Career & Lifestyle Development
Finding Your Counseling Career
Stories, Procedures, and Resources for Career Seekers
- By Brooke B. Collison.
Published June 2010
For anyone considering a career in one of the many counseling professions but undecided on which one to pursue, this book will be an excellent resource. It provides insight and information into the different career opportunities available and suggestions and activities to assess one’s fit in one of…
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25 Essential Skills and Strategies for the Professional Behavior Analyst
Expert Tips for Maximizing Consulting Effectiveness
- By Jon Bailey, and Mary Burch.
Published October 2009
25 Essential Skills & Strategies for the Professional Behavior Analyst is a much needed guidebook for behavior analysts who want to become successful at consulting. Jon Bailey and Mary Burch present five basic skills and strategy areas that professional behavior analysts need to acquire.…
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The Psychology of Lifestyle
Promoting Healthy Behaviour
- By Kathryn Thirlaway, and Dominic Upton.
Published November 2008
Improving lifestyles is thought to be one of the most effective means of reducing mortality and morbidity in the developed world. However, despite decades of health promotion, there has been no significant difference to lifestyles and instead there are rising levels of inactivity and obesity.
The…
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Lifestyle Changes
A Clinician's Guide to Common Events, Challenges, and Options
- By Vera Sonja Maass.
Published May 2008
Change is inevitable, and each person handles each event differently, some with more difficulty than others. In Lifestyle Changes, psychologist Vera Maass draws on 25 years of practice experience - and a lifetime filled with changes, growth, and challenges - to present a clinician's guide…
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On Being a Mentor
A Guide for Higher Education Faculty
- By W. Brad Johnson.
Published August 2006
On Being a Mentor is the definitive guide for faculty in higher education who wish to mentor both students and junior faculty. It features strategies, guidelines, best practices, and recommendations for professors who wish to excel in this area. Written in a pithy style, this no-nonsense guide…
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Adlerian Lifestyle Counseling
Practice and Research
- By Warren R. Rule, and Malachy Bishop.
Published November 2005
A rare balance of both practical application and empirical research investigation, Adlerian Lifestyle Counseling provides mental health practitioners with an invaluable resource on the theories of counseling pioneer Alfred Adler. Warren R. Rule and Malachy Bishop, both reputed authorities on…
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Executive Coaching
The Essential Guide for Mental Health Professionals
- By Len Sperry.
Published September 2004
For many mental health professionals, executive and personal coaching represent attractive alternatives to managed care practice. This book provides mental health professionals with a map of the territory of the corporate world and describes in detail the major theoretical coaching models and…
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The Counselling Approach to Careers Guidance
- By Lynda Ali, and Barbara Graham.
Published June 1996
Through detailed case material the authors show how to use counselling strategies with clients seeking careers guidance to enable them to change unhelpful patterns of thought and to move towards achievable goals. This book: * offers a series of tasks for structuring interviews and assesses…
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The Making of a Counsellor
- Edited by Ms Ellen Noonan, Ellen Noonan, Dr Laurence Spurling and Laurence Spurling.
Published July 1992
In The Making of a Counsellor case studies illustrate work done with `impossible' clients; other essays about orphans and debtors, accountancy trainees and expatriate employees explore new ways of thinking about these groups of people. More traditional, perhaps, are essays about work with…
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