, and ADHD. Theoretical discussion is given to different family therapy approaches including family play therapy and filial play therapy. Central to the text are interviews with leaders in the field, including Salvador Minuchin, Eliana Gil, Rise VanFleet and Lee Shilts. A chapter devoted to ethical and legal issues in working with children in family counseling provides a much-needed overview of this often overlooked topic. Chapters include discussion of specific skills relevant to child counseling in the family context, case vignettes and examples, practical tips for the counselor, and handouts for parents.

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  How to Increase Your Company's Profits by Using PIMS Program

  Phyllis R. Anderson

  The PIMS Program began at General Electric Company, under CEO Jack Welch. Using the PIMS findings, Welch built GE into one of the most profitable companies in the world. The PIMS program was expanded under the Strategic Planning Institute (SPI) of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Phyllis Anderson was a member of the SPI staff. Later, she was hired away by a client company where she was placed in charge of a $25 million division that had been a chronic money loser. Under Dr. Anderson's direction, using the PIMS principles, the division soon became a profit leader. Dr. Anderson left to form her own management consulting firm, which has over 400 clients ranging in size from Fortune 100 corporations to one-person shops.

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  Family Therapy Techniques: Integrating and Tailoring Treatment

  Jon Carlson, Len Sperry, and Judith A. Lewis

  Family Therapy Techniques briefly reviews the basic theories of marriage and family therapy. It then goes into treatment models designed to facilitate the tailoring of therapy to specific populations and the integration of techniques from what often seems like disparate theories. Based on the assumption that no single approach is the definitive approach for every situation, the book leads students through multiple perspectives. In teaching students to integrate and tailor techniques, this book asks them to take functional methods and approaches from a variety of theoretical approaches, without attempting to reiterate the theoretical issues and research covered in theories courses.

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  Consultation: Creating School-Based Interventions, 3rd Edition

  Don Dinkmeyer Jr. and Jon Carlson

  Grounded in Adlerian Psychology, the methods presented by Don Dinkmeyer, Jr. and Jon Carlson in Consultation are based upon the assumption that problems in the home and the classroom result not only from the direct actions of disruptive students, but also from the expectations of teachers and parents. This text shows how counselors can encourage change in these supposed 'problem' children by helping authority figures recognize and alter the part they may be playing in exacerbating the negative actions of the student. Also included is a supplementary DVD depicting actual individual and group interviews with teachers and parents.

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  The Client Who Changed Me: Stories of Therapist Personal Transformation

  Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson

  Although the impact that clients can have on therapists is well-known, most work on the subject consists of dire warnings: mental health professionals are taught early on to be on their guard for burnout, compassion fatigue, and countertransference. However, while these professional hazards are very real, the scholarly focus on the negative potential of the client-counselor relationship often implies that no good can come of allowing oneself to get too close to a client's issues. This sentiment obscures what every therapist knows to be true: that the client-counselor relationship can also effect powerful positive transformations in a therapist's own life. The Client Who Changed Me is Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson's testimony to the significant and often life-changing ways in which therapists have been changed by their patients. Kottler and Carlson draw not only upon their own extensive experience - between them, they have more than fifty years in the field - but also upon lengthy interviews with dozens of the country's foremost therapists and theorists. This novel work presents readers with a truly unique perspective on the business of therapy: not merely how it appears externally, but how practitioners experience it internally. Although these stories paint a complex and multi-layered portrait of the client-counselor relationship, they all demonstrate the profound and unexpected rewards that the profession has to offer.

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  The Voice of the Elders - An Evening of Storytelling with the Baoulé

  Michel Nguessan

  According to the standard classifications of African languages, the Baoulé language is a Kwa language and belongs to the Niger-Congo family which covers the territory from the western tip of Africa in Senegal to the southern tip of South Africa. Variation in the use of tones in Baoulé is a major component of dialectal variation. The Baoulé are the most populous group of the West African Côte d'Ivoire. Like the overwhelming majority of cultures around the world, they use oral transmission to pass their cultural traditions from person to person, and from generation to generation. The art of speaking well is highly prized, and those who have this gift are respected in the society. The present study first presents an introduction into geography, language and culture of the region and discusses the oral tradition in its context. Subjects and structures of the Baoulé stories vary, whereas songs play the same important role in oral literature like fables, fairy tales, ghost stories and myths do. The collection of 15 original stories are put opposite to their English translations. It was taken much care to represent them in a lively and literary appealing way so that it would not only be of any interest for the philologically oriented readership. Furthermore, this documentation offers rich material for further research in oral literature and comparative linguistics.

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  Readings in the Theory of Individual Psychology

  Steve Slavik and Jon Carlson

  Presents a group of papers, drawn from "The International Journal of Individual Psychology, the Journal of Individual Psychology and Individual Psychology." This work aims to present a collection of articles that state the conceptions of the ideas and clarifications of Individual Psychology, and stimulate clarification of fundamental Readings in the Theory of Individual Psychology presents an overview of the central theoretical tenets and specific fundamental concepts of Individual Psychology, framed on terms that make it possible to verify empirically many of these theoretical foundations. Sections of the book are organized into subject areas such as social interest, creative self, lifestyle, and family constellation, each containing seminal articles by Adler, Dreikurs, and other founding thinkers, and introduced with an original essay by a contemporary scholar. Readings in the Theory of Individual Psychology informs the reader of the recent and current theory in Individual Psychology, presented in order to generate new empirical research and future directions for development. Slavik and Carlson have pulled together a truly unique source for current thinking and theorizing in the field, providing the next generation of researchers, scholars, and scientists with the tools to move Individual Psychology into its next phase of refinement.