Practitioners Books

This product is in amazing shape, thank you for being so eager to send it out so quick. It came just in time and I love the book. Thank you Jamie

This book is an excellent resource for anyone who is in a graduate program or who is a clinical nurse specialist. This book should be in your permanet book case. It is well written and easy to understand. The author did an excellent job in portraying the roles of the critical care clinical nurse specialist

This is a well-researched, carefully thought out book that explores the important field of cognitive therapy case conceptualization through the lens of several major diagnoses clinicians will encounter.
The author has put much time and effort into helping clinicians really understand at a deep and broad level the phenomenology of their clients' experiences when they present for therapy. He uses a very helpful case conceptualization diagram--his own--to assist each reader in highlighting the key features of a case and uses this to generate hypotheses as to where to go clinically with such a client.
I especially appreciated some parts of the book that dealt with mindfulness [now a hot area in cognitive therapy, less so when this book came out] and its possible use in CT. Also good were descriptions of and rationales for various techniques to use that emanate from a solid understanding of each client.
The book gives nice examples throughout, so it is not dry as some therapy books can be. It is well-organized, well-researched, and written in an accessible style.
I feel that any clinician reading this will better understand the nature of the disorders mentioned (e.g., depression, panic, ocd, gad, and several others). S/he will also draw useful ideas as to how to intervene most effectively, even with challenging cases and their respective problems.
The author wisely provides dialogue drawn from therapy sessions so that the reader is able to be like a fly on the wall as the ideas in the book are implemented in real therapy sessions by a talented clinician.
I have used this book as a text in a graduate course and the students found it very helpful in deepening their grasp of CT. I believe seasoned professionals would still learn much from the material here and the clear ways that these helpful ideas are presented.
I recommend it very highly.

They really should sell this book in airports (as well as lots of other places). Holiday travellers can easily pick up a guidebook for their destination before they step on the plane, and one which includes warnings of all the sorts of mishaps to watch out for and how to avoid them. Nation-builders, as this book makes clear, cannot. And the result is all too obvious: just look at all the mistakes in places like Iraq where crime has got out of control in a major way. There are far too many people involved in this line of work who don't have a clue or make it up as they go along, which is forgivable if they make an effort to learn, and this book means there's no longer an excuse to try. What was so refreshing about this book was that it was honest about the problems legal-folk face, with examples of what works and what doesn't, and why. Fascinating elements included how normal legal practice in the US and UK, eg that suspects couldn't be questioned without counsel present, have to be adapted in more challenging environments; and the review of several examples of best practice in places like Sierra Leone, East Timor, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Especially good was the section by Michael Hartmann, the easy-access design, and the anecdotes from Afghanistan. This should be standard issue with radios and flak jackets for all working in warzones!

Though it took a few weeks to get the book, the book itself is in excellent condition. Great in shape!

The "Core Curriculum..." should be at the top of the list for all Advanced Practice Pediatric Primary Care Nurses. This learner selected the book as an excellent resource for preparing for upcoming PNP certification exams!!

All too often, books are written from one perspective, and it is rare that you find a book that contains three different viewpoints on the same topics--from prisoners and ex-prisoners, people who work in the correctional field, and academic experts. The editors have also chosen works by and about both male and female prisoners.

This book is meant to be used mainly for higher education purposes, but it is one of the most interesting books you'll ever read for class. In addition, it's a great book for the general public who want a better understanding of challenges facing our jails and prisons today.

This book is an excellent , current resource for counseling multicultural groups/individuals, in the truest sense of "multicultural". Every chapter is written by a member of the group being studied, so the perspective of the insider is real, not bookish or purely academic/research based. It is also a very quick and easy read, and as interesting as it is informative.

I just finished reading this book. I could not have read this book at more important time. I have been serving as a senior pastor for two years now. It's as if John Chandler has been reading my mail. From the opening thoughts on listening, being patient, and having courage this book had me. These days of restructuring as a pastor have been weary, and at times painful. This book encouraged me. It opened up several more questions I have yet to ask, and the interviews affirmed I am on the right road. Thank you for putting a book like this together. It has breathed some inspiration and courage into my heart again. Round 10 (ding! ding!). Thanks for being an amazing encourager and a leader!

In this powerful new book [circa 1996],Creating Democratic Classrooms, the first volume in the Practitioner Inquiry Series, seven teachers analyze their own efforts to integrate social, moral, and political questions and issues into the public school classroom. The contributors - both new and veteran teachers - weigh the possibilities for making classrooms more responsive to the need for social justice, critical consciousness, and democratic values. By developing their own narratives on experience, these teachers reveal the successes and failures, rewards and frustrations, that are involves in pursuing democratic forms of classroom life. Providing a critical and incisive complement to the teachers' chapters id Editor Landon Beyer's analysis of the teacher education programs from these programs are invariably located. A concluding chapter synthesizes the work of these committed teachers and looks toward future possibilities.

Contributors: Erin Roche, Ushma Shah, Joni Garlock, Noelle Hawk Jaddaoui, Krista Sorensen, Katie Poduska, and Mary Cunat.

Creating Democratic Classrooms as a thoughtful, accessible, and compelling resource for graduate courses and professors involved with teacher education, foundations and the politics of education.
--- from book's back cover