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Beyond Best Practice

How Mental Health Services Can Be Better

By: Birgit Valla,David S. Prescott

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Beyond Best Practice

How Mental Health Services Can Be Better

By: Birgit Valla,David S. Prescott

Written by practitioners for practitioners, this empirically-grounded book offers clinicians of all backgrounds a guide to incorporating feedback and self-development strategies that will dramatically enhance their therapeutic abilities. Building on the foundation of Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT), Beyond Best Practice explores the benefits of practicing therapy using in-the-moment client feedback, with an emphasis on ongoing, typically solitary, deliberate practice. Chapters describe the real-world journey of an established master therapist and her agency, examining each element of FIT in detail through her eyes. Her journey is illustrated through discussions with prominent researchers, authors, former clients, as well as informative experiences outside of psychotherapy. Rich case examples of success, failure and "failing successfully" are also woven throughout, with a focus on the practical applications and skills needed to become an excellent and effective therapist and agency. What becomes clear through the many narratives is that we can improve our services by studying the obvious and subtle forms of feedback that are available to us at all times. Beyond Best Practice emphasizes what each practitioner can do to become more effective, one client at a time. It will be essential reading for all mental health practitioners and agencies working at the front lines of medical care.

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Routledge

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0429614608

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9780429614606

The Viking-age Rune-stones

Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia

By: Birgit Sawyer

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The Viking-age Rune-stones

Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia

By: Birgit Sawyer

There are over 3000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age. This book is the first attempt by a historian to study the material as a whole. The analysis reveals significant regional variations that reflect different stages in the process of conversion, and thegrowth of royal power. Many monuments were declarations of faith or manifestations of status; but virtually all reflect inheritance claims, and cast unexpected light on the prehistory of the inheritance customs found in later Scandinavian law codes. The results of this analysis make a significantcontribution to understanding developments in other parts of the Germanic world, as well as Scandinavia. The inclusion of a digest of the data-base on which this book is based will facilitate further study of this rich vein of evidence.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198206437

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9780198206439

Beyond Best Practice

How Mental Health Services Can Be Better

By: Birgit Valla,David S. Prescott

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Beyond Best Practice

How Mental Health Services Can Be Better

By: Birgit Valla,David S. Prescott

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Beyond Best Practice

Beyond Best Practice

The Viking-age Rune-stones

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Beyond Best Practice

Beyond Best Practice

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