Practitioners Books

Excellent condition of book, speedy delivery, and a fantastic content within the book.

Great book which provides definitions and state-by-state breakdowns of important concepts, such as collaboration, prescriptive authority and SCAs.

I found Carolyn Buppert's second edition of Business Practice and Legal Guide to be very helpful. The additional chapters are useful for my practice and for research on a state wide level. I would recommend this book to nurse practitioners and students of the profession. It is proving to be a valuable resource for improving NP practice in Alabama. Be sure to get the second edition (2003/2004)as the first was published in 1995.

As a grad student interested in starting my own practice upon graduation, I found this book to be useless. It has been reprinted by another publishing company and its original copyright date is 1999. Between then and now - 2004 - a lot of things have changed. Therefore, I would recommend that anyone who requires current information should look elsewhere. This is a very expensive book as is not helpful at all!!!

I had the pleasure of reading this book while finishing my last year in nurse practitioner school.

Ms. Buppert is a master in defining how to negotiate business contracts.

I met the author at a nurse practioner conference in Nashville Tn and she was very down to earth and truly magnificent in her knowledge of laws affecting nurse practioners.

I highly recommend this book.

I loved this book. I've read many trying to find someone who understands and can intelligently write on this subject. This book was incredibly helpful to me. I refer back to it often. It helped me to recognize myself in the words written and to see that maybe I'm not as crazy as I sometimes feel. The description and explanation of how it feels to live in two different worlds, the trauma world and the "real" world was very affirming. I knew I felt like I was on the other side of a glass wall watching life go by and feeling like I was by myself on the other side - the trauma side - with no way of getting out. I still haven't gotten to the other side but it was so helpful to read about someone else's experience of the same thing. Thank you for this book which now goes next to Herman's "Trauma and Recovery" as the books that have helped me most as I struggle to find a way to get through each day.

As a survivor myself, I can say that this book offers a good deal of affirmation and additional insight. The combination of viewpoints -- patient and therapist -- is most helpful, and the places where the authors really allow their personalities to shine through will warm your hearts. These are two Good Women (IMO). I wished that the personal style dominated more often, but in seeking to be a reference for practitioners as well as survivors, the book often takes quite an academic tone. There's an interesting tension between academia (replete with references), and self-help (the personal focus for the survivor). On the whole, I think it works.

There is one thing missing, however, and that is serious mention of mothers as sexual abusers (my reason for 4 stars instead of 5). In the book, the worst behavior of mothers is casting the blind eye at what dad is doing to little Wanda, but sometimes dad is the one casting the blind eye while mother playing doctor (or other things). I say this from personal experience. The avoidance of the idea of mother-daughter incest is due, I suppose, to the ultimate taboo that says mothers only go from a scale of 0 (blind) to 10 (warmly nurturing, apple pie and the flag). In fact, mothers can be right down there at -10, just like dads and uncles and grandpas can. And when a mother betrays your trust, it is really crazy-making.

I could tell you stories -- and I plan to, if I can ever get an agent and publish my memoir!

Sheri Oz and Sara-Jane Ogiers have written an important book. Their main contribution to the field, in my opinion, is that they enable the reader to get a sense of the actual experience of both client and therapist. Sara-Jane Ogiers has courageously, and generously, shared her beautifully written diaries. In this way, the reader can get a direct sense of both the psychological scars that can result from child sexual abuse, and the difficult work that is needed to recover. Sheri Oz has succeeded in conveying a real sense of what this work can be like for the therapist, in addition to providing a theoretical context highighting many aspects of the consequences and treatment of sexual abuse.
Y. Tauber, Clinical Psychologist

This book is remarkable for telling it like it really is..the therapists' ability to track the theraputic process, combined with the insights and understandings from the diaries of client make this book a personal and enlighting journey into the recovery process.I strongly recommend this book for therapists and for surviviors...it gives hope and shows the way.

This book is engaging from begining to end. Through the entire book chapter by chapter the reader will recognize the wisdom and insight that only a professional or a victim can bring to the subject. If you are an interested layman, professional or a victim, you will learn from the authors' perspectives on this cruel and unfortunately common phenomena of child sexual abuse. I highly recommend this book.

I purchased this book based upon the reviews shown here, but have found the book to be full of coding errors and mistakes. It also reads like a text book written by a professor without any connection to the real world. It does have some value, but it certainly isn't worth the price. My recommendation is to look elsewhere.

Don't get me wrong. This book is an excellent one. I should know because I purchased his Java and Object Orientation: An Introduction which also is excellent. Dr. Hunt is an excellent writer and the clarity of his text is easy to absorb and gets you thinking OO. It is well worth purchasing. The one down side is that I bought it based on Amazon reviews without seeing it first. There was no mention that this new book contains many chapters from the previous book verbatim just layed out differently. If I had known that, I would have hesitated. It might have been a good idea to create a separate book. It's like getting a book full of API listings again. But like I said... If you are thinking about getting the previous book, don't. But this excellent volume instead.

This book is the book to buy if you want one book which will introduce you to Object Orientation, Java and the various aspects of the Java platform such as applets, servlets, rmi and JDBC. It also includes object oriented design based on the UML.

While I have the utmost respect for Eckel's Tkinking About Java and Meyer's O-O work, this book lays out just what you need to know. It is particularly helpful to those (like me) who have been exposed to a patchwork of methods and picked up wrong ideas. Hunt also wrote Key Java, which has been very favorably reviewed at Amazon.

I liked this book as it was clear, easy to read and didn't talk down to me. I found the explanations of object orientation and Java were well presented and well illustrated. I also liked the many "how to" style chapters which made it easy to see how to use RMI, Servlets, Sockets etc. I also really liked the Java self tester and the chapter on Java programming problems. The self test material was also provided on-line at the books web site, which also has all the source code form the book and lots of additional examples. This is a really great book with good support - the author also answered my questions by email!

This is a good introduction but not as good as the rave reviews would really have you believe. This isn't a five-star book. Some parts of the text could do with some illustrations. Much of the info in here is available in Jerry Alan Johnson's books so it would really need something new or a new approach or inspired layout to lift it into the five star all-time classic category. Still not to bad but not worth all the hoopla from her colleagues.

I am a graduate student in Traditional Chinese Medicine and have studied Medical Qigong under Dr. Suzanne Friedman for the past year. Suzanne learned her art in China and now trains Medical Qigong practitioners in one of the only Medical Qigong programs in the USA. As an instructor, Suzanne demonstrates adept expertise continually through lecture and clinic. She is both personable and professional while imparting valuable insight with illustrative stories from her personal experience and practice.

I highly recommend this book for any healer or self-healer. It is concise, organized, cohesive, practical, and informative. This book promotes holistic self-healing of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Spiritual seekers, and especially qigong practitioners, must be especially wary because books containing ancient/traditional knowledge often misguide the reader (slightly or blatently), in order to protect proprietary information. Suzanne is not such a teacher -- she cares deeply for healing and health. This little book is a good book to have and learn from.

If you want more knowledge about alternative medicine and qigong, I encourage you to visit the website for Dr. Suzanne Friedman's clinic (google search for "daoclinic").

Medical Qigong Exercise Prescriptions: This small book contains more valuable information about medical qigong than most books two to three times its size. It is concise, well-written, and accomplishes what it sets out to do, which is to introduce the reader to the theory and practice of medical qigong. Anyone who reads this book will be able to put it to immediate use and begin practicing exercises specifically designed for their particular health issues.

I am an acupuncture health care provider by trade and I often need to offer my patients Qigong exercises that they can do at home. I have several books with exercises, but you can never have too many.

It was not detailed enough or provided illustrations , both are needed to provide education for patients.

Before I accepted anything a "professional" said about children, adults or anything to do with mental health or the "helping professions," I would do a thorough background check on any and all of the writers prior to believing whatever may be written or said by a certain group of people who, after all, profit from other people's trauma and grief. Has anyone ever interviewed any of the people these authors "helped?" Buyer beware!

Having been trained differently than what this book discusses, it's a little hard to wrap one's mind around the concepts, especially since people in my profession are used to a certain way of thinking and training. However, when put into practice and when read with an open mind, the book makes absolute sense. I am in the beginning stages of MST and hope that it not only works out for the population in my area, but that I can one day be an MST expert.

Informative and educational and will certianly help me with my job.

I own this book. If you have a really troubled kid, you are a state or local leader, you are an agency person working with kids, your a poliician or someone who cares about the future. READ this book. Yes it's dry. Yes it's technical. So is reading about the new cancer medication that might save your life or the new HIV-vaccine research or or the new brain scan literature. Embedded insiide the methods of MST are strategies that really turn about the lives of kids, families and communities. What is inspiring is that the model presented REALLY works. What a concept! All across America-counselors, families, juvenile justice folks, school people are pulling their hair out on what to do about really difficult kids. Too, often the answer is: Throw 'em out, drug 'em out, and lock 'em up. Well, they get out eventially. MST can change all of that. It is cost effective. It has science. It has people who are doing it well all over the world.

Therapists working with adolescent delinquency problems have long lamented the paucity of effective treatments. Fortunately, the innovative researchers who wrote this book have developed a delinquency treatment with documented effectiveness - multisystemic treatment (MST). This manual presents the basic tenets of MST, which consist of nine principles. MST is a comprehensive treatment that targets not only the youth's behavior but also family and community factors. The treatment acknowledges that adolescents with delinquency problems are affected by factors in their environments, such as delinquent peers, parents who do not monitor their behavior, or poor educational opportunities. Thus, the treatment is usually conducted in the home and other relevant settings.

The goal of MST is to decrease rates of antisocial behavior and prevent the youth from being removed from the home; research has documented that MST meets these goals, as well as being a tremendously cost-effective treatment. I have used this treatment with a number of clients with great success (I was trained by Dr. Borduin). A prior reviewer pointed out that one should know about the authors of a psychology book before purchasing it; fortunately, the authors of this book come with excellent credentials. Drs. Henggeler, Schoenwald, Rowland, and Cunningham are on the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina, and Dr. Borduin is a Professor at the University of Missouri. In addition, their research on the treatment has been published in many peer-reviewed journals, including:

Henggeler, et al. (1999). Home-based multisystemic therapy as an alternative to the hospitalization of youths in psychiatric crisis: Clinical outcomes. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 38(11), 1331-1339.

Henggeler, et al. (1996). Multisystemic therapy: An effective violence prevention approach for serious juvenile offenders. Journal of Adolescence, 19(1), 47-61.

The manual is very well-written and easy to follow; the authors use many examples to explain the treatment implementation. Clearly this manual and MST itself have tremendous strengths. The basic tenets and principles are likely to be useful to any child/adolescent therapist, although some office-based therapists may not be able to use a pure MST model. A most highly recommended treatment guide.

Speedy delivery. I was satisfied. Book was in good condition, no marks, bended pages or anything.

The scans for this reprint were low resolution, and the pages weren't even straightened. I was pretty disappointed. I'm not going to comment on the book content at all. Just the binding and finishing.

One of the first books printed that goes into detail on the wonderful art of massage - used so extensively in the east but only brought to light again in the west in the mid to late 1800's. A valuable book for anyone in the healing arts wanting to know a little history behind a phenomena that is finally becoming an accepted and beneficial alternative form of healing.

I was interested in generally learning more about the art of massage. This is a wonderful book for the curious or the practitioner. It is a great introduction to massage, speaking of the history as well as practical application. Excellent!

After reading an excerpt from the book in last year's Biotone catalog and the two glowing reviews on this site, I was really looking forward to this book.

I feel rather ripped off, now that I have the book. I have never written a bad review before, so I must feel strongly!

The author, indeed, is an excellent PR person. She has sold the idea of her book well. Yes, the excerpts I've read were excellent, but they were the best parts of the book.
The book is disorganized and has quite a few typos. It feels like a self published book. I was offended that there are ads in the back of the book.

If you want to envision success, learn about PR and marketing, and even publishing your own book, there are many good books out there.

I thought I was purchasing a book for alternative health practitioners building their practice; this is only a very small part of what this book is about. If that is what you're looing for; don't waste your money.

Finally, a book that succinctly brings together the practical side of marketing with the necessary Spiritual side allowing the reader to see how the two work hand in hand. Andrea's book not only makes for an easy read, but she gives you tons of examples to draw upon so you can start immediately implementing the marketing of your business without spending thousands of dollars. The sound marketing advice she shares proves her business expertise while the spiritual aspect of the book is a beautiful reflection of her whole being. Andrea comes from a place of integrity and love. This book is a must for all practitioners ready to move their business to the next level monetarily and spiritually.

As I read 'Creating an Abundant Practice" by Andrea Adler I realized that I finally found the answers all in one book. As A clinical nutritionist in private practice I have for years sought a cohesive manual/text/course that tells how to create a thriving practice while at the same time honoring the concept of abundance. Andrea Adler's book does just that.
The first 4 chapters begin with a discussion that includes the notion of seeing and intending what you really want from your practice in the future. What a concept! So many of us are sprung onto the business scene and never define, state or even know out true desired intentions. The book then helps you learn how to extend this vision forward through the practicalites of creating your practice.Andrea tells how to create the best business card, resume, sound bite, brochure and advertising techniques that reflect the image you choose to put
forth. There are many examples of business cards, resumes, splash sheets and ads which are clear and helpful. This book will take you step by step through the journey of building a prosperous business. This book does not teach you how to become a business baracuda. Instead the emphasis is on the you, your integrity and the potential for abundance. Andrea's tone is playful and always positive which makes the book a pleasant read.

I've struggled for years trying to get it right, and as it has been said, 'a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing'. After spending time and money and not being able to 'make it happen', I came across a write up on Andrea's book and decided to take a chance. I received the book and began reading, I could not put it down. There is a definite connection to the writer, you KNOW she has done what she's teaching. I read the book through and was amazed at the thoroughness, simplicity of explanations, encouragement and optimism I found in the pages. On the second reading, I began the implementation. It was like Andrea was sitting on my shoulder, she knew when I wanted to jump ahead, and there it was - 'complete this before moving on'! Amazing.
This book is a refreshing read, step by step instructions, options, examples and encouragement. The concept is universal. I've been able to successfully develop not only my own business, but utilize what I've learned and experienced in helping others. I thank the Universe for Andrea Adler, her gift and her desire to share it.

I'll sell this book ,I review it and then I can make about it

I'm still making my way through this book, but what I've seen so far has offered an interesting explanation of the mood disorders. To be sure, mood disorders are not entirely determined by genes - there are environmental factors to be considered as well, as twin studies have shown. However, suggestions that there are genes which can predispose individuals to mood and thought disorders is compelling; this explanation can provide an answer for many questions that pure environmental accounts cannot. It makes for a worthwhile read.

In reply to an earlier reviewer, I would note that the past month has seen announcements concerning potential marker genes for bipolar disorder and depression-triggers, lending some credence to the premise of the book.

This is another in the long line of books and articles claiming that mental illnesses are largely genetic. This claim is made despite the fact that not a single gene has been found to be linked to a mental disorder (at least not one that wasn't refuted a few years later). I guess the idea is to put out a bunch of studies making claims and, by the time the studies are refuted, you can crank out some new ones. My favorite passage in this book goes as follows: "Recent linkage analysis studies have replicated initial reports of positive linkage to chromosome 6 markers in families with schizophrenia. Although there are several negative studies, the evidence implicating the short arm of chromosome 6 is the strongest to date for schizophrenia." "Several negative studies"? That sounds quite uncompelling to me. If you are going to assert that mental illnesses are genetic and human beings can be reduced to genetic robots...

Students, clinicians and researchers who study the genetic roots of mental disease will find this an involving overview which provides a comprehensive introduction to psychiatric genetics. From the contributions of genes and environment to mental health to genetic predispositions and transmission links, Genetics of Mental Disorders offers chapters which sound detailed and involved, but which can be absorbed by lay readers.

I very much enjoyed this approach to understanding human behavior and psychotherapy. The authors are obviously experienced clinicians who, through lifetimes of clinical work, have developed an approach that blends elements from varous schools of psychotherapy with recent discoveries in the area of brain functioning. It's done in a readable style with plenty of case studies.

A new and exciting take on current therapy! It opens a whole new avenue for therapists to examine. A must read for any counselor that wants to stay in step with today's exploration of the mind!

A well crafted book. Mapping is an important resource for building a therapeutic relationship based off working with the client in their world perspective. This book will challenge you to strengthen your theoretical concepts and will remind you to pace with the client. The book includes both complex theoretical practice and sound clinical guidelines. I strongly recommend this book for clinicians interested in becoming a more effective.

This book is not about counseling or psychotherapy. It is another new age book on NLP, a silly theory that was debunked many years ago. Remember Bandler and Grinder? NLP is based on nothing more than their strange opinions. There is no science or even rationality behind this speculation. As long as there are new agers out there looking for new ways to "put people into a trance" there will be a market for newage such as this.

This pediatric review guide was a great study tool, especially the questions at the end of each chapter. The questions were similiar to many of the questions on the board exam which I took in June 2008.

While the book had helpful information throughout the chapters, the questions were not as helpful. The questions were wordy (and the test is NOT that wordy) and I found at least one mistake in every section. The mistakes either had the wrong answer printed or it contradicted what was stated in the chapter. I did really enjoy the fact that this book provided explainations to each question which helped me work through my mistakes (and find theirs).

Overall, the book was helpful in some ways, but I ended up using another book towards the end because of frustration with the questions. The chapter information was quite helpful.

I think this is a helpful guide, although some of the rationales for the answers were not always clear and could be interpreted very differently. There were also some contradictions and typo os that I found. One specifically states on one page that keflex may not be given to any child under one month, then in an answer to a question in the same chapter state you may give keflex to a 3 week old. I would like to contact the authors or editors to alert them to at least 10 errors I found.

Definitely worth purchasing as a PNP certification review book and as a general pediatric review book. Text is divided into systems and includes an excellent outline as an overview for each chapter. In addition, this book addresses growth and development, safety, parenting, genetics, health promotion, common pediatric illness, and numerous other issues. Includes clearly written and useful tables and charts. Easy to use, organized, well-written questions. Answers to questions,with rationales, are immediately following the questions, so there is no need to search through the book to find the answer sections! Compared with other certification review books, this one is clearly superior in its organization, coverage of current issues, outlines for each chapter, visual displays, and clarity.