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Amazing
Stories are very good specially if you have people & want to tell them something.
An excellent collection of Ericksonian metaphors
Dr. Milton H. Erickson often worked his "magic" by telling metaphorical stories to his patients.The construction of such effective metaphors has sometimes been difficult for Ericksonian hypnotherapists.Burns addresses this issue by affording the reader a collection of 101 therapeutic metaphors.For each story, the problems addressed, resources developed, and outcomes offered are listed.Read more

Subjects:  1. Counseling    2. Counseling (Psychology)    3. Narrative therapy    4. Psychology    5. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    6. Psychotherapy    7. Psychotherapy - Counseling    8. Psychotherapy - General    9. Counselling    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Post-traumatic stress disorder    2. Psychic trauma    3. Psychology    4. Psychotherapy - Counseling    5. Psychotherapy - General    6. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic    7. Treatment    8. therapy    9. Counselling    10. Psychiatry    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling   

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Decoding the Ethics Code : A Practical Guide for Psychologists
I found this book very easy to read. It described each code very well and provided examples both what is right and what is wrong. Great way to learn the ethics code and become familiar with it.

Essential reading for psychotherapists
Decoding the Ethics Code is must reading for psychotherapists from all the mental health guilds. Celia Fisher was a member of the APA committee that drafted the 2002 revision of the Ethical Code, and there is nothing like going to the source. The book is readable and informative, and helps to make sense of the new HIPAA regulationsNo ethical practitioner can afford to be without this resource.

Ethics Made Easy!
This book is amazing!It helps the reader understand what is required of psychologists in simple but comprehensive terms.It also provides invaluable information about HIPAA laws that I found very helpful. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. General    3. Moral and ethical aspects    4. Professional ethics    5. Psychologists    6. Psychology    7. Psychology & Psychiatry Profession - Ethics    8. Psychotherapy - Counseling    9. Education    10. Practical & applied ethics    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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powerful, beautiful, evoking
I began this book because I am a student of Annie's. I could not put it down, feeling like I myself was becoming somehow involved with her relationship with Ben (the 5 year old boy with brown hair and bangs). I felt like I was getting inside both Annie and Ben while watching the beautiful way in which they interacted. I could not be in the room with this book without wanting to read on into the relationship that evolves. The personal aspect of the patient-therapist relationship becomes the center focus as does Annie's life outside of these interactions with Ben. The reflection, time, energy, and exposure that is demonstrated by the author in this book was by far the best I have ever seen. This has become my favorite book, one that I will never live without, and also one that will remind me of what I want to do with my life and how to do it.

The Prevalence of Dismal Psychotherapists
Harvard child psychologist and severe child abuse survivor Annie Rogers suffered psychiatric hospitalizations once or twice a year from puberty until her late twenties -- when, after a six year insidiously inept and crazymaking "therapy," an attempt to stab and shoot that therapist and one last hospitalization for another word salad psychosis (and no more insurance), her exceptional and no doubt desperate sister and friends found the gifted and pro bono analyst Dr. Blumenfeld. If this exceptional memoir hasn't become a classic must read in psychology with many reviews by both patients and therapists by now, there are unfortunate reasons. One is that Annie's politically correct adolescence shows in her disdain for the "medical models and diagnoses" Dr. Blumenfeld himself could afford to abandon only because he knew them and the blind therapists who live by them so well -- and thus could authentically reach and stabilize the talented and brilliant, borderline and psychotic personality and doctoral intern Annie. "You have a kind of giftedness, Annie, that probably has always been inseparable from your suffering, and we don't know very much about that yet." What we need now is a wonderful book from the exceptional and sainted Dr. Blumenfeld and more from the healed and gifted writer Dr. Rogers on the two sided magic of play therapy with children. You must meet Annie's beloved "oppositional" 5 year old patient Ben and ponder the 7 foot angel "Theosporus" who protected and accompanied Annie from age 6 to Dr. Blumenfeld's office at 27. A Shining Affliction raises more questions than it answers -- it might have been twice as long, and it's hard to tell if important details were deliberately or unconsciously left out. As it is, it's a daring memoir by a once psychotic Harvard child psychologist that should be a controversial must read classic in both child and adult psychotherapy.

a strong memoir, about which I have a few criticisms
At its best it reminded me strongly of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, in that it shows the healing relationship between an excellent therapist and a disturbed female patient.This book had the added benefit of having the patient/author also be a therapist, and while being healed herself doing a marvelous job of participating in the healing of a young boy whose problems are remarkably similar to her own.Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - General    4. Social Scientists & Psychologists    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling   

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measures for clinical practice:a sourcebook:volume 1:couples, families, and children, third edition (measures for clinical
the book is not worth much for me;I ordered it only because it was a required text by school I attend.Even the teacher did not want to use it.Not a good information source (searching google proves to much better!).You ended up making money, and that's the rest of the story!

Gets better with each new edition
Fischer and Corcoran complete another Herculean task with their 3rd edition of MEASURES FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE Volumes I and II. For each edition, the editors search the literature for instruments that demonstrate practical and research applications.They study and report on the calibration issues for each instrument. These issues include scoring, sampling, reliability and validity. Of course, they include the citations of their sources. The bureaucratic corporate machine called "help"
A clear and succinct account of one of the true evils of our time! Status quo apologists and meritocracy fanatics, sadly, won't get the point, but, for the rest of us who strive to offer what we can to those in need and fight for a more equitable and just society, the book is a clear outline of just what needs to be eliminated for the betterment of all. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. General    3. Mental Health    4. Psychological Testing    5. Psychological Tests    6. Psychology    7. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    8. Social Science    9. Social Work    10. Social Work Practice    11. Psychological testing & measurement    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Outstanding resource for beginning practioners.
Because I know both Dr. Ingersoll, and Dr. MacCluskie personally will readily admit that I am just a tad biased when it comes to their work. However these two professors are first-rate intellectuals who know how to guide the would-be practioner deeper. Read more

Subjects:  1. Counseling    2. Counseling - General    3. Education    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy    6. Psychotherapy - Counseling    7. Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare    8. Social Work    9. Vocational guidance    10. Counselling    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling   

Subjects:  1. Counseling    2. Counseling (Psychology)    3. Counseling - General    4. Education    5. Education / Teaching    6. Guidance & Orientation    7. Guidance And Counseling    8. Psychotherapy - Counseling    9. Counselling    10. Education / Guidance & Orientation   

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A Book That Works
This book is a "must have" for anyone who works with individuals in a coaching role.

Process Consultation Revisited
A very helpful book in explaining the concept of process consultation. This is one of the course texts for a nursing consulting course that I am currently taking. The author, a social psychologist, describes the differences between process consultation and 2 other models that are commonly used in consultation known as the Expertise Model and the Doctor-Patient Model. There are 10 principles that describe the essence of PC, according to Schein: Always try to be helpful, always stay in touch with the current reality, access your ignorance, everything you do is an intervention, it is the client who owns the problem and the solution, go with the flow, timing is crucial, be constructively opportunistic with confrontive interventions, everything is a source of data and when in doubt share the problem. The book describes all of this and more with excellent case studies.

A "Must Read" for Managers & Consultants!
This is the best book on "helping" I have ever read. I use it constantly in my work as an organizational change consultant.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business Consulting    4. Business consultants    5. Business/Economics    6. Consulting    7. Development - Business Development    8. Organization Development    9. Skills    10. Social psychology    11. Business & Economics / Skills    12. Counselling    13. Management & management techniques    14. Sales & marketing   

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Just the main points, please!
I'm taking a research methods course right now and, unfortunately, this is the book that was assigned. The chapters are too long and the authors make things more complex by trying to include too many examples and unnecessary filler material.Research methods is boring anyway, but Rubin and Babbie make learning about itmore boring and confusing by not getting straight to the point. I have a "quiz" next week and you don't know how tedious it is read through these chapters. I had to learn how to speed read in orderto save time and find the important information.Thank goodness the book is at least organized.

Difficult to read
This book is really long winded and boring. It rambles a lot and is quite incoherent, though I would give it some credit for trying to sound personable. The chapter on inferential statistics, especially isn't very clear which makes it even more frustrating because stats is already quite a dry topic.

Rubin & Babbie
This book was assigned as a text for my Social Work research class.The entire class found the book very wordy, chapters were too long and hard to focus on.As a professional the book would probably be helpful for self-teaching, but as a text book, it will bore your students to tears. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Methodology    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - Counseling    4. Research    5. Research & Methodology    6. Social Science    7. Social Work    8. Social service    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - General    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling    12. Sociology, Social Studies   

Subjects:  1. Counseling - General    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - Counseling    4. Substance abuse    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling    6. Social work   

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Excellent beginning counselor text
This text has great information and good self exploration exercises.Kottler has been writing these texts for many years, and has written a text that is accessible to the beginning counseling student.I cannot recommend using this text highly enough, my students love the book (as evidenced by my NOT seeing it on our bookstore shelves as a used text after the course wraps), and it is organized for both the student and the professor.The only alteration in chapter sequencing that I make is to teach the ethics chapter early in the course rather than late in the course.

Do youself a favor and read this
By the end of this book, I wanted to meet Jeffrey Kottler, have coffee with him, exchange jokes, and ask him all the bigger questions that, as a graduate student, lurk in the back of my brain. You know.Those questions like, "Can I really do this?" and "What happens if I screw up someone's emotional well-being even worse than when they came in?" Should be required for those entering the field of therapy.
This book should be required reading for students who are consideringentering into the mental health field. It is thorough, helpful andstraightfoward. Personal anecdotes from practitioners offers a nice touch. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Counseling    2. Mental Health    3. Psychology    4. Psychotherapy - Counseling    5. Psychotherapy - General    6. Counselling    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling    8. Psychotherapy   

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Be cautious. The book is not very well edited.
This book is mostly useful because it is easy to read and understand. However, the editors have missed SEVERAL spelling errors, wich I find unexcusable in a college textbook that costs so much money. What do we pay them so much for? Read more

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Counseling    3. Counseling (Psychology)    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy    6. Psychotherapy - Counseling    7. Psychotherapy - General    8. Counselling    9. Education / Guidance & Orientation   

Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Human Sexuality    3. Mental Illness    4. Psychology    5. Psychotherapy - Counseling    6. Psychotherapy - General    7. Reference    8. Sexual disorders    9. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Reference    11. Psychotherapy    12. Sexual behaviour    13. Urology & urogenital medicine   

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Excellent!
Egan's manual is excellent and really helps clarify and execute his model presented in "The Skilled Helper."This book is a definite read for the developing counselor! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Health/Fitness    2. Counselling   

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The Man Behind the Curtain
If you have read "A Rational Guide to Living" and still consider it somewhat of a "self help" book (with all of the negative connotations that carries), but really want to understand REBT, then I can highly recommend this book.It makes a convincing case for the relevance of this type of therapy, offers no panacea, yet at the same time provides much insight into the methods, challenges, strengths, and shortcomings of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
Change Destructive Beliefs to Heal and Reclaim Happiness
Albert Ellis wrote a goldmine of a book to help people and therapists heal those who are in pain with destructive beliefs, post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, marriage and family, jealousy, OCD, and many other difficulties that CAN be healed. It requires commitment and dedication on the part of the individual to want to heal.
Most up-to-date description of REBT
This book contains the most up-to-date description of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy available. Ellis especially emphasizes the following:Read more

Subjects:  1. Mental Illness    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy - General    4. Rational emotive behavior ther    5. Rational emotive behavior therapy    6. Psychotherapy   

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Not All Ethics Texts are Created Equal
I thought I read every ethics text throughout my close to ten years in higher education.Obviously, this one was left out.This is an excellent text, easily readable, engaging, practical, and down to earth.I look forward to picking it up and continuing on each day.This text should be used in every ethics class and by every professional in the field of human service.Incredible job by the authors.Definitely recommended to every practicing clinician. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. Counseling    3. Counselors    4. General    5. Moral and ethical aspects    6. Professional ethics    7. Psychiatric Ethics    8. Psychiatry - General    9. Psychology    10. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    11. Psychotherapists    12. Psychotherapy - Counseling    13. Psychotherapy - General    14. Counselling    15. Medical ethics    16. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy    17. Psychotherapy   

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Handbook of Attachment Interventions
An excellent reference for workers who support families in repairing damaged children. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Attachment behavior    2. Attachment behavior in childre    3. Attachment behavior in children    4. Developmental - Child    5. Developmental - General    6. Family Psychology    7. Handbooks, manuals, etc    8. Interpersonal Relations    9. Personality    10. Psychology    11. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    12. Psychotherapy - Counseling    13. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    14. Child & developmental psychology    15. Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology    16. Psychotherapy   

Subjects:  1. Counseling - General    2. Education / Teaching    3. Educational Psychology    4. Psychological consultation    5. Psychology    6. Psychotherapy - Counseling    7. Social Science / Social Work   

Subjects:  1. Administration - General    2. Civil Procedure    3. Education / Teaching    4. Educational    5. Guidance And Counseling    6. Law    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal status, laws, etc    9. Legal status, laws, etc.    10. School Laws And Legislation    11. Social work with children    12. Student counselors    13. Students    14. United States    15. Careers guidance    16. Central government policies    17. Counselling    18. Law / Educational Law & Legislation    19. Organization & management of education   

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Systematic approach to career development theories.
This book makes an excellent supplement to any text in a career development course. Swanson and Fouad utilize 7 different theoretical approaches in order to integrate and apply career development theory.Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Career development    3. Career/Job    4. Careers - General    5. Case Studies    6. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    7. Psychology    8. Vocational guidance    9. Labour economics    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / General    11. Social research & statistics