In recent years, the field of ‘trauma work’ has grown exponentially and the increased interest in these matters offers many possibilities. This wide-ranging, thoughtful and practice-based book provides clear explanations about how to use narrative ideas to respond to adults, couples and/or children who have endured traumatic experience. Key themes include:
* ways of ensuring that children (and adults) are not re-traumatised during counselling;
* ‘double listening’ – to listen not only to the story of trauma but also to the story of how the person has responded to the experiences they have endured;
* new approaches to ‘trauma de-briefing’;
* ways to unearth and acknowledge the values, skills and knowledge of those who have experienced multiple traumas;
* creative methods for responding to workers’ experience; and
* ideas for taking care not to replicate forms of psychological colonization when understandings about trauma work are ‘exported’ across cultures.
Stories of inspiring work from Australia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Israel and South Africa are also included. We hope these stories will spark conversations in your own context and lead to continuing creativity in your work. If you are responding to people who have experienced trauma, or if you have endured traumatic experience yourself, this book may prove to be a loyal, trustworthy and indispensable companion. The papers included here have been previously published in the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
Written by Tal Ben-Shahar the teacher of Harvard University's most popular course, Happier offers you a course on the often-elusive subject of happiness to help you live the life you love- and love the life you live. The nature of happiness is explored and is then studied specifically its application in the workplace, Education and Relationships. Finally the author offers what he describes as Meditatios on Happiness. More info
In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. Through a series of special techniques, in groups or working alone, Edward de Bono shows us how to look at problems from a variety of angles and in so doing offer up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. After reading this book you... More info
In contrast to the traditional and unidirectional views of parenting, this text conveys a dynamic view of parenting whereby children affect parents just as much as parents affect children. At the same time, the book is parent-centred, with an emphasis on such questions as why parents behave the way they do, rather than taking a child-centred approach (e.g., how parents provide a context for development). In doing so, the text reflects a multi-level ecological approach to childrearing. Rather than viewing parenting as monolithic and static (such as embodied in... More info
