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Everybody! Babies! (Hardcover): Beth Williams-Breault Everybody! Babies! (Hardcover)
Beth Williams-Breault
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Handbook of Post-Traumatic Therapy (Hardcover, illustrated edition): John F. Sommer, Mary Beth Williams Handbook of Post-Traumatic Therapy (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
John F. Sommer, Mary Beth Williams
R2,554 Discovery Miles 25 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This handbook provides both a conceptual and practical framework for diagnosing, treating, and assessing post-traumatic stress in survivors of violence, abuse, war, ethnocultural problems, political torture, and disaster. The in-depth clinical experience of Williams and Sommer helps define a variety of theories and methods for treating children, adults, families, and other groups with various types of post-tramautic stress disorders. They point to specific new kinds of therapies and types of interventions, and discuss new developments and trends for the treatment of post-traumatic stress. This reference volume, with its lengthy bibliography, is designed for students, teachers, and practitioners in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, social work, medicine, and public health.

How to Grieve What We've Lost - Evidence-Based Skills to Process Grief and Reconnect with What Matters: Russ Harris,... How to Grieve What We've Lost - Evidence-Based Skills to Process Grief and Reconnect with What Matters
Russ Harris, Alexandra Kennedy, Sameet M. Kumar, Mary Beth Williams, Soili Poijula
R447 R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law - Selected State Research Guides (Paperback): Beth Williams Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law - Selected State Research Guides (Paperback)
Beth Williams
R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Researching ballot measures can be one of the most daunting types of legal research. Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law: Selected State Research Guides offers legal researchers an easy-to-use guide that provides thorough overviews of I&R (initiative and referendum) laws within twenty-three states. This unique resource provides state-specific guidance about both forms of I&R law, those state laws permitting I&R, and those state laws enacted as a result of the I&R process. Any legal researcher beginning a project or needing to know just where to go for the right resources will get helpful general and specific information on practical research strategies and resources. Up to now, finding the literature to research the state-specific history of a law passed by initiative or referendum has been extremely difficult. This book fills this gap by providing top researchers with brief overviews of the individual state processes while providing important primary and secondary sources, including Web sites. The guide's chapters are separated alphabetically by state for fast and easy reference. Annotated bibliographies of books, articles, and Web sites are provided, along with instructions about what documents one can expect to find on the Web, and how to use free databases. Because of this useful volume's unique focus, the book may well become an essential resource for law librarians, attorneys, law faculty, law students, and Political Science scholars. This book was published as a special issue of Legal Reference Services Quarterly.

Trauma Treatment Techniques - Innovative Trends (Paperback): Jacqueline Garrick, Mary Beth Williams Trauma Treatment Techniques - Innovative Trends (Paperback)
Jacqueline Garrick, Mary Beth Williams
R1,770 Discovery Miles 17 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examine alternative techniques for dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder Trauma Treatment Techniques: Innovative Trends examines alternative approaches to talk therapies that help relieve stress in trauma survivors. Experts in a range of practice areas present mental health providers with methods that augment or go beyond traditional techniques, including art therapy, virtual reality, humor, residential programs, emotional freedom techniques (EFT), traumatic incident reduction (TIR), and thought field therapy (TFT). This unique book serves as a primer on new and creative means of working with combat veterans, survivors of child abuse, victims of rape and other violent crimes, refugees, victims of terrorism, and disaster survivors. Since the late 19th century, mental and medical health professionals, social workers, clinicians, and counselors have attempted to help patients mitigate symptoms and reduce distress by employing a variety of treatment techniques, methods, strategies, and procedures. Trauma Treatment Techniques: Innovative Trends represents a significant addition to the available literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute distress, providing therapists with much-needed options in their efforts to help trauma sufferers recover, find new meaning, and reach for new hopes and happiness. Trauma Treatment Techniques: Innovative Trends examines: debriefing interventions in school settings instructions and safeguards for using emotional freedom techniques (EFT) when debriefing in disaster situations the use of creative art therapies to reach out to war refugees the use of virtual reality-based exposure therapy (VRE) to desensitize Vietnam veterans with PTSD from traumatic memories humor as a healing tool repressed memory physiology and meridian treatment points in the body a six-step methodology for diagnosing PTSD a 90-day residential program for treatment of PTSD PTSD motivation enhancement (ME) groups autism as a potential traumatic stressor and much more Trauma Treatment Techniques: Innovative Trends is an invaluable resource of inventive techniques that offer hope for recovery to anyone who has suffered life's worst injuries.

Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Strategies for Comprehensive Treatment in Clinical Practice (Hardcover):... Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Strategies for Comprehensive Treatment in Clinical Practice (Hardcover)
Mary Beth Williams, John F. Sommer Jr
R2,768 Discovery Miles 27 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Discover the latest treatment strategies from the leading experts in the field of trauma This unique book, by the authors of the classic Handbook of Post-Traumatic Therapy, provides the "how to" of clinical practice techniques in a variety of settings with a variety of clients. Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Strategies for Comprehensive Treatment in Clinical Practice delivers state-of-the-art techniques and information to help traumatized individuals, groups, families, and communities. From critical incident debriefing to treating combat veterans with longstanding trauma, it covers the full spectrum of PTSD clients and effective treatments. This valuable book assembles some of the most highly respected experts in trauma studies to discuss the practical applications of their research and their experience treating clients with PTSD. Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder addresses concerns about the efficacy of critical incident stress debriefing, examines the value of a variety of innovative treatment methods, and explores the differences between treating complex PTSD and the aftermath of a one-time traumatic event. Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder discusses the issues, stages, and modalities of PTSD treatment, including: assessment and diagnosis psychopharmacological treatment cognitive behavioral treatment short-term treatment group treatments treatment strategies for traumatized children, families, hostages, police, and veterans media issues Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is an indispensable resource for clinicians, researchers, law enforcement officials, and scholars in the field of trauma.

Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Strategies for Comprehensive Treatment in Clinical Practice (Paperback):... Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Strategies for Comprehensive Treatment in Clinical Practice (Paperback)
Mary Beth Williams, John F. Sommer Jr
R1,916 Discovery Miles 19 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Discover the latest treatment strategies from the leading experts in the field of trauma!This unique book, by the authors of the classic Handbook of Post-Traumatic Therapy, provides the "how to" of clinical practice techniques in a variety of settings with a variety of clients. Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Strategies for Comprehensive Treatment in Clinical Practice delivers state-of-the-art techniques and information to help traumatized individuals, groups, families, and communities. From critical incident debriefing to treating combat veterans with longstanding trauma, it covers the full spectrum of PTSD clients and effective treatments. This valuable book assembles some of the most highly respected experts in trauma studies to discuss the practical applications of their research and their experience treating clients with PTSD. Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder addresses concerns about the efficacy of critical incident stress debriefing, examines the value of a variety of innovative treatment methods, and explores the differences between treating complex PTSD and the aftermath of a one-time traumatic event. Simple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder discusses the issues, stages, and modalities of PTSD treatment, including: assessment and diagnosis psychopharmacological treatment cognitive behavioral treatment short-term treatment group treatments treatment strategies for traumatized children, families, hostages, police, and veterans media issuesSimple and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is an indispensable resource for clinicians, researchers, law enforcement officials, and scholars in the field of trauma.

Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center - Choices and Challenges (Hardcover, 2001 ed.): Mary Beth Williams, Lasse A. Nurmi Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center - Choices and Challenges (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
Mary Beth Williams, Lasse A. Nurmi
R4,733 Discovery Miles 47 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Early Thoughts on Creating Comprehensive Trauma Centers This volume has been many years in writing. When Dr. Donald Meichenbaum first suggested it and I approached my coauthor Lasse Nurmi, it did not seem to be as formidable a task as it has become. Interviewing the centers in this book has taken years-to get responses, to summarize those responses, and to return the summaries for further comment. Many centers have been created in that time; others have suspended operation. This volume does not claim to present even a majority of those centers. However, the ones contained herein are representative of "what is out there. " The idea to create a comprehensive trauma center is not new. The initial section of this forward examines thoughts I proposed as part of my compre hensive examination for my doctorate. Many of the ideas proposed then (1989) seem to fit now. It is my dream to put them into practice someday in the future. THE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION QUESTION In 1989, one question on the written comprehensive examination ques tions for my doctorate was, "If you were to create a comprehensive trauma center in your suburban area, making use of what you have learned in your doctoral] experience, describe the organization of that center, the mission, structure, personnel, funding, objectives, and services it would offer. " Some of the conclusions reached then now seem applicable to the task at hand: design ing comprehensive trauma centers (CTCs) for the 21st century."

When A Community Weeps - Case Studies In Group Survivorship (Hardcover): Ellen S. Zinner, Mary Beth Williams When A Community Weeps - Case Studies In Group Survivorship (Hardcover)
Ellen S. Zinner, Mary Beth Williams
R4,188 Discovery Miles 41 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Contents:
Preface. Introduction. Williams, Zinner, Ellis, The Connection between Grief and Trauma: An Overview. Part I: Human-Made and Natural Disasters. Zinner, The Challenger Disaster: Group Survivorship on a National Landscape. Nurmi, The Estonia Disaster: National Interventions, Outcomes, and Personal Impacts. Watts, Wilson, The Kempsey Bus Disaster: The Effects on Australian Community Rescuers. Kalayjian, Coping with Meaning: The Community Response to the Earthquake in Armenia. Part II: Loss of Leaders/Heroes. Witztum, Malkinson, Death of a Leader: The Social Construction of Bereavement. Harnell, The Death and Rebirth of a Hero: Mickey Mantle's Legacy. Part III: Terrorist/Political Actions. Sitterle, Gurwitch, The Whole of a Community's Grief: Community Interventions in the Aftermath of the Terrorist Bombing in Oklahoma City. Bolton, The Threat to Belonging in Enniskillen: Reflections on the Remembrance Day Bombing. Lieblich, The Significance of Unforeseen Death in a Community on the Brink. Part IV: Synopsis. Zinner, Williams, Summary and Incorporation: A Reference Frame for Community Recovery and Restoration.

Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law - Selected State Research Guides (Hardcover): Beth Williams Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law - Selected State Research Guides (Hardcover)
Beth Williams
R3,354 R2,830 Discovery Miles 28 300 Save R524 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Researching ballot measures can be one of the most daunting types of legal research. Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law: Selected State Research Guides offers legal researchers an easy-to-use guide that provides thorough overviews of I&R (initiative and referendum) laws within twenty-three states. This unique resource provides state-specific guidance about both forms of I&R law, those state laws permitting I&R, and those state laws enacted as a result of the I&R process. Any legal researcher beginning a project or needing to know just where to go for the right resources will get helpful general and specific information on practical research strategies and resources. Up to now, finding the literature to research the state-specific history of a law passed by initiative or referendum has been extremely difficult. This book fills this gap by providing top researchers with brief overviews of the individual state processes while providing important primary and secondary sources, including Web sites. The guide's chapters are separated alphabetically by state for fast and easy reference. Annotated bibliographies of books, articles, and Web sites are provided, along with instructions about what documents one can expect to find on the Web, and how to use free databases. Because of this useful volume's unique focus, the book may well become an essential resource for law librarians, attorneys, law faculty, law students, and Political Science scholars. This book was published as a special issue of Legal Reference Services Quarterly.

Heal Your Ptsd - Dynamic Strategies That Work (Paperback): Michele Rosenthal Heal Your Ptsd - Dynamic Strategies That Work (Paperback)
Michele Rosenthal; Foreword by Mary Beth Williams
R535 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R98 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
When A Community Weeps - Case Studies In Group Survivorship (Paperback): Ellen S. Zinner, Mary Beth Williams When A Community Weeps - Case Studies In Group Survivorship (Paperback)
Ellen S. Zinner, Mary Beth Williams
R1,585 Discovery Miles 15 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When a Community Weeps provides a model for effective counselor intervention in bereaved communities. Individual chapters have been written by traumatologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and family members who have witnessed the effects of traumatic events first hand. Each chapter presents a specific traumatic event and gives perspectives on how these events affected the individuals involved as well as the community as a whole.

Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center - Choices and Challenges (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001): Mary... Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center - Choices and Challenges (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001)
Mary Beth Williams, Lasse A. Nurmi
R4,609 Discovery Miles 46 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Early Thoughts on Creating Comprehensive Trauma Centers This volume has been many years in writing. When Dr. Donald Meichenbaum first suggested it and I approached my coauthor Lasse Nurmi, it did not seem to be as formidable a task as it has become. Interviewing the centers in this book has taken years-to get responses, to summarize those responses, and to return the summaries for further comment. Many centers have been created in that time; others have suspended operation. This volume does not claim to present even a majority of those centers. However, the ones contained herein are representative of "what is out there. " The idea to create a comprehensive trauma center is not new. The initial section of this forward examines thoughts I proposed as part of my compre hensive examination for my doctorate. Many of the ideas proposed then (1989) seem to fit now. It is my dream to put them into practice someday in the future. THE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION QUESTION In 1989, one question on the written comprehensive examination ques tions for my doctorate was, "If you were to create a comprehensive trauma center in your suburban area, making use of what you have learned in your doctoral] experience, describe the organization of that center, the mission, structure, personnel, funding, objectives, and services it would offer. " Some of the conclusions reached then now seem applicable to the task at hand: design ing comprehensive trauma centers (CTCs) for the 21st century."

Everybody! Babies! (Paperback): Beth Williams-Breault Everybody! Babies! (Paperback)
Beth Williams-Breault
R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The 15th Chair - Book 1: The Journey (Paperback): Beth Williams The 15th Chair - Book 1: The Journey (Paperback)
Beth Williams; Illustrated by Tracie Schmidt; Matt Galeone
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The PTSD Workbook, 3rd Edition - Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms (Paperback, 3 Revised... The PTSD Workbook, 3rd Edition - Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms (Paperback, 3 Revised Edition)
Mary Beth Williams, Soili Poijula
R780 R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Save R87 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an extremely debilitating condition that can occur after exposure to a terrifying event. But whether you're a veteran of war, a victim of domestic violence or sexual violence, or have been involved in a natural disaster, crime, car accident, or accident in the workplace, your symptoms may be getting in the way of you living your life. PTSD can often cause you to relive your traumatic experience in the form of flashbacks, memories, nightmares, and frightening thoughts. This is especially true when you are exposed to events or objects that remind you of your trauma. Left untreated, PTSD can lead to emotional numbness, insomnia, addiction, anxiety, depression, and even suicide. So, how can you start to heal and get your life back? In The PTSD Workbook, Third Edition, psychologists and trauma experts Mary Beth Williams and Soili Poijula outline techniques and interventions used by PTSD experts from around the world to conquer distressing trauma-related symptoms. In this fully revised and updated workbook, you'll learn how to move past the trauma you've experienced and manage symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, and flashbacks. Based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this book is extremely accessible and easy-to-use, offering evidence-based therapy at a low cost. This new edition features chapters focusing on veterans with PTSD, the link between cortisol and adrenaline and its role in PTSD and overall mental health, and the mind-body component of PTSD. Clinicians will also find important updates reflecting the new DSM-V definition of PTSD. This book is designed to give you the emotional resilience you need to get your life back together after a traumatic event.

The Champion of Clarendon Ditch - Book 1: The Hatching (Paperback): Beth Williams The Champion of Clarendon Ditch - Book 1: The Hatching (Paperback)
Beth Williams; Matt Galeone
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Adam Darvin was a normal young man living in a suburb of Clarendon Ditch until the day he 'hatched.' Suddenly in a fiery trance-like state, Adam's incredible powers emerge. The life Adam knew is over in an instant and his entire world will never be the same. Although Adam initially feels isolated by his new powers, he slowly discovers that he's not alone. Adam meets other would-be heroes Liam Clover and Kerri Ross and develops deep friendships with both. Follow Adam, Liam, and Kerri as they learn more about their powers, discover secrets about their true enemies, and make new allies in what will begin as a fight for knowledge and survival, and soon become an epic struggle to save their world. The Champion of Clarendon Ditch is a story about heroism, sacrifice, loneliness, leadership, and above all, friendship. It combines the excitement of a super hero comic book adventure with the heart of a character-based and relationship driven novel. With both incredible battles and quieter moments between its characters, the story is as much about super-powered good fighting to overcome an all-powerful evil, as it is about the relationships, growth, love, and loss of its heroes.

The Champion of Clarendon Ditch - Book 3: The Champion (Paperback): Beth Williams The Champion of Clarendon Ditch - Book 3: The Champion (Paperback)
Beth Williams; Matt Galeone
R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Olive Anderson has conquered ACS and is close to conquering her world. All that stands in her way is a small but brave Alliance of former ACS students, 5th Columnists, and non-altered kids from Clarendon Ditch. Just as the Alliance needs to unite most, they find themselves fractured and weakened. Can Liam Clover recover from the brutal torture he endured while imprisoned by Olive as well as his own self-doubt to emerge as a hero, or will he succumb to his inner demons? Kerri Ross learns that she may not be as in control of herself as she thought. Will Kerri become the weapon that Olive uses to defeat the Alliance, or the hero that leads them to victory? Adam Darvin knows that he is becoming powerful enough to destroy Olive and ACS, but he fears that as he loses control of his abilities, he may become more terrible than the enemies he fights to defeat. Will Adam, Kerri, and Liam save their world, or become the cause of its ultimate demise? Thrilling and heartbreaking, The Champion, Book 3 of the Champion of Clarendon Ditch series, concludes the series' examination of heroism, sacrifice, loneliness, leadership, and friendship with tremendous adventure and heart. As the heroes' challenges intensify, they learn that if they are to succeed, it will not be due to incredible superhuman powers, but rather because of extraordinary, but very human, character.

The Champion of Clarendon Ditch - Book 2: The Alliance (Paperback): Beth Williams The Champion of Clarendon Ditch - Book 2: The Alliance (Paperback)
Beth Williams; Matt Galeone
R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Adam Darvin and Kerri Ross have finally learned the truth about ACS, the organization attempting to destroy Adam's and Kerri's world. Adam is now desperate to rescue Kerri from ACS and ACS leader Javier's clutches. With his friend Liam Clover and the ACS 5th Columnist Tony Jackson, Adam leads a rescue mission to save Kerri and Tony's imprisoned allies. Meanwhile, Kerri is hardly content to sit and wait for a rescue. She faces off against ACS's leader and attempts to battle her own way to freedom. Soon Adam and Kerri are reunited behind enemy lines. They find themselves not only fighting together to escape ACS, but also leading an unlikely alliance of altereds, interplanetary champions, and kids from Clarendon Ditch. Adam, Kerri, and Liam continue to develop their powers and friendships as they come to terms with their roles in their new world and the war they now must join. The characters grow as they band together to cope with tragedy and battle a new threat that emerges from within ACS. The Alliance continues the series themes of heroism, sacrifice, loneliness, leadership, and friendship with its more serious and darker tone. The scope of the action expands and the intensity of the relationships between the characters deepens. The heroes soon learn that all they have is each other, and together, they might just be all that stands in the way of ACS taking over the world. Will they be enough?

Web-Based Business (Paperback): Beth Williams Web-Based Business (Paperback)
Beth Williams
R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Think Google, think eBay think Amazon to name just a few Web-based businesses that have become global business giants. If you want to know how to start a Web business, how to transform your brick and mortar business to a Web business, or even if you are simply interested in making money online, this is the book for you. The proven methods and important secrets that this book reveals will help you start your own successful Web-based business: The benefits of a Web-based business and the keys to success Types of Web-based businesses and how to find your niche The finer points of successful a business plan Your business Website: How to choose a domain name, how to choose a Web host How to design your Website Securing your Web-based business from virus, scams and fraud The importance of search engines for promoting your Web-based business How to market your Web-based business How to retain your customers and keep them coming back again and again How to add a storefront and grow your Web-based business; eBay Storefront, Yahoo Small Business, Amazon Storefront, etc. PLUS: Secrets and ideas from successful Web-based business people, including actual examples and case studies.

Life After Trauma - A Workbook for Healing (Paperback, 2nd edition): Dena Rosenbloom, Mary Beth Williams Life After Trauma - A Workbook for Healing (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Dena Rosenbloom, Mary Beth Williams
R566 R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this engaging guide, Matthew Selekman presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children and their families overcome a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. Vivid case material illustrates how to engage clients rapidly and implement interventions that elicit their strengths. Integrating concepts and tools from a variety of therapeutic traditions, Selekman describes creative applications of interviewing, family art and play, postmodern and narrative techniques, and positive psychology. He highlights ways to promote spontaneity, fun, and new possibilities-especially with clients who feel stuck in longstanding difficulties and entrenched patterns of interaction. The book updates and refines the approach originally presented in Selekman's acclaimed Solution-Focused Therapy with Children.

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