Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice is a volume in the clinical practice monograph series from the Society of Analytical Psychology. This series is intended primarily for trainees on psychotherapy and psychodynamic counselling courses, and for those who are newly qualified. Here, the author considers the difficulties clinicians may encounter when patients talk about God or about their spiritual life, and how necessary it is for therapists to examine their own image of God and their own understanding of spirituality, so that they can distinguish these from those of their patients. She emphasizes how varied are people's images and understanding of what "God" stands for, and how in healthy development these will change over time. The book demonstrates, through numerous clinical vignettes, how clinicians can understand a patient's talking about religion or about God - hearing the voice of God, having a vision of God, or being convinced that God wants them to act in a particular way; or, equally, seeing the Devil.
Take an everyday girl - short, with freckles, mud-puddle eyes and the kind of mind Sherlock Holmes would kill for - and you have the heroine of another light-hearted whodunit for Independent Readers. Laura's adventurous grandmother sends her a birthday charm to add to her silver bracelet, just as she does each year. This time it's a golden cat and it's gorgeous! But at her birthday sleepover someone steals it. Does the thief belong to the Populars or the Fringes ...the two competing girl groups at the party?Luckily, Laura's mother is a private investigatorand takes time out from tracking down the One-Eyed One-Armed bandit to help her with ideas.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.
Night Works is the story of fifteen year old Sophie, and her friends Mel and Kate. Told through Sophie's diary entries, the story highlights the girls' problems, families, boyfriends and everyday school lives. The power of friendship helps them face the world knowing they're not alone. In the tradition of Back on Track: Diary of a Street Kid and Margaret Clark's other novels for older readers, Night Works is essential reading for fourteen years plus readers everywhere.
What about all that stuff you keep reading about: the moonlit walks, the red roses, waves softly kissing the sandy shore? It doesn't exist. Does it have to be a problem just because you don't want to hold your mother's hand anymore and you're not ready to hold anyone else's? Before you try to give yourself a hickey tonight, read this!
Ruth feels that she can never be good enough for her religious family with high expectations. However, life has a way of providing the unexpected and suddenly, in a eureka moment, Ruth has the opportunity to assume a new identity. She becomes Sinamon and learns to experience life without feeling personal guilt. But meeting special people who hold very different values to her own means that she has to make a choice: to go back home or to stay with her new family. Which is the right decision for Ruth?
Charmwood High and Year 8 plans to turn the school play, 'Romeo and Juliet' into a rock musical. Everything's moving along until someone mentions Equal Opportunity. There aren't enough roles for girls in this production. For the Narrator, Peter Nutt, Equal Opportunity means more opportunities for teachers like Poxon and girls like Ravolini to get at him. And then there's Millie Miletic from the Holy Family of the Little Sisters by the Sea: she's in love!
Who wouldn't be excited by the endless possibilities of cyberspace! But there are dangers, too. The Evil Ones who want to rule the universe know that they can fulfill their aims by controlling all communication. Two earthlings, Megan and Ramon, have been chosen as Web Watchers: guardians of the World Wide Web. Given special powers and the names Meg Abyte and Ram Boy, they journey through cyberspace with the faithful mouse on missions to destroy the Evil Flamer, the Hackers, Dr Snarf and finally the most evil one of all, the Cracker. Web Waters is a startling new departure for one of Australia's hottest novelists.This book moves!
After the enormous success of Secret Girls' Stuff comes this fabulous sequel from one of Australia's most recognised and read writers for young people. Since the publication of Secret Girls' Stuff, the number of letters, emails and faxes Margaret receives have quadrupled. All of Margaret's books have encouraged or inspired readers to contact her, however, Secret Girls' Stuff pushed this reader/writer relationship to new heights. Margaret is friend, counsellor, listener, mentor - to so many young readers.With a pile of correspondence reaching her ceiling, Margaret thought it was time to produce the follow-up to the original title that had reached so many. In More Secret Girls' Stuff there are more pleas for help, more embarrassing stories, more confessions, more problems, and more shared thoughts, fears and dreams than ever before.
Friends, school, clothes... all your questions answered. A book about the importance of Friendship‘My best friend suddenly won’t talk to me and I don’t know why. Yesterday, a group of my so-called friends sniggered when I walked past. What’s wrong with me? We all need friends. Without them, life would be pretty lonely and boring. Friends come in all shapes and sizes, ages and stages. You gradually learn about friendships by having some yourself. Friends are so important. I am still best friends with Ally, my best friend since grade six. She knows everthing there is to know about me, and I know everything about her. You can’t replace a friend like that with anyone else.
From one of Australia's most popular writers for young adults Last time you met Lisa in 'Fat Chance', she thought she was a beached whale. Well she's back and she's hot, heading for teen supermodel of the year. So hot in fact that the agency's given her a new name, Rebel, and a whole new look to go with it. Okay, she got the job all her friend dreamed about, and she got the fairy godmother. But she got the ugly sisters too, there's a wolf lurking behind every camera and she's still looking for that fairy tale ending. And Lisa's going to find it - hot or what!
Larceny Leyton is a wild child - tough, smart, willful and proud. Like so many others, she wears her attitude like armour.'Trust' isn't a word in Larceny's dictionary. It means opening up and taking the risk that you'll be hurt. Truth and dare.Nobody gets close enough to earn her trust. Larceny makes sure of that. Yet deep down, she's afraid of the voices that bring with them a wild consuming rage, a killing rage that drove her to the streets in the first place. She's afraid of being betrayed by the only person she's been able to trust - herself.
A fun novel from one of Australia’s best writers for children and young adults You want to ask a boy out on a date but what if he says no? Your best friend suddenly isn't talking to you. Your clothes don't fit. Your family just doesn't understand you. You don't understand yourself either. One minute you're happy and the next you're sobbing into your pillow. Does this sound like you, or someone you know? Then read on...
There's a pod of dolphins in the bay and Meg and Mike's teacher Ms Lee gets the kids involved in the "Adopt-a-Dolphin" scheme. Everyone brings a dollar so they can support the dolphins and go on a dolphin-watching trip. And nothing can spoil the most perfect day out, not even when the money disappears, and Greash and Foxie are the prime suspects, as usual. DOLLAR FOR DOLPHIN is the tenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
A fun novel from one of Australia’s best writers for children and young adults. When Lisa Trelaw breaks up with her long-term boyfriend Mike, she realises that she made a big mistake giving up modelling to come home. Meanwhile, Mandy Miratoosi enters a supermodel contest for larger-sized girls and gets to the finals. Lisa and Mandy hook up on a plane to Sydney and find they have lots in common, including meeting two gorgeous guys that they just might want to hook up with permanently!
Lisa Trelaw has a big decision to make. She doesn’t know if she's won Teen Model of the Year or not, so should she go to Sydney and continue her modeling career? Her decision is made easier when her boyfriend Mike is offered modeling work in Sydney. But what will happen when Mike meets all those gorgeous Bondi Beach babes? Lisa finds that life has lots of ups and downs. For a while it looks like she and Mike are all washed up when modeling and love don't mix. Fame has its price and maybe it's too high.
Sara is not a happy tweenie. Sara is not happy! Her family have decided to move interstate, and as a consequence, she has a sore throat form yelling "I am NOT GOING', 'WE are NOT MOVING'. Marking the days off until she has to move in her secret diary - the real one and not the foil that she leaves for her family to read - she confesses to a crush on the 'player' Jack Marconi, her despair at finding out that her best friend Ellie has stolen him away and how, sometimes, eating at Burger Heaven is better for you than working out at the gym. Will she have to eventually move or will the journey for Sara commence way before 'Moving Day'?
Margaret Clark invites you to come into her Parlour - and die! Mike and Kristy have been packed off to Camp Star by their mother and it's the original camp from hell. Dumb Leaders blowing whistles and jumping around in shorts, gross food, beds like concrete and everyone going feral: the usual good time! But something in this strange black box starts quivering... Rowan, Beth, Jamie and Belinda think their holiday in this rundown seaside resort looks boring until they meet 'Mother'. She only bites the heads off those she loves, and she wants to rule to world. So, as you enter her bizarre underground headquarters don't just keep your head down - keep your head! Ben Lombardi has years of overdue library books stacked up in his wardrobe and under his bed, and the new librarian at his school says she knows everything! Other kids say she kills you if your book's overdue. She drives a weird car with something mysterious in the back, demands silence in the library and no one wants to end up there alone with her.
No fat chicks? When Mansy Miratoosi sees that bumper sticker on her brother Mark's car, she's ready to pluck his cocksure tail feathers once and for all.Mandy is a big girl and Mark's mates need to know that lean is not always dream material. Featherweights and bantamweights beware. Mandy is out to prove that big chicks can be winners! If you like Famous For Five Minutes and Fat Chance, you're going to love this one!
Margaret Clark's poetry is a joy. I loved Frayed Edges, her first book, and I read it in one sitting, such was my delight In this marvellous new collection, Clark continues her insightful foray into the experiences of a life well-spent. Her excellent use of metaphor is a powerful tool. For instance, Clark skilfully utilises 'Aristotle's Elements' - fire, wind, water - to address current environmental degradation. She concludes the poem by simply yet tellingly asking, 'But what of the earth, the stoic earth?...when will she turn, and say, "No more?"' Clark's vocabulary, refreshingly devoid of the merest hint of pomposity, her subtlety, gentleness of expression, humour and perception combine wonderfully. Her use of conversational language, with her delightful rhythm and pace, is special. Her poems resonate with the reader personally. Her sense of irony, indeed her quirky view of life, and her rare ability to move the reader from warm chuckles, a burst of giggles, the odd guffaw, to a sudden, surprising, slow slide of tears feature in 'Not a Love Poem', 'Seasons of Life' and 'Farewell'. Clark's poems are very much a modern woman's life story. They are enhanced by her delightful sense of humour, humility and a complete absence of pretentiousness or arrogance. Poems such as ' Oh, I Wish I Hadn't Eaten That' and 'Best We Forget' deal with life and its attendant absurdities, joys, sorrows and dramas. Margaret Clark gives voice to the thoughts and emotions of us less talented individuals. For this we can only say thank you." - Frank Brennan Dip T, B.Ed., Superintendent of Education NT (retired)
Sam and Leane's mother decides to remarry, which is bad enough - Then they discover that the intended is the town policeman - Sam wishes that he could live anywhere else!
Sam Studley's a bit older and wiser than when you met him in 'Hold My Hand - Or Else!' but it's a pity he can't say the same for his fifteen year old sister Leanne.No one seems to know where she is. Some kids are saying she's got AIDS and some are saying she's been abducted. Some are saying she's on the run to Kings Cross, some are saying she's a speed freak and gone into a drug rehab centre, and some that she's hiding out at home with chickenpox.But if living with Leanne sounds full on, you should hear about living without her!
Winner of the prestigious UK Literacy Association Academic Book Award for 2015 in its original edition, this fully revised edition of Learning to be Literate uniquely analyses research into literacy from the 1960s through to 2015 with some surprising conclusions. Margaret Clark explores the argument that young children growing up in a literate environment are forming hypotheses about the print around them, including environmental print, television, computer games and mobile phones. In a class where no child can yet read there is a wide range of understanding with regards to concepts of print and the critical features of written language. While to any literate adult, the relationship between spoken and written language may be obvious, young children have to be helped to discover it. This persuasive argument demonstrates the value of research in order to make informed policy decisions about children’s literacy development. Accessible and succinct, Professor Clark’s writing brings into sharp focus the processes involved in becoming literate. The effect on practice of many recent government policies she claims run counter to these insights. The key five thematic sections are backed up with case studies throughout and include: Insights from Literacy Research: 1960s to 1980s Young Literacy Learners: how we can help them Curriculum Developments and Literacy Policies, 1988 to 1997: a comparison between England and Scotland Synthetic Phonics and Literacy Learning: government policy in England 2006 to 2015 Interpretations of Literacy in the Twenty-first Century
The major curled up in the stone fireplace of the bombed out farm his men sheltering around him in different corners, he could hear the approaching tanks. There was a lound explosion he felt the pain as the shell hit the farm house and then silence. He woke and looked around a woman was bending over him. 'Are you an Angel?' he said. 'Sshh, I am sister Mary Johnson. You are in an American hospital and safe now. What is your name?' He shook his head. 'I don't know.' 'Well, go to sleep now we will speak later.' When he woke up he couldn't remember anything; they called him John Smith. Many months passed in the healing of John and they fell in love. When eventually he was discharged Mary took him to her home in Cheshire to relax and get well. When visiting a specialist in London and accident occured and his memory returned he was Major John Hamilton Cooper of Grantley Hall in Windsor. Mary was forgotten except for a photograph in his wallet he knew that this woman was the answer to the missing years and he had to find her. Two people then were looking for each other without success, but things take a strange turn in Paris and the results are tragic.
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