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Co-Creating Meaningful Structures Within Long-Term Psychotherapy Group Culture, Robin G. Gayle Oct 2014

Co-Creating Meaningful Structures Within Long-Term Psychotherapy Group Culture, Robin G. Gayle

Robin G. Gayle

Meaningful group structures are co-created within the long-term outpatient psychotherapy group through a hermeneutical interaction between structure and immediate experience of structure by individuals embedded in personal and collective contexts. Co-created meanings expand original group and self understandings and further evolve structures that are stable yet do not exist independently of the narratives and affects of the members who interact with them. Group structures do not reduce, expand, or dissolve but change in connection to the experiences and meaning attributions within the group. This intersubjective process mediates the emphasis within group theory upon leader responsibility for culture building that risks …


Toward Authenticity Or Defeat: The Jolting Effect Of Layoff, Suzanne De Janasz, Amy Kenworthy Jun 2014

Toward Authenticity Or Defeat: The Jolting Effect Of Layoff, Suzanne De Janasz, Amy Kenworthy

Amy L. Kenworthy

The last decade has brought with it unprecedented change –not all of it good. The recent economic downturn has damaged organizations, communities, industries, nations, and individuals. Given the sometimes harsh reality facing many in today’s volatile economy, we have looked at the impact that being made redundant has on individuals. Does it irrevocably damage their self-esteem? What does it mean for their future careers? And can being laid off actually improve individuals’ overall health and well-being? This last point may sound counter-intuitive, but do not underestimate the power of change. It is easy to think of losing a job as …


Staying In Control: Anger Management Skills For Parents Of Young Adolescents, Lori L. Ellison Feb 2014

Staying In Control: Anger Management Skills For Parents Of Young Adolescents, Lori L. Ellison

Lori L. Ellison

Review of the book Staying in control: Anger management skills for parents of young adolescents. By M. H. Kellner.


Couples In Treatment: Techniques And Approaches For Effective Practice, Lori L. Ellison Feb 2014

Couples In Treatment: Techniques And Approaches For Effective Practice, Lori L. Ellison

Lori L. Ellison

Review of the book Couples in treatment: Techniques and approaches for effective practice, 2nd Ed. By G. R. Weeks & S. Treat.


The Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Lori L. Ellison Feb 2014

The Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Lori L. Ellison

Lori L. Ellison

The Spiritual Well-Being Scale is a general indicator of perceived well-being which may be used for the assessment of both individual and congregational spiritual well-being. It provides an overall measure of the perception of spiritual quality of life, as well as subscale scores for Religious and Existential Well-Being. The Religious Well-Being subscale provides a self-assessment of one's relationship with God, while the Existential Well-Being Subscale gives a self-assessment of one's sense of life purpose and life satisfaction.


Book Review: Couples In Treatment: Techniques And Approaches For Effective Practice, Lori L. Ellison Feb 2014

Book Review: Couples In Treatment: Techniques And Approaches For Effective Practice, Lori L. Ellison

Lori L. Ellison

Review of the book Couples in Treatment: Techniques and Approaches for Effective Practice. Second Edition (2001). G.R. Weeks and S. Treat. Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge. 288 pp.


Breaking Through To Teens, Lori L. Ellison Feb 2014

Breaking Through To Teens, Lori L. Ellison

Lori L. Ellison

Review of the book Breaking through to teens: A new psychotherapy for the new adolescence, by Ron Taffel


Book Review: Breaking Through To Teens, Lori L. Ellison Feb 2014

Book Review: Breaking Through To Teens, Lori L. Ellison

Lori L. Ellison

Review of the book Breaking through to teens. (2005). Ron Taffel, New York: Guilford, 292 pp.


Book Review: Staying In Control: Anger Management Skills For Parents Of Young Adolescents, Lori L. Ellison Feb 2014

Book Review: Staying In Control: Anger Management Skills For Parents Of Young Adolescents, Lori L. Ellison

Lori L. Ellison

Review of the book Staying in Control: Anger Management Skills for Parents of Young Adolescents. (2003). Millicent H. Kellner. Champaign, IL.: Research Press. 75 pp.


Duty To Warn And Protect, George T. Williams, Lori L. Ellison Feb 2014

Duty To Warn And Protect, George T. Williams, Lori L. Ellison

Lori L. Ellison

Professional counselors, spurred by the courts, have a dual ethical and legal responsibility to protect others from potentially dangerous clients, to protect clients from being harmed by others, and to protect clients from themselves. The delicate balance between confidentiality and the duty to warn and protect others must be handled on a case-by-case basis. The majority of individual state laws require counselors to breach confidentiality in order to warn and protect someone who is in danger. All states and U.S. jurisdictions now have mandatory reporting statutes for suspected physical, sexual, or emotional child abuse or neglect. There are also several …


Emotional Doubt And Divine Hiddenness, A. Thornhill Dec 2013

Emotional Doubt And Divine Hiddenness, A. Thornhill

A. Chadwick Thornhill

This essay will seek to develop a possible model for addressing the existential problem of divine hiddenness and the emotional doubt that it might cause in the life of a believer. In doing so, it will identify several potential "root causes" for the experience of the existential problem of divine hiddenness and attempt to guide a hurting individual through dealing with their doubt by applying misbelief therapy.


Autism Spectrum Disorders In Children And Adolescents: Evidence-Based Assessment And Intervention In Schools., Lee Wilkinson Dec 2013

Autism Spectrum Disorders In Children And Adolescents: Evidence-Based Assessment And Intervention In Schools., Lee Wilkinson

Lee A Wilkinson, PhD

School professionals and clinicians share the challenge of identifying and providing interventions for the increasing number of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This book is an authoritative resource that presents up-to-date research and evidence-based tools for accurate assessment and intervention. It includes procedures to help identify children using the new DSM-5 symptom criteria and offers essential guidance for assessing a variety of emotional, behavioral, and academic problems. The book provides practitioners with an evidence-based assessment battery, which includes tests of cognitive, academic, neuropsychological, and adaptive functioning. The pragmatic, social-communicative functions of language are considered together with assessments to identify …