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Action Learning (AL) has emerged as a key training and problem-solving tool for companies. This book demonstrates how Action Learning can quickly and effectively be introduced, implemented, and sustained in various types or sizes of organizations.

Includes the latest research on delivering mental health services in pre-deployment. The psychological health of service members and military families is approached as an integral aspect of deployment psychology. The result is a ground-breaking book that emphasizes what we know—and don't know—about evidence-based interventions. It represents the first comprehensive review of mental health interventions across the deployment cycle and will help guide the field of military psychology in developing a much-needed support system for service members.

The treatment of personality disorders is a rapidly evolving focus of contemporary mental health practice. This volume presents a collection of research on personality disorder treatment. Organized by different therapeutic approaches, each chapter presents a theoretical framework, evidence-based methods, and clinical examples.

This is a unique empirically-based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness processes, and commitment and behaviour change processes to produce psychological flexibility. Steven C. Hayes, who helped develop ACT, and co-author Jason Lillis provide an overview of ACT's main influences and its basic principles.

Follows Emily as she tries to overcome her grief following her brother's death. As time passes, Emily finds a way to remember her brother and grows to understand that although Ben has died, her happy memories of him can continue to live on.

Play therapy is used to meet a broad range of developmental needs in children from various backgrounds. This is for mental health practitioners working with children aged 5 to 12 to help them learn social skills such as making friends, asking for and offering help, controlling their movements and using appropriate words.

This landmark book encourages good coparenting as a powerful support for at-risk children¿s social, emotional, and behavioral needs.

This book presents a safety-focused approach to assessment and treatment of couples who choose to remain together after one or both partners have been violent.

Presents full transcripts of three entire sessions, enabling readers to see not just what went right, but where the therapist may have missed a crucial detail or may have intervened at the wrong moment. It provides a rare opportunity to ""look over the shoulder - and into the mind"" of a renowned psychotherapist at work.

Provides an introduction to an assessment standard that is solidly grounded in adolescent psychology. It can be used as a text in graduate classes, as a how-to for psychologists interpreting the MMPI-A, or as a reference book. It is written for a diverse audience to include physicians, social workers, counsellors, and attorneys, along with psychologists.

Using a developmental framework, this book presents research on how exposure to intimate partner violence affects children and how clinicians can treat these children.

The concept of the real or personal relationship between client and therapist has existed since the earliest days of psychotherapy. In this engaging book, Charles J. Gelso argues the case for the relevance of the real relationship to successful therapeutic outcomes.

Highlights how knowledge of both narcissism and Machiavellianism may influence problematic youth social interactions as well as youth adaptation to developmental contexts such as peer relationships.

Over the past 22 years, William E. Piper and colleagues have developed and tested two models for treating complicated grief (CG) with short-term group therapy.

Children vary in their response to the death of a loved one. With a literature review on bereavement in childhood, extensive case examples and dialogues to illustrate therapeutic techniques, and over 20 activity handouts that therapists can photocopy and use in sessions, this book provides what is needed to treat bereaved children.

Reviews the scientific support for popular advocacy recommendations. It first summarises trial commentators' recommendations, then reviews the scientific support for these recommendations, and finally evaluates the recommendations in light of the scientific support. Topics include attorney demeanour, verbal and nonverbal communications, the attorney-client relationship, and storytelling.

A practical guide to planning, designing, and delivering a presentation. It covers the nuts-and-bolts of public speaking: preparing a talk, submitting an abstract, developing your slides, managing anxiety, handling questions, and preventing public-speaking disasters. It also applies these tips to common presentations, such as research talks.

A workbook for teminally ill kids trying to record the story of their lives through pictures and stories.