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Since the late 1970s practical theology has, had a significant voice and influence in the academy. While, many have seen great hope and potential in this work, not everyone has agreed. Some, for instance, have examined, the conversation and found, by focusing, on the concrete and lived experiences of humanity, by-and-large, practical theology has not had the theological vision to present frameworks for understanding concrete and lived experience with...
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Search Institute Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (232 pages)
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English
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"Designed to be a one-stop resource for mentors, this guide doesn't flinch from the tough problems. Using a helpful question-and-answer format, it addresses issues that include How do I connect with my mentee? What if I don't like my mentee? and If my mentee is in serious trouble, how far do I go to help him? Organized topically by issue, the book provides mentors with advice they need both in the ever-changing and sometimes challenging mentoring...
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Pub. Date
2012
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1 online resource (271 p.)
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English
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"This book presents the "big picture" related to the practice of counseling and psychotherapy. Four counseling paradigms are defined: the organic-medical, psychological, systemic-relational, and social constructivism paradigms. Readers will be challenged to view mental health treatment from a high theoretical level, providing an advanced foundation for psychotherapy research and practice."--
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Huron Street Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (200 pages)
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English
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"The route to career success is mapped out here for those who want to forgo the time and expense of a college education and dive directly into the workplace. As college tuitions soar and the job market tightens, many young adults are questioning the value of a college degree. The pros and cons of this path are discussed, as well as the reasons why many students fare poorly in college. In addition, topics such as the cost and value of technical and...
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Pub. Date
2012
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1 online resource (69 p.)
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English
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"In this concise book, you will learn how do do Motivational Interviewing (MI), the evidence-based counseling approach that has been proven to be effective for a range of psychological, behavioral, and health related issues. Helping people change their behavior in healthy directions can sometimes feel frustrating and stressful. Despite the best advice and information, about half of the people who could benefit by changing their behavior in healthier...
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Bnei Baruch, Laitman Kabbalah
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource (168 pages)
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English
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"Children of Tomorrow: Guidelines for Raising Happy Children in the 21st Century is a new beginning for you and your children. The big revelation is that raising kids is all about games and play, yet relating to them as small grownups, making all major decisions together. Open any page to find inspiring, thought-provoking quotes about every aspect of children's lives. This book offers a fresh perspective on raising happy children to become successful,...
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Pub. Date
2012
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1 online resource (59 p.)
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English
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"Foreword by Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People My community, like so many others, struggled with the number of calls for youth disturbances and crime. The reactive approach to solving this problem was not working. Kids saw us as the "hunters." With that mindset, the good kids shied away from us, and the marginal kids turned it into a game of "cat and mouse" to see how much they could get away with before getting...
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R&L Education
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (154 pages)
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English
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"While the American workplace affords many and varied career options, the process of determining what to do with one's life remains a significant challenge. The Bound-for-Career Guidebook views career identification, selection, entry, and progression as part of a larger developmental process-the career development process. This book addresses the incredible importance that change plays in education and career. What we need to know and the skills required...
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English
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"Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person. This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to five conversations. This form of "empowering guidance" is a dimension of pastoral conversation rather than formal counseling. Critically integrating desert...
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Pub. Date
2011
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1 online resource (xii, 319 pages : illustrations)
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English
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Build a million-dollar business in one of today's hottest professions! Bestselling business author Alan Weiss provides the inside advice you need to build or expand your coaching business--from developing a common language and shared protocol to providing effective and supportive feedback at every level. Million Dollar Coaching is packed with tips, checklists, resources, and scores of helpful examples, making this the most valuable one-stop tool...
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Fortress Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (256 pages)
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English
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"In Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families, psychiatrists and pastoral theologians come together in an interdisciplinary, collaborative effort to ensure accuracy of information concerning the medical dimensions of mental illness, interpret these illnesses from a faith perspective, and make suggestions relative to effective ministry. Readers will learn how science and a faith tradition can not only co-exist but work in tandem...
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R&L Education
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (110 pages)
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English
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"This text promotes the transformation of our the school counseling profession in what promises to be an unprecedented era by addressing the established and developing best practices significant to maturing the profession. In this way The New Era of School Counseling: A Practical Guide, is much like its predecessor The New School Counselor: Strategies for Universal Academic Achievement. Also like its predecessor, this text uses a how-to-do-it approach...
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2013
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1 online resource (296 p.)
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English
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"The college years are very stressful for many people, so it comes as little surprise that college-aged youth often suffer from diagnosable psychiatric disorders. Even among college students whose distress is not clinically diagnosable, the college years are fraught with developmental challenges that can trigger bouts of psychological suffering. Is it any wonder, then, that suicide is the second leading cause of death in this age group? In Mindfulness...
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R&L Education
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (170 pages)
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English
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"Creating conditions for better teaching and learning to occur has become an important responsibility for today's school leaders. Principals must attend to building and sustaining healthy school cultures.The authors take the reader on a journey through several different situations that occur at the elementary, middle and high school levels and focus on a different and challenging aspect of educational leadership every time. The reader can read and...
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Money was invented about 5000 years ago and has proved essential to civilization. It has also become so charged with emotions that it dominates events throughout life and looms large in all interpersonal transactions. This book looks at all aspects of the money/mind relationship from the viewpoint of a psychiatrist who has dealt with the problems that money produces and the problems that it supposedly resolves. There are chapters dealing with important...
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Those who are afflicted as well as those, who are adversely, affected by mental illness often live lives of "quiet desperation" without recourse to appropriate assistance. Most caregivers confronted with these illnesses in the work of ministry have had no training or accurate information about mental illnesses, so frequently they do nothing, resulting in further harm and damage. Others may operate out of a theological system that does not adequately...
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In seven chapters, the author discusses the central movements of Naomi's experiences in returning to her homeland with the assistance of Ruth, God's gift to Naomi. Naomi's return home is necessary because of three significant family losses-the deaths of her husband, Elimelech, and both her children, Chilion and Mahlon. More than just her physical return, insight is, given into Naomi's psychological transition from states of pleasantness to that of...
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What you can expect
And He Restoreth My Soul is An Anthology providing:
Methodologies from experts in their field
Case histories, narrating the impact and effect of sexual abuse on victims of all ages
Survivors describe in depth their experiences and why they are sharing their story
Insight about sexual abuse, including the extraordinary such as: the hearing impaired, the elderly community, and a child group home
Steps to protecting the congregation,...
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