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Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship

By Garry L. Landreth

Play TherapyPlay Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is the newest incarnation of Garry Landreth’s comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play.

It details Landreth’s Child Centered Play Therapy model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child’s world and perspective.

This approach facilitates the play therapy process while allowing therapist and client to fully connect. Professors who have taught a course based on the previous edition will be pleased to find the core message intact, but updated with a significant body of recent research.

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Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships

By Geoffrey L. Greif and Kathleen Holtz Deal

Two Plus TwoFriendships are undeniably important to an individual’s health, longevity and wellbeing, but they can be equally important for the health and happiness of a couple.

Just as a friend can provide a mirror to the self, another couple can provide a reflecting team that supports or impedes a relationship’s growth.

Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships offers an important framework for helping couples to have conversations about their friendships with other couples and to enrich their own relationships.

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Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

By Thomas H. Ogden

Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic WorksThomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for the Most Important Paper of the year and the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize winner - an international award for "outstanding achievement as a psychoanalytic clinician, teacher and theoretician".

In this book he brings his original analytic ideas to life by means of his own method of closely reading major analytic works.

He reads watershed papers in a way that does not simply cast new and discerning light on the works he is discussing, but introduces his own thinking regarding the ideas being discussed in the texts.

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Handbook of Counseling Military Couples

Edited by Bret A. Moore

Handbook of Counseling Military CouplesThe military imposes unique and often severe challenges to couples, which clinicians – particularly the growing numbers of civilian clinicians who see military couples – often struggle to address.

These problems are only compounded by misunderstandings and misconceptions about what it means to be part of a specific branch of the military and part of the military as a whole.

Handbook of Counseling Military Couples includes a clear, thorough introduction to military culture and to coupled relationships in the military. But more than that, it provides readers with expert analyses of the special types of issues that come up for military couples and shows clinicians how to address them productively.

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Family Assessment, Second Edition

Edited by Len Sperry

Family AssessmentIn an era that demands ever-increasing levels of accountability and documentation, Family Assessment is a vital tool for clinicians.

It covers more than one hundred assessment methods – both the most widely used strategies as well as those that are more specialized and issue-specific.

Techniques and instruments for assessments are summarized concisely in tables and discussed in depth in the chapters, often by the experts who developed the approaches they describe.

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Cognitive Behavioural Coaching in Practice: An Evidence Based Approach

Edited by Michael Neenan and Stephen Palmer

Cognitive Behavioural Coaching in PracticeCognitive Behavioural Coaching in Practice explores various aspects of coaching from within a cognitive behavioural framework.

This highly practical book is illustrated throughout with lengthy coach–coachee dialogues that include a commentary of the aims of the coach during the session.

It will be essential reading for both trainees and professional coaches whether or not they have a background in psychology. It will also be useful for therapists, counsellors and psychologists who want to use coaching in their everyday practice.

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Addictions, 2nd Edition

By Maree Teesson, Wayne Hall, Heather Proudfoot, and Louisa Degenhardt

Addictions, 2nd EditionThe first edition of Addictions established itself as a valuable resource for students and professionals alike.

This authoritative new edition builds on the success of the previous book, incorporating advances in research and practice over the last ten years.

Addictions will be essential reading for students, professionals and researchers seeking state of the art information about this rapidly growing field.

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Career Counseling, 2nd Edition

Edited by David Capuzzi and Mark D. Stauffer

Career CounselingThis text presents a comprehensive overview of the foundations of career counseling, the skills and techniques needed for career counseling, and contextual perspectives on career and lifestyle planning.

It is based on the view that career counselors must be prepared in a holistic manner, as career and lifestyle planning with clients is inherently related to their search for identity and meaning.

The contributing authors are experts who are nationally and internationally recognized for their expertise, research, and publications related to career and lifestyle planning.

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Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents

By William Steele and Cathy A. Malchiodi

Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and AdolescentsThis book is a sourcebook of practical approaches to working with children and adolescents that synthesizes research from leading trauma specialists and translates it into easy-to-implement techniques.

The approaches laid out address the sensory and somatic experiences of trauma within structured formats that meet the "best practices" criteria for trauma informed care: safety, self-regulation, trauma integration, healthy relationships, and healthy environments.

Each chapter contains short excerpts, case examples, and commentary relevant to the chapter topic from recognized leaders in the field of trauma intervention with children and adolescents.

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Deprivation and Delinquency

By D. W. Winnicott

Deprivation and DelinquencyD.W. Winnicott was one of the giants of child psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

He argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children, their development and their needs.

Deprivation and Delinquency is an invaluable collection of his work on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour, or more chronically delinquency, and childhood experiences of deprivation. Winnicott examines children under stress, the nature and origin of antisocial tendency and the practical management of difficult children – issues which have once again exploded onto the social agenda.

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