Product Description: The Uses of Writing in Psychotherapy explores the various ways in which writing can be used to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of psychotherapy. Although writing has been used by therapists in many ways over the years, and the benefits of writing are mentioned in the professional and popular literature, this is the first volume in over 20 years that compares the curative powers of writing across theoretical approaches and with various populations...read more

Offers families, friends, and care-givers of terminally-ill patients advice on understanding their needs

Product Description: Here I am on the couch just doing what I do. This is a year of my life, I hope you enjoy it too!

Product Description: The Business of Government is your guide to a new breed of business planning that meshes private sector strategies with a methodology designed exclusively for the publice sector. No other strategic planning guide offers this hands-on, public sector focus...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Based on a series of letters written by the author to her recently widowed brother-in-law, a compassionate guide helps readers to work through their own sadness and anger over the loss of a loved one. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: View the inner workings of healthy stepfamilies through the stories of twenty families as they discuss how their households operate. This enlightening book takes a deeper look at what adults and children in stepfamilies say about such issues as discipline, money, family roles and relationships with ex-spouses, and the development of new traditions and rituals...read more