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Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change
By Lorrie L. Brubacher. 2017
This volume makes Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) widely accessible to therapists of different orientations and to therapists in training.…
It provides clinicians with practical tools, an experiential tour through case examples, and simple guidance to step into EFT. An overview of the change events includes both client processes and therapist interventions moment-to-moment. 'In Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change, each step and stage of EFT is laid out in a practical and theoretically simple manner that extends beyond what therapists need to do, to helping therapists grasp what experiential therapy is, providing moment-by-moment examples of how to engage clients emotionally, and how to foster emotional engagement between partners.'- From the Foreword by S. Johnson and A. LeePure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
By Mary Cronk Farrell. 2014
In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S. Army nurses. But when the Japanese attack on…
Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them. The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and in underground tunnels on Corregidor Island. Later, when most of them were captured by the Japanese as prisoners of war, they suffered disease and near-starvation for three years. Pure Grit is a story of sisterhood and suffering, of tragedy and betrayal, of death and life. The women cared for one another, maintained discipline, and honored their vocation to nurse anyone in need―all 101 coming home alive.Psychology (Annual Editions)
By R. Eric Landrum. 2017
The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some…
of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Each Annual Editions volume has a number of features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use: an annotated Table of Contents, a Topic Guide, an annotated listing of supporting websites, Learning Outcomes and a brief overview for each unit, and Critical Thinking questions at the end of each article. Go to the McGraw-Hill Create™ Annual Editions Article Collection at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/annualeditions to browse the entire collection. Select individual Annual Editions articles to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Landrum: Annual Editions: Psychology, 47/e ExpressBook for an easy, pre-built teaching resource.Taking Control of OCD: Inspirational Stories of Hope and Recovery
By Rob Willson, David Veale. 2011
OCD affects between 1 and 2 per cent of the UK population, causing terrible distress to hundreds of thousands. A…
serious mental illness, it affects people in different ways from well-known rituals such as obsessive hand-washing and checking, to lesser known symptoms such as disturbing intrusive thoughts and hoarding. Those affected typically suffer for a number of years before seeking help and receiving professional treatment.Selected by Dr David Veale and Rob Willson, authors of self-help guide Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, the first person accounts contained in this collection reflect a broad range of experiences of those with OCD. Brave and uplifting, these real life stories provide not only reassurance, but also an inspiration to others to seek help and overcome their illness. Includes two chapters written by Dr David Veale and Rob Willson explaining the causes of OCD and how to overcome it.Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the Great Game
By Sir John Ure. 2012
Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head…
to head over control of central Asia - from the Caucasus to Kabul. This was the stage of open warfare but also espionage, subterfuge and reckless adventure. Following on from the derring do of Shooting Leave, John Ure tells the story of British soldiers, missionaries and mercenaries, horse traders and opportunists who travelled to make their name in the Great Game.Praise for Shooting Leave:'Extremely entertaining ... deserves to be a surprise Christmas bestseller.' Robert Harris.'Gripping stuff.' Peter Hopkirk.'Anyone with red blood in his or her veins will be stirred by these stories ... The perfect read.' Country Life.Ghost Girl: The True Story of a Child in Desperate Peril - and a Teacher Who Saved Her
By Torey L. Hayden. 1994
Recounting her experiences with Jadie, a student in her class, a teacher describes how she persuaded Jadie to break her…
silence and reveal the family secrets that were plaguing her. The true story of a child who refused to speak and the teacher who finally got through to her--uncovering a dark history of child abuse and possible satanic rituals--from the bestselling author of One Child. "A testament to the powers of caring and commitment."--Publishers Weekly.The Shyness Workbook: Take Control of Social Anxiety Using Your Compassionate Mind
By Lynne Henderson. 2021
There is nothing wrong with being shy - it is a natural emotion that everyone can experience. But if shyness…
is negatively impacting your life, The Shyness Workbook can help you grow your confidence.Shyness has evolved as an emotion over thousands of years and can be helpful in some circumstances. However, it can become a problem when it interferes with life goals, develops into social anxiety disorder or leads to 'learned pessimism', mild depression and even 'learned helplessness'. In this way, shyness and shame often hold us back from realising our potential and from engaging with others wholeheartedly.This practical self-help workbook sets out the background to shyness - its evolutionary functions and why it becomes chronic in some people - and teaches skills and exercises to help you overcome problematic shyness.Using this workbook, readers will learn how to:· Cope with shy feelings and debunk anxious thoughts· Develop self-compassion· Practise new, confident behavioursFull of fresh insights and exercises, The Shyness Workbook will support your journey into developing social self-confidence.THE COMPASSIONATE MIND APPROACHThe self-help books in this series are based on the Compassionate Mind Approach (developed by series editor Paul Gilbert). This brings together an understanding of how our mind can cause us difficulties but also provides us with a powerful solution in the shape of mindfulness and compassion. It teaches ways to stimulate the part of the brain connected with kindness, warmth, compassion and safeness, and to calm the part that makes us feel anxious, angry, sad or depressed.Raus aus der Konfliktspirale: Unsere Konflikte - Und wie wir sie lösen
By Andrea Hartmann-Piraudeau. 2021
Das Thema Konfliktspirale und was passiert mit uns, wenn wir im Konflikt stecken, fasziniert alle gleichermaßen. Die Reaktion ist dann…
Nachdenklichkeit und Selbstreflektion. Jeder hat eigene Konflikte und deshalb ist uns das Thema nahe. Konflikte sind in der Regel belastend und deshalb wünschen wir uns Erklärungen und Auswege. Welche Dynamik nehmen Konflikte an und wie entwickeln sie sich? Was passiert mit uns, wenn wir in die Konfliktspirale eintreten. Wie verändert sich unser Denken, unsere Sicht auf die Dinge und unsere Interessen? Was macht der Konflikt mit uns und wie kommen wir wieder heraus aus dem Strudel? Darüber handelt dieses Buch. Es basiert auf wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen aus der Psychologie und der Konfliktforschung.The Maternal Sensitivity Program: A Model for Promoting Infant Development in Challenging Contexts
By Patrícia Alvarenga, M. Ángeles Cerezo, Yana Kuchirko. 2022
This book presents the Maternal Sensitivity Program (MSP), an eight-session home-delivered intervention designed to enhance overall maternal sensitivity to infant…
behavior between the third and the tenth month of life using video feedback and live modeling strategies. The intervention was based on successful international programs but was specifically developed to fit the realities and needs of low-income countries, whose public health services rely on scarce human and economic resources. The program aims to promote maternal acknowledgment of infant mental activity and model responses that encourage infants' communication of intentions, needs, desires, and emotions.The first part of the book provides an overview of core theories related to the concept of maternal sensitivity, illustrating how it varies across cultural contexts, and how it is shaped by economic scarcity. The second part of the book presents evidence of the effectiveness of sensitivity-based interventions, describes and provides a rationale for the Maternal Sensitivity Program (MSP), and proposes a framework for training interventionists seeking to implement the program in different contexts. The third part of the book presents the intervention manual, describing in detail the procedures in each of the eight sessions of the program. The Maternal Sensitivity Program: A Model for Promoting Infant Development in Challenging Contexts will be an invaluable resource for developmental psychologists, health care providers, and social workers who work with families in low-income countries and in contexts of social vulnerability and need to implement low-cost interventions to foster healthy child development.Concept and Method in Cross-Cultural and Cultural Psychology (Elements in Psychology and Culture)
By Ype H. Poortinga. 2021
An overview is given of cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology, focusing on theory and methodology. In Section 1 historical developments…
in research are traced; it is found that initially extensive psychological differences tend to shrink when more carefully designed studies are conducted. Section 2 addresses the conceptualization of “culture” and of “a culture”. For psychological research the notion “culture” is considered too vague; more focal explanatory concepts are required. Section 3 describes methodological issues, taking the notion of the empirical cycle as a lead for both qualitative and quantitative research. Pitfalls in research design and data analysis of behavior-comparative studies, and the need for replication are discussed. Section 4 suggests to move beyond research on causal relationships and to incorporate additional questions, addressing the function and the development of behavior patterns in ontogenetic, phylogenetic and historical time. Section 5 emphasizes the need for applied research serving the global village.How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real WorldIn this ground-breaking book, author Morten Münster presents a…
set of rules that individuals and companies can follow to bring about necessary change.Using behavioural design and an accessible four-step method, he shows how people can be persuaded to do one thing instead of another and thereby achieve success.By examining an array of examples drawn from business, government, various public groups and institutions he demonstrates how the rules can be learned and applied in different contexts.The Strange Order Of Things: Life, Feeling and the Making of Cultures
By Antonio Damasio. 2021
'Damasio undertakes nothing less than a reconstruction of the natural history of the universe ... [A] brave and honest book'…
The New York Times Book ReviewThe Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular existence and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life.The Strange Order of Things is a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling and culture.Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
By Antonio Damasio. 2021
In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced…
that recent findings in neuroscience, psychology and artifical intelligence have given us the necessary tools to solve its mystery. In Feeling & Knowing, Damasio elucidates the myriad aspects of consciousness and presents his analysis and new insights in a way that is faithful to our own intuitive sense of the experience.In forty-eight brief chapters, Damasio helps us understand the relation between consciousness and the mind; why being conscious is not the same as either being awake or sensing; the central role of feeling; and why the brain is essential for the development of consciousness. He synthesises the recent findings of various sciences with the philosophy of consciousness, and, most significantly, presents his original research which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behaviour.Here is an indispensable guide to understanding the fundamental human capacity for informing and transforming our experience of the world around us and our perception of our place in it.There is nothing wrong with being shy - it is a natural emotion that everyone can experience. But if shyness…
is negatively impacting your life, The Shyness Workbook can help you grow your confidence.Shyness has evolved as an emotion over thousands of years and can be helpful in some circumstances. However, it can become a problem when it interferes with life goals, develops into social anxiety disorder or leads to 'learned pessimism', mild depression and even 'learned helplessness'. In this way, shyness and shame often hold us back from realising our potential and from engaging with others wholeheartedly.This practical self-help workbook sets out the background to shyness - its evolutionary functions and why it becomes chronic in some people - and teaches skills and exercises to help you overcome problematic shyness.Using this workbook, readers will learn how to:· Cope with shy feelings and debunk anxious thoughts· Develop self-compassion· Practise new, confident behavioursFull of fresh insights and exercises, The Shyness Workbook will support your journey into developing social self-confidence.THE COMPASSIONATE MIND APPROACHThe self-help books in this series are based on the Compassionate Mind Approach (developed by series editor Paul Gilbert). This brings together an understanding of how our mind can cause us difficulties but also provides us with a powerful solution in the shape of mindfulness and compassion. It teaches ways to stimulate the part of the brain connected with kindness, warmth, compassion and safeness, and to calm the part that makes us feel anxious, angry, sad or depressed.Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation)
By Bell Hooks. 2002
Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically…
acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with Communion: The Female Search for Love.Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help.Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.Salvation: Black People and Love
By Bell Hooks. 2001
“A manual for fixing our culture…In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we…
may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.”—Black Issues Book ReviewNew York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell hooks continues her exploration of the meaning of love in contemporary American society, offering groundbreaking, critical insight about Black people and love.Written from both historical and cultural perspectives, Salvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou, the liberation movements of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, or hip hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love’s got to do with it.Combining the passionate politics of W.E.B. DuBois with fresh, contemporary insights, hooks brilliantly offers new visions that will heal our nation’s wounds from a culture of lovelessness. Her writings on love and its impact on race, class, family, history, and popular culture will help us heal and create beloved American communities.Army Girls is the intimate story of the final few women who served in World War II and are still…
alive to tell their tale. They were female soldiers in a war Britain wanted to fight without conscripting women. It was a vain hope, by December 1941 for the first time in British history women were called up and a generation of girls came of age in khaki, serving king and country. Barbara trained to drive army-style in giant trucks and Grace swapped her servant's pinafore for battledress and a steel hat, Martha turned down officer status for action on a gun-site and Olivia won the Croix de Guerre in France.Commemorating the 80th anniversary of conscription for women, Army Girls captures remarkable stories from the last surviving veterans who served in Britain's female army and brings to life a pivotal moment in British history. Precious memories and letters are entwined in a rich narrative that travels back in time and sheds new light on being young, female and at war.Uniquely this moving Second World War memoir is embedded in the present day. Written in the midst of a global pandemic, the parallels and paradoxes between two very different national crises are explored in a book that honours the women who fought on in extreme youth and now once more in great old age.Het lichaam en psychisch functioneren: Theorie, onderzoek en klinische toepassing
By E.H.M. Eurelings, C. G. Kooiman, M. H. Lub. 2022
Dit boek helpt behandelaren in de geestelijke en somatische gezondheidszorg om volwaardige en volledige patiëntenzorg te bieden, met aandacht voor…
de hele mens, als bezield én belichaamd wezen. Met geïntegreerde kennis over de rol van het lichaam bij psychische problemen, biedt het handgrepen voor het handelen in de klinische praktijk. Het lichaam en psychisch functioneren gaat uit van een breed perspectief op de relatie tussen lichaam en geest in de psychiatrie en de psychologie. Er komt dan ook een grote variëteit aan onderwerpen aan de orde. Allereerst worden verschillende psycho-biologische modellen beschreven. Dan volgt een drieluik over de rol van lichamelijkheid in de verschillende levensfasen. Ook wordt de rol van het lichaam bij een aantal specifieke psychiatrische beelden beschreven. Uiteraard is er aandacht voor de rol van het lichaam bij behandeling en voor leefstijlfactoren. Tot slot biedt het boek naast een somatisch en psychologisch perspectief op de verwevenheid van lichaam en psyche, ook een filosofische en theologische visie. Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe is klinisch psycholoog/psychotherapeut en emeritus bijzonder hoogleraar Beroepsopleidingen tot psycholoog in de individuele gezondheidszorg. Kees Kooiman is psychiater en psychoanalytisch psychotherapeut, werkzaam bij GGZ de Viersprong, specialist in persoonlijkheid, gedrag en gezin. Marike Lub-Moss is klinisch psycholoog en zij was werkzaam als hoofd van de afdeling Medische Psychologie van het Haaglanden Medisch Centrum in Den Haag. Samen vormen zij de redactie van dit boek.Stem cells: From Potential to Promise
By Khawaja Husnain Haider. 2021
The book highlights the therapeutic applications of various stem cells, and introduces readers to thymus stem cells and their applications…
in the reconstitution of thymic structure and function. It also discusses the significant role of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the treatment of autoimmune diseases and the use of MSC-derived exosomes in cell-free therapy. Moreover, it explores the application of hematopoietic stem cells in the vasculoprotection of the ischemially injured heart. Further topics include the regenerative potential of ovarian germline stem cells and the significance of endometrial stem cells in the pathogenesis of female reproductive tract diseases. Lastly, the book addresses stem cells from perinatal tissues and their immunoregulatory and differentiation potentials, and summarizes new strategies for targeting cancer stem cells to treat tumors.