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Publisher
Search Institute Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Designed to be a one-stop resource for mentors, this guide doesn't flinch from the tough problems. Using a helpful question-and-answer format, it addresses issues that include How do I connect with my mentee? What if I don't like my mentee? and If my mentee is in serious trouble, how far do I go to help him? Organized topically by issue, the book provides mentors with advice they need both in the ever-changing and sometimes challenging mentoring...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"This book presents the "big picture" related to the practice of counseling and psychotherapy. Four counseling paradigms are defined: the organic-medical, psychological, systemic-relational, and social constructivism paradigms. Readers will be challenged to view mental health treatment from a high theoretical level, providing an advanced foundation for psychotherapy research and practice."--
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"In this concise book, you will learn how do do Motivational Interviewing (MI), the evidence-based counseling approach that has been proven to be effective for a range of psychological, behavioral, and health related issues. Helping people change their behavior in healthy directions can sometimes feel frustrating and stressful. Despite the best advice and information, about half of the people who could benefit by changing their behavior in healthier...
Author
Publisher
Bnei Baruch, Laitman Kabbalah
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Children of Tomorrow: Guidelines for Raising Happy Children in the 21st Century is a new beginning for you and your children. The big revelation is that raising kids is all about games and play, yet relating to them as small grownups, making all major decisions together. Open any page to find inspiring, thought-provoking quotes about every aspect of children's lives. This book offers a fresh perspective on raising happy children to become successful,...
Author
Publisher
Huron Street Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The route to career success is mapped out here for those who want to forgo the time and expense of a college education and dive directly into the workplace. As college tuitions soar and the job market tightens, many young adults are questioning the value of a college degree. The pros and cons of this path are discussed, as well as the reasons why many students fare poorly in college. In addition, topics such as the cost and value of technical and...
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Language
English
Description
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound...
Author
Publisher
R&L Education
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"While the American workplace affords many and varied career options, the process of determining what to do with one's life remains a significant challenge. The Bound-for-Career Guidebook views career identification, selection, entry, and progression as part of a larger developmental process-the career development process. This book addresses the incredible importance that change plays in education and career. What we need to know and the skills required...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Foreword by Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People My community, like so many others, struggled with the number of calls for youth disturbances and crime. The reactive approach to solving this problem was not working. Kids saw us as the "hunters." With that mindset, the good kids shied away from us, and the marginal kids turned it into a game of "cat and mouse" to see how much they could get away with before getting...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Combining the personal stories of patients across America with crucial advice on receiving the best possible health care, this guide will enable you to confront an often confusing and perilous system--and come out ahead" --Cover, p. 4.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Build a million-dollar business in one of today's hottest professions! Bestselling business author Alan Weiss provides the inside advice you need to build or expand your coaching business--from developing a common language and shared protocol to providing effective and supportive feedback at every level. Million Dollar Coaching is packed with tips, checklists, resources, and scores of helpful examples, making this the most valuable one-stop tool...
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Language
English
Description
"Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person. This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to five conversations. This form of "empowering guidance" is a dimension of pastoral conversation rather than formal counseling. Critically integrating desert...
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Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families, psychiatrists and pastoral theologians come together in an interdisciplinary, collaborative effort to ensure accuracy of information concerning the medical dimensions of mental illness, interpret these illnesses from a faith perspective, and make suggestions relative to effective ministry. Readers will learn how science and a faith tradition can not only co-exist but work in tandem...
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Since the late 1970's practical theology has had a significant voice and influence in the academy. While many have seen great hope and potential in this work, not everyone has agreed. Some, for instance, have examined the conversation and found by focusing on the concrete and lived experiences of humanity, by and large, practical theology has not had the theological vision to present frameworks for understanding concrete and lived experience with...
Author
Publisher
R&L Education
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This text promotes the transformation of our the school counseling profession in what promises to be an unprecedented era by addressing the established and developing best practices significant to maturing the profession. In this way The New Era of School Counseling: A Practical Guide, is much like its predecessor The New School Counselor: Strategies for Universal Academic Achievement. Also like its predecessor, this text uses a how-to-do-it approach...
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Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The college years are very stressful for many people, so it comes as little surprise that college-aged youth often suffer from diagnosable psychiatric disorders. Even among college students whose distress is not clinically diagnosable, the college years are fraught with developmental challenges that can trigger bouts of psychological suffering. Is it any wonder, then, that suicide is the second leading cause of death in this age group? In Mindfulness...
Author
Publisher
R&L Education
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Creating conditions for better teaching and learning to occur has become an important responsibility for today's school leaders. Principals must attend to building and sustaining healthy school cultures.The authors take the reader on a journey through several different situations that occur at the elementary, middle and high school levels and focus on a different and challenging aspect of educational leadership every time. The reader can read and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This book is written for ordinary, well-adjusted people who like to solve their own problems and deal with
their own issues and who are fully capable of doing so. Written by a highly qualified psychotherapist
and based on many years of clinical experience and personal practice, it is an informative, inspirational
and easy-to-read guide to understanding how the normal, human mind works and how we can all take
charge of our own psychological,...
Author
Publisher
R&L Education
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Teachers begin the professional journey with a treasure chest full of experiences, hopes, and expectations gathered from early childhood. Yet the everyday stresses and challenges of 21st century classrooms often leave teachers with neither time nor energy to recall their initiating dreams and desires. In this innovative workbook you'll be expertly guided through a journey of self-discovery, back to the roots of your story, your evolution as a teacher,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Are you fed up with thinking about drinking?
Have you ever wondered if you can change your relationship with alcohol?
Has your drinking spiraled out of control?
If you answered 'yes', to any of these questions, this is the book for you.
In this personal, enquiring and provocative book, Lesley and Cate attempt to remove the shame and stigma around 'liking a drink', perhaps a bit too much. These two ex-primary schoolteachers share with you their own...
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