Healing with Stories brings together a stellar collection of some of the world's most prominent practitioners, taking you inside their thinking and processes for working with metaphors. They represent the panorama of metaphor practice in psychotherapy today with considered, humorous, and compassionate case examples that step you through the intricacies for replicating their work in your own. This is a book for family therapists who work with children, adults, and families, as well as for hypnotherapists, cognitive behavioural therapists, narrative therapists, dynamic therapists, solution-focused therapists, and child therapists. In fact, all therapists who wish to communicate their therapeutic messages with the greatest effectiveness will find this book to be an essential and useful clinical tool.
The Aware Baby marks a major breakthrough in our understanding of babies needs from conception to 2½ years of age. Now translated into Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish, it has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and contributed to a revolution in parenting around the world. This revised edition includes new research and insights from Aletha Solter's extensive experience as a consultant and international workshop leader. The author discusses the attachment needs of infants, which are best met by close physical contact, breast-feeding, and prompt responsiveness to crying.... More info
Nobody is really prepared to be a leader. Many leaders never planned on becoming one; it was simply the next step in their careers. That's why there are so many books on leadership. Too many leadership books have too narrow a view, telling you to focus on your particular strengths. *Your strengths only tell part of the story.* What you really need is the big picture: a broad perspective on all of the behaviours needed to be an effective leader. Based on the DiSC personality assessment The 8 Dimensions of... More info
The narrative therapy approach involves the whole family and especially children by respecting their unique language, problem-solving resources and views of the world. Therapists, parents, teachers or anyone helping children and families will find that this book turns their thinking around, in the most unexpected and illuminating ways. More info
