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  • Taking Charge of Adult ADHD

    Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships

    If you're among the millions of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you need the latest facts about the disorder and its treatment. You need practical strategies to help develop your strengths and achieve your goals, whether on the job, in family relationships, or in personal pursuits. From renowned ADHD researcher/clinician Russell A. Barkley, this is the book for you. Dr ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Person-Centered Practices

    From Individual Growth to Collective Change

    Uniquely interdisciplinary, this book explores contemporary applications of person-centered principles not only in counseling and psychotherapy, but also in education, health care, coaching, management, policing, and beyond. The text highlights the ongoing impact of Carl Rogers's foundational work and enumerates the essential characteristics of the person-centered approach. Leading scholars and ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Magic Words

    by Jonah Berger ...
    A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'MUST-READ'New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge research reveals how six types of words can increase your impact in every area of life: from persuading others and building stronger relationships, to boosting creativity and motivating teams.Almost everything we do involves words. Words are how we persuade, communicate, and connect. They’re how leaders ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Treating Trauma in Adolescents

    Development, Attachment, and the Therapeutic Relationship

    This book presents an innovative and empathic approach to working with traumatized teens. It offers strategies for getting through to high-risk adolescents and for building a strong attachment relationship that can help get development back on track. Martha B. Straus draws on extensive clinical experience as well as cutting-edge research on attachment, developmental trauma, and interpersonal ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Smart but Scattered

    The Revolutionary Executive Skills Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential

    All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration--but some do it much more often than others. If you have a “smart but scattered” child, take heart. This encouraging guide is grounded in research on the crucial brain-based skills that 4- to 13-year-olds need to get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses and emotions. The expert authors guide ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Drugs, Crime and Public Health

    The Political Economy of Drug Policy

    by Alex Stevens ...
    Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it discusses theoretical perspectives and provides new empirical evidence which challenges prevalent ways of thinking about illicit drugs. It argues ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Exposure Therapy for Treating Anxiety in Children and Adolescents

    A Comprehensive Guide

    Written by a team of clinicians specializing in the treatment of children and adolescents, this professional guide offers a comprehensive, practical resource for implementing exposure therapy when treating children and adolescents with anxiety. Each chapter is devoted to tailoring exposure work to a specific anxiety-related condition, such as separation anxiety, phobias, panic, social anxiety, and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Abolition and Social Work

    Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care

    A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.Within social work—a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state—abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Child Abuse and Culture

    Working with Diverse Families

    This expertly written book provides an accessible framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases. Numerous workable strategies and concrete examples are presented to help readers address cultural concerns at each stage of the assessment and intervention process. Professionals and students learn new ways of thinking about their own cultural ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Devil in the Grove

    Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

    by Gilbert King ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 101 Careers in Social Work, Third Edition

    This engaging guide addresses the extraordinary breadth of the social work profession and the diverse career paths available. Updated and expanded, the third edition includes 15 vivid new profiles of social workers who describe the rewards and challenges of their distinct roles. It presents “Social Justice Spotlights” highlighting important social and political issues relevant to different ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Motivational Interviewing across Cultures

    Optimizing Practice

    Series series Applications of Motivational Interviewing Series
    This pragmatic guide describes tested ways to adapt motivational interviewing (MI) to optimize outcomes when practitioner and client come from different cultural backgrounds; in particular, when clients are members of marginalized groups. Using rich examples and sample dialogues, Christina S. Lee shows how affirming a client's cultural identity is part and parcel of MI's humanistic, person ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Thirteenth Step

    Addiction in the Age of Brain Science

    by Markus Heilig ...
    The past thirty years have witnessed a revolution in the science of addiction, yet we still rely on outdated methods of treatment. Expensive new programs for managing addiction are also flourishing, but since they are not based in science, they offer little benefit to people who cannot afford to lose money or faith in their recovery.Clarifying the cutting-edge science of addiction for both ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children

    A Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society

    by Sarah Goode ...
    Paedophiles exist and we must develop ways of living with this fact whilst ensuring that children are kept safe. This ground-breaking book demystifies the field of adult sexual attraction to children, countering the emotionality surrounding the topic of paedophilia in the popular media by careful presentation of research data and interview material. Addressing how we can work together to reduce ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Helping Foster Children In School

    A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers

    by John DeGarmo ...
    Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior and their academic performance, with many failing to complete their education. They will have often ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Korean Welfare State

    Social Investment in an Aging Society

    Edited by Kyungbae Chung, Neil Gilbert ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange
    The birth and remarkable expansion of Korean social welfare policy over the last several decades has taken place amidst the socio-economic burdens of a rapidly aging society. This book surveys these developments through the analytic lens of the Social Investment State, under which contemporary policies have altered the essential character of the 20th century welfare states, which had provided a ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Ride of My Life

    From Street Gangs to Motorcycle Clubs to Social Worker

    The Ride of My Life is a coming-of-age book, both for Justin DeLoretto and for America.Justin joined a 1%-er motorcycle club in pursuit of age-old values of brotherhood, honor and respect. He never lost those values, but he watched them come under fire in America as clearly as in club life, where gaining personal power become the highest objective, rather than honoring the code that once bound his ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Group Leadership Skills

    Interpersonal Process in Group Counseling and Therapy

    Group Leadership Skills provides a road map and a practical toolkit for users to lead all types of groups effectively. Drawing on extensive teaching and clinical experience, authors Mei-whei Chen and Christopher Rybak give readers numerous skills, techniques, insights, and case illustrations demonstrating how to tap into the heart of group therapy: the interpersonal processes. The text covers ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • People Under Three

    Play, work and learning in a childcare setting

    Services for young children have gone through a period of rapid transformation in recent years, which have been paralleled by great advances in our knowledge of early child development. However, care and education in the first three years of life continues to be a neglected area.Thoroughly updated to take account of key policy and practice changes in childcare provision, this landmark text ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Art of Thinking Clearly

    by Rolf Dobelli ...
    "A serious examination of the faulty reasoning that leads to repeated mistakes by individuals, businesses, and nations…In this fascinating book, Dobelli does not offer a recipe for happiness but a well-considered treatise on avoiding ‘self-induced unhappiness.’" — Booklist (starred review)The Art of Thinking Clearly by world-class thinker and entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli is an eye-opening look at ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Can't Even

    How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

    A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN: Apartment Therapy • Book Riot • Business Insider • BuzzFeed • Daily Nebraskan • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Fortune •<... ... Read more

    Was $9.49 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Stories We've Heard, Stories We've Told

    Life-Changing Narratives in Therapy and Everyday Life

    This is a book that integrates what is known from a wide variety of disciplines about the nature of storytelling and how it influences and transforms people's lives. Drawing on material from the humanities, sociology, anthropology, neurophysiology, media and communication studies, narrative inquiry, indigenous healing traditions, as well as education, counseling, and therapy, the book explores the ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Burdened Children

    Theory, Research, and Treatment of Parentification

    Edited by Nancy D. Chase ...
    Editor Nancy Chase defines parentified children as parents to their parents—those are the children who are compelled to fulfill the role of parent at the expense of their own developmentally appropriate needs and pursuits. With uncanny sensibilities, these children are attuned to their parents′ moods, wishes, vulnerabilities, and nuances. This volume is a comprehensive study of parentification in ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Food for Thought

    Understanding Older Food Insecurity

    While food insecurity among households with children often makes the headlines, a quieter issue that receives much less attention is the food insecurity faced by older adults. In 2023, over nine percent of Americans age sixty and older were food insecure. Without policy intervention, that number is only expected to grow as the U.S. population continues to age. In Food for Thought social policy ... Read more

    $28.79 USD