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New Edition - May 2008  Your
Perfect Right Robert Alberti, Ph.D., and Michael Emmons, Ph.D. All-new edition of the most widely recommended assertiveness training book helps readers develop more effective self-expression with detailed procedures, examples, and exercises. The ninth edition has been completely revised to include new material on assertive expression in email and social networks, what to do when assertiveness doesn't work, anger expression, persistence, treatments for social anxiety, giving and receiving criticism, facial expression research, social intelligence, personal boundaries, components of assertive behavior, and recent brain research. Softcover,
$17.95 |
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Title - January 2008
Thoughts for Therapists Bernard Schwartz, Ph.D. and John V. Flowers, Ph.D. Therapists use words to help guide their clients through difficult times, but where are the words that can guide the healers as they develop professionally, struggle with difficult cases, adapt to changing times? Here, for practitioners and students, is a reference work which contains the best thoughts of the best thinkers in the field of psychotherapy, addressing the breadth and depth of what it means to be a therapist. Softcover,
$22.95 |
New Edition - October 2007  Parenting
After Divorce Philip M. Stahl, Ph.D. Newly updated! A realistic perspective on divorce and its effects on children. This revised second edition features ideas from the latest research, more information on long-distance parenting, dealing with the courts, and working with a difficult co-parent. Features knowledgeable advice from an expert custody evaluator. Packed with real-world examples, this book avoids idealistic assumptions, and offers practical help for divorcing parents, custody evaluators, family court counselors, marriage and family therapists and others interested in the best interest of the children. Softcover,
$17.95 |
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Title - 2007 Crazy
Love
W. Brad Johnson, Ph.D., and Kelly Murray, Ph.D. The scenario is all too common: Girl meets guy (or Guy meets girl). Guy is smart, charming, and maybe even endearing. Girl falls in love. As the relationship progresses Guy's serious personality problems begin to surface. She gets longer and more vivid glimpses of habits and tendencies she didn't notice at first. With about 15% of the adult population suffering from one or more personality disorders — that's over 16 million potential relationship partners, says the National Institutes of Health — finding the right partner and maintaining a healthy love relationship is harder work than we thought! Softcover,
$17.95 |
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Title - 2007 Moved
by the Spirit Jeffrey Kottler, Ph.D. Vivid and dramatic narratives of the single most transformative experience in the lives of some of the most prominent spiritual leaders, writers, and healers on the planet. Arun Ghandi, Thomas Moore, Riane Eisler, John Gray, Pat Love, Jose Cervantes, Barbara De Angelis and many others describe their spiritual transformations: in chapels and temples; on a walk in Ireland; on an icy New Hampshire road; in the African jungle; alone, or at the feet of a great teacher. Softcover,
$18.95 |
 Divorce
Doesn't Have to Be That WayA Handbook for the Helping Professional Jane Appell, Ph.D. A comprehensive guide to divorce counseling for therapists and all helping professionals, Divorce Doesn't Have to Be That Way is packed with intervention procedures for all key elements of the divorce counseling process, from decision to legal issues. Written specifically for helping professionals who want to give healthy support to their clients: the emphasis is on a family-centered, non-adversarial approach. Softcover,
$27.95 |
 Defusing
the High-Conflict DivorceA Treatment Guide for Working with Angry Couples Bernard Gaulier, Ph.D., Judith Margerum, Ph.D., Jerome A. Price, M.A., James Windell, M.A. An estimated nearly twenty percent of the one million divorces each year in the U.S. involve high-conflict relationships. Angry, emotional disputes related to custody, parenting time, child support payments, visitation and more may go on for years. Who suffers? The children, mostly. Post-divorce conflict may be the most significant factor in adjustment (or maladjustment) for children of divorce. Softcover,
$27.95 |
 Your
Child's DivorceWhat to Expect -- What You Can Do Marsha Temlock, M.A. When an adult child's marriage ends, lots of folks are hurt. The divorcing couple, of course, and their children. Until now, however, little attention has been paid to the parents of the divorcees. Temlock's examination of this sensitive topic offers parents a friendly guidebook packed with helpful information and suggestions from parents who've "been there." This practical manual puts an arm around the shoulder of parents of divorcing adults and supports them through the difficult days of the divorce process and its aftermath. Softcover,
$17.95 |
 Working
for PeaceA Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D., Editor, The most complete guidebook yet to social activism. Forty active peace workers -- psychologists, social workers, communication specialists and other professionals -- offer detailed practical guidance on getting yourself together, maintaining an effective group of volunteers, and getting the word out to the larger community. Softcover,
$17.95 |
How to Fail as a Therapist details the 50 most common errors therapists make, and how to avoid them. Therapists will learn practical, helpful steps for avoiding such common errors as not recognizing one's limitations, performing incomplete assessments, ignoring science, ruining the client relationship, setting improper boundaries, terminating improperly, therapist burnout, and more.
Softcover, $22.95 |
 Anger
Management Video ProgramAn Instructional Guide for Practitioners Howard Kassinove, Ph.D., and Now -- a video to accompany the authors' best-selling therapist manual, Anger Management: The Complete Guidebook for Practitioners. Here's a comprehensive presentation of procedures for effective work with patients with anger issues. Ten video segments feature live vignettes illustrating how to carry out key anger management techniques. This user-friendly tool is a vital resource for every practicing psychotherapy clinician, clinician in training, mental health clinic and training program, in a critically important dimension of therapy. Two DVD set, 150
minutes (approx.) $69.95 |
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