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These books provide an invaluable reference for teachers of psychology. The plethora of teaching strategies and techniques discussed should serve to improve the quality of their teaching. For those who teach high school, college, and graduate students in psychology, education, and the social sciences, these volumes present immediate practical applications and rich sources of ideas. They contain the collective experiences of teachers who have successfully dealt with students' difficulty in mastering important concepts about human behavior. Volume 1 addresses teaching strategies for courses that make up the core of most psychology curricula; introductory psychology, statistics, research methods, and the history of psychology. Volume 2 discusses teaching physiology, perception, learning, memory, and developmental psychology. Volume 3 deals with teaching personality, abnormal clinical-counseling, and social psychology.

Each volume contains a table listing the articless in that volume and identifying theprimary and secondary courses in which each demonstration can be used.
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The Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psychology and Counseling offers a thorough treatment of the concepts, theoretical developments, research, and applications in racial-cultural psychology and counseling.

Volume One focuses on theory and research, and covers the concepts of race, ethnicity, culture, acculturation, religion and spirituality, measurement, ethical research, socialization, and emerging areas of inquiry.

Volume Two focuses on practice and training, and addresses such topics as: training models, assessment, supervision, group therapy, vocational counseling, supervision, ethics, couples and family therapy, and continuing education. ... Read more

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This fresh, new book takes a multidimensional four-part approach to counseling children. This approach: 1) capitalizes on the relationships children build with parents, teachers, and other adults; 2) looks at children's developmental processes; 3) examines multicultural influences upon them; and 4) takes into consideration the variety of intervention models available. Four chapters examine four major approaches to child therapy: psychodynamic, child-centered, behavioral/cognitive-behavioral, and family systems. In the final synthesizing chapter, the author draws upon his experience as therapist and teacher to bring everything together through a case study that shows his multidimensional approach in action.This book covers the use of play as a therapeutic technique and emphasizes thinking outside the box of standard therapy. It encourages future counselors to view treatment as the culmination of education/developmental, preventive, and remedial interventions. MARKET For professionals in the field of counseling children. ... Read more

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A must-read for child counselors!
Excellent integration of the current and past child psychology literature. The author adopts a multidimensional perspective when discussing child therapy from diverse theoretical orientations, including psychodynamic, child-centered, and cognitive-behavioral. ... Read more

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WIth the ongoing pressures for psychologists to practice evidence-based care, and the requirement insurance carriers have both for treatment goals, measurement of outcomes, and a focus on brief therapy, functional analysis provides a framework for achieving all of the above. Having proven itself in treating behavioral problems in education, functional analysis is now being applied more broadly to behavioral and psychologial disorders.

In his 1996 book (Functional Analysis in Clinical Psychology, Wiley UK), Sturmey applied the functional behavioral approach to case formulation across a wide range of psychological disorders and behaviors. Since the publication of his book, no other volume has taken an explicit behavioral approach to case formulation. The changes that have occurred over the last 10 years in behavioral case formulation have been significant and substantial. They include (a) a large expansion of the range of problems addressed, such as ADHD, (b) a range of new verbal behavior therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapies, (c) increased area of activity in the area of autism spectrum disorders; (d) many publications in how to train professionals, staff and parents in behavioral technology, and (e) new assessment instruments and procedures.

*Makes theories of functional analysis accessible to a wide range of mental health professionals
*Reviews behavioral assessment methods and strategies for case formulation
*Offers readers a practical, organized, data-based means of understanding psychiatric conditions for intervening effectively and measuring positive change ... Read more

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An helpful tool to clinicians in behavior analysis
The book edited by Dr. Sturmey, at the same time provides us with an excellent explanation regarding struturalists and functionalists approaches, and talks about several types of behaviors classified as psychiatric. This text presents the analysis of the contingencies that can determine psychiatric problems as well as the radical behavioristic's interpretationof those behaviors and the treatment proposed due to that interpretation. It is an useful tool for clinicians and teachers that work with behavior therapy or even for applied behavior analysts. ... Read more

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Coaching has become an important way for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals to adapt their skills to a changing environment.This book provides a comprehensive translation of psychotherapy theory and skills for the would-be executive coach.It was written to help clinical mental health practitioners understand the culture and expectations of the corporate and business world, as well as how to use their hard-earned skills effectively in executive coaching.

The book begins with a clear explanation of how coaching differs from counseling and how to explain this to prospective new clients.Eight chapters translate popular therapies into coaching strategies, along with a guide for assessing executives.One chapter describes the challenges women face as managers and executives and proposes effective coaching methods.Lessons from successful athletic coaches are integrated into consulting skills.Essential business school lessons in leadership, marketing, and the corporate viewpoint and vocabulary are included for the therapist seeking greater understanding of the executive's point of view.A final chapter describes how to make the transition from the world of therapy to the workplace world of the corporate coach. ... Read more

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Essential and Very Useful
This book should be the first book read after a Life Coach finishes the basic training.Corporate America represents the motherlode for coaching since that is where the real money is. This book brings together in one place useful and understandable information to equip the coach reagardless of experience to completetly work with executives.There are many useful tools and strategies that can be "cookbooked" to the betterment of the client.

Executive Coaching with Clarity and Practicality
"The Psychology of Executive Coaching" is a very useful book on executive coaching which suggest sensible and sensitive processes that should lead to successful outcomes.Bruce Peltier wrote a breathlessly intellectual book on executive coaching whilst retaining a centred approach to the research of his topic at hand. He expertly wove carefully placed threads of awareness into a coherent and comforting blanket of understanding and he uncovers truly helpful and practical applications.

The author's writing is rich and intricate. He draws on a variety of experts and research to come up with well thought out theories and pragmatic tips on their effective application. You will marvel at the fluidity with which he combines the concepts so as to make them completely accessible to everyone wishing to follow his reasoning throughout this important book.

This is a highly readable guidebook that provides a solid theoretical framework for applying executive coaching skills that is very useful for executive coaches, psychology professionals and management consultants or any therapist and is therefore highly recommended for the targeted audience.

The book was assigned reading for a master's level executinve coaching program
Peltier's book is my favorite assigned during a two-year professional executive program.Beginning with a significant chapter on Assessment, it aptly combines theory (actually 8 different theories) with practical application advice and tools to use.Occasionally there are even checklists provided for specific types of assessment and interventions.

With 20 years of business consulting experience behind me, I found this book to be particularly useful in translating academic theory to readable and useful frameworks, pragmatic tips and case studies.This will help me to cross the bridge from business consulting to executive coaching.

Very Useful, Needs expanded definition of EC
This is an extremely well written and thorough resource for psychological professionals, management consultants and executive coaches.For psychologists, it helps you decide if EC is right for you.For others, it helps to understand what about psychology is needed to successfully provide EC.There are two basic assumptions outlined in the book which are believed by many to be limiting:One, that executive coaching is primarily a psychological service; and Two, that executive coaching is solely for the purpose of developing leaders.Executive coaching is more complex than just a psychological service.It entails the application of the principles and methods of psychology, business management, leadership, and organization development, among others, to help the executive or would-be executive improve his/her effectivness.Second, executive coaching must be provided with the greater goals of the organization at an equal level of priority to the developmental goals of the individual leader.
For a further explanation of this wider view and the principles and practices that follow, I recommend downloading the free Handbook of Executive Coaching at the website: www.executivcoaching.com
You will also find all free other information and tools for the coach, the executive, and the HR professional.
Beyond the limitations of the definition and assumptions at the outset of this book, it is a must-read for the targeted audience.

Superb guidebook for any therapist
When I was in graduate school one of my professors quoted Kurt Lewin by saying, "There is nothing as practical as a good theory."This is an apt comment in reference to Dr Peltier's new book, The Psychology of Executive Coaching: Theory and Application.Except I might expand on that to say there is nothing as practical as a number of good theories.

When psychological theories are spelled out as clearly and cogently as they are in this book, their applications to the world of executive coaching become almost self-evident.But Dr Peltier takes this process further by presenting compelling case studies and scenarios for applying these theories to the business world.

While this book is an excellent guidebook for any therapist interested in expanding his or her practice into working in the corporate world, it is a valuable resource for therapists who counsel business executives in private practice as well. ... Read more

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This book, with over 1500 clinical and psychotherapeutic references, is a thorough, comprehensive, clinically analytic, and multi-theoretical/disciplinary discussion of all aspects of the self-evaluative process in providing casework and counseling services. Dr. Eldridge brings nearly 25 years of psychotherapeutic experience and clinical teaching expertise to bear, in presenting extremely detailed and rigorously complete definitions, manifestations, decision junctures, psychodynamics, role perspectives, and interpretative options in each of the following broad contents of the clinical panorama: clinical inputs, client outcomes, therapeutic process, self-assessment, diagnostic profile, counselor style, client deficiencies and resistance, organizational norms, and philosophical paradigm for practice. This book is not intended to provide a simple answer to the complex frustration of psychosocial therapeutic practice but, instead, digs deep into the most inner workings of all aspects of this fascinating and challenging puzzle of human growth and development. ... Read more

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Tune in to potential problems with students, parents, and staff. Recognize behaviors or situations that signal a need for help, and then determine the level of intervention needed. Build your skills in counseling ineffective teachers and dealing with troubled parents. ... Read more

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Every principal should have one of these books!
Jeffrey A. Kottler and Elaine K. McEwan do a masterful job of offering counseling guidelines for elementary school principals.Every school principal should read it! ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Clinical Psychology Review, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Bereavement is associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. How to protect the bereaved against extreme suffering and lasting health impairment remains a central research issue. It has been widely accepted that to adjust, the bereaved have to confront and express intense emotions accompanying their loss. It has further been assumed that others assist in this process, and that intervention programs are effective. To assess validity of these assumptions, this article reviews research on the impact of expressing and sharing emotions across four research domains (social support; emotional disclosure; experimentally induced emotional disclosure; and grief intervention). In none of these areas is there evidence that emotional disclosure facilitates adjustment to loss in normal bereavement. Implications of these findings are discussed. ... Read more

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Learn to conduct a client-centered assessment of spirituality—and use the findings to enhance your interventions as well as your clients' psychospiritual coping abilities

Even to clinicians practiced in helping clients to manage their stress, the impact of clients' spirituality upon their mental health can be difficult to discern and discuss. Moreover, ethical dilemmas can arise when clinicians feel compelled to intervene with a client's negative religious coping.

Spirituality and Mental Health: Clinical Applications can help. This thought-provoking guide for mental health professionals and pastoral counselors provides you with a framework to assess and incorporate client-based spirituality into your practice. The author provides case examples and clinical models related to spirituality and mental health, as well as useful questionnaires for assessing clients. He provides a client-centered ethical framework for integrating spirituality into treatment, and then discusses how to apply it to clients' problems, especially those related to life crises, resentment over past offenses, guilt over past mistakes, andsubstance abuse. He also discusses how mindfulness meditation can enhance clients' coping ability. Finally, he includes a useful Leader's Guide for the psychoeducational spirituality group, which is designed to educate patients and church groups.

Spirituality and Mental Health: Clinical Applications shows how professionals in the above disciplines can address the impact of spirituality on clients by:

gaining an understanding of the construct of spirituality

assessing spirituality and its interface with clients' presenting problems, particularly when spirituality is central to their values.

intervening sensitively in ways that use clients' spiritual perspectives and practices to enhance their coping mechanisms.

using the included Leader's Guide to the 5-session psychoeducational spirituality group As the baby boom generation ages, faith becomes a more integral part of that generation's consciousness. Whether you are a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a social worker, or a pastoral counselor, Spirituality and Mental Health: Clinical Applications is a resource that you'll return to again and again as you work to improve the lives of your clients. ... Read more

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Inspirational for even the non-professional
.I was overjoyed to find out that this book was in existence!!!It was long over due in my way of thinking.The information in this book is much needed and I found the insight of the author to be something I coveted for all the doctor's and professionals I have encountered in the past ten years in helping both of my children in their recovery path, dealing with bipolar disorder.The author understands that we can only expect true connection with one another when we treat not just the symptoms but the whole person, ESPECIALLY, their spiritual being, if we expect any kind of true recovery from mental illness.I will be reading and sharing this book, many times, with many people.and I thank the author from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to put his thoughts in book form to share with us all ... Read more

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Providers and consumers of mental health services are increasingly making use of the internet to gather information, consult, and participate in psychotherapy. This Handbook gives practical insight into how professionals can translate their practice to an online medium. Divided into four sections, section one provides an overview of how the internet has become an integral part of people's lives, and the research to date on the use and effectiveness of counseling online, as well as idiosyncrasies of online behavior and communication. Section two discusses the "practical" aspects of counseling online, including technological issues, ethical and legal issues, and business issues. Section three focuses on performing psychotherapy online, including online treatment strategies and skills, working with online groups, online testing and assessment, and international and multicultural issues in online counseling. The last section discusses the future of online counseling.

The Handbook is intended for those professionals interested in the burgeoning telehealth movement and to those practicing therapists looking for ways to expand their practices online and/or to help round out treatment to specific patients who might benefit from online therapy in addition to traditional delivery.

* Foreword by Morgan Sammons and Patrick DeLeon, past president of the American Psychological Association
* The first comprehensive textbook designed to give clinicians and mental health students everything they need to understand and start providing mental health services via the Internet
* Each chapter includes study questions and key terms, making it ideal for use in graduate or continuing education settings
* Includes clear and comprehensive chapters on research and technology related to online counseling
* Contributors include past, present, and elected presidents of the International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO), the Inernet's leading resource for professionals interested in online counseling and other methods of delivering mental health services via the Internet ... Read more

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"Whether counselors practice privately or within institutions, they will find valuable information within such sections as specialties of counseling, legal and ethical issues, insurance and malpractice. Each chapter is fully referenced. This is an excellent library resource with complete appendices of American Counseling Associations."

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Behavioral assessment is a psychological assessment paradigm that emphasizes empirically supported, multimethod and multi-informant assessment of specific, observable behaviors and contemporaneous causal variables in the natural environment. The behavioral assessment paradigm stresses the use of well-validated assessment instruments and assumptions that social/environmental, cognitive, and physiological variables are often important sources of behavior variance.

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To the point and clear
This is one textbook that was required for one of my classes.The language is not too complex, it's succint, and you can finish a chapter and not be confused (so many psychology textbooks are)!

Poor Customer Service
Sent email to Barone Books several times to get information on their return policy.Never received any return information even to say they didn't accept returns.Poor form! ... Read more

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Revitalize your current practice!

Dr. Lesyk has drawn masterfully from the helping professions and the exercise sciences to present a detailed map of the intersections of psychotherapy, exercise, mental skills, and athletic performance. Above all, this is a ?useful' book.
--Mark B. Andersen, coordinator, Post Graduate Research Studies, Centre for Rehabilitation, Exercise, & Sport Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Apply the winning techniques of sport psychology to your current practice?and in so doing, attract a new population of clients, including both serious and recreational athletes, women, seniors, and kids at all levels of skill and experience. The author, a successful clinical and sport psychologist, gives detailed advice on the best way to include sport psychology in an existing practice. He also demonstrates how to apply cognitive-behavioral and social learning theories within a sport psychology context.

Filled with illustrative examples, this book provides suggestions for using sport psychology techniques when working with common nonsport-related issues, such as depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Also covered are clinical techniques for sport-specific issues, including training, competition, injury, failure, and success.

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What can psychology contribute to the understanding of intellectual disabilities and how does clinical psychology help in supporting people with these disabilities? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of concepts and problems, as well as covering the clinical and consulting skills that support interventions in this field. Starting from basic issues of epidemiology and cause, the authors consider issues raised when mental health problems co-occur, when sexual abuse is alleged, and when a person's behaviour is found to challenge the resources of the people or services providing support. The authors examine the family context, and how to address it, and also the organizational context and how to understand and work within it (including its legal aspects). Finally, they consider health promotion issues, and how to work with families and communities to improve the wellbeing of people with intellectual disabilities. This is a truly comprehensive text, written out of both rich clinical experience and extensive knowledge of research and training. It will be invaluable for students and practitioners in many disciplines that are involved in the field of intellectual disability.

"This exceptionally well-organized and comprehensive book goes beyond the typical approach to this topic by providing state-of-the-art advice that emphasizes multiple perspectives on assessment and intervention. The material is practical and systems orientated, and reflects a maturity and wisdom stemming from lengthy experience with this population. Highly recommended as a source of useful information and support." Professor Edward Carr, Suny at Stony Brook, New York, USA

"a terrific book ... Eric Emerson and his colleagues have brought together leading experts to give clear expositions of wide ranging and complex topics. This book deserves to be and will undoubtedly become the standard text for trainee and qualified practitioner alike." Professor David Felce, Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities, University of Wales College of Medicine ... Read more

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The first edition of this book was acclaimed as a practical, insightful and humane guide for professionals in mental health, social work and voluntary and government agencies who are concerned with the care of refugees and other victims of political and military violence. These professionals can develop feelings of irritation, disappointment and hopelessness when their work seems not to have the expected result. Successful counselling and therapy require empathy with such victims of traumatic events. But empathy must be based on, and combined with, expertise and knowledge that is both scientific and research-based, and focused on the special needs of these victims. This book is written from the first-hand experience of a world expert in this field, and provides
* A practical guide to clinical work with adult, child and adolescent victims
* A conceptual framework which places treatment in the context of the main therapeutic approaches
* A review of the research evidence that supports these methods of assessment and treatment
* Many clinical examples and a full consideration of the special problems of communication across cultures and language barriers
* Recognition of the special problems for professionals and volunteers dealing with these clients
This new edition reflects the latest scientific and clinical work and knowledge, and will be essential for mental health professionals as well as for a wider readership of social, legal and administrative professionals who are concerned with the wellbeing of these victims. "A supremely accessible, comprehensive text on the effects of detention, torture, rape, exile, and culture shock, and how to understand and effectively help victims. It is also a vivid insight into traumatization and transgenerational suffering, and into transcultural and transtheoretical therapy. Harrowing yet timely, essential reading for frontline therapists and counsellors." Colin Feltham, PhD, Sheffield Hallam University. ... Read more