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Psychotherapy in Applied ContextsSevere Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents conveys the experiences of severely emotionally disturbed children in detailed accounts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and explores the life and death struggles against severe self-harm to body and mind by the most distressed sections of adolescents....

Defining Moments in Counselor and Therapist DevelopmentAll professional counselors and therapists can identify a number of turning points in their careers - moments, interactions, or processes - that led to key realizations regarding their practice with clients, work with students, or self-understanding.  This book is a collection of such...

Music in Nursing HomesAn enlightening book, You Bring Out the Music in Me, explores how music motivates, enriches, touches, relaxes, and energizes the elderly in nursing homes. Practicing music therapists explain how music speaks to all of us, regardless of our language, culture, or abilities and how it can be used with groups and individuals in...

Health service policy and health policy have changed considerably over the past fifteen years and there is a pressing need for an up-to-date sociological analysis of health policy. Not only have policies themselves changed but new policy themes - such as evidence-based policy and practice, an increasing focus on a primary care led health service, a...

Promoting Acceptance and Reducing ConflictThroughout human history, the relationships of individuals and groups have been disrupted by what the authors sum up as "e;demonization,"e; the attribution of basic destructive qualities to the other or to forces within the self. Demonization results in constant suspicion and blame, a systematic...

The Science of Gymnastics is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the fundamental physiological, biomechanical and psychological principles underpinning this most demanding of sports.Drawing on cutting edge scientific research, and including contributions from leading international sport scientists and experienced coaches, the book...