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New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century - Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective... New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century - Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective (Paperback)
Phillip Charles Lucas, Thomas Robbins
R1,273 Discovery Miles 12 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


New religious movements are proliferating in nearly every region of the world. From new sects within larger global movements such as Islam, Christianity, or Buddhism, to the growth and spread of minority religions (e.g. ISKON, Unification Church, and Scientology) and the development of completely new religions, the future of these new religious movements will increasingly come to be played out on a political battlefield. Governments in many countries in both the industrialized and the developing worlds have enacted new policies and legislation that dramatically affect not only marginal and minority religious groups but also the broader power relationships between states and the religious freedom of their citizens.
New Religious Movements in the 21st Century is the first volume to examine the urgent and important issues facing new religions in their political, legal and religious contexts in global perspective. With essays from prominent new religious movement scholars and usefully organized into four regional areas covering Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and North and South America, as well as a concluding section on the major themes of globalization and terrorist violence, this book provides invaluable insight into the challenges facing religion in the twenty-first century. An introduction by Tom Robbins provides an overview of the major issues and themes discussed in the book.

Counseling for the Soul in Distress - What Every Religious Counselor Should Know About Emotional and Mental Illness, Second... Counseling for the Soul in Distress - What Every Religious Counselor Should Know About Emotional and Mental Illness, Second Edition (Hardcover, 2 Revised Edition)
Richard W. Roukema
R3,488 Discovery Miles 34 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Learn how to help your congregants work cooperatively with mental health professionals! This revised edition of The Soul in Distress i is a reader-friendly overview of the full range of adult psychiatric disorders. Updated with new information on genetics, brain scans, heredity, developmental concerns, new medications, and stress, it suggests ways for clergy to assist their congregants suffering from these illnesses and provides ethical guidance and clinical examples, often illustrating how physical disease can affect mental health. It also examines new short-term therapies and ways to handle difficult personalities. From author Richard W. Roukema, MD, FAPA: With the recent events of terrorism in our country, the need for the clergy to be alert to the fallout on the lives of their congregants is clear. Anxiety, depression, prolonged grief, and post-traumatic stress disorder will be increasingly evident as the threat of terrorism continues. Now more than ever, the clergy should obtain a basic overview of the emotional and mental disorders they may encounter in their congregations. This book will update the clergy to the current state of knowledge in the field. With fascinating case studies, and practical suggestions for dealing with various psychiatric disorders, Counseling for the Soul in Distress: What Every Religious Counselor Should Know About Emotional and Mental Illness, Second Edition examines: new trends in psychotherapy such as EMDR and Christian counseling the art of providing appropriate referrals to psychiatrists the aftermath of the September 11 attacks the ways that loss and grief affect the personality personality disorders depression and other mood disorders eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and obesity stress and its implications schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders neuroses organic mental disorders sexual problems drug abuse and alcoholism Written specifically for the clergy by a well-respected psychiatrist, this new edition of Counseling for the Soul in Distress is an essential addition to your reference shelf!

Transgression (Hardcover): Chris Jenks Transgression (Hardcover)
Chris Jenks
R5,235 Discovery Miles 52 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


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Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes - Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission (Hardcover): R. Dennis Shelby,... Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes - Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission (Hardcover)
R. Dennis Shelby, David J Bellis
R3,612 Discovery Miles 36 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explore ways to reduce the rate of HIV infection in street prostitutes--and the inescapable connection between the heroin trade, prostitution, and HIV!This unique book draws on face-to-face interviews that the author conducted on the streets, with heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern California and their counterparts in four large Mexican cities. Author David James Bellis illustrates the significant--and surprising--differences in the risk of exposure to HIV and other STDs that exist between street prostitutes in the two countries arising from national differences in the legality, sociology, and economics of sex work. He points out that Mexican prostitutes, for whom sex work is a simple means of livelihood, are "choir girls" compared with their beaten-up, drug-addicted sisters north of the border who perform sex for drug money and are at much greater risk of HIV and other diseases, like Hepatitis C. This book explores those differences, suggesting new directions for United States prostitution and heroin-control policies--laws currently so interwoven that they reinforce each other, accounting for a deadly circle of crime and disease. In addition to the fascinating results of the author's interviews with 72 female street prostitutes in San Bernardino, California, and 102 more in Tijuana, Cd. Juarez, Cd. Victoria, and Cuernavaca regarding their personal sexual, drug, and health practices, and their criminal histories, Hotel Ritz-Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission explores: the licensing process for legal prostitutes in Mexico the medical testing that Mexico requires prostitutes to undergo the differences in what United States and Mexican prostitutes know about HIV transmission the difference in condom use between United States and Mexican prostitutes the potential benefits of reforming prostitution and drug laws in both countries the benefits of making methadone maintenence and syringesand heroinfree for heroin-addicted prostitutes the proportion of United States/Mexican prostitutes who would quit the trade if they learned they had AIDS how the social support system in the United States (housing subsidies, TANF/AFDC money, food stamps, etc.) leads to a greater proportion of drug-addicted prostitutes than are found in Mexico Hotel Ritz-Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission also provides you with a look at the hierarchy of female sex workers, an explanation of the etiology of AIDS transmission, and a concise history of heroin and prostitution. Helpful tables and an appendix containing the author's survey questions make the data in this well-referenced book easily understandable.

Culture & Progress:Esc V8 (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson Culture & Progress:Esc V8 (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R5,409 Discovery Miles 54 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mind & Society Pt4:Esc V6 (Hardcover): Andrew Bongiorno Mind & Society Pt4:Esc V6 (Hardcover)
Andrew Bongiorno; Vilfredo Pareto; Series edited by Kenneth Thompson; Translated by Arthur Livingston
R5,129 Discovery Miles 51 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mind & Society Pt3:Esc V5 (Hardcover): Kenneth Thompson Mind & Society Pt3:Esc V5 (Hardcover)
Kenneth Thompson
R5,122 Discovery Miles 51 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Old World Traits Transpl:Esc V (Hardcover): Herbert A. Miller, Robert E. Park Old World Traits Transpl:Esc V (Hardcover)
Herbert A. Miller, Robert E. Park
R5,683 Discovery Miles 56 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Minor League Baseball - Community Building Through Hometown Sports (Hardcover): Frank Hoffmann, Rebecca S. Kraus, Martin J.... Minor League Baseball - Community Building Through Hometown Sports (Hardcover)
Frank Hoffmann, Rebecca S. Kraus, Martin J. Manning
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examine the big-league benefits of minor league baseball!The Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown Sports examines the role played by minor league baseball in hundreds of cities and towns across the United States. Written from the unique perspective of a sociologist who also happens to be an avid baseball fan, the book looks at the contributions minor league teams make to the quality of life in their communities, creating focal points for spirit and cohesiveness while providing opportunities for interaction and entertainment. The book links theory and experience to present a "sociology of baseball" that explains the symbiotic relationship which brings people together for a common purposeto root, root, root for the home team.From the author: Minor league baseball is played across the country in more than 100 very different communities. These communities seem to share a special bond with their teams. As with all sports teams, there is a symbiotic relationship between the team and the city or town that it represents. In the case of major league professional sports, the relationship is often fueled by economic outcomes. On the minor league level, the relationship appears to go beyond mere money and prestige. Minor league teams occupy a special place in our hearts. We are more forgiving when they lose, and extremely proud of them when they win.Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown Sports is a detailed look at the connection between town and team, including: economic benefits (development strategies, community growth) intangible benefits (ballpark camaraderie, hometown pride) fan attachment and attendance (demographic variables, stadium accessibility, "home court advantage") case studies of two Maryland minor-league franchises--the Class AA Bowie Baysox and the Class A Hagerstown Suns Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown Sports also includes an introduction to the organizational structure of the minor leagues, a history of each current league, and charts and tables on attendance figures and franchise relocations. This book is essential reading for sociologists, sport sociologists/historians, academics and/or practitioners in the fields of community sociology and psychology, and of course, baseball fans.

Reclaiming the Sacred - The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition): Raymond J Frontain Reclaiming the Sacred - The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Raymond J Frontain
R1,479 Discovery Miles 14 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The second edition of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture continues the groundbreaking work of the original, exploring the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary criticism, and religious studies. This much-anticipated follow-up examines the appropriation and/or subversion of the authority of the Judeo-Christian Bible by gay and lesbian writers. The book highlights two prevalent trends in gay and lesbian literature--a transgressive approach that challenges the authority of the Bible when used as an instrument of oppression, and an appropriative technique that explores how the Bible contributes to defining gay and lesbian spirituality.
Reviewers of the first edition of Reclaiming the Sacred hailed the book's enterprise in exploring the area between literary criticism and religious studies. Whereas contemporary literary-critical theory has been slow to integrate religion and religious history into queer theory, this pioneering journal has addressed the issue from the start with a collection of thoughtful and though-provoking articles.
This latest edition expands coverage to include noncanonical ancient texts, popular Victorian religious texts, and contemporary theater. Academics and lay readers interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and religious studies will gain new insights from topics such as: religious mystery and homosexual identity in Terrence McNally's "Corpus Christi" same-sex biblical couples in Victorian literature homoerotic texts in the Apocrypha sodomite rhetoric in a seventeenth-century Italian text Radclyffe Hall's lesbian messiah in her 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness homosexual temptation in John Milton's Paradise Regained Reclaiming the Sacred counteracts the manipulative and oppressive uses to which modern writers and thinkers put the Bible and the "morality" it is presumed to inscribe. An important tool for understanding the role of the Bible in gay and lesbian culture, this remarkable book makes a powerful contribution to the advancement of studies on queer sanctity.

Political Communications in Greater China - The Construction and Reflection of Identity (Hardcover): Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh... Political Communications in Greater China - The Construction and Reflection of Identity (Hardcover)
Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
R3,925 Discovery Miles 39 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This book examines the role played by political communications, including media of all kinds - journalism, television, and film - in defining and shaping identity in Greater China; China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. In the context of increasing cross-border interactions of people, investment and commercial products between the component parts of greater China, the book explores the idea that identity, rather than nation-states or political entities, may be the key factor in achieving further integration in Greater China. The book focuses on the ways in which identity is communicated, and shows how communication of identity within and between the component parts of greater China plays a central role in bringing about integration.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203417496

Counseling for the Soul in Distress - What Every Religious Counselor Should Know About Emotional and Mental Illness, Second... Counseling for the Soul in Distress - What Every Religious Counselor Should Know About Emotional and Mental Illness, Second Edition (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Richard W. Roukema
R1,276 Discovery Miles 12 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Learn how to help your congregants work cooperatively with mental health professionals! This revised edition of The Soul in Distress i is a reader-friendly overview of the full range of adult psychiatric disorders. Updated with new information on genetics, brain scans, heredity, developmental concerns, new medications, and stress, it suggests ways for clergy to assist their congregants suffering from these illnesses and provides ethical guidance and clinical examples, often illustrating how physical disease can affect mental health. It also examines new short-term therapies and ways to handle difficult personalities. From author Richard W. Roukema, MD, FAPA: With the recent events of terrorism in our country, the need for the clergy to be alert to the fallout on the lives of their congregants is clear. Anxiety, depression, prolonged grief, and post-traumatic stress disorder will be increasingly evident as the threat of terrorism continues. Now more than ever, the clergy should obtain a basic overview of the emotional and mental disorders they may encounter in their congregations. This book will update the clergy to the current state of knowledge in the field. With fascinating case studies, and practical suggestions for dealing with various psychiatric disorders, Counseling for the Soul in Distress: What Every Religious Counselor Should Know About Emotional and Mental Illness, Second Edition examines: new trends in psychotherapy such as EMDR and Christian counseling the art of providing appropriate referrals to psychiatrists the aftermath of the September 11 attacks the ways that loss and grief affect the personality personality disorders depression and other mood disorders eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and obesity stress and its implications schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders neuroses organic mental disorders sexual problems drug abuse and alcoholism Written specifically for the clergy by a well-respected psychiatrist, this new edition of Counseling for the Soul in Distress is an essential addition to your reference shelf!

The Sociology of Health and Illness - A Reader (Hardcover): Michael Bury, Jonathan Gabe The Sociology of Health and Illness - A Reader (Hardcover)
Michael Bury, Jonathan Gabe
R5,264 Discovery Miles 52 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Part I - Health Beliefs and Knowledge 1. Herzlich, C. The individual, the way of life and the genesis of illness 2. Blaxter, M. Why do the victims blame themselves? 3. Davison, C., Davey Smith, G. and Frankel, S. Lay epidemiology and the prevention paradox: the implications of coronary candidacy for health promotion 4. Calnan, M. Lifestyle and its meaning 5. Brown, P. Popular epidemiology, toxic waste and social movements 6. Parsons, E. and Atkinson, P. Lay constructions of genetic risk Part II - Inequalities and Pattering of Health and Illness 7. Berkman, L.S., Glass, T., Brissette, I. and Seeman, E. From social integration to health: Durkheim in the New Millenium 8. Wilkinson, R. The epidemiological transition: from material scarcity to social disadvantage? 9. Vagero, D. and Illsley, R. Explaining health inequalities: beyond Black and Barker 10. Wadsworth, M. Health inequalities in the life course perspective 11. Nazroo, J.Y. Genetic, cultural or socio-economic vulnerability? 12. Macintyre, S., Hunt, K. and Sweeting, H. Gender differences in health: are they as simple as they seem? Part III - Professional and Patient Interactions 13. Freidson, E. The social organisation of illness 14. Annandale, E. Working on the front line: risk culture and nursing in the new NHS 15. Lupton, D. Consumerism, reflexivity and the medical encounter 16. Silverman, D. Going private: ceremonial forms in a medical oncology clinic 17. S. Cant and U. Sharma 18. Charles, c., Gafni, A. and Whelan, T. Decision making in the physician-patient encounter: revisiting the shared treatment decision-making model Part IV - Chronic Illness and Disability 19. Williams, G. The genesis of chronic illness: narrative reconstruction 20. Kelly, M. and Field, D. Medical sociology, chronic illness and the body 21. Bury, M. Defining and researching disability: challenges and responses 22. Oliver, M. Defining impairment and disabilty: the issues at stake 23. Carriciuburu, D. and Pierret J. From biographical disruption to biographical reinforcement: the case of HIV-positive men 24. Frank When bodies need voices Part V - The Sociology of Evaluation and Politics of Health Care 25. Gabe, J. Continuity and change in the British National Health Service 26. Harrison, S. The politics of evidence-based medicine in the United Kingdom 27. Light, D. and Hughes, D. A sociological perspective on rationing: power rhetoric and situated practices 28. Fitzpatrick, R. and Boulton, M. Qualitative methods for assessing health care 29. Howitt, A. and Armstrong, D. Implementing evidence-based medicine in general practice: audit and qualitative study of antithrombotic treatment for atrial fibrilation 30. Featherstone, K. and Donovan, J.L. Random allocation or allocation at random? Patients' perspectives of participation in a randomised controlled trial

Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue (Hardcover): Henrique Pinto Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue (Hardcover)
Henrique Pinto
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Marx and Marxism (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Peter Worsley Marx and Marxism (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Peter Worsley
R3,904 Discovery Miles 39 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
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Parish Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy - Navigating the Maze of Professional Relationships (Paperback):... Parish Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy - Navigating the Maze of Professional Relationships (Paperback)
Larry Vandecreek, Sue Mooney
R1,363 Discovery Miles 13 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Understand the roles of these three unique professions and how collaboration can make each more effective This is the first book to clarify the roles and interprofessional dynamics of these three professions and describe how they can best work together. Here you'll find theological perspectives on each profession, practice models of collaborative programs, and new resources to aid your professional growth. In addition, this book gives you a thorough historical overview of parish nursing and an introduction to health care chaplaincy as well as insightful analyses of the relationships of clergy and congregation to health care institutions. Parish Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy: Navigating the Maze of Professional Relationships is a vital addition to your reference shelf. This unique book, written by experts in all three fields, provides: the necessary background to be an effective parish nurse, including information on spiritual formation, clinical pastoral education, and more instruction on starting a parish health ministry effective ways that the disciplines can work together in congregational health ministries to provide the best possible spiritual care successful practice models that your ministry can emulate an examination of the health care institution's role in forming the spiritual care team resources to use to increase your ministry's effectiveness Parish Nurses, Health Care Chaplains, and Community Clergy is a must for practitioners, educators, and students who will be entering these vital professions

Reformers, Sport, Modernizers - Middle-class Revolutionaries (Paperback, annotated edition): J.A. Mangan Reformers, Sport, Modernizers - Middle-class Revolutionaries (Paperback, annotated edition)
J.A. Mangan
R1,480 Discovery Miles 14 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes self-interestedly but not always self-interestedly, as a medium of personal, collective and national virtue. It is the first general consideration of a selection of these innovatory pioneers and proselytisers who placed Europe at the forefront of major developments in contemporary world sport - now a phenomenon of global significance.

The Urban School - A Factory for Failure (Paperback, 2nd edition): Ray C. Rist The Urban School - A Factory for Failure (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Ray C. Rist
R1,137 R955 Discovery Miles 9 550 Save R182 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public school systems, and of the inability of schools to meet the current challenges of contemporary life. Such concerns date back at least to the nineteenth century. A thread that weaves its way through the critiques of American elementary and secondary schools is that the educational system is not serving its children well, that more should be done to enhance achievement and higher performance. These critiques first began when the United States was industrializing and were later amplified when the Soviets and Japan were thought to be grinding down the competitive position of America. At the start of the twenty-first century, as we discuss globalization and maintaining our leadership position in the world economy, they are being heard again.
"The Urban School: A Factory for Failure" challenges these assumptions about American education. Indeed, a basic premise of the book is that the American school system is working quite well-doing exactly what is expected of it. To wit, that the schools in the United States affirm, reflect, and reinforce the social inequalities that exist in the social structures of the society. Stated differently, the schools are not great engines for equalizing the existing social inequalities. Rather, they work to reinforce the social class differences that we have had in the past and continue to have in more pronounced ways at present.
Rist uses both sociological and anthropological methods to examine life in one segregated African-American school in the mid-western United States. A classroom of some thirty children were followed from their first day of kindergarten through the second grade. Detailed accounts of the day-by-day process of sorting, stratifying, and separating the children by social class backgrounds demonstrates the means of ensuring that both the poor and middle-class students soon learned their appropriate place in the social hierarchy of the school. Instructional time, discipline, and teacher attention all varied by social class of the students, with those at the bottom of the ladder consistently receiving few positive rewards and many negative sanctions.
When "The Urban School" was first published in 1973, the National School Boards Association called it one of the ten most influential books on American education for the year. It remains essential reading for educators, sociologists, and economists.
Ray C. Rist is a senior evaluation officer with the Operations Evaluation Department of the World Bank. He has held senior positions in both the legislative and executive branches of the United States government as well as teaching positions at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University.
""The Urban School" is a timely and much needed wake-up call to a educational policy and contemporary social problem that urgently needs to be addressed across the country and in every urban school district."--"The Bookwatch"

Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children (Paperback): William Jeynes Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children (Paperback)
William Jeynes
R1,470 Discovery Miles 14 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Trace the influence of family factors on children's emotional and educational well-being The effect of family changes on children's academic success is a new subject for study. Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children is a comprehensive volume that brings research on this hotly debated topic up to date. With clear tables and incisive arguments, it is a single-volume reference on this vexing sociocultural problem. Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children offers a close look at the historical background and current theory of this field of study. But it is more than a compendium of known facts and completed studies. It examines issues of appropriate methodology and points out concerns for planning future research. Divorce, Family Structure, and the Academic Success of Children summarizes current knowledge of the effects of various influences on children's emotional and educational well-being, including: divorce and remarriage single-parent families nontraditional family structures race socioeconomic status mobility Educators, theorists, sociologists, and psychologists will find this volume an essential resource. With hundreds of useful references and clear organization, it presents new ideas in an easy-to-use format that makes it an ideal textbook as well.

Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills (Hardcover): John O. Greene, Brant R. Burleson Handbook of Communication and Social Interaction Skills (Hardcover)
John O. Greene, Brant R. Burleson
R10,485 Discovery Miles 104 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Providing a thorough review and synthesis of work on communication skills and skill enhancement, this "Handbook" serves as a comprehensive and contemporary survey of theory and research on social interaction skills. Editors John O. Greene and Brant R. Burleson have brought together preeminent researchers and writers to contribute to this volume, establishing a foundation on which future study and research will build.
The handbook chapters are organized into five major units: general theoretical and methodological issues (models of skill acquisition, methods of skill assessment); fundamental interaction skills (both transfunctional and transcontextual); function-focused skills (informing, persuading, supporting); skills used in management of diverse personal relationships (friendships, romances, marriages); and skills used in varied venues of public and professional life (managing leading, teaching).
Distinctive features of this handbook include:
* broad, comprehensive treatment of work on social interaction skills and skill acquisition;
* up-to-date reviews of research in each area; and
* emphasis on empirically supported strategies for developing and enhancing specific skills.
Researchers in communication studies, psychology, family studies, business management, and related areas will find this volume a comprehensive, authoritative source on communications skills and their enhancement, and it will be essential reading for scholars and students across the spectrum of disciplines studying social interaction.

The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions - A Teaching Casebook (Hardcover): Jessica K. Heriot, Eileen J.... The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions - A Teaching Casebook (Hardcover)
Jessica K. Heriot, Eileen J. Polinger
R3,519 Discovery Miles 35 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Use these fascinating first-person accounts to bring real-world problems into the classroom!The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions: A Teaching Casebook is a collection of personal narratives, short stories, and poetry about mental illness and other life-affecting problems, mostly in the context of family life. Each selection is accompanied by questions for discussion; selected reading lists are provided with each chapter. Beginning with problems related to childhood, the stories range through adolescence, adulthood, and old age. This unique book provides students and educators in psychology, social work, and counseling with an in-depth understanding of various mental illnesses and psychosocial problems through the life cycle. Its stories and narratives give students the unique opportunity to experience "from the inside" what it is like to live with an eating disorder or struggle with a compulsion phobia. The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions is more than a teaching tool. These stories are more than thought provoking, more than simply insightful. They are truly fascinating--each a candid, no-holds-barred glimpse into the personal reality of its narrator--and will inspire the kind of discussions that the best courses and instructors are remembered for. Your students will most likely have finished the book before the class has finished discussing the first chapter! With The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions, your students will explore: family relationships under various types of stress how families cope with physical illness what happens to the family when a loved one struggles with mental illness the impact of racial issues the effects of sexual abuse and domestic violence the process of healing from childhood trauma . . . and much more! The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions provides first-hand knowledge of what the loss of a parent to death, mental illness, or alcoholism feels like to the child; of how "coming out" as a lesbian affects one's life; of the love and frustration of having a mentally handicapped sibling; of what it's like to lose one's memory in old age. No academic description can convey the feelings, meaning, and effects on the individual or family of mental illness or other psychosocial stressors. Only narratives and stories based on direct experience--exactly what you'll find in The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions--can offer this perspective.

Between Fathers and Sons - Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives (Hardcover): Robert J.... Between Fathers and Sons - Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives (Hardcover)
Robert J. Pellegrini, Theodore R. Sarbin
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explore the tensions and tenderness between fathers and sons in this masterpiece of narrative psychology "We live in a story-shaped world," as the editors say, and Between Fathers and Sons: Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives shows how the stories we construct come to shape our perceptions of the world and of ourselves. The incidents recounted here are more than just moving, funny, or painful stories of fathers and sons. Each is a myth that helped form the authors'social and moral identity. This blend of feeling and intellect, story and analysis makes Between Fathers and Sons a work of art as well as a work of psychology. The contributors--many of them pioneers of narrative therapy--bring unique insight to bear on their own stories. Using a broad array of narrative forms, from the soliliquy to the multiple narrator, they explore and analyze themes of silence, mystery, respect, sports, self-reliance, and longing for continuity. In the stories you will find in Between Fathers and Sons: a father's disappointed silence is transformed as it resonates through four generations a Korean immigrant faces the differences between his ideals of fatherhood and his son's American view a father-son fishing trip ends with the biggest fish ever--or no fish at all betrayed by his stepfather, a boy seeks guidance from stories of his dead father a Baptist preacher helps his son make an agonizing choice a grown man's memory of a childhood event gives him new insight into his father's identity and their relationship Between Fathers and Sons is a landmark volume in father-son relationships and in narrative therapy. It is destined to become a classic in the field.

Marx and Marxism (Paperback, 2nd edition): Peter Worsley Marx and Marxism (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Peter Worsley
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker. There are many different kinds of Marxism, and the Twentieth Century saw two huge Marxist states in total opposition to one another. In the West, Marxism has never presented a revolutionary threat to the established order, though it has taken root as the major theoretical critique of capitalist society in intellectual circles, and new interpretations of Marx's thought appear each year.
Peter Worsley discusses all these major varieties of Marxism, distinguishing between those ideas which remain valid, those which are contestable, and those which should now be discarded. Rather than treating Marxism purely as a philosophy in the abstract, he concentrates upon the uses to which Marxism has been put and emphasises the connections between the theoretical debates and political struggles in the real world.

Egyptian Magic (Hardcover, New edition): E. A. Wallis Budge Egyptian Magic (Hardcover, New edition)
E. A. Wallis Budge
R5,094 Discovery Miles 50 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2002. The power of magical names, spells, and talismans was of utmost importance to the ancient Egyptians and their religion. Here, in another classic by the foremost Egyptian scholar of the Victorian era, E. A. Wallis Budge describes and explains the magical practices in Egypt, many of which predate the belief in gods and goddesses. Illustrated with twenty line drawings, this volume is one more key needed to unlock the secrets of this great ancient civilization.

Between Fathers and Sons - Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives (Paperback): Robert J.... Between Fathers and Sons - Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives (Paperback)
Robert J. Pellegrini, Theodore R. Sarbin
R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Explore the tensions and tenderness between fathers and sons in this masterpiece of narrative psychology "We live in a story-shaped world," as the editors say, and Between Fathers and Sons: Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives shows how the stories we construct come to shape our perceptions of the world and of ourselves. The incidents recounted here are more than just moving, funny, or painful stories of fathers and sons. Each is a myth that helped form the authors'social and moral identity. This blend of feeling and intellect, story and analysis makes Between Fathers and Sons a work of art as well as a work of psychology. The contributors--many of them pioneers of narrative therapy--bring unique insight to bear on their own stories. Using a broad array of narrative forms, from the soliliquy to the multiple narrator, they explore and analyze themes of silence, mystery, respect, sports, self-reliance, and longing for continuity. In the stories you will find in Between Fathers and Sons: a father's disappointed silence is transformed as it resonates through four generations a Korean immigrant faces the differences between his ideals of fatherhood and his son's American view a father-son fishing trip ends with the biggest fish ever--or no fish at all betrayed by his stepfather, a boy seeks guidance from stories of his dead father a Baptist preacher helps his son make an agonizing choice a grown man's memory of a childhood event gives him new insight into his father's identity and their relationship Between Fathers and Sons is a landmark volume in father-son relationships and in narrative therapy. It is destined to become a classic in the field.

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