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Working with Schizophrenia
A Needs Based Approach
Gwen Howe
Based on a tried and tested needs-based approach it begins by looking at the present 'state of play' in society's approach to schizophrenia, and the experiences of both sufferers and their families. It goes on to identify the needs raised by such experiences and considers ways of meeting them, before detailing methods of intervention. Learn More1987, 200pp -
Coding the Therapeutic Process
Emblems of Encounter: A Manual for Counsellors and Therapists
Murray Cox
This volume – first published in 1978 – is a manual of visual display systems which offers various forms of notation for recording a patient's kinship network, his living conditions and life events alongside his clinical history. It also indicates ways of recording inner and outer world phenomena. Learn More1989, 96pp -
Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor
The Actors are Come Hither - The Performance of Tragedy in a Secure Psychiatric Hospital
Edited by Murray Cox
Between 1989 and 1991 several of Shakespeare's tragedies were performed in the central hall of Broadmoor Hospital. This book sets these important events on record. It offers insights into the impact of such drama, in such a setting, upon actors and audience. Learn More1992, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 5.98in / 229mm x 152mm, 280pp, $25.00ISBN: 978-1-85302-121-3 -
Six Theories of Child Development
Revised Formulations and Current Issues
Edited by Ross Vasta
The respective authors are some of the leading developmental scholars of this time, and are also major proponents of the theoretical traditions they address. An excellent text for senior undergraduates and graduate students and a worthwhile addition to the library shelf of any serious student of developmental psychology. Learn More1992, 304pp -
Child Development from Birth to Eight
A practical focus
Jennie Lindon
A classic text recommended on many childcare courses, this book for anyone who works with young children and needs to know more about how they learn and develop Learn More1993, Paperback / softback, 9.61in x 7.48in / 244mm x 190mm, 80pp, $29.95ISBN: 97819047872801993, Ebook, PDF, 80pp, $29.95ISBN: 9781907969621 -
How and Why Children Fail
Edited by Ved Varma
The authors explore the reasons for a child's failure from a range of disciplines. Topics covered include social influences as well as emotional, physical and psychological factors. This book, by an international team of experts in the field, is a rare search for answers to the question why and how children fail. Learn More1993, 224pp -
How and Why Children Hate
A Study of Conscious and Unconscious Sources
Edited by Ved Varma
We all hate from time to time, but children hate more than adults. The contributors to this book discuss how to recognise and handle hatred in a practical way. Their different perspectives enable the reader to obtain a comprehensive picture of available models and management approaches to children's primitive hatred. Learn More1993, 224pp -
Group Work with Children and Adolescents
A Handbook
Edited by Dr Kedar Nath Dwivedi
A comprehensive resource manual, this book looks at the theory and development of group work as a form of family therapy, the settings in which group work may be used, and effective therapeutic methods. The book also discusses how to deal with themes that may orient groups and the administrative and management concerns involved in groups work. Learn More1993, 368pp -
Alcohol Problems
Talking with Drinkers
Gillie Ruscombe-King and Sheila Hurst
The helplessness often felt by families involved with drinkers is frequently shared by professionals and by the drinkers themselves. This book uses these parallel experiences to build a resource that provides an understanding of why people may drink to excess, and combines this with illustrations of ways of dealing with problems linked to drinking. Learn More1993, 176pp -
Shakespeare as Prompter
The Amending Imagination and the Therapeutic Process
Murray Cox and Alice Theilgaard
The authors show how Shakespeare can prompt therapeutic engagement with "inaccessible" patients who might otherwise be out of therapeutic reach. At the same time, they demonstrate that the clinical, off-stage world of therapy can also prompt the work of the actor in his on-stage search for representational precision. Learn More1994, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 5.98in / 229mm x 152mm, 480pp, $47.95ISBN: 978-1-85302-159-6
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