Practitioners Books

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.

Mostly a compilation of the writer's research papers, written for an investment bank. Well, that's ok, but most of them are not edited for the book, just inserted into the book as they are. This brings a lot of repetitions and some references to papers, that you don't have access to. At least those papers could have been inserted as well. But we have to give the full credit to the writer even as this book as it is, it is a book of comprehensive research and full of insight regarding the psychology of the investing public. It also gives the reader a glimpse of all previous investment research. One of the good solid investment books.

James Montier's book is in fact a collection of articles and therefore has some redundancies by repeating the same things again and again. But...he really takes away many illusions about analysts, company meetings, portfolio management and every one's capabilities in beating the market. In short, he says that predicting the future is not possible and that we are very bad in forecasting, even more when we are "professionals", because of how our brain works. He shows how to at least try to avoid common biases and focusing on the facts (on the past).
It is easy to read and very entertaining, nevertheless with a factual approach. But be warned: as a PM you will feel the urge to stop taking calls from sales people ;-)

This is THE Investment book of the century, after Graham & Dodd's Security Analysis.
Clear, complete and rigorous, this is the definitve guide for wise and profitable investments.

This book is a collection of short notes about psychology, investment strategy and finance. Some chapters are original, but most of them were written as Equity Strategy weeklies for clients of James Montier's then employer (Dresdner Kleinwort Benson). I had already read a few of them, including the famous one about happiness and money, which everyone in the market has read, and which I preciously retain for consultation on the gloomy days when my portfolio loses more than 1%. The notes are unedited and presented thematically, not chronologically, which is sometimes confusing. There is some repetition between chapters, and several chapters assume prior knowledge not exposed in the book, which makes the discourse not very user friendly at times. You need to have some experience of investment to benefit fully from it.

Overall the book is well written: clear, clever, entertaining and unpretentious, as is appropriate from a broker writing to clients - unlike, for instance, the unsufferably arrogant tone of Nassim Taleb, who writes on similar subjects and who, incidentally, is favorably mentioned in this book. Both Montier and Taleb define themselves as skeptical empiricists (or was that empirical skeptics ?) It reads rather quickly despite the number of pages: each chapter is preceded by a caption and a summary, which means that everything is repeated three times, and charts and graphs take up a lot of space. The book covers a lot of ground in psychology, investment process, investment strategy and ethics, including commentary on the latest research in those fields and extensive quotations from the 30s, notably from "the Masters" Keynes and Ben Graham. However, it is not really "a practitioner's guide to applying behavioural finance" since Montier's (sound) investment advice is not really based on psychology. The last parts, on ethics and happiness, are particularly original in an investment context. A higly recommended alternative to Taleb's forgettable Black Swan.

Sent this book back as soon as i got it! It is to long, not very informative and there are so many better books of behavioral finance an economics.

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.

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.

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'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.

I found the other review talking about editorial needs did not refer to the newest edition. This book offers important and practical information for the Reiki practitioner.

Jarrell clearly knows his subject.This book has almost everything (except sacred symbols)one would need. It makes an excellent reference. I, myself, having met and learned my Reiki from David Jarrell cannot speak more highly of anyone than I would of him. He embodies his work and is a patient teacher. His book conveys his confidence in what he understands Reiki to be. A "must-have" for all those who aspire to understand Reiki and incorporate it into their lives.

I think it's funny that the review from the former editor, which complains about errors, happens to misspell the author's name.

Jerrell's book contains interesting and original information, but, as a former editor, I find too many errors reduce confidence in the content. Index points to the wrong pages, illustrations are mislabeled or missing, and there are some content errors. I hope Jerrell produces a new, revised and corrected edition.

I would recommend many texts written on hearing aids for consumers and health care personnel far more than this one. While certainly a practical manual for dispensers, this is not a book meant for audiology students or medical professionals (try Harvey Dillon's Hearing Aids or the Valente series instead). A well-written introduction to the topic, but not grounded fully in medical and scientific research to be a primary text or reference for audiologists.

"This is an easy, informative read. I recommend it to my senior patients who are concerned that trying to overcome a hearing loss will put them at risk of a bad purchase decision. Now they know what to expect from a hearing professional when they decide to purchase a hearing aid."

Collaboratively written by auditory prosthetics specialists and practitioners Paul Popp and Gregg Hacket, The Hearing Healthcare Practitioner's Handbook: A Guide To The Successful Treatment Of Hearing Loss With Auditory Prosthetics is a thorough, comprehensive presentation on virtually all forms of hearing loss and their treatment, from auditory rehabilitation to assistive listening devices and the laws that govern them. A wealth of solid, no-nonsense information marks this first-class reference, and strongly highly recommended for the hearing health care practitioner as well as the non-specialist general reader who has experienced hearing problems and wants to learn more about what causes them and what can be done.

same problem as lady below me, i bought it mainly for the cd description, so i am a little upset

The text has a very good diagnostic test (250 questions given in 2 parts)and a 250 question 'Mastery' test (same format), but the CD-ROM doesn't quite work right (the answer choices don't show until you pick one of the 'blank' spots or request the solution). I've emailed Barron's but haven't gotten it fixed yet. It is relatively inexpensive and I'm sure it will help on my boards.

nclex-pn review saunders 5th edition is an excellent book.do the practice test threw out the whole book you be sucessful.

The book arrived in excelent condition, the overseas delevery tim e fo Brazil was 1 month, as the book just arrived today I did not have time to study it. Douglas Gilson - Brazilian Professor of Simulation Models for Decisions ( Decision Sciences).

The last time I checked, Amazon and its online partner Borders sell more than 53,000 different books on the general subject of strategy. Presumably this number will continue to increase as organizations become more actively involved with formulating and then executing an effective strategy.

What we have here is one of the volumes which comprise a series produced by faculty members at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and on faculties elsewhere. In this instance, co-authored by Kellogg's Daniel Dranove and Sonia Marciano, Institute Fellow and Senior Lecturer at The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Harvard Business School.

I feel obligated to suggest at the outset that none of the volumes in this series is an "easy read." On the contrary, each requires but will generously reward a careful consideration of its contents which are carefully organized within nine chapters which range from "Getting Ready to Do Strategy" (with Samsung providing the illustrative example) to "Two Examples of Strategy in Action: Southwest Airlines and the Chicago Hospital Market." Case studies in and of themselves can be very informative. In this volume, the use of these three and others is especially effective as a means by which to illustrate both common business situations as well as the key points made in the article in which each case study is included.

Those who read this book are provided with an abundance of concepts, tools, and frameworks from which they can select those which are most appropriate and then, key point, make whatever modifications as may be necessary to accommodate the specific needs, interests, resources, and objectives of a given organization.

For whom will this volume be most valuable? There are several constituencies which include undergraduate and graduate students if business and their instructors as well as those who have recently earned a business degree and are now embarked on their career. Moreover, I think this book will be of substantial benefit to more experienced executives (regardless of the size or nature of their organization) who require -- and can handle -- a rigorous, at times daunting examination of how to formulate and then implement an effective strategy, and, how to obtain and then sustain support of it throughout the given enterprise. There are several reasons why such initiatives seldom succeed, among them being the inherent difficulty of charting an appropriate course and then remaining on it. Even the best of maps and Horatio Nelson at the helm cannot save a sinking ship.

Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out Henry Mintzberg and co-authors' Strategy Safari, Lawrence Hrebiniak's Making Strategy Work, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble's 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators, and Alfred Marcus' Big Winners and Big Losers as well as The Strategy-Focused Organization.

This concise guide to strategy offers an excellent basic introduction to business strategy. David Dranove and Sonia Marciano not only outline their own benefits-minus-cost ("B - C") approach to strategy; they also usefully summarize the essentials of other widely accepted approaches, most notably that of Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter. They write lucidly, avoid academic jargon and stay focused on the essentials without burdening the reader with unnecessary detail. They illustrate their discussion with examples drawn from actual business successes and failures and two case studies, one from the airline industry and the other from the health-care industry. We recommend this book to beginning managers looking for a strategy primer. Experienced strategists can turn to it for a refresher course in fundamental business truths.