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Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO The Guidebook for Helping Professionals

Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO The Guidebook for Helping Professionals

LEGO® bricks are a staple in many child and play therapists’ offices and Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® shows therapists and counselors how to integrate LEGO® in a therapeutically valuable way. This book presents a therapeutic approach based in biological psychological and social research one that supports participants as they build models that represent their thoughts emotions experiences and reflections. Using a variety of evidence-based intervention techniques chapters show clinicians how to incorporate the model and associated metaphors to help clients and they do so in a way that is compatible with any number of therapeutic orientations or perspectives. Though based in current research Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® is designed for psychologists social workers school counselors occupational therapists clinical educators and supervisors coaches support workers and other health care providers across the lifespan who wish to use play therapeutically. | Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® The Guidebook for Helping Professionals

GBP 28.99
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Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group‘s worldwide Learning Organization. The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization. Providing expert insight into the work of culture change the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application. The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book you will gain valuable insight into how your organization whether large or small national or international can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture. | Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

GBP 175.00
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Leading Transformations Using the LEGO Way of Change to Drive Transformations Effectively and Successfully

Leading Transformations Using the LEGO Way of Change to Drive Transformations Effectively and Successfully

The world and its business environments are in a state of constant change. The reality today is that organizations and their leaders are faced with increasingly daunting demands for change and unless they build organizations that can keep pace with these fast-changing environments it will be a challenge simply to survive while at the same time continuing to thrive and embrace uncertainty and disorder. One effective example of a world-renowned company that survived an existential crisis to become one of the most iconic companies in the world: The LEGO Group. In Building a Global Learning Organization (CRC Press 2014) the authors showed how to develop and implement a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) methods. In that book you learned how the LEGO Group worked on business transformation through changes in organizational learning systems including new ways of working and other Lean transformational initiatives. Great organizations have used that book as a benchmark for global and national rollouts of TWI programs and standard work initiatives. In this book you get inspiration on how the LEGO Group met these challenges by developing and implementing a framework for transformations to create a common approach to designing leading and anchoring change in an effective and impactful way. You get insights into the journey which began by designing the LEGO Way of Change the process of testing the approach in a bigger transformation which based on pilot learnings was implemented in transformational initiatives. This book outlines some of the approaches that the LEGO Group implemented in order to ensure change would be both successfully implemented and sustained including in-depth guides on impactful interventions with both leaders and people in the organization. The author discusses personalizing and navigating change as well as designing change in the organization and measuring its impact. You will continue learning more from specific real-life case studies from business leaders focused on different kinds of transformation from reshaping functional teams to optimizing lead time through improved ways of working. When it comes down to it change is about the people side of the equation. It is easy to change strategy process or technology but it is harder to change individuals people and their behaviors. This book will provide inspiration and guidance on how to bring the people side of change into play in an effective and impactful way. | Leading Transformations Using the LEGO® Way of Change to Drive Transformations Effectively and Successfully

GBP 38.99
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Car Ownership Forecasting

Car Ownership Forecasting

Originally published in 1982 this book gives a concise commentary on the development and performance of car ownership prediction procedures and a wide-ranging survey of the modelling techniques associated with forecasting. The book provides a basic appreciation of the key points whether they are mathematical or otherwise. Throughout the book there is a theme which relates the academic debate surrounding the issue to technical rather than philosophical concepts. | Car Ownership Forecasting

GBP 27.99
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The Future of Correctional Rehabilitation Moving Beyond the RNR Model and Good Lives Model Debate

The Future of Correctional Rehabilitation Moving Beyond the RNR Model and Good Lives Model Debate

In the aftermath of Martinson’s 1974 nothing works doctrine scholars have made a concerted effort to develop an evidence-based corrections theory and practice to show what works to change offenders. Perhaps the most important contribution to this effort was made by a group of Canadian psychologists most notably Donald Andrews James Bonta and Paul Gendreau who developed a treatment paradigm called the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model which became the dominant theory of correctional treatment. This approach was more recently challenged by a perspective developed by Tony Ward Shadd Maruna and others called the Good Lives Model (GLM). Based in part on desistance research and positive psychology this model proposes to rehabilitate offenders by building on the strengths offenders possess. GLM proponents see the RNR model as a deficit model that fixes dynamic risk factors rather than identifying what offenders value most and using these positive factors to pull them out of crime. Through a detailed examination of both models’ theoretical and correctional frameworks The Future of Correctional Rehabilitation: Moving Beyond the RNR Model and Good Lives Model Debate probes the extent to which the models offer incompatible or compatible approaches to offender treatment and suggests how to integrate the RNR and GLM approaches to build a new and hopefully more effective vision for offender treatment. A foreword by renowned criminologist Francis T. Cullen helps put the material into context. This book will be of much interest to scholars and students studying correctional rehabilitation as well as practitioners working with offenders. | The Future of Correctional Rehabilitation Moving Beyond the RNR Model and Good Lives Model Debate

GBP 52.99
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The East Asian Model Transformation and Sustainability

The East Asian Model Transformation and Sustainability

Hyungkee Kim analyses the model of East Asian development as it existed during periods of high growth and how it was transformed by pressures from both the Washington consensus and its own internal contradictions. Many have discussed the successes and failures of the East Asian model but Kim is concerned rather with the story of its transformation and its long-term sustainability. He uses a Five Sector Model which focuses on the state corporate financial labour and foreign sectors to identify the core of East Asian model and examine the variants in Korea Japan and China. He also outlines the distinctions between the East Asian model and Western development models including the Anglo-American Rhine and Nordic models. He analyses in detail the institutional changes such as marketization privatization liberalization and flexibilization that have transformed the East Asian model. Highlighting the major problems that emerged from the transformation of the East Asian model Kim assesses its prospects for economic social and ecological sustainability and proposes an agenda for institutional reforms. An essential reading for scholars of East Asian political economy. | The East Asian Model Transformation and Sustainability

GBP 120.00
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The Standard Model and Beyond

The Standard Model and Beyond

This new edition of The Standard Model and Beyond presents an advanced introduction to the physics and formalism of the standard model and other non-abelian gauge theories. It provides a solid background for understanding supersymmetry string theory extra dimensions dynamical symmetry breaking and cosmology. In addition to updating all of the experimental and phenomenological results from the first edition it contains a new chapter on collider physics; expanded discussions of Higgs neutrino and dark matter physics; and many new problems. The book first reviews calculational techniques in field theory and the status of quantum electrodynamics. It then focuses on global and local symmetries and the construction of non-abelian gauge theories. The structure and tests of quantum chromodynamics collider physics the electroweak interactions and theory and the physics of neutrino mass and mixing are thoroughly explored. The final chapter discusses the motivations for extending the standard model and examines supersymmetry extended gauge groups and grand unification. Thoroughly covering gauge field theories symmetries and topics beyond the standard model this text equips readers with the tools to understand the structure and phenomenological consequences of the standard model to construct extensions and to perform calculations at tree level. It establishes the necessary background for readers to carry out more advanced research in particle physics. Supplementary materials are provided on the author’s website and a solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors.

GBP 44.99
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Mixture Model-Based Classification

Mixture Model-Based Classification

This is a great overview of the field of model-based clustering and classification by one of its leading developers. McNicholas provides a resource that I am certain will be used by researchers in statistics and related disciplines for quite some time. The discussion of mixtures with heavy tails and asymmetric distributions will place this text as the authoritative modern reference in the mixture modeling literature. (Douglas Steinley University of Missouri)Mixture Model-Based Classification is the first monograph devoted to mixture model-based approaches to clustering and classification. This is both a book for established researchers and newcomers to the field. A history of mixture models as a tool for classification is provided and Gaussian mixtures are considered extensively including mixtures of factor analyzers and other approaches for high-dimensional data. Non-Gaussian mixtures are considered from mixtures with components that parameterize skewness and/or concentration right up to mixtures of multiple scaled distributions. Several other important topics are considered including mixture approaches for clustering and classification of longitudinal data as well as discussion about how to define a clusterPaul D. McNicholas is the Canada Research Chair in Computational Statistics at McMaster University where he is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. His research focuses on the use of mixture model-based approaches for classification with particular attention to clustering applications and he has published extensively within the field. He is an associate editor for several journals and has served as a guest editor for a number of special issues on mixture models.

GBP 44.99
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The Biological Resources of Model Organisms

The Biological Resources of Model Organisms

This book discusses 14 model organisms and are used by thousands of researchers teachers and students each year in laboratories and classrooms around the globe. Though acknowledged in innumerable scientific journal articles little is generally known about the origin of these collections how the organisms contained within them have been acquired and how they are maintained and distributed. While some collections such as Drosophila have long histories others such as the collection of Brachionus are relatively new. They vary greatly in size. Yet all have contributed and are continuing to contribute to global research efforts in many areas of scientific research as diverse as tissue regeneration skin cancer evolution water purity gene function and hundreds of others. In addition to providing the raw materials for national and international research programs these collections also provide educational tools used by colleges and high schools. The chapters in this book attempt to provide a brief look at the individual organisms how they came to be accepted as model organisms the history of the individual collections examples of how the organisms have been and are being used in scientific research and a description of the facilities and procedures used to maintain them. Features:• Provides an in-depth look at the collections of 14 model organisms that have enabled innumerable scientific breakthroughs over decades and that continue to do so. • Includes detailed descriptions of the operating procedures used for the maintenance of each model organism collection. • Discusses the holdings of the collections of model organisms and its relevance to past current and future scientific research. • Written by the leaders in the field of the management of model organisms. | The Biological Resources of Model Organisms

GBP 44.99
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Business Model Innovation Concepts Analysis and Cases

Business Model Innovation Concepts Analysis and Cases

Rooted in strategic management research Business Model Innovation explores the concepts tools and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation globalization and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy. Updated with all-new cases this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals of business model innovation explores the novel ways in which an organization can generate deliver and monetize benefits to customers. | Business Model Innovation Concepts Analysis and Cases

GBP 77.99
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Model-free Hedging A Martingale Optimal Transport Viewpoint

Model-free Hedging A Martingale Optimal Transport Viewpoint

Model-free Hedging: A Martingale Optimal Transport Viewpoint focuses on the computation of model-independent bounds for exotic options consistent with market prices of liquid instruments such as Vanilla options. The author gives an overview of Martingale Optimal Transport highlighting the differences between the optimal transport and its martingale counterpart. This topic is then discussed in the context of mathematical finance. | Model-free Hedging A Martingale Optimal Transport Viewpoint

GBP 46.99
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Business Model Innovation How it really works

Business Model Innovation How it really works

Based on the author’s 30 years of consulting experience and validated by doctoral research this book focuses on creating profitable growth with business model innovation in medium and large companies. Arising from an increased need for systems thinking and technological development there is a common understanding that a business model should primarily create develop and retain value for companies' customers. But increased globalization and resource constraints have led to a difficult balancing act when addressing the challenges of achieving profitable processes and long-term growth. This book provides a new framework based on six central themes with five related success factors each to enhance opportunities’ visibility contribute to improved margins increase awareness of a company’s unique strengths and weaknesses in overall resources manage risk and optimize implementation of a new model throughout an entire organization. Owners board members and managers of medium and large companies worldwide as well as advanced business students will appreciate this detailed practical and clarifying approach to business model innovation. | Business Model Innovation How it really works

GBP 31.99
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Street Fights in Copenhagen Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City

Street Fights in Copenhagen Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City

With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport. This book considers the underlying political conditions that enabled cycling to appeal to such a wide range of citizens in Copenhagen and asks how this can be replicated elsewhere. Despite Copenhagen’s global reputation its success has been a result of a long political struggle and is far from completely secure. Car use in Denmark is increasing including in Copenhagen's suburbs and new developments in Copenhagen include more parking for cars. There is a political tension in Copenhagen over the spaces for cycling the car and public transit. In considering examples of backlashes and conflicts over street space in Copenhagen this book argues that the kinds of debates happening in Copenhagen are very similar to the debates regularly occurring in cities throughout the world. This makes Copenhagen more not less comparable to many cities around the world including cities in the United States. This book will appeal to upper-level undergraduates and graduates in urban geography city planning transportation environmental studies as well as transportation advocates urban policy-makers and anyone concerned about climate change and looking to identify paths forward in their own cities and localities. | Street Fights in Copenhagen Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City

GBP 46.99
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Integrative Perinatal Counselling The Becoming Model

Integrative Perinatal Counselling The Becoming Model

This book presents “the Becoming Model” an integrative perinatal counselling model that provides a practical clinical framework to therapists working with those for whom the question of becoming a parent seems central. Becoming a parent changes your identity household worldviews relationships priorities and previous life goals. Based on the notion that one does not become a mother or a father overnight rather that it is a process of “becoming” this model provides a roadmap for therapists (psychoanalytic behavioural humanistic integrative and others) looking to understand and explore their client’s experience of this transitional journey through talk-therapy. It defines the unique field of perinatal counselling highlights major clinical considerations presents clinical observations by drawing from real-life cases and provides the therapist with one-stop-information guides on each theme (ten) and sub-theme (40) by drawing from existing research i. e. evidence-based practice. Arguably one of the few counselling models specific to the perinatal period this user-friendly guide which is applicable to any modality is designed to support psychotherapists counsellors nurses midwives and other mental health professionals working therapeutically with those who are going through the pre- or peri-natal period or those who have experienced perinatal loss. | Integrative Perinatal Counselling The Becoming Model

GBP 24.99
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The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving

The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving explores the roots and strengths of Nordic digital archiving and proposes new directions to guide digital archivists in addressing the challenges posed by ever-changing digital technologies and the datafication of information and records. Digitization and born-digital records promise efficient and cost-effective solutions to everything from preservation of data to easy user access. However digitization also poses challenges for archival practitioners worldwide. Bringing together contributions from practitioners and academics to offer a range of international case studies this book offers practical solutions for archivists in terms of governance technologies and processes. It highlights and analyses the cornerstones of the Nordic model of archiving: reliance on standards; powerful regulatory instruments - especially in public sector archiving including legislation; and collaboration between archivists and government agencies and among different tiers of central and local government. While showcasing work in the Nordic region for the benefit of archivists and record keepers globally this volume also challenges the limits of the Nordic model with insights drawn from international archival theory. The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving offers a new perspective on archiving that will be of interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students of archiving digital archives and records management.

GBP 130.00
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Multilevel Model Foundations Monopoly Data and Stata

Multilevel Model Foundations Monopoly Data and Stata

This book introduces the foundations of multilevel models using Monopoly® rent data from the classic board game and the statistical program Stata®. Widespread experience with the game means many readers have a head start on understanding these models. The small-data set 132 rent values for 22 properties clustered by the four sides of the playing board combines with extensive graphical displays of data and results so all readers can see core multilevel ideas in action at a granular level. Two chapters on standard statistical models one-way analysis of variance and multiple regression help readers see how multilevel models rely on but also extend these monolevel ideas. Chapters present three basic multilevel models for cross-sectional analyses – analysis of variance analysis of covariance and random coefficients regression – and one basic developmental model for longitudinal analyses. Troubleshooting guidance combined with close examination of data patterns and careful inspection of model parameters all help readers better grasp what model results mean when model results should or should not be trusted and how model results link back to core theoretical questions. Consequently readers will develop a sense of best practices for building and diagnosing their own multilevel models. Those who complete the volume can readily apply what they have learned to more complex datasets and models and adapt available online Stata do files to those projects. Any social scientist working with data clustered in time in space or in both and seeking to learn more about how to use interpret or teach these models will find the book useful. | Multilevel Model Foundations Monopoly® Data and Stata

GBP 48.99
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Beyond First Order Model Theory Volume I and II

Beyond First Order Model Theory Volume I and II

Model theory is the meta-mathematical study of the concept of mathematical truth. After Afred Tarski coined the term Theory of Models in the early 1950’s it rapidly became one of the central most active branches of mathematical logic. In the last few decades ideas that originated within model theory have provided powerful tools to solve problems in a variety of areas of classical mathematics including algebra combinatorics geometry number theory and Banach space theory and operator theory. The two volumes of Beyond First Order Model Theory present the reader with a fairly comprehensive vista rich in width and depth of some of the most active areas of contemporary research in model theory beyond the realm of the classical first-order viewpoint. Each chapter is intended to serve both as an introduction to a current direction in model theory and as a presentation of results that are not available elsewhere. All the articles are written so that they can be studied independently of one another. The first volume is an introduction to current trends in model theory and contains a collection of articles authored by top researchers in the field. It is intended as a reference for students as well as senior researchers. This second volume contains introductions to real-valued logic and applications abstract elementary classes and applications interconnections between model theory and function spaces nonstucture theory and model theory of second-order logic. Features A coherent introduction to current trends in model theory. Contains articles by some of the most influential logicians of the last hundred years. No other publication brings these distinguished authors together. Suitable as a reference for advanced undergraduate postgraduates and researchers. Material presented in the book (e. g abstract elementary classes first-order logics with dependent sorts and applications of infinitary logics in set theory) is not easily accessible in the current literature. The various chapters in the book can be studied independently. | Beyond First Order Model Theory Volume I and II

GBP 230.00
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Legal Ethics for Lawyers A New Model

Legal Ethics for Lawyers A New Model

This book proposes a new model of professional ethics enabling lawyers to advise clients upon both the law and ethics. This will better protect clients and society and enhance lawyers’ professional obligations. The current model of legal ethics developed in the 19th century specified that the role of lawyers was only to interpret the law not also to give ethical advice. This was acceptable to lawyers clients and society at that time. However this is not the case now and legal ethics no longer reflects the needs of modern legal practice. This book draws on moral philosophy to present a new model of legal ethics that explains the analytical process to include ethical advice. It analyses the potential harm of the present model to the legal profession who have duties to the law and justice that may compete with demands by clients to serve them. Further lawyers’ duty to clients to act in their best interests is sometimes not adequately fulfilled as legal ethics does not permit lawyers to give ethical advice even if it may be in clients’ best interests to do so. The work includes a detailed case study of corporate law practice to show why a new legal ethics is required. Other case examples are provided to demonstrate that lawyers practicing in all areas of law encounter ethical issues and they too will benefit from a new legal ethics. The book will be essential reading for students academics lawyers and professional bodies. | Legal Ethics for Lawyers A New Model

GBP 44.99
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Public Relations Crisis Communication A New Model

Public Relations Crisis Communication A New Model

This book explores the definition nature and context of public relations crises; it also examines and defines the main elements of public relations crises and positions it in the context of the current communication sphere. Public Relations Crisis Communication: A New Model investigates existing group communication theories including organizational culture critical theory of organizations media ecology public rhetoric and cross-cultural communication theory to establish their relevance in the context of the new model of public relations crisis. Key concepts from existing public relations crisis theory are also discussed and validated in order to establish prevailing thought. Through a case study of Malaysia Airlines MH370 involving a textual analyses of press communications on the Malaysia Airlines website this book scrutinises prevailing theory and definitions. Most valuably this book proposes a new definition and model of public relations crisis alongside a suggested extension to existing crisis communication theory in the form of a hierarchy of publics to be addressed during crises. This will help to address divergent publics with differing priorities in public relations crisis communication. This book is of interest to students teachers researchers and practitioners of public relations communication media and marketing as well as professionals in the aviation industry and international relations. | Public Relations Crisis Communication A New Model

GBP 19.99
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Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families Children and Adults The Diamond Model

Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families Children and Adults The Diamond Model

Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families Children and Adults: The Diamond Model is a comprehensive introduction to a model of multi-systemic integrative culturally competent child and family-oriented psychotherapy: The Diamond Model. This model integrates a great number of concepts methods and techniques found in diverse fields such as the various branches of psychology and psychotherapy cultural anthropology biology linguistics and more into a single linguistically unified theoretical and methodological framework. Through this model the author presents clinical cases to help explore various internal and external factors that lead individuals and families to seek out therapy. The book also reserves a special place for examining play therapeutic and culturally competent techniques. With vivid clinical examples throughout Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families Children and Adults serves both as a theory-to-practice guide and as a reference book for therapists working with children and families in training and practice. | Multi-Dimensional Therapy with Families Children and Adults The Diamond Model

GBP 34.99
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Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy An Integrated Model

Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy An Integrated Model

Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy: An Integrated Model (ITAP) introduces a new approach of psychotherapy. Based on psychodynamic foundations the ITAP integrates the most recent trends in short-term dynamic psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis. This book develops an innovative clear and complete clinical model of ITAP and introduces the reader step-by-step to the theoretical basis underlying the technique of this intervention. The authors introduce the therapeutic procedure by bringing together the theory with brief clinical examples thereby demonstrating the attitude of the intense therapist as well as which theoretical pathways to take to progress with the patient. In addition to the modulation of the technique based on the level of the patient’s suffering there is also a systematic examination of which cases should be treated with ITAP and in what way. Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy is a therapy which can be easily used by all therapists and this book will be of great interest to Transactional Analysis therapists and other therapists interested in Transactional Analysis and short-term dynamic psychotherapy. | Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy An Integrated Model

GBP 28.99
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ECESIS: An Interregional Economic-Demographic Model of the United States

ECESIS: An Interregional Economic-Demographic Model of the United States

Originally published in 1989. ECESIS consists of 51 regional econometric models (one for each state and the District of Columbia) and a multiregional demographic model. Its distinguishing feature is the linking of sophisticated demographic accounts with sophisticated structural econometric models. This book looking at how strong the interactions are between population dynamics and economic activity determines to what extent the simultaneous economic-demographic interregional model provides improved projection and simulation properties over regional economic and demographic models used independently of one another. | ECESIS: An Interregional Economic-Demographic Model of the United States

GBP 21.99
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Ecotherapy in Practice A Buddhist Model

Ecotherapy in Practice A Buddhist Model

Ecotherapy in Practice reflects the growing interest and research in this field. Drawing on a diversity of experience from the counselling and psychotherapy professions but also from practitioners in community work mental health and education this book explores the exciting and innovative possibilities involved in practising outdoors. Caroline Brazier brings to bear her experience and knowledge as a psychotherapist group worker and trainer over several decades to think about therapeutic work outdoors in all its forms. The book presents a model of ecotherapy based on principles drawn from Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy which focuses particularly on the relationship between person and environment at three levels moving from the personal level of individual history to cultural influences then finally to global circumstances all of which condition mind-states and psychological wellbeing. Ecotherapy in Practice will provide refreshing and valuable reading for psychotherapists and counsellors in the field those interested in Buddhism and other mental health and health professionals working outdoors | Ecotherapy in Practice A Buddhist Model

GBP 39.99
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The Nordic Model and Physical Culture

The Nordic Model and Physical Culture

This book examines the relationships between the Nordic social democratic welfare system (‘The Nordic Model’) and physical culture across the domains of sport education and public space. Presenting important new empirical research it helps us to understand how the paradoxical blend of social democracy and liberalism in the Nordic countries influences physical culture which in turn contributes to a quality of life that ranks highest in the world. Drawing on perspectives from sociology cultural studies history education political science outdoor studies and urban studies the book explores topics such as dance education for sport students doping in cross-country skiing outdoor education the active body and the ideology of public parks. It includes research material from across the region including Norway Sweden Iceland Finland and Denmark. This is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in physical culture sport studies leisure studies or outdoor studies as well as sociologists or political scientists with an interest in Nordic politics culture and society. | The Nordic Model and Physical Culture

GBP 38.99
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