Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to MyCounselingLab (R) with Pearson eText. To order MyCounselingLab (R) with Pearson eText packaged with the bound book, use ISBN 0134387457. In an accessible writing style, Fisher and Harrison's Substance Abuse: Information for School Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists and Counselors presents succinct, practical coverage of alcohol and other drug prevention, treatment, and recovery for generalist students, prospective mental health professionals, and allied professionals. It includes basic information on substances of abuse and focuses on clinically relevant knowledge on such topics as cultural competence, co-occurring disorders, other behavioral addictions, children and families, and ethics and confidentiality. Each chapter includes clinical application cases and questions for further discussion. The new edition inclues a new chapter on "Co-Occurring Disorders and Other Special Populations," new information on cultural competencies and intervening with special populations such as the elderly and LGBTQQI, and new information on risk factors for alcohol and other drugs for culturally and ethnically diverse populations. Also available with MyCounselingLab (R) This title is also available with MyCounselingLab-an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students see key concepts demonstrated through video clips, practice what they learn, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes.

The incandescent African American writer Gary Fisher was completely unpublished when he died of AIDS in 1994 at the age of 32. This volume, which includes all of Fisher’s stories and a generous selection from his journals, notebooks, and poems, will introduce readers to a tender, graphic, extravagant, and unswervingly incisive talent. In Fisher’s writings the razor-sharp rage is equalled only by the enveloping sweetness; the raw eroticism by a dazzling writerly elegance. Evocations of a haunting and mobile childhood are mixed in Fisher’s stories with an X-ray view of the racialized sexual vernaculars of gay San Francisco; while the journals braid together the narratives of sexual exploration and discovery, a joyous and deepening vocation as a writer, a growing intimacy with death, and an engagement with racial problematics that becomes ever more gravely and probingly imaginative. A uniquely intimate, unflinching testimony of the experience of a young, African American gay man in the AIDS emergency, Gary in Your Pocket includes an introduction by Don Belton that describes Fisher’s achievement in the context of other work by Black gay men such as Marlon Riggs and Essex Hemphill, and a biographical afterword by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

We live in a time of troubling challenges to the security and permanence of marriage and family. Differences exist among children of God on the issues of marriage, divorce, and remarriage. Families have been rocked by the harsh realities of divorce. Churches have faced questions of meaning and application of the Biblical text which have sometimes resulted in division. And yet, to the credit of men and women of varying opinions, many are still asking sincere questions about the teaching of the Bible on this important topic. "Is it Lawful?" represents the effort of thirty men over a period of more than two years. It is the product of men seeking Truth on vital issues that threaten families, churches, and eternal souls. Care has been taken to assemble material that will aid in honest study of questions concerning divorce.

If the number of articles copied from a book indicates its value, then "Two Men," first published in 1998, must have been widely considered useful. This little book has proved to be one of the most popular sources of church bulletin articles in recent years. Perhaps it is their brevity that makes them fit nicely in a bulletin. More likely it is the practical treatment of needed topics in such a way that what is right appears reasonable and preferable to any alternative. The brief articles contrasting different characters fill about one-fourth of the book, thus the title, "Two Men." The men described remind us of people we know, and sometime of ourselves, as we see qualities both good and bad so graphically described. Such portraits should encourage self-improvement. The remaining articles are equally practical, dealing with such subjects as family, church, doctrinal questions and Christian living, providing godly wisdom for dealing with real life situations.