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Play Therapy Theory and Practice

Comparing Theories and Techniques

By: Kevin J. O'Connor,Lisa D. Braverman

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Play Therapy Theory and Practice

Comparing Theories and Techniques

By: Kevin J. O'Connor,Lisa D. Braverman

The Bestselling Text on the Theory and Practice of Play Therapy Completely Updated and Revised Play Therapy Theory and Practice: Comparing Theories and Techniques, Second Edition provides a forum for the direct comparison of the major theoretical models of play therapy and their implications for treatment. Co-edited by Kevin O'Connor, one of the foremost authorities on play therapy, and Lisa Braverman, an experienced child psychologist, the new edition contains the most recent coverage of diagnostic approaches and treatment modalities in child psychology as they relate to integrating play therapy in practice. This edition also covers new topics such as bipolar and ADHD diagnosis and treatment. Thorough, yet extraordinarily practical, the editors use two case studies throughout the text to demonstrate the application of each play therapy technique and treatment approach, allowing the reader to compare each major model of play therapy and assess its utility to their own particular client needs and practice orientation. After the cases are presented in the introduction, ten chapters follow, each written by a renowned expert(s) in play therapy introducing a major model of play therapy and applying it to the opening cases. This consistent format enables professionals to gain a practical, hands-on understanding of how current approaches to play therapy work, as well as the underlying principles upon which they are based. Written for mental health professionals at all levels of training and experience, Play Therapy Theory and Practice: Comparing Theories and Techniques, Second Edition covers: Psychoanalytic Play Therapy Jungian Analytical Play Therapy Child-Centered Play Therapy Filial Therapy Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy Adlerian Play Therapy Gestalt Play Therapy Theraplay Ecosystemic Play Therapy Prescriptive Play Therapy Informative, thought provoking, and clinically useful, Play Therapy Theory and Practice: Comparing Theories and Techniques, Second Edition is a valuable resource for practitioners in the field of child psychotherapy, setting the standard for training and practice.

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0470459395

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Hospice and Palliative Care

The Essential Guide

By: Stephen R. Connor

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Hospice and Palliative Care

The Essential Guide

By: Stephen R. Connor

The third edition of Hospice and Palliative Care is the essential guide to the hospice and palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world. Chapters provide mental-health and medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of the hospice practice as well as discussions of challenges and the future direction of the hospice movement. Updates to the new edition include advances in spiritual assessment and care, treatment of prolonged and complicated grief, provision of interdisciplinary palliative care in limited-resource settings, significant discussion of assisted suicide, primary healthcare including oncology, and more. Staff and volunteers new to the field along with experienced care providers and those using hospice and palliative care services will find this essential reading.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317221176

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Three Hand Reel

By: Frank O'Connor

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Three Hand Reel

By: Frank O'Connor

THE STORIES: THE FRYING PAN. Had Bill Whitten stuck to his original plan he would have become a priest, but love intervened and he dropped out of the seminary to marry. Now he and his wife Una have several children, but for Bill the call of the pri

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822211386

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Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015

By: Karen Sands-O'Connor

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Children’s Publishing and Black Britain, 1965-2015

By: Karen Sands-O'Connor

This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community publishing and children’s literature prizes, the study investigates the motivation behind both independent and mainstream publishing firm decisions to produce books for a specifically Black British audience. Beginning with a consideration of early reading schemes that incorporated Black and Asian characters, the book continues with a history of one of the earliest presses to publish for children, Bogle L’Ouverture. Other chapters look at the influence of community-based and independent presses, the era of multiculturalism and anti-racism, the effect of racially-motivated violence on children’s publishing, and the dubious benefit of awards for Black British publishing. The volume will appeal to children’s literature scholars, librarians, teachers, education-policy makers and Black British historians.

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Springer

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1137579048

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Life on the Fringe

By: Allison O’connor

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Life on the Fringe

By: Allison O’connor

Life on the Fringe is the tale of a woman plagued by the effects of manic depression and seasonal affective disorder whose condition is greatly aggravated by the birth of her sixth child, which leads to poor living conditions and isolation for the family. The woman resents the child from her birth, and a struggle between the two escalates out of proportion, resulting in the torture of the girl that she must endure in order to keep the family together. The girl adores her father and competes with her mother for his love and attention. Although the father takes a special interest in the girl and a strong bond forms between them, his unwavering love for his wife is no match for the girl. When the father contracts tuberculosis and is sent to a sanatorium for over two years, the young girl is left vulnerable to the vicious attacks from her mother, and the hatred they feel for one another fuels their struggle, causing the girl to rebel, which leads to even greater abuse by her mother. By the time the father returns to the home, the mother has sunk into a deep despair, never to recover. Her death is greeted with relief by the young girl, but also the loss of her fathers attention, whose life has become meaningless without his wife. The girl does find love outside the home and is finally able to look forward to a brighter future.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543420567

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Acid Lullaby

By: Ed O'Connor

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Acid Lullaby

By: Ed O'Connor

A deranged predator on the rampage, a man with a terrible, drug fuelled obsession, a monster who thinks he's a god. The discovery of a decapitated body signals the start of a living nightmare for Inspector Alison Dexter. As she struggles to co-ordinate the manhunt, Dexter is suddenly forced to confront two demons from her own past: the arrival of a man that poisoned her career and the resurrected memory of a life she had to destroy. Returning to New Bolden CID after medical leave, John Underwood leams that Jack Harvey - the police psychiatrist that saved his own sanity - has been murdered. Events take on an added urgency when Harvey's wife is savagely abducted. Baffled by the killer's crazed modus operandi, Underwood becomes entangled in Dexter's investigation and eventually finds assistance from the unlikeliest of sources.

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Allison & Busby

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0749018046

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The Canterbury Tales

A Play Based on the Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

By: John O'Connor

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The Canterbury Tales

A Play Based on the Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

By: John O'Connor

Dramascripts is an outstanding series of playscripts that are ideal for mixed class reading and performance. This extensive series of scripts encourages students to explore language and a variety of dramatic genres including myths and legends, classic Shakespeare, adventure, thriller, romance and more. Each edition provides guidance and activities alongside the text.

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Nelson Thornes

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0174326580

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Diaries of the Dark Side

By: Cassidy O'Connor

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Diaries of the Dark Side

By: Cassidy O'Connor

Young Cassidy O'Connor was an avid researcher of the supernatural. When she found herself involved in a case that was unlike any other, however, she was forced to open her eyes. With the introduction of young Matthew into her life, she began to realize this was not a normal haunting. This was something very different - this was evil. Cassidy dug through layers of historical events and learned how the past can always come back to haunt you. Combining history with folklore, she discovered that what tormented Matthew and his family was not a ghost or a simple whisper, but something out of Hell itself. This is a true, first-person account from the woman who aided that family over a three year period. Not even medical diagnoses, hospitals, or the legal system could explain what plagued Matthew, but Cassidy, without any experience of the demonic, had to prepare herself for the fight. This story is a warning to those who believe that the world of the demonic is something to toy with. It is a warning to those who feel that fame and fortune can come from entering that forbidden world.

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BLACK OAK MEDIA INC

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0979040159

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Gender and Women's Leadership

A Reference Handbook

By: Karen O'Connor

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Gender and Women's Leadership

A Reference Handbook

By: Karen O'Connor

These volumes provide an authoritative reference resource on leadership issues specific to women and gender, with a focus on positive aspects and opportunities for leadership in various domains.

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SAGE

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1412960835

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Undoing Perpetual Stress

The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21stCentury Illness

By: Richard O'Connor

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Undoing Perpetual Stress

The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21stCentury Illness

By: Richard O'Connor

The author of Undoing Depression presents an effective guide to modern anxiety, and shows how you can recognize—and rescue yourself from—its effects. Twenty-first-century life evolves at a breakneck pace—and with it, stress seems to multiply by the day. We work long, harrowing hours. We fret over our families and finances. Our e-mail beeps and our cell phones ring. But our nervous systems were never meant to handle so many stressors. In this groundbreaking book, psychotherapist Richard O’Connor explains how a wide range of common problems—both emotional and physical—are actually side effects of modern life, and how you can undo their damage. Combining expertise with down-to-earth language, Undoing Perpetual Stress explains how you can: • Recognize the hidden effects of stress on your brain and body • Understand your inner sanity in conflict with a crazy world • Develop self-control over how you think, act and feel when stressed • Regain a sense of meaning and purpose in your life You already know how to “do” stress. With the help of this book, you can undo it, too.

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Penguin

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110109916X

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Orphan Trains

The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed

By: Stephen O'Connor

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Orphan Trains

The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed

By: Stephen O'Connor

The true story behind Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel is revealed in this “engaging and thoughtful history” of the Children’s Aid Society (Los Angeles Times). A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing the evolution of the Children’s Aid Society, this dramatic narrative tells the fascinating tale of one of the most famous—and sometimes infamous—child welfare programs: the orphan trains, which spirited away some two hundred fifty thousand abandoned children into the homes of rural families in the Midwest. In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, whether orphans or runaways, filled the streets. The city’s solution for years had been to sweep these children into prisons or almshouses. But a young minister named Charles Loring Brace took a different tack. With the creation of the Children’s Aid Society in 1853, he provided homeless youngsters with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family out west. The family matching process was haphazard, to say the least: at town meetings, farming families took their pick of the orphan train riders. Some children, such as James Brady, who became governor of Alaska, found loving homes, while others, such as Charley Miller, who shot two boys on a train in Wyoming, saw no end to their misery. Complete with extraordinary photographs and deeply moving stories, Orphan Trains gives invaluable insights into a creative genius whose pioneering, if controversial, efforts inform child rescue work today.

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HMH

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054752370X

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Cosmic Adultery

By: Kelly Connor

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Cosmic Adultery

By: Kelly Connor

‘My name is Mary Theobold,’ she said, when it was her turn to speak. Ralf’s head swivelled of its own accord to look at her. Her voice seemed to take hold of him. She continued, ‘I’m a playwright, an actor and an author. My books and my plays are autobiographical. They describe how I live and work at the threshold between the living and dead. I’m very pleased to have been invited to speak at the conference and I look forward very much to the coming week.’ Ralf was hardly breathing.In the pleasant Northern summer of 2006, a chance meeting at an anthroposophical conference opens the portal of initiation for psychotherapist Ralf Pinton and author Mary Theobold when, through a powerful mutual attraction, they meet forces of karma that will test the limit of their morality and the strength of their spiritual conviction. They embark on a clandestine relationship through emails, texts and phone calls but the shock of a kundalini experience (a process of awakening) catapults Mary and Ralf so deeply into the conundrum of their destiny that they lose sight of the effect their reliance on technology is having on their relationship. Mary is offered a way out of the maze through the cryptic appearance of the Grail Cup but Ralf casts doubt on its authenticity and on Mary’s spiritual discernment. Is it the true Grail Cup or mere intellectual trickery? Is Ralf trying to protect Mary from a serious spiritual mistake or is he trying to undermine her for his own dark motive and purpose?This debut novel is the first book in a trilogy. It takes the reader through the dramatic and shifting soulscapes that must be traversed by modern spiritual seekers who dare to stand face to face with the riddle of truth. Cosmic Adultery is a fictionalised sequel to author Kelly Connor's groundbreaking memoir, To Cause A Death. Kelly is inspired by many authors including Rudolf Steiner, Yann Martel, Philippa Gregory, Alice Sebold and Hilary Mantel.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848766173

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Sabotage in France

By: Bernard O'Connor

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Sabotage in France

By: Bernard O'Connor

Between 1940 and 1944 dozens of French men and some women were trained in industrial sabotage at Brickendonbury Manor, near Hertford, UK before being infiltrated into France on top secret missions to destroy transport, industrial and telecommunications targets. They included Raymond Basset, Madeleine Bayard, Georges Bergé, M. Bernard, Raymond Cabard, Francis Cammaerts, Marcel Clech, Elizabeth Devereaux-Rochester, J. Forman, John Farmer, Georges, Albert Guèrisse (Pat O'Leary), André Jarrot, Jules Lesage, J. le Tac, Bob Maloubier, Claude Peri, Petit-Laurent, Jean Pillet, Harry Rée, J. Renault, Charles Rechenmann, Robert Rodriguez, Maurice Southgate, André Varnier, Nancy Wake and Pearl Witherington. Numerous other French men and women took part in sabotage activities and their contribution to the country's liberation needs to be acknowledged.

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Lulu.com

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1291592334

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Fierce

Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation

By: Alice Connor

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Fierce

Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation

By: Alice Connor

Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people. Women in the Biblesome of their names we know, others weve only heard, and others are tragically unnamed. Pastor and provocateur Alice Connor introduces these women and invites us to see them not as players in a mans storyas victims or temptersnor as morality archetypes, teaching us to be better wives and mothers, but as fierce foremothers of the faith. These womens stories are messy, challenging, and beautiful. When we read their stories, we can see not only their particular, fearsome lives but also our own.

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Fortress Press

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1506410715

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Unsafe

By: John Connor

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Unsafe

By: John Connor

Karen Sharpe has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but are the pressures of the job getting too much for her? When the battered body of a young girl is discovered, it kicks off an inquiry which pushes Karen and a trainee DC, Marcus Roth, too close for comfort, both on and off-duty. The investigation leads to a woman with a violent past - a woman with a six-year-old boy in her care... As the terrible truth emerges, the inquiry becomes a race against time before another child becomes a victim.

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Orion

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As Big as the West

The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart

By: Clyde A. Milner II,Carol A. O'Connor

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As Big as the West

The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart

By: Clyde A. Milner II,Carol A. O'Connor

Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United States diplomat. In this fascinating biography, Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O'Connor, co-editors of the acclaimed Oxford History of the American West, trace Stuart's remarkable trajectory from his birth in Virginia, through his formative years in the agricultural settlements of Iowa and the mining camps of Gold Rush California, to his rough-and-tumble life in Montana and his rise to prominence as a public figure. Along the way, we see Granville and his brother James battling bandits and horsethieves and becoming leaders of the new Montana territory. The authors explore Granville's life as a cattleman, including his role as the leader of a vigilante force, known as "Stuart's Stranglers," responsible for several hangings in 1884, his abandonment of his half-Shoshone children after his second marriage, his government service in offices ranging from the head of the Butte Public Library to U.S. Minister to Paraguay and Uruguay, and his final years, during which he composed a memoir, Forty Years on the Frontier, still widely read for its dramatic account of the era. Written with narrative flair and a lively awareness of current issues in Western history, As Big as the West fully illuminates the conflicting realities of the frontier, where a man could speak of wiping out "half-breeds" while fathering 11 mixed-race children, and go from vigilante to diplomat in the space of a few years.

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Oxford University Press

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0199722927

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Hospice

Practice, Pitfalls, and Promise

By: Stephen R. Connor

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Hospice

Practice, Pitfalls, and Promise

By: Stephen R. Connor

Written as an introduction for professionals, this book gives the reader an overall grasp of how hospice care is practised, the challenges hospices currently face, and the direction the movement is taking. The author claims that in spite of expansion, people are not aware of the work of hospices.

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Taylor & Francis US

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1560325127

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British Physiologists 1885-1914

A Biographical Dictionary

By: W. J. O'Connor

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British Physiologists 1885-1914

A Biographical Dictionary

By: W. J. O'Connor

A collection of biographical notes of some 350 men who were physiologists in the years 1885-1914. The notes are grouped under the University or Medical School in which the men worked and together with brief explanatory paragraphs, the biographies aim to provide a history of the development of medical science in each institution over the years before the Great War of 1914-1918. The biographies extend to the end of each man's life, providing some account of physiology in the 1920s and 1930s and even longer.

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0719032822

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