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Books > Social sciences > Psychology
The emotional effect of losing a brother or sister can result in
severe trauma for a child. Many children find it difficult to mourn
a lost sibling, and parents can have a hard time helping their
children while they themselves are mourning. Written from personal
experience, this book insists that there is no `right' way for
parents to behave towards surviving children. It looks at the many
and various effects of sibling bereavement as it bears upon the
whole family: the repercussions of lack of support; surviving
children who act as comforters to their parents; guilt; projections
of anger; unresolved conflicts; consequent family relationships;
and children who can't or won't mourn. The author uses real-life
case studies to illustrate her points, and clarification of the
issues involved is provided throughout by the views of an
experienced psychologist who has worked with disturbed children.
While remaining non-prescriptive, the book is a guide to achieving
a `healthy' mourning process, enabling individuals to move forward,
even though life can never be the same again. Ann Farrant is a
freelance journalist, writer and researcher. She has worked in many
branches of the media - newspaper, magazines and BBC Television. In
the 1970s she was a founder member of Cruse Bereavement Care in
Norwich; she has also worked as a volunteer fund-raiser for the
children's charity UNICEF.
Winner of the 2021 SSTAR Consumer Book Award! What makes sex
magnificent? What are the qualities of extraordinary erotic
intimacy and what are the elements that help to bring it about? Is
great sex the stuff that people remember nostalgically from the
"honeymoon" phase of their relationships, or can sex improve over
time? Magnificent Sex is based on the largest, in-depth interview
study ever conducted with people who are having extraordinary sex.
It gathers the nuggets for remarkable sex from the "experts",
distilling them into an attainable blueprint for ordinary lovers
who want to make erotic intimacy grow over the course of a
lifetime. Looking at factors including individual and relational
qualities, empathic communication and the myths and realities of
magnificent sex, this book offers accessible and evidence-based
guidance for lovers and therapists alike. It is replete with frank
and often humorous interviews with straight and LGBTQ individuals
and couples, those who are "vanilla" and "kinky", monogamous and
consensually non-monogamous and healthy and chronically ill. This
illuminating book explores the implications of the findings to
develop a model that effectively tackles the common problems of low
desire and frequency. The "cure" for low desire is to create
desirable sex!
Mindfulness Skills Workbook: 121 Activities, Worksheets, Techniques
& Tools is specifically designed to meet the needs of mental
health practitioners, teachers, and other helping professionals who
want to add mindfulness skills to their work. It provides over 100
tools to be used with clients to help them incorporate mindfulness
into their lives and reap the proven benefits. Providing concise
theory behind each tool, step-bystep processes for implementation,
and guidance on processing the result, it provides everything you
need to add mindfulness into your practice with a hands-on,
practical, and highly-effective approach.
Explore what it means to be an Enneatype 7 (Life Strategy:
"Experience everything life has to offer") through in-depth
descriptions, writing prompts, guided journal entries, beautiful
illustrations, and more. Pronounced ENN-EE-UH-GRAM, stemming from
the Greek words ennea (nine) and grammos (a written symbol), the
Enneagram is a centuries-old categorization tool that classifies
human personalities into nine interconnected personality types. It
is a powerful tool for self-observation, maximizing your strengths,
and improving your relationships. In this shorter, giftier, and
interactive follow-up to What's Your Enneatype? (Fair Winds Press,
2020), authors Liz Carver and Josh Green, the creators of the
hugely popular Instagram account @justmyenneatype, help you
discover how knowing your type-and the types of those around
you-can affect your daily life, your decisions, and your
relationships with others, and how to use this wisdom to live life
with more clarity, peace, and insight than you ever thought
possible. If you are type SEVEN, find out more about yourself and
others today and get started on the journey to better understand
your world and your place within it.
'Everything he writes is an enlightening education in how to be
human.' - Elizabeth Day To fix a machine, first you need to find
out what's wrong with it. To fix unhappiness, you need to find out
what causes it. That Little Voice in Your Head is the practical
guide to retraining your brain for optimal joy by Mo Gawdat, the
internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy. Mo reveals
how by beating negative self-talk, we can change our thought
processes, turning our greed into generosity, our apathy into
compassion and investing in our own happiness. This book provides
readers with exercises to help reshape their mental processes.
Drawing on his expertise in programming and his knowledge of
neuroscience, Mo explains how - despite their incredible complexity
- our brains behave in ways that are largely predictable. From
these insights, he delivers this user manual for happiness.
Inspired by the life of his late son, Ali, Mo Gawdat has set out to
share a model for happiness based on generosity and empathy towards
ourselves and others. Using his experience as a former Google
engineer and Chief Business Officer, Mo shares his 'code' for
reprogramming our brain and moving away from the misconceptions
modern life gives us.
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate
cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide,
perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede
anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch,
Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans
and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best
boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try
and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map,
INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle,
sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly
different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.
She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural
differences impact international business, and combines a smart
analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.
'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential
book' Sathnam Sanghera In this bold and radical book, award-winning
science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of
gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male
domination became embedded in societies and spread across the
globe. 'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in
something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is:
something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and
reasserted.' In this bold and radical book, award-winning science
journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of
gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male
domination became embedded in societies and spread across the globe
from prehistory into the present. Travelling to the world's
earliest known human settlements, analysing the latest research
findings in science and archaeology, and tracing cultural and
political histories from the Americas to Asia, she overturns
simplistic universal theories to show that what patriarchy is and
how far it goes back really depends on where you are. Despite the
push back against sexism and exploitation in our own time, even
revolutionary efforts to bring about equality have often ended in
failure and backlash. Saini ends by asking what part we all play -
women included - in keeping patriarchal structures alive, and why
we need to look beyond the old narratives to understand why it
persists in the present.
From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating
new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past
five centuries "We are the apes who tell stories," writes William
Bernstein. "And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is
compelling enough it will nearly always trump the facts." As
Bernstein shows in his eloquent and persuasive new book, The
Delusions of Crowds, throughout human history compelling stories
have catalyzed the spread of contagious narratives through
susceptible groups--with enormous, often disastrous, consequences.
Inspired by Charles Mackay's 19th-century classic Memoirs of
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,
Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and
passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that
explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial roots of
human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic
religious and financial mania in western society over the last 500
years--from the Anabaptist Madness that afflicted the Low Countries
in the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that animate ISIS
and pervade today's polarized America; and from the South Sea
Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles of recent years.
Through Bernstein's supple prose, the participants are as colorful
as their motivation, invariably "the desire to improve one's
well-being in this life or the next." As revealing about human
nature as they are historically significant, Bernstein's chronicles
reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania: for
example, belief in dispensationalist End-Times has over decades
profoundly affected U.S. Middle East policy. Bernstein observes
that if we can absorb the history and biology of mass delusion, we
can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its
frequently dire impact.
Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal
way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our
emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner,
and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our
suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have
babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do
not want to achieve these goals. Instead we are left feeling
atomised, exhausted and disempowered. Radical Intimacy shows that
it doesn't need to be this way. Including inspiring ideas for
alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical
imagination to discover a new form of intimacy. Including critiques
of the 'wellness' industry that ignores rising poverty rates, the
mental health crisis and racist and misogynist state violence;
transcending love and sex under capitalism to move towards
feminist, decolonial and queer thinking; asking whether we should
abolish the family; interrogating the framing of ageing and death
and much more, Radical Intimacy is the compassionate antidote to a
callous society. Now as an audiobook, to listen to on the go.
One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat, walked out of
town, and took his own life. A loving husband and father, a
faithful member of the Mennonite church, and an immensely popular
schoolteacher, Mel was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet
after a lifetime of struggling with bipolar disorder, he could no
longer face the darkness that clouded his world. In this moving
meditation on illness, family, faith, and love, Mel's daughter,
critically acclaimed novelist and reporter Miriam Toews, recounts
her father's life as he would have told it, in his own voice, right
up to the day of his final walk.
"Swing Low" is a bold, gracefully written, and compassionate
recounting of one man's heartbreaking battle with depression.
Now in its second edition, An Introduction to Psychology for Health
Carers provides an accessible grounding for all nursing and health
care students who have little previous experience of studying
psychology, but who within their first year courses need to quickly
understand how psychological research and theory is invaluable in
interpreting, explaining and actively influencing clinical
practice. As a discipline, Psychology makes an important
contribution to health care practitioners' understanding of health
and health promotion, treatment, stress, pain, emotion, and
bereavement and loss. This engaging text introduces basic
psychological concepts and techniques and applies them directly to
nursing, encouraging all health care students to make the most of
their experiences in the practice environment, to learn from these,
and to become a reflective, psychologically-informed practitioner.
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Can I Play?
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Nicola Kinnear; Illustrated by Nicola Kinnear
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Grumpy George doesn't want friends - until he meets a funny little
seal called Pebble . . . George the dog loves living alone on his
island. He likes to do everything his own way, and friends would
just ruin things. But one day a cheerful little seal wiggles up to
him. Her name is Pebble, and she's determined to be George's
friend, whether he likes it or not. George is quiet and grumpy.
Pebble is lively and funny. Can this odd couple ever become
friends? This wonderfully funny story about making friends and
overcoming differences will strike a chord with children and
grown-ups alike. Full of warmth, humour and wonderful
illustrations, it's guaranteed to become a storytime favourite!
Nicola Kinnear's previous picture books, A Little Bit Brave,
Dragons Don't Share and Shhh! Quiet! have won her many fans all
round the world. Her gorgeously illustrated books are full of
fabulous characters, and wonderful messages about sharing,
friendship, courage and kindness Nicola Kinnear is one of the
brightest new stars in children's books. Her debut picture book, A
Little Bit Brave, has been shortlisted for several awards and
translated into 20 languages Praise for A Little Bit Brave: "a new
talent to look out for" Bookseller "funny and reassuring . . .
superbly illustrated" Parents in Touch "a glorious picture book
debut...stunningly illustrated" BookLoverJo "an utter delight"
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