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Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Originally published in 1957 this book was a new departure in autobiographies. It is both enlightening and entertaining. There is a happy blending of narrative reflection and occasional extracts from case histories which gives it a delightfully human character. But it is more than this. It is a story of the profound inward adventure of an exceptionally inquiring mind. From childhood to professional maturity it proceeds through economic difficulties love and tribulation to science and general medical practice. It tells how Dr Berg became so convinced of the psychogenesis of human suffering that with great courage he gave up his practice and personal security to search for the causes in mental conflict. The story proceeds through specialisation in psychiatry to analytical training and analytic practice building up in the later chapters to a description of the troubled mind in all its manifestations and of the medical analyst’s daily work. There is a new explanation of the psychology of love with the inclusion of personal as well as professional experiences. Here as throughout conclusions have an astonishing difference from orthodox or familiar speculation and this is because they are based strictly on knowledge professional and personal. The style is natural lively and lucid. Here is an opportunity to combine learning with entertainment for Dr Berg has an extraordinary flair for presenting difficult things attractively without sacrifice of scientific essentials. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1957. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

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Messerschmidt's Character Heads Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History

Messerschmidt's Character Heads Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History

This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his Character Heads. These are busts of human heads highly unconventional for their time representing strange often inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled to explain these works of art. Some have said that Messerschmidt was insane while others suggested that he tried to illustrate some sort of intellectual system. Michael Yonan argues that these sculptures are simultaneously explorations of art’s power and also critiques of the aesthetic limits that would be placed on that power. | Messerschmidt's Character Heads Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History

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Working Schemes? Active Labour Market Policy in Ireland

Working Schemes? Active Labour Market Policy in Ireland

Published in 1997 this book is an examination of the Irish experience with active labour market policy. This text looks at training in comparison with employment programmes and examines this in the context of strong and weak market orientation. The study is based on a survey which is used to analyze the effect of programme participation on short and long-term employment prospects and on income. The results show that market-orientation is a significant factor in employment scheme success a factor that has not been taken into account in recent policy changes. The book also points out the applications of this sort of study in other European countries. | Working Schemes? Active Labour Market Policy in Ireland

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Byron's Don Juan

Byron's Don Juan

First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in this subtle and elegant discussion of Byron’s masterwork. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron’s hands yet Byron’s treatment of the story is often almost unrecognisably far from its forebears. Beatty indicates how deeply Byron has assimilated his predecessors in order to produce his own work. The sustained argument of this book raises questions of interest not only to students of Byron but of comedy in general as well as of the place of religious motifs in apparently secularised modes. | Byron's Don Juan

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The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers including Shane the Lone Ethnographer—a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West—and her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read sort code write and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography grounded theory discourse and narrative analysis. Along the trail she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly comic book style Shane’s Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read. | The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

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The Development of Mathematical Logic

The Development of Mathematical Logic

Originally published in 1962. A clear and simple account of the growth and structure of Mathematical Logic no earlier knowledge of logic being required. After outlining the four lines of thought that have been its roots - the logic of Aristotle the idea of all the parts of mathematics as systems to be designed on the same sort of plan as that used by Euclid and his Elements and the discoveries in algebra and geometry in 1800-1860 - the book goes on to give some of the main ideas and theories of the chief writers on Mathematical Logic: De Morgan Boole Jevons Pierce Frege Peano Whitehead Russell Post Hilbert and Goebel. Written to assist readers who require a general picture of current logic it will also be a guide for those who will later be going more deeply into the expert details of this field. | The Development of Mathematical Logic

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Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi Reclaiming Sacred Grounds

Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi Reclaiming Sacred Grounds

Indigenous religion(s) are afterlives of a particular sort shaped by globalising discourses on what counts as an indigenous religion on the one hand and the continued presence of local traditions on the other. Focusing on the Norwegian side of Sápmi since the 1970s this book explores the reclaiming of ancestral pasts and notions of a specifically Sámi religion. It connects religion identity and nation-building and takes seriously the indigenous turn as well as geographical and generational distinctions. Focal themes include protective activism and case studies from the art and culture domain both of which are considered vital to the making of indigenous afterlives in indigenous formats. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of Global Indigenous studies Sámi cultural studies and politics Ethnicity and emergence of new identities Anthropology Studies in religion and folklore studies. | Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi Reclaiming Sacred Grounds

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Ukraine in Crisis

Ukraine in Crisis

In this comprehensive volume Canadian Ukrainian and American scholars examine various aspects of the Ukrainian crisis and consider its impact on Europe. The chapters include topics such as: Russian narratives about Ukraine; the conflicting assumptions underlying their divergent nation-building agendas; new findings about the far right's involvement in the Maidan protests; the Ukrainian crisis from the perspective of Western grand strategy; the security implications of Russia's geopolitical agenda in Ukraine; the factors that contributed to the rise of separatism in Donbass; and the economic costs for Ukraine of choosing economic integration with Europe rather than Eurasia. This book demonstrates that the current crisis in Ukraine is much more complex than comes across in the media. It also explores the fact that since Russia and Ukraine will always be neighbours some sort of modus vivendi between them will have to be found. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society. | Ukraine in Crisis

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Informal Alliance The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War 1952-1968

Informal Alliance The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War 1952-1968

Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. Making extensive use of the recently opened Bilderberg Group archives as well as a wide range of private and official collections it shows the significance of informal diplomacy in a fast-changing world of Cold War decolonization and globalization. By analyzing the global mindset of the postwar transatlantic elite and by focusing on private transnational modes of communication and coordination this study provides important new insights into the history of transatlantic relations anti-Americanism Western anti-communism and European integration during the 1950s and 1960s. Informal Alliance also debunks the persistent myth that the Bilderberg Group was created by the CIA and repudiates widespread conspiracy theories alleging that Bilderberg was some sort of secret world government. | Informal Alliance The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War 1952-1968

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Belarus - Alternative Visions Nation Memory and Cosmopolitanism

Belarus - Alternative Visions Nation Memory and Cosmopolitanism

Belarus is often regarded as Europe’s last dictatorship a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However a key factor in determining Belarus’s development including its likely future development is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debates and competing narratives surrounding Belarus’s identity revealing a far more diverse picture than the widely accepted monolithic post-Soviet nation. It examines in a range of media including historiography films and literature how visions of Belarus as a nation have been constructed from the nineteenth century to the present day. It outlines a complex picture of contested myths – the peasant nation of the nineteenth century the devoted Soviet republic of the late twentieth century and the revisionist Belarusian nationalism of the present. The author shows that Belarus is characterized by immense cultural linguistic and ethnic polyphony both in its lived history and in its cultural imaginary. The book analyses important examples of writing in and about Belarus in Belarusian Polish and Russian revealing how different modes of rooted cosmopolitanism have been articulated. | Belarus - Alternative Visions Nation Memory and Cosmopolitanism

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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant Millamant and Mirabell and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby His Girl Friday and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars. | Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

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Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism

Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism

Nazi Occultism provides a serious scholarly study of a topic that is often marred by sensationalism and misinformation. The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier (1960) gave rise to the idea that a secret society with wide powers the Thule society was the hidden and ignored centre of Nazism. The influence of this very real small group is however only a fantasy a myth. The author a historian specializing in neo-Nazism looks back on this speculative construction its origins its ideological tinkering and the practices which have succeeded in forming a sort of radical and sulphurous counterculture which has created a fascination with esotericism and Nazism and the SS. To better understand it he also paints a portrait of some of the authors who contributed to this extremist subculture such as the Italian esotericist Julius Evola the Argentine anthropologist Jacques-Marie de Mahieu Chilean neo-Nazi Miguel Serrano and the writer Jean-Paul Bourre. This book will appeal to scholars researchers and activists as well as general readers with an interest in the history of Nazism and the occult. | Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism

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Philosophy of Religion: The Basics

Philosophy of Religion: The Basics

This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophy of religion—a vibrant and growing field of academic philosophy. Readers will be guided through an exploration of classic and contemporary arguments for and against theism. In addition to this crucial but standard fare this book looks to probe deeper into the nature and value (or dis-value) of religion itself. Philosophy of religion is becoming more diverse both in terms of the religious traditions it examines and the issues that it addresses. This book reflects that fact engaging with religious traditions from Quakerism to Jainism. Questions and topics covered include: What is religion? What philosophical problems arise for the practices of prayer worship and meditation? How might multiple religions co-exist in peace? If there’s a God would it be the sort of thing that language could describe? When and how might it be rational to wager that a particular religion is true? With a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading Philosophy of Religion: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a lively and accessible foray into the study of religion or philosophy.

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Too Many Lawyers? The future of the legal profession

Too Many Lawyers? The future of the legal profession

The topic of too many lawyers is both timely and timeless. The future make up and performance of the legal profession is in contest challenged by new entrants technology and the demand for transparency; at the same time lawyers long have participated in contests over professional boundaries. In this book we take up several fundamental questions about the question of whether there are too many lawyers. What do we mean by too many? Is there a surplus of lawyers? What sort of lawyers are and will be needed? How best can we discern this? These questions and more are addressed here in scholarly articles presented at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain) by some of the best researchers in the field. The collection witha chapter by Prof. Richard L. Abel addresses methodological normative and policy questions regarding the number of lawyers in particular countries and worldwide while connecting this phenomenon to political social economic historical cultural and comparative contexts. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession. | Too Many Lawyers? The future of the legal profession

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India and the Responsibility to Protect

India and the Responsibility to Protect

Bloomfield charts India’s profoundly ambiguous engagement with the thorny problem of protecting vulnerable persons from atrocities without fatally undermining the sovereign state system a matter which is now substantially shaped by debates about the responsibility to protect (R2P) norm. Books about India’s evolving role in world affairs and about R2P have proliferated recently but this is the first to draw these two debates together. It examines India’s historical responses to humanitarian crises starting with the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War concentrating on the years 2011 and 2012 when India sat on the UN Security Council. Three serious humanitarian crises broke during its tenure - in C´te d'Ivoire Libya and Syria - which collectively sparked a ferocious debate within India. The book examines what became largely a battle over ’what sort of actor’ modern India is or should be to determine how this contest shaped both India’s responses to these humanitarian tragedies and also the wider debates about rising India’s international identity. The book’s findings also have important (and largely negative) implications for the broader effort to make R2P a recognised and actionable international norm. | India and the Responsibility to Protect

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Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine For The Primary Care Practitioner

Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine For The Primary Care Practitioner

Primary care practitioners are often the first medical professionals to see patients after an injury making it critical for them to stay up to date on the latest developments in sports medicine. Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine for the Primary Care Practitioner contains the most current information on major topics in sports science and clinical medicine. It is a valuable resource for primary care physicians and allied health professionals who practice teach and hold specialty certifications in sports medicine and related fields. The book discusses key concepts related to the diagnosis treatment and prevention of sports injuries. This edition adds new sections on pro-inflammatory treatments field-side acupuncture and brief musculoskeletal ultrasound as well as a new chapter on wellness and video illustrations of important musculoskeletal maneuvers at www. crcpress. com/9781482220117. The book follows the Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT) which addresses the quality quantity and consistency of evidence. It recommends levels of patient-oriented evidence to assist physicians in their diagnoses. Also included is a link to videos that demonstrate important musculoskeletal maneuvers used in sports medicine. As exercise and sports move beyond the realm of leisurely activity to a necessary component of good health this book has become an important resource for all those involved in sports medicine.

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Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People Relationship-Focused Practice from the Frontline

Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People Relationship-Focused Practice from the Frontline

In this unique book international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education social work and healthcare to engage in conversations on a range of pertinent topics and issues affecting children and young people today. Divided into three main parts which introduce attachment adversity and trauma each discussion places an emphasis on emotion and the understanding that we have as humans for compassion empathy and connection. By encouraging collaboration between sectors and exploring a range of intersecting themes the conversations take the reader on a winding journey to broaden their depth of thinking reflect on their practice and to consider the central message: that we can bring about social change one interaction at a time. This book is a call to action and an opportunity to look around and decide what kind of service we want to provide what kind of community we want to live in and what sort of legacy we want to leave. At a time of ever-present social and political challenges this book will stimulate conversations on current practice and professional development for the future and is a must-read for everyone working with children and young people. | Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People Relationship-Focused Practice from the Frontline

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The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice Faith in justice?

The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice Faith in justice?

Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe addressing global inequalities challenging neoliberal market driven globalization and demanding to remedy its negative implications. This book examines the roles religious communities and organizations in particular play in the struggles for global justice roles too often ignored by scholars of the Global Justice Movement (GJM). It has two central themes: - the role religion and religious actors play in global justice struggles and - the idea that justice is a contested concept among both religious and secular actors which requires some sort of ‘faith’ from its proponents. These chapters transcend simplistic either/or binaries highlighting the difficulties of clearly distinguishing between religious and secular progressive and conservative or rational and irrational motives and norms in struggles for justice. Challenging the secularization paradigm that marginalizes the role religious actors play in public life these chapters show how these actors engage with a broad range of justice issues how deeply contested justice is and how its meaning may vary and change among religious actors as a result of the social or political context within which an injustice is encountered. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Globalizations. | The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice Faith in justice?

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The Grammar of Chinese Characters Productive Knowledge of Formal Patterns in an Orthographic System

The Grammar of Chinese Characters Productive Knowledge of Formal Patterns in an Orthographic System

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents often interpretable in meaning or pronunciation that are themselves built out of an even smaller set of strokes. This book goes far beyond these basic facts to show that Chinese characters truly have a productive and psychologically real lexical grammar of the same sort seen in spoken and signed languages with non-trivial analogs of morphology (the combination of potentially interpretable constituents) phonology (formal regularities without implications for interpretation) and phonetics (articulatory and perceptual constraints). Evidence comes from a wide variety of sources from quantitative corpus analyses to experiments on character reading writing and learning. The grammatical approach helps capture how character constituents combine as they do how strokes systematically vary in different environments how character form evolved from ancient times to the modern simplified system and how readers and writers are able to process or learn even entirely novel characters. This book not only provides tools for exploring the full richness of Chinese orthography but also offers new ways of thinking about the most fundamental question in linguistic theory: what is grammar? | The Grammar of Chinese Characters Productive Knowledge of Formal Patterns in an Orthographic System

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5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

Once upon a time. children's nonfiction books were stodgy concise and not very kid friendly. Most were text heavy with just a few scattered images decorating the content and meaning rather than enhancing it. Over the last 20 years children's nonfiction has evolved into a new breed of visually dynamic and engaging texts. In 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books Melissa Stewart and Dr. Marlene Correia present a new way to sort nonfiction into five major categories and show how doing so can help teachers and librarians build stronger readers and writers. Along the way they: Introduce the 5 kinds of nonfiction: Active Browseable Traditional Expository Literature and Narrative -;and explore each category through discussions classroom examples and insights from leading children's book authorsOffer tips for building strong diverse classroom texts and library collectionsProvide more than 20 activities to enhance literacy instructionInclude innovative strategies for sharing and celebrating nonfiction with students. With more than 150 exemplary nonfiction book recommendations and Stewart and Correia's extensive knowledge of literacy instruction 5 Kinds of Nonfiction will elevate your understanding of nonfiction in ways that speak specifically to the info-kids in your classrooms but will inspire all readers and writers. | 5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

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Building a People-Oriented Security Community the ASEAN way

Building a People-Oriented Security Community the ASEAN way

ASEAN has declared its intention to create a security community in Southeast Asia that is people-orientated. This book evaluates ASEAN’s progress and in doing so examines three matters of concern. The book firstly looks at the importance of constitutive norms to the workings of security communities by identifying ASEAN’s constitutive norms and the extent to which they act as a help of hindrance in establishing a security community. It then moves on to how ASEAN has interpreted people-orientated as empowering civil society organisations to be community stakeholders. The book discusses the uncertainty between how ASEAN envisages their role and the role they themselves expect to have. Civil society actors are seeking to influence what sort of community evolves and their ability to interact with the state elite is evaluated to determine what interpretation of people-oriented is likely to emerge. Thirdly in order to make progress ASEAN has sought to achieve cooperation among its member states in functional areas. The book examines this interest in functional cooperation through case studies on human rights HIV/AIDS and disaster management. By discussing the notion of ASEAN being people-orientated and how it engages with ‘the people’ the book provides important insights into what type of community ASEAN in building as well as furthering our understanding on security communities more broadly. | Building a People-Oriented Security Community the ASEAN way

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Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World

Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World

Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life after death and if so what form that life might take for centuries. What did people in the ancient world think the next life would hold and did they imagine there was a chance for a relationship between the living and the dead? How did people in the ancient world keep their dead loved ones alive through memory and were they afraid the dead might return and haunt the living in another form? What sort of afterlife did the ancient Greeks and Romans imagine for themselves? This volume explores these questions and more. While individual representations of the afterlife have often been examined few studies have taken a more general view of ideas about the afterlife circulating in the ancient world. By drawing together current research from international scholars on archaeological evidence for afterlife belief chiefly from funerary sites together with studies of works of literature this volume provides a broader overview of ancient ideas about the afterlife than has so far been available. Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World explores these key questions through a series of wide-ranging studies taking in ghosts demons dreams cosmology and the mutilation of corpses along the way offering a valuable resource to those studying all aspects of death in the ancient world

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Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

In the economic debate power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition. This is a consequence of the combination of methodological individualism and the assumption of competition as a natural and everlasting coordinating mechanism operating without any sort of coercion. This methodology however is not adequate to analyze the forms of social coercion that characterize capitalism. Economics and Power criticizes the main theories of power developed in economic literature analyzing ultraliberal contractualism to radical political economics and ultimately suggesting a Marxist conception of power and coercion in capitalism. Palermo’s ontological argument is rooted in the philosophy of ‘critical realism’. This unique volume presents his main finding as being that the essential coercive mechanism of capitalism is competition. Capitalist power is not caused by a lack of competition but by the central role it plays in this mode of production. Following this the chapters reconstruct a Marxian conception of power where it is analyzed as a social relation and argues that perfect competition does in fact exist under the disguise of capitalist power. This book criticizes the construct of power and the underlying ideas surrounding perfect competition. This book is of interest to those who study political economy as well as economic theory and philosophy. | Economics and Power A Marxist Critique

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Mapping Career Counseling Interventions A Guide for Career Practitioners

Mapping Career Counseling Interventions A Guide for Career Practitioners

Mapping Career Counseling Interventions provides an innovative insight into identifying and resolving problems within career management. In recent years myriad of counselling tools has been developed so that practitioners can offer the most appropriate support possible. To guide the selection of such tools this book offers a map that introduces and links 63 frequent career management difficulties with more than 160 qualitative interventions and solutions. Through its highly organized layout and extensive detail major career management difficulties—namely lack of motivation indecisiveness dysfunctional beliefs lack of information conflicts and lack of employability—are scrutinized and divided into specific more manageable sub-difficulties. Targeted interventions to address each of those difficulties originating from vocational motivational and positive psychology are then suggested and described. From these conclusions the book delivers practical advice to help conduct these interventions in a sensitive and respectful manner. Overall this book outlines the most effective ways to foster a good working alliance. One of the book’s standout features is its inclusion of an inventory and card sort to facilitate the identification of obstacles to professional choice and career management. This book is a pivotal resource for the large and diverse community of career development practitioners such as career counsellors career advisors employment counsellors and career coaches regardless of their specific audience and work settings. | Mapping Career Counseling Interventions A Guide for Career Practitioners

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