The book provides counsellors with essential information on how to understand and best work within a school context. It covers a wide range of problems encountered and includes contributions by experienced school counsellors. more »

This book connects two worlds that rarely meet - that of neuropsychology and cognitive science with Freudian theory and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative. Peterson shows that there is an empirical connection between what technologically sophisticated neuroscience tells us about the brain ... more »

Product Info This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the practice and principles of child and adolescent psychotherapy around the world. more »

Adopting an experiential, or participative learning approach, the authors explore how to train people in areas which are particularly emotionally - and therefore intellectually - challenging, including death, dying and sexuality. more »

This volume provides an overview of significant contemporary psychological research into shyness, bringing together perspectives from developmental psychology, social psychology and clinical psychol... more » more »

This practical guide to communicating with children stresses the importance of learning to listen. Contributors give accounts of their work in education, social services, health, law and voluntary o... more » more »

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... on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances. Contents include: * intra-uterine life and the experience of birth * babyhood: becoming a person in the family * the toddler and the wider world * the latency period. Using ... more »

Re-examining Psychology takes a critical look at some of the principles underlying the discipline and offers an insight into alternative psychological perspectives deriving from sub-Saharan Africa. more » more »

What can we learn about madness from plays? Plays when they portray madness put it into the context of the events and circumstances that have afflicted the person, and provide models of madness which interest all those who meet madness in their professional work or their daily lives. Derek Russell Davis ... more »