Bøker av David Archer

Transforming Complex Trauma: Reflections on Anti-Racist PsychotherapyChange the way how you see the therapy, forever."Archer shares with gratitude this book in which practicing clinicians, student clinicians, researchers, and/or racialized survivors can see ourselves and our roles in using anti-racism to transform this world."Jennifer M. Gómez, Ph.D.Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Boston UniversityBoard Member of the Center for Institutional CourageAuthor of The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women & Girls: A Black Feminist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse "If you are a practitioner that has wanted to see that there are ways to be person centered, culturally responsive, and effective, this book is where Archer speaks truth to power ... This is a must read for practitioners in training and will be included in my future courses."Daicia Price, PhD, LMSW, QMHP, CMHPClinical Associate Professor of Social WorkDirector of Diversity, Equity and InclusionUniversity of Michigan School of Social Work"This groundbreaking text and its corresponding curriculum should be incorporated into every graduate program in our field...David Archer is a visionary for our times, a "revolutionary therapist" in the best sense. I am honored to learn from and be led by him."Gayle A. Cordes, MBA, MC, DBHGraduate FacultyCummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health StudiesTrauma Subject Matter ExpertLearn the connections between social identity, racial trauma, and mental health. With empathy and expertise, Archer encourages us to explore complex trauma through an Anti-Racist Psychotherapy lens. In his down-to-earth style, mixing personal stories and therapeutic insights, Archer welcomes you on a transformational journey that's fresh, comprehensive, and unapologetically anti-oppressive. This book isn't just to be read; it's a new paradigm to help all people get the healing they deserve.David Archer, MSW, MFT, is an anti-racist psychotherapist from Montreal, Canada (Tiohtià ke). Mr. Archer is also a clinical social worker, couple and family therapist and an advocate for racially oppressed, LGBTQ+ and equity seeking people around the world.

If you think that global warming means slightly hotter weather and a modest rise in sea levels that will persist only so long as fossil fuels hold out (or until we decide to stop burning them), think again. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, predicts that if we continue to emit carbon dioxide we may eventually cancel the next ice age and raise the oceans by 50 meters. The great ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland may take more than a century to melt, and the overall change in sea level will be one hundred times what is forecast for 2100. By comparing the global warming projection for the next century to natural climate changes of the distant past, and then looking into the future far beyond the usual scientific and political horizon of the year 2100, Archer reveals the hard truths of the long-term climate forecast. Archer shows how just a few centuries of fossil-fuel use will cause not only a climate storm that will last a few hundred years, but dramatic climate changes that will last thousands. Carbon dioxide emitted today will be a problem for millennia. For the first time, humans have become major players in shaping the long-term climate. In fact, a planetwide thaw driven by humans has already begun. But despite the seriousness of the situation, Archer argues that it is still not too late to avert dangerous climate change--if humans can find a way to cooperate as never before. Revealing why carbon dioxide may be an even worse gamble in the long run than in the short, this compelling and critically important book brings the best long-term climate science to a general audience for the first time.

The often bloody struggles of Central America have dominated news reports for a long time. Behind the headlines lies an enormous population of the desperately poor, and it is axiomatic that they are rendered even more powerless by widespread illiteracy. The authors describe some of the programmes designed to overcome the problem.

The Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our climate system. He begins with a concise overview of the subject, and then looks at the carbon cycle on three different time scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very distinct ways in each. On million-year time scales, feedbacks in the carbon cycle stabilize Earth's climate and oxygen concentrations. Archer explains how on hundred-thousand-year glacial/interglacial time scales, the carbon cycle in the ocean amplifies climate change, and how, on the human time scale of decades, the carbon cycle has been dampening climate change by absorbing fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the oceans and land biosphere. A central question of the book is whether the carbon cycle could once again act to amplify climate change in centuries to come, for example through melting permafrost peatlands and methane hydrates. The Global Carbon Cycle features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and explanations of equations, as well as a forward-looking discussion of open questions about the global carbon cycle.

The Advanced Fitness Instructor's Handbook follows on from The Fitness Instructor's Handbook, covering the National Occupational Standards and the Qualifications framework for Level 3 and Level 4 Instructors teaching Exercise and Fitness both in the UK and in Europe.