Practitioners Books

Thanks a lot, we are very happy to have this book in our library!

this book is easy to read and very worth having in your library

as a practitioner - i found many useful and relevant insights in each chapter - i cannot recommend it highly enough. Thom Spiers should be proud of himself as an editor - this is well done

Conduct-disordered behavior is the most common reason for child referrals to school psychological services and other agencies. The authors provide an extensive description of and explain the development and maintenance of conduct and oppositional defiant disorders. They then present an empirically based treatment program to assist family, school, and community personnel in treating children demonstrating these disorders. -- from book's back cover

Treating Stress and Anxiety: A Practitioner's Guide to Evidence-Based Approaches is a guide for clinicians and therapists to evidence-based cognitive behavioral techniques that can help reduce patients' stress and anxiety, as well as enhance their overall quality of life. Chapters discuss basic emotional health maintenance (including watching one's diet, engaging in regular exercise, getting sufficient sleep, and properly managing time), relaxation and breathing exercises, confronting fears, tips for managing persistent harmful thoughts, preventing relapses, and much more. "When an individual is particularly vulnerable or experiencing severe ongoing stress, they may often be in crisis. When in a crisis state, it is very difficult to maintain work towards longer term goals and to try new and challenging tasks. It can be helpful to develop a list of simple and effective strategies to alleviate distress in times of crisis, and therefore minimise the impact of ongoing crises... It is wise to consider attempting several distress management strategies when confronted with a crisis. It may also be helpful to involve supportive people and relevant agencies when planning for crisis management." Included with the text is a CD-ROM of useful client handouts and worksheets. A superb, easy-to-follow, highly practical manual for treatment professionals.

Gail Steketee is one of the formost researchers in the field of OCD and its treatment. Her book serves as an excellent handbook for any clinician who treats this disorder. Most clinicians seem to think OCD is rare but it is prehaps the 4 th most common psychiatric disorder, more common then schizophrenia or panic disorder. The treatment of OCD with cognitive behavioral methods has been found to be highly effective ( superior to medication alone) and to have lasting results. More traditional talk therapy has not been found useful in treatment of OCD. For any clinician who treats OCD the critical steps in applying cognitive behavioral therapy are well laid out. Even the clinician with little or no backround in cognitive behavioral methods should be able to follow this book.

The authors present a guide to the treatment of the afteraffects of rape, focusing on intervention approaches to major problems experienced by victims, such as depression and lack of self-esteem or social adjustment. -- from book's back cover

Never have I seen a more comprehensive text that covers the basics of what I face on the job on a day to day basis. I highly recommend this book for any turfgrass professional who is looking for a practical and scientific guide to some of the biggest challenges they face. This is a must read!!

What a superb book! If you are building or going to build a Reiki practice, this book is FULL of insights on how to go about it, how to network, how to reach people, how you can pay the bills at the end of the day.

All the information you need to become a teacher of Reiki is in this book.

Learn how to run clsses with the practical skills you need to teach or embody its spiritual path. Whether a seasoned practioner or just starting out, the Ultimate Guide will show you how to truly walk the Reiki path with humility,healing & wisdom.

All the advice outlined here can be utilized by any healthcare practitioner with exceptional results. These tried & tested tools for marketing ones' business not only work well, they guarantee increases in clientelle & margins.

Steve Holmstrom's book is an excellent guide for the veterinarian practicing dentistry. I cannot recommend a better practical procedures book. It is small animals only.

Coming from near zero it would be hard for me to compare books for quality. However this one hit the spot for me. I needed a good overview. You can not be a live and not know something about Wicca and I have many books that refer to Wicca. However that is like reading biographies vs. autobiographies. Not saying any one is more real than the other.

Scott Cunningham's book was not only well written but easy to follow. There were more than enough references, tables, and appendices. You were moved from what Wicca was not, including magic, to that which it is including the fundamentals of the religion. His center point being that you will never know it by just reading.

He delivers what the book promises. This book is designed for the Solitary Practitioner. And any perceived shortcomings or comparisons to more in-depth or complete books must be weighed against the purpose of this book. He also does a good job of compare and contrast to other religions with great insight.

In his discussion he skirts around, subjects as magnetism, altered-states, hypnoses, and the like. Now these subjects I can relate to and use as a reference point to begin to understand Wicca.

I am not going to rush out and buy a non-Shaker shaped broom. I already have some left over advent candles, and a place in the library for this Book.