Product Description: Mental health professionals spend their days helping others, but who is there to help them when stress and burnout threaten their own well-being? Filled with self-assessments, journaling exercises, and activities designed to facilitate renewal, growth, and change, this timely book helps clinicians help themselves with coverage of career threatening issues, such as fear of failure, loss of confidence, and the financial stress and loss of autonomy that many clinician's experience as a result of managed care and its constraints...read more

Product Description: Stress Management and Prevention, Second Edition offers a fun and exciting way to learn about stress, its causes, and ways to deal with and prevent it. Not only will you enjoy reading it, but you’ll also find yourself motivated to continue incorporating what you learn into your life long after your class is over...read more

Product Description: Undergraduate and graduate students in fields related to counseling will find this a useful introduction to the many theories that inform their field. Kottler (counseling, California State, Fullerton) writes in a clear, cogent style that students will find remains accessible even as it conveys diff...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A concise, hands-on, and experiential text that helps readers understand and apply theory in counseling and psychotherapyThrough a unique approach that makes understanding theories in counseling and psychotherapy fun, stimulating, and personally meaningful, this fully updated Second Edition helps students comprehend the various and complex theories, apply the material to their own lives (through the use of the reflective exercises in every chapter) and internalize the content of the course...read more

Product Description: An updated revision of Jeffrey Kottler's classic book reveals the new realities and inner experiences of therapeutic practice todayFor more than 25 years On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals to explore the most private and sacred aspects of their work helping others...read more

Product Description: INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELING, Seventh Edition provides students with a comprehensive overview of the counseling profession while encouraging them to examine the day-to-day realities of being a counselor and their motivation for choosing the profession...read more

Product Description: Many therapists have likely worked with a client who has caused the therapist to confront his most cherished beliefs, or has changed the therapist in ways that forever altered the way he performs therapy, looks at the world, and sees himself...read more

Product Description: No word or action speaks louder than a single tear. Tears of grief, sadness, despondency, hopelessness, relief, exhilaration, pride and ecstacy reflect an amazing range of emotional responses. Why are tears such a mysterious form of communication? Best-selling author and psychologist Jeffrey A...read more

Product Description: “The writing is both highly personable and also very specific about techniques and attitudes students may take on as they experiment with membership leadership. I think my students will like it and will use it to engage even more fully with the experiential group...read more

Product Description: Discover more strategies for managing difficult students, with new information on aggressive/violent behavior, tips for establishing positive relationships with parents, and more.

Product Description: Highly practical and student centered, Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives, is an experiential text focusing on basic skills and core interventions. Although it has a consistent a big-picture perspective, this book emphasizes the role of counselors to make contact with their individual clients, to help them feel understood, and to clarify the major issues that trouble them...read more

Product Description: This third edition of the best-selling Children With Limited English offers connections to current research, new strategies for building communication skills, and instructional adaptations for ELL students.

Product Description: A Brief Primer of Helping Skills is a highly readable, accessible, and practical introduction to the skills of helping and making a difference in people’s lives. In an engaging and concise style, author Jeffrey A. Kottler gives students in various professions an overview of the theory, process, and skills of helping methods...read more

Product Description: This updated edition expertly guides teachers to be effective helpers when called upon to respond quickly and appropriately to students' interpersonal, social, and emotional needs.

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Product Description: Although the impact that clients can have on therapists is well-known, most work on the subject consists of dire warnings: mental health professionals are taught early on to be on their guard for burnout, compassion fatigue, and countertransference...read more

Designed as a resource and operating manual for students in human service professions, Nuts and Bolts of Helping provides an overview of the theory, process, and skills of counseling methods. Today's mental health and human service programs require service helpers to make a difference in a short period of time often in a few sessions or less. This brief yet comprehensive book prepares readers for this changed workplace, providing them with practical skills and techniques that they can begin to apply immediately. Written by a well-respected author and practitioner, this user-centered text teaches the basics of developing therapeutic relationships, assessing and diagnosing complaints, promoting exploration and understanding, designing and implementing action plans, and more. For anyone interested in counseling, psychology, social work, human services, and other helping professions.

Product Description: Understanding Research: Becoming A Compotent and Critical Consumer, first edition, teaches students how to read research articles and can be used as a core text in an introduction to educational research course or any course that focuses on teaching students how to read research articles...read more

Product Description: Updated Edition of Bestseller This updated best-seller explores the human resources teachers need in order to gain attention, respect, and devotion from their students. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Written for therapists, scholars, clergy, students, and those with an interest in non-traditional healing practices, this book tells the story of Bradford Keeney, the first non-African to be inducted as a shaman in the Kung Bushman and Zulu cultures.

Product Description: Updated for 2004! This collection of key books will help you deal effectively with the challenges of being a teacher. The Secondary Teacher Induction Kit contains 5 essential resources to help you excel: Best Practices for High School Classrooms What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers DoThis practical, step-by-step teaching approach provides the keys to transforming your classroom from teacher-focused to student-focused...read more