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This volume demonstrates the power of art therapy as a tool for intervening with children from violent homes. Emphasis is given to the short-term setting where time is at a premium and circumstances are unpredictable - because within this setting, mental health practitioners often experience a sense of helplessness in their work with the youngest victims of abusive families.; In this new edition, the author describes the intervention process from intake to termination, highlighting the complex issues involved at various levels of evaluation and interpretation. The text is augmented with 95 children's drawings, which serve to fill the gap between theory and reality.; Specific topics include: inherent frustrations for therapists working in battered women's shelters; what to include in art evaluation; evaluating child abuse and neglect; group art intervention in shelters; and art expression as assessment and therapy with sexually abused children.
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Breatking the Silence is only the beginning.......2006-11-10
This book offers extensive knowledge of both the children's perspectives of their home life and shelter life. Working with this population is trying at best, one never knows if the mother is going back; because of this children learn to cope in ways that are mostly nonverbal. They've learned to stay quiet for the sake of family. Cathy Malchiodi explores this silence; in ways that, only art and other expressive therapies can offer. This book offers insight for new and experienced therapist who are working with this population.
A thought-provoking and practical text that provides a framework for working with traumatized children........1997-12-18
This text offers a solid framework for working with children who have been exposed to violence and who need to ventilate their concerns in a safe and supportive environment. With clinical skill and masterful teaching, Cathy Malchiodi provides an instructive manual that offers clear and informative information on how drawings can be used to help children overcome their negative life experiences. A significant contribution to the mental health field.
outstanding resource in work with children.......1997-10-15
The author's extensive experience makes this an outstanding resource that provides the guided direction needed to give traumatized children the opportunity to find relief from the terrors of their traumas. A must for all mental health professionals who work with traumatized children. Readers in general will find the more than 90 drawings by children from violent homes both fascinating and poignant. Author presents the use of art therapy with clarity and simplicity,so that therapists can immediately learn the use of this tool in their work with children who have been abused.
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Born in France to Algerian immigrant parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and collective voice. This book is a passionate account of her struggle to found the movement called "Ni putes ni soumises" (Neither whores nor doormats) aimed at shattering the law of silence about violence against women within the Muslim community. The questions Amara raises are part of a broader agenda that seeks to integrate French Muslims into contemporary French society. These issues also pose major political problems of national identity and the defense of a secular state.
As France increasingly confronts ethnic tensions and the emergence of Muslim fundamentalism, French cities face problems of unemployment, racial discrimination, and violence. Amara's eloquent call for social and gender equality underscores a host of interconnected issues, including France's colonial past and a degradation of the suburbs that has progressively marginalized immigrant communities. Focusing on the repressive code of clothing and gender behavior imposed on young women by a minority of Islamic fundamentalist men, Amara challenges supporters of those wearing the "veil," or Islamic headscarf, in French schools, analyzes the motives behind such actions, and offers her own opinions as to its meanings. Moving, candid, and extremely timely, Breaking the Silence created a sensation when it was published in France, where it went on to win a number of awards.
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This book shows what students everywhere want to know--that any one of them can write a good essay. "The Professor's Secrets" is a revealing guide written in plain language that shows students an easy-to-follow format for writing excellent essays. It takes the "mystery" out of the process; it shows an essay in terms of an easy-to-understand answer to a question; and it addresses students' emotions around the task and takes the fear away.
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Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth
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The culture that ignores roots of hatred and tyranny embedded in its own childrearing traditions, warns Miller, renders itself ripe for payback. Her analyses of the likes of Hitler and Nicolae Ceausescu lend epic significance to her point. Her disclosure of her own abuse gives her plea for truth a potent intimacy that brings the issue home to us all. She calls on society at large to condemn poisonous methods of discipline and, with the eloquence of a survivor, points the way to a liberating awareness for victims whose past still exerts a devastating grip.
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Truth is painful and healing.......2004-07-06
Never before have I read words that were so profound. Dr. Miller is the bravest and most courageous person since Dr.Seigmond Freud. He too, had been rebuked by all his medical peers, yet he had the answer dead correct. Women who had experienced sexual hysteria as young adults had been indeed sexually violated as a children.
Dr. Alice Miller has indeed shed new light to where evil and abuse is created. We are still in the Dark Ages of how truly one is effected by pain, abandonment, neglect, threats, ritualistic beatings, isolation, spankings, intimidating looks, witnessing abuse and horror,lost, frightened, screams not answered, not comforted and so on as a newborn and throughout his formative years.
The irony is, we as a society will not and can not take responsibility of our own creation of evil and hatred due to ignorance, arrogance and denial.
DISAPPOINTING TO SAY THE LEAST!.......2001-11-03
I would have expected much greater things from Miller than what is written here. As a counsellor with over thirty years experience, and having suffered abuse as a child myself, I can only say that acceptance and forgiveness are part of the healing process. While not everyone achieves that level, those who do truly come to terms with their past, and the ability to forgive, have a greater opportunity of finding happiness, peace and contentment in the years to come. Not only does it set the spirit free, but they find they are no longer emotionally chained to the burdens of their past.
However, what really troubled me about the book is that I found the author to have a very condescending tone throughout the book and sometimes the tone almost had a bitter quality to it, which tells me that perhaps the author, herself, has not quite healed and the purpose of writing of this book may have been an attempt at self-therapy with the hope of coming to terms with her own abuse. My heart goes out to her and I hope she will, indeed, find peace, forgiveness and healing. While I was disappointed in the book, I do give the author two stars for having the courage to disclose her own abuse; it is a feat much easier said than done.
Didn't live up to my expectations.......2001-10-28
This book is very similar to Miller's other work. She is focussed on child abuse, and how our society's unwillingness to take child abuse seriously is destroying our world. Miller is a good writer; that is not the problem I had with the book.
What I didn't like about the book was that it was simplistic, and the author seemed to engage in circular arguments. If Hitler, Stalin, et al, became dictators because they were abused, shouldn't all of us who were abused be like that? She is looking for causal relationships where there are only correlations, at best.
As well, I do not agree with her that forgiveness automatically leads to denial. I think that forgiveness is a necessary part of the healing process. Regardless, she doesn't give good evidence to support her arguments.
I also found that Miller came across as arrogant. She quoted from her own books a great deal, as well as quoting from letters she has received from fans of her work. The self congratulatory tone gets old quickly. The book seems disjointed; it is more like a collection of essays than a full fledged book. There were editting problems in my copy. In chapter 9 there were passages that were ommitted and some that were repeated. It appears the typesetting was off in this chapter. This made for a frustrating reading experience, made worse by the fact that this chapter had some of the more important material.
Her best book.......2001-10-02
I recommend this book to anyone that hasn't read Alice Miller. I think this is her best, most accessible, most on target books to date. She writes from personal experience not just theory and her 'training" and it is compelling.
FORGIVENESS.......2001-02-27
I have lived through my shares of trials and truibulations and I did not find this book helpful but rather hurtful. I draw my conclusion by her example of Hilter. Hilter used a form of repetative,dogmatic approaches amongst his people. Although he is used, as an example to make her point, I felt that she was headed in the same direction. HITler repeatd a word over and over until it was in memory and it was now a part of their speech. In reading this book I felt that the first half was just a repeat of the same message over and over again. I am, no stranger to my past, but in the journey of it, I found that forgiveness is essential. "As if one could suffer more harm from any enemy than one suffers from the hatred which one feels against him; or as if one could do more harm to an enemy by any kind of persecution than one does to one's own soul by the mere act of hating"
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Recognize destructive behavior and cultivate constructive support!
The detrimental effect of abusive principal behavior not only deteriorates teacher morale and performance, but also erodes school effectiveness, student learning, and quality of life for everyone involved. Unfortunately, this type of mistreatment—with its devastating implications—has largely been ignored and treated as a taboo subject.
In this groundbreaking book, Blase and Blase begin the critical dialogue about abuse by exposing the various manifestations of mistreatment, and offering practical solutions for its prevention and correction. The invaluable information presented is based on findings from the first-of-its-kind study conducted by the authors, in which they interviewed elementary, middle/junior high, and high school teachers from rural, suburban, and urban areas across the United States and Canada.
The text masterfully provides the tools necessary to identify destructive behavior and raises awareness of this common phenomenon in order to break the cycle of abuse. It is the crucial first step toward preventing further mistreatment and fostering teacher development, student achievement, and school improvement.
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- Real-life examples and testimonials
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- Solutions for overcoming this problem, including six survival skills, "Bullyproofing," "Bullybusting," and other individual, organizational, and legal resolutions
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Silence!.......2006-07-12
First, if Blase really was up for "breaking the silence," he would've laid down these tips on wax, yo. Second, the only thing teachers ever asked of anyone at my school was to not break the silence, particularly when principals were involved. Third, it's nice to see teachers's advocates going straight to the Ministry of Cliches when defending their wards - a gold star for all involved in choosing this tome's provocative title!
Breaking the Silence: Overcoming the Problem of Principal Mi.......2002-10-22
This is a book that needs to be read by every intelligent taxpayer in the United States. Improving education is a frequent topic for both the media and our political leaders. But this book very quietly points out one of the major weaknesses in our educational system. The abuse of teachers by their adminstration and school boards.
Read this book and ask a public school teacher how much of it rings true in your schools.
Teachers are the most valuable link in the value chain. They are also at the bottom the totem pole. What way does excrement run?
Required Reading.......2002-10-09
The American Society for Ethics in Education (ASEE) STRONGLY ENDORSES "BREAKING THE SILENCE" for use in ALL teacher/administrator training programs, as a tool to assist abused teachers as a healing tool to overcome the intentional devastation inflicted upon them by evil administrators, and as required reading for schools and districts that have been found in violation of abusing teachers by agencies, such as the United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights.
ASEE had the great honor of reviewing this book in advance of its release. Without question, Breaking the Silence is destined to become THE definitive book on the shocking topic of teacher abuse by corrupt and evil (we're using that term in the most literal sense) school administrators. This horrifying look at what is so prevalent in American schools is based upon genuine research, conducted by respected scholars Drs. Joseph and Jo Blase, from the University of Georgia's, College of Education. Their research was conducted over a three year period, using well established and accepted methods. Essentially everything regarding teacher abuse is covered:
* personal (anonymous) testimonies from research subjects (i.e., abused teachers),
* personality characteristics of corrupt administrators and their innocent victims,
* lack of support from district office personnel,
* refusal of most teachers who work in foul environments to reach out to abused colleagues,
*inability for abused teachers to find legal assistance,
* failure of unions to support abused teachers,
*strategies used by corrupt administrators to enlist "support" for their sick behavior through favoritism with certain staff members, and developing "spy" networks (weak-kneed teachers and staff who "snitch" on those that refuse to compromise their ethical behavior),
* suggestions for those who are currently, or have been, in abusive situations,
* the devastating short and long term impact upon teachers' physical/physiological/psychological health, and
* the overwhelming detrimental effects on schools and society.
The list goes on, and on, and on . . . Without question, this book will not only serve to validate the experiences of abused teachers (the number one comment of those writing to ASEE comes from teachers who, until having visited our site, have felt "alone"), but it is also the first serious work on a topic that has long been regarded as "education's dirty little secret" - severe and intentional infliction of evil on highly competent educators. Still not convinced? Guess who wrote the "Forewords" to the book?
Don Saul,
American Association of School Administrator's
Superintendent of the Year (2000)
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California State University, Los Angeles
Certainly, such esteemed educators, both of whom have a vested interest in school administration (and administrators) must have significant and compelling reasons to lend their support to a study that reveals that members of their peer group are among some of the darkest and most evil members of American society. ASEE was founded by teachers to help expose this evil. We salute these educational leaders for displaying the courage to lend significant professional credence to something that both the news media and society in general have continually ignored.
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Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children with Complicated Grief, Suicide, Homocide, AIDS, Violence and Abuse (Travel Guides)
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The second edition of this bestselling book is designed for mental health professionals, educators, and the parent/caregiver, this book provides specific ideas and techniques to work with children in various areas of complicated grief. It presents words and methods to help initiate discussions of these delicate topics, as well as tools to help children understand and separate complicated grief into parts. These parts in turn can be grieved for and released one at a time.
A new chapter is included, called "Communities Grieve: Involvement with Children and Trauma." It includes information on The Taiwan Earthquake and how the community worked with children, a school bus accident in which 36 elementary school children witnessed the death of the bus driver that was driving and how the school system worked with these children and their families; a boy who was running on a cross country team and got hit by a car, which was witnessed by teammates; and how a non-profit community grief agency worked with family,school, and community. The last study is from the Oklahoma bombing and the outgrowth of a place for the traumatized children and how they still work with kids and family today. This chapter then contains new activities to work with traumatized grieving children.
The new edition also includes updated resources, books, curriculums, websites, hotlines and another new chapter on bullying and victimization issues. The chapter for educators has been expanded, including the coverage of topics such as at-risk students, gay and lesbian issues, and self-injurious behaviors.
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This book really helped me.......2004-09-21
This book was extremely helpful to me in dealing with a personal complicated grief event. I think it would be a critical resource for teachers and counselors. As our world continues to stuggle with these issues that touch all our lives in some way, it is a resource useful for us all.
A creative, unique, and wonderful book........2001-04-07
This book is very well thought out. It is a very easy and smooth read. There are appropriate pictures and child artwork to help convey messages in the book. This book would be truely helpful to anyone dealing with a suffering child. I highly recommend this book!
Outstanding!.......2001-03-24
This book is an excellent resource for parents, caregivers, and children dealing with the complex facets of grief. The author speaks from her heart, and obviously understands these issues at a personal level. Her techniques in speaking to children, and the child in each of us, through the use of photos, children's artwork, and creative writing is a wonderful way for the observer/reader to focus on what these pictures mean to the individual. This in turn can lead to an inner dialogue and a unique individual healing process.
Outstanding and Practical.......2001-03-10
Linda Goldman has again written an excellent resource on traumatic grief issues. Her in-depth understanding of traumatized children allows the reader to obtain deeper understanding and techniques for working with children. I think that any professional working with traumatic grief issues and children would highly benefit from this book.
Disappointing.......2000-09-29
While the title of this book is impressive and promisesinformation on working with grieving children, the book itself onlypresents a very superficial view of the process of working withcomplicated grief in children. The author speaks with great compassionand obviously has experience in the area of bereavement, but largetypeface and use of photographs of children predominate the text--- Iwould have preferred more information and less drama, more of theauthor's expertise and advice in lieu of photos. Yes, creativeactivities are mentioned, but no real depth or rationale is providedfor their use in grief work...
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More than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations have been less than minimal. This book is aimed to awaken Christian compassion in the coming years to this fathomless tragedy.
The worst health crisis in the world in 700 years, global HIV/AIDS epidemic is overwhelming in scale: 40 million people are infected worldwide (75% of them in Africa); 7000 people die daily; each day 1600 persons are infected. Some 26 million people have already died.
''At this unprecedented kairos moment in human history,'' says Messer, ''God is calling the church to a new mission and ministry.'' Drawing on his own involvement in global AIDS education in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, Messer uses stories, basic factual information, and theological insights to motivate lay and clerical Christians to assume leadership and form partnerships with Christians around the world in this struggle. Just as individuals must change their behavior to prevent and eliminate AIDS, so must congregations and church leaders. Compassion, not condemnation, is desperately needed, says Messer. But financial resources for education and prevention programs are also urgently required from churches. Messer shows how churches can partner with ecumenical organizations, relief agencies, volunteer mission programs, healthcare programs, and other agencies to engage global AIDS directly and effectively.
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Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian CHurches and the Global AIDS Crisis.......2007-08-16
Are Christian Churches really "Christian" when they exclude certain groups of people from worship and other aspects of "church" life because this group does not meet certain 'qualities' or 'qualifications'?
HIV-AIDS and the Gospel.......2007-01-18
"It is required of a person," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, "that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived" (p. 69). Using Holmes' metric, and the statistics that continue to emerge about the magnitude of the global AIDS crisis, one would think that most people, and especially Christians, would be involved. But such is not the case, according to Donald Messer. True, 22 million people have died of AIDS, 40 million now live with HIV (95% of whom are in the two-thirds world), and 14 million orphans have lost parents to the disease. True, the disease is still in its infancy and by some estimates will not peak until the year 2050. True, although 95% of HIV infected people live in the two-thirds world, only about 10% of the global HIV/AIDS budget is spent there (p. 118). Even so, Messer argues, most Christians have responded with apathy, indifference, denial, denunciation and discrimination. His book wants to move us forward.
In the Greek New Testament the word kairos (= "time") has a special connotation, which Robert McAfee Brown once defined as "a time of opportunity demanding a response: God offers us a new set of possibilities and we have to accept or decline" (p. xiii). The Scottish theologian George McLeod (1895-1991) may have said it best when he wrote, "I simply argue that the Cross be raised again at the center of the market place as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a Cathedral between two candles, but on a Cross between two thieves; on the town garbage heap; on a crossroads so cosmopolitan that they had to write his title in Hebrew and in Latin and in Greek; at the kind of place where cynics talk smut and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where he died and that is what he died about. And that is where churchmen should be and what churchmen should be about" (p. 20).
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Mind games.......2005-06-19
Astronomer Laura Brandon makes a promise to her father on his deathbed, to visit an elderly woman in a nursing home. She has no idea who this woman is or why her father was so insistent and so, ignoring her husbands petulant demands that she devote herself to his needs only, she visits her in the nursing home. Sarah Tolley is in the early stages of Alzheimers and, while being unable to cope with everyday things, has total recall of all the horrific events which happened to her in the Fifties. She was a pyschiatric nurse, working in a hospital where new methods of dealing with mentally ill patients were being tried, and where patients were subjected to the most horrific drugs and brain washing techniques. Laura has a five year old daughter Emma who was the result of a one night affair with a man whom she hasn't seen since then, so when a much older male friend offers to marry her, she accepts to give her child a father. Lauras husband Ray is a chronically depressed individual who suicides in view of Emma who becomes mute as a result of the shock and when a therapist suggests that Laura contacts Emmas birth father to try to help the situation, their love story begins. Lauras and Sarahs stories intertwine so much that we are watching two stories simultaneously. The love stories are well done but I must admit to finding the treatment of the mental patients distressing in the extreme and while not doubting that these practices took place, some of them even government sponsored, I found them to be unpleasant reading which left me shaken.
Captivating Duel Story line.......2005-02-07
This is my second book by this author and I do like her style. This was a little more unpredictable then the first one I read, "Her Mother's Shadow." I liked this story because you are actually reading two stories at one time. It's like reading two love stories at the same time. The plot is a little far fetched but it still really held my interest and I found it hard to put it down. I read it in one day. I recommend it to anyone who just wants a book you can get lost in.
Absolutely absorbing and diverting!.......2004-01-16
I recently had a very stressful three-day weekend during which I could barely sit still. But in an attempt to get my mind off the stress, I picked up this book. Wow, I couldn't put it down and didn't want it to end. I really loved the story, it was sad, beautiful, happy and 'all that'. I actually shed a tear at the satisfying end of the novel. Good job Chamberlain! I will be reading more of her work as soon as possible.
Thank you to the author for getting my mind off some awful stress.
A great author!!.......2003-08-15
My first book by Chamberlain and I was VERY impressed. I read this book in about five hours nonstop. I couldn't put it down!!
After her father died, Laura Brandon felt obligated to carry out his last wish...meet an old woman in a nursing home that is in the early stages of alzheimers. Laura is mystified and has no idea what to expect. What she didn't expect was her husband's violent reaction to her visiting Sarah Tolley. Going against her husbands wishes, Laura visits Sarah with no more answers to the truth than before. When she comes home, she finds her daughter screaming and her husband dead from a self inflicted gun shot wound. Before the day is over, Laura realizes that her five year old daughter, Emma, has not uttered a single word.
After eight months have passed with no progress with Emma, Laura remembers her promise to her father and again visits Sarah Tolley. She has no idea if she should believe the extrordinary tales of terror that Sarah has to tell her, but she listens anyway. She also does the one thing that she swore she would never do...she seeks out Emma's birth father with hope that Emma will learn that not all men are angry and yell at little girls.
Dylan Geer is stupified when he receives the call from Laura. Not only does he deny it, but it also spikes his anger. When Laura tricks him into looking at a picture of Emma, there is no doubt in his mind that the little girl is his. Now he'll do all he can to help Emma, and help Laura who he is developing deeper feelings for than he expected.
Breaking the Silence is a heartbreaking tale in the present and the past. The way that Laura, Dylan and Emma come together is heartwarming, while the tale of Sarah and Joe Tolley is heartbreaking. There were many times that tears came to my eyes throughout this book, especially at the end. If you like a great book, don't miss this one!
A great author!!.......2003-08-15
My first book by Chamberlain and I was VERY impressed. I read this book in about five hours nonstop. I couldn't put it down!!
After her father died, Laura Brandon felt obligated to carry out his last wish...meet an old woman in a nursing home that is in the early stages of alzheimers. Laura is mystified and has no idea what to expect. What she didn't expect was her husband's violent reaction to her visiting Sarah Tolley. Going against her husbands wishes, Laura visits Sarah with no more answers to the truth than before. When she comes home, she finds her daughter screaming and her husband dead from a self inflicted gun shot wound. Before the day is over, Laura realizes that her five year old daughter, Emma, has not uttered a single word.
After eight months have passed with no progress with Emma, Laura remembers her promise to her father and again visits Sarah Tolley. She has no idea if she should believe the extrordinary tales of terror that Sarah has to tell her, but she listens anyway. She also does the one thing that she swore she would never do...she seeks out Emma's birth father with hope that Emma will learn that not all men are angry and yell at little girls.
Dylan Geer is stupified when he receives the call from Laura. Not only does he deny it, but it also spikes his anger. When Laura tricks him into looking at a picture of Emma, there is no doubt in his mind that the little girl is his. Now he'll do all he can to help Emma, and help Laura who he is developing deeper feelings for than he expected.
Breaking the Silence is a heartbreaking tale in the present and the past. The way that Laura, Dylan and Emma come together is heartwarming, while the tale of Sarah and Joe Tolley is heartbreaking. There were many times that tears came to my eyes throughout this book, especially at the end. If you like a great book, don't miss this one!
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Therapeutic And Legal Issues For Therapists Who Have Survived A Client Suicide: Breaking The Silence
Manufacturer: Haworth Press
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Book Description
Reclaim your life and renew your confidence after a client suicide
The death of a patient is every therapist's worst nightmare. Even more frightening is the debilitating silence that surrounds a therapist after the death of a client. What do you do? How do you proceed with your personal and professional life? Until now, advice on surviving a patient's suicide has been scarce. Therapeutic and Legal Issues for Therapists Who Have Survived a Client Suicide: Breaking the Silence examines this much-overlooked topic to help you continue to live and practice confidently. The authors of this courageous book mix first-person narratives with professional strategies to help therapists deal with the emotional and legal consequences that follow the loss of a client.
Therapeutic and Legal Issues for Therapists Who Have Survived a Client Suicide provides you with:
models of coping strategies for clinicians after a client completes a suicide
an examination of factors that compound the trauma for the therapist survivor
examples for dealing with a client's family
suggestions for developing curricula for training institutions
recommendations for supervisory guidelines
explanations of—and means of mitigating—legal liability
Therapeutic and Legal Issues for Therapists Who Have Survived a Client Suicide: Breaking the Silence describes various ways of dealing with clinician and supervisory responsibilities after a client's self-inflicted death. This practical book will show you how to minimize the legal risks of working with suicidal clients and help you regain your sense of professional competence if a suicide occurs. New methods of screening and treatment assistance are offered. With about 30,000 suicides occuring the the United States annually, and many of those people in treatment at or near the time they commit suicide, thousands of clinicians face this trauma yearly. The clear, specific, therapeutic and legal guidelines you'll find in the book, as well as the philosophical discussions, make it a vital read for therapists, counselors, social workers, nurses, supervisors, and educators in mental health training institutions.
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- BE CAREFUL!!! There is some dangerous information for women provided in this book!!!
- Excellent Book
- EXCELLENT! Well written, well researched, TOP NOTCH IN EVERY WAY!
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Breaking the Silence on Women's Hair Loss
Candace Hoffmann
Manufacturer: Woodland Publishing
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BE CAREFUL!!! There is some dangerous information for women provided in this book!!!.......2007-10-03
I give this book one star for the shocking information I found in the surgical hair restoration section. Candance recommends Bosley as a resource??? That is the worst hair transplant practice to tell women to go to and more importantly she does not stress enough that most women are not candidates for hair transplant surgery, a few lines added as an after thought isn't sufficent when the majority of the chapter talks about hair restoration as a real option for women. My sister unfortunately got taken by one of these hair transplant groups that should NEVER have performed surgery on her and she is severly scarred. Women with diffuse thinning are not candidates because they don't have that DHT resistent donor hair that men have. Hello??? YOU Should have done more research and made more of an effort to point that out to women instead of pointing them along the way to BOSLEY. Why not just feed us to the wolves? What other harmful information was put in this book that women are going to read. Ladies, Make sure to do your OWN research, A lot of the information I found to just be recycled from resources I've already read. I was very diasappointed with this book!!!!
Excellent Book.......2007-07-14
This is an extensively researched, well-written, and superbly organized book on a topic about which far too little information previously existed. And though the book contains real information (the hard facts), Hoffmann's style is anything but cold and clinical. Her style is warm and "readable," and she treats her subject with empathy and gentle humor in all the right places. She doesn't promise the moon or tout nostrums. She understands the problem and carefully documents possible causes and available solutions. Most of all, she makes women with this problem feel understood at last. Two thumbs way up.
EXCELLENT! Well written, well researched, TOP NOTCH IN EVERY WAY!.......2007-05-15
Remember when menopause was something everyone knew happened but no one actually wanted to talk about it -- or admit they were going through that phase of life or even admit they had questions about it? Well, hair loss in women, as author Candace Hoffmann makes clear, is a subject still in that "taboo" zone much like menopause was twenty years ago. One difference, though, is that few women KNOW that hair loss is common; it isn't some rare thing that happens to a few women. It afflicts about half of all women in some degree -- for many females it can be an absolutely soul wrenching experience beyond mere vanity when they lose any or all of their " crowing glory".
Hoffmann has fought her own battle with female hair loss for decades and she not only brings this personal experience to her book but also her expertise as a long time, widely published health and science journalist ( I remember first seeing her by-line when she wrote for WEB MD). This is a thoroughly researched book -- scientific and thorough yet easy to read and interesting, even if you don't have a hair loss problem but are interested in hair and health in general. I'm a bit of a snob about health and science journalism (because that's my profession, too) so I don't make recommendations lightly . But I absolutely give this book my unqualified recommendation and I am convinced it can help tens of thousands of women.
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