In this engaging guide, Matthew Selekman presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children & their families overcome a wide range of emotional & behavioural challenges. Vivid case material illustrates how to engage clients rapidly & implement interventions that elicit their strengths. Integrating concepts & tools from a variety of therapeutic traditions, Selekman describes creative applications of interviewing, family art & play, postmodern & narrative techniques, and positive psychology. He highlights ways to promote spontaneity, fun, & new possibilities-especially with clients who feel stuck in longstanding difficulties & entrenched patterns of interaction. The book updates & refines the approach originally presented in Selekman's acclaimed Solution-Focused Therapy with Children
The Alphabet of the Human Heart is Mathew Johnstone's fourth book. He is the author of one of our favourites I Had a Black Dog and Living with a Black Dog which have been international best sellers. Illustrations and words combine to take you on a journey through the ups and downs of life and articulates our hopes, fears, strengths and weaknesses that we all share from time to time. The author shares his insights on how to manage some of fears and find ways to achieve... More info
The World Cafe is a simple yet powerful conversational process for thinking together, evoking collective intelligence, and creating actionable results. World Café principles and processes have been used successfully over the past decade with organizations and communities on six continents. The book takes you through the seven core design principles and then provides practical tips for hosing "conversations that matter" in groups of any size. The World Cafe in actions has been demonstrated by describing examples from organisations who have used process, including Hewlett -Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University... More info
Anyone who works with children who have been sexually assaulted will find this vividly illustrated story an excellent resource for creating positive conversations with kids, building their insight and understanding about their rights, easing any guilt, creating personal confidence and offering hope. Published by Innovative Resources 2004. 36pp. Softcover. More info
