Professional Training Books

Any owning or racing a horse will quickly come to consider PROFESSIONAL CARE OF THE RACEHORSE a 'Bible' of information - or will have to learn the same information the harder way, through the school of hard knocks. From grooming and basic training to understanding injuries and basic care of the feet, here under one cover is everything you need to know to keep your racehorse in top performing condition. Black and white photos and diagrams throughout add illustration wherever needed. A 'must' reference for racehorse owners.

Virginia Smith Harvey and Joan A. Struzziero's PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUPERVISION OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS FROM INTERN TO EXPERT appears in its second updated edition to substantially revise a classic, addressing administrative and clinical supervision skills needed for school psychologists to thrive. From expanding professional roles in offering prevention services to tools for assessing supervisor effectiveness and sample dilemmas to study, this extensive survey is based on the latest research and is a 'must' for any college-level educator's collection.

This is such a handy reference at such a good price. I recommend it to all the vocational students taking my course. I teach a state certified course for Administrative Assistants and Secretaries. The business English section is an outstanding review and includes a concise guide to usage of frequently "used and confused" English terms. If you aren't required to make plans for meetings often, the section of Meetings and Conferences will be a life saver.

It is a very helpfull book for beginners, intermediate and advanced tennis coaches

The book offered an extensive resource list, which will become helpful in finding information to develop a literature review.
For those students who are discourage about devoting a substantial amount of time to researching a topic, but resulting in nothing that you are compassionate about, don't worry. This book helps you to organize your ideas into steps that are beneficial in resulting in a successful research topic.
This book is a great foundation to developing and completing a successful thesis or dissertation.

This is the first book on negotation strategies that I have ever found that really addresses negotiation from the sales side. There is a full section in the book that completely defines and analyzes every possible buyer negotiation tactic, and then lays out the best seller counter-tactic to deal with it. Brilliant! I wish I had this years ago.

This is the best book EVER written to assist with understanding the nuts and bolts of school leadership. I have recommended this book to all my colleagues and it is now used as a guide to 85 school principles that I know.

Sexual Feelings in Psychotherapy has three parts and a total of 10 chapters. Part One is entitled Fundamentals of Exploration and Discovery. It consists of seven chapters.
Chapter One explains the purpose and plan of the book. One of the issues discussed in this chapter is discomfort with sexual feelings. The authors assert that most therapists experience sexual attraction or arousal to clients, and that this experience makes therapists uncomfortable.
The second chapter explains that "sexual feelings in psychotherapy" is a topic that is largely unaddressed in graduate training programs. In order for training programs to be effective, it is necessary to facilitate an environment that is conducive to learning.
Conditions for learning conditions are elucidated in chapter three. They consist of safety, understanding the task, respect, openness, encouragement, appropriate privacy, acceptance, sensitivity, frankness, and support.
A Self-Assessment consisting of over 75 questions is provided in chapter four. Two examples of questions on the assessment are: 1) "Under what circumstances would you hold a client's hand" (p.50)? And 2) "Under what conditions would you completely disrobe during a session" (p.55)?
In successive chapters, the authors provide insight into common reactions to sexual feelings relative to psychotherapy. Frequent clues to unacknowledged sexual feelings are discussed.
Part Two of the book provides 22 specific passages and 10 scenarios for sexual exploration. The passages were compiled from nearly a century of psychotherapy literature. One passage is entitled, "The Therapist's Attraction Causing Misdiagnosis and Mistreatment: A Passage From David Reiser and Hanna Levenson."
Part Three is entitled "Deciding What To Do." Consultation, among other solutions is suggested in order to confront an impasse.
Reviewer's Critique
The information in the text is presented in a logically progressive manner. It is difficult to decide what information is the least or most practical. Every chapter is beneficial to the reader. Areas of particular interest are the Self-Assessment, Disability Factors in chapter five under the heading of Awareness of Context, and Frequent Clues to Unacknowledged Sexual Feelings in chapter seven.
The authors endeavored to create a literary environment in which therapists and therapists-in-training can explore their sexual feelings. To that extent, they were successful. However, no concrete solutions for decreasing the incidences of sexual exploitation of clients by their therapists on a large scale are offered. The resulting implication is that dealing with sexual feelings in psychotherapy (or not dealing with them) is still essentially a private matter.

Leona English is the leading academic researcher in the professional practice of applying spirituality to adult education, training, and human resource development. Her co-authors, Tara Fenwick and Jim Parsons, contribute to this seminal professional work that provides "how-to's" for facilitating the experience of spirituality in education and at work.

In one section of the book, they cite sound research that identifies nine numinous dimensions in life that are indicative of operationalized spirituality. For example, three of the nine dimensions that suggest lived spirituality are when an individual is aware of a "transcendent dimension, ... some higher power," when an individual is aware of or is seeking "meaning and purpose in life," and when an individual is aware of or is seeking his or her "mission in life" and feels responsible to fulfill that mission. It is my opinion that these three dimensions are fundamental hallmarks of the journey and experience of spirituality. Human beings are by nature spiritual beings. English, Fenwick, and Parsons present spirituality in a manner with which most self-aware humans can identify. The authors have demonstrated that dialogue about spirituality can be appropriate and is likely as necessary as any other subject that arises in education or in the workplace.

Caution should be exercised by those individuals whose conceptualization of spirituality tends to be narrow and rigid. Individuals who tend to judge themselves, others, and the world according to a limited philosophy of the human experience may not be ready for the reality of spirituality presented in this work.

Tremendous book; incredibly helpful
A must-have for any provider of sports medicine
A great study guide
This is one of the 3 best books that I own.