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| Title: A Safe Place for Change |
| By (author): Hugh Crago, Penny Gardner |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231887 : 9781925231885 |
| It is increasingly recognised that the strength of the bond between counsellor and client is the best indicator of a good outcome for the client. The theoretical model employed by the counsellor matters less than the relationship the counsellor can build with each individual client. Yet first year counselling students continue to be taught about different models of therapy and specialised approaches supposedly needed by clients with different problems. The result is often confusion and uncertainty, and many trained counsellors graduate without a solid grasp of how to form an authentic relationship with any client. Unlike most texts, A Safe Place for Change focusses squarely on the therapeutic relationship. Skills are presented in terms of their contribution to the relationship. Theories and models are referred to throughout, but the authors emphasise what the different approaches have in common, rather than the specialised terminology that often makes them seem more different than they actually are. The personal capacities and skills that distinguish a good counsellor or therapist are presented in the same order in which they would appear within the actual therapeutic relationship. The initial chapters teach holding and exploring -- skills that are almost automatically required in the first few sessions with a new client. Then follows a chapter that deals with the challenge to the counsellorclient relationship which often appears after the first two sessions, and shows counsellors how they can respond most usefully to that challenge. As the therapeutic relationship continues and deepens, it becomes possible to invite clients to consider how they might be contributing to their own problems -- the skill of gentle honesty or encountering. Finally, the authors introduce two different approaches to achieving change-- solving the problem via advice, instruction, and homework, and re-parenting the person -- something that is more likely to be crucial in long-term work with clients who present entrenched difficulties in living and relating. Well-written, insightful and accessible, this textbook speaks directly to students of counselling and psychotherapy, recognising their needs and their challenges. The authors real-world experience is evident throughout the book, as is their skill in teaching complex concepts in clear language. |
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| Preface for Trainers and Educators; So You Want To Help People?; Being There: Developing The Capacity For Holding; The Story Unfolds: The Skills Of Exploring; The Elephant In The Room: The First Three Sessions; Fix The Problem, Or Re-Parent The Person? ; Gentle Honesty: Skills Of ‘Encountering’; "Giving Wise Advice": The Skills Of Coaching; But How Do You Know When They’re Finished?": Supervised Work With Clients; Further Along The Road Less Travelled: What Counselling And Therapy Can Accomplish; Index. |
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"This unique text is a welcome contrast to formulaic texts on counselling and therapy. It enables new counsellors and therapists to deepen their abilities to “be with” clients and develop a range of interventions and skills." -- Professor Ione Lewis in Psychotherapy in Australia
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"A Safe Place for Change is not obsessed with content and instructions, it is not limited to just one approach, but instead provides a holistic and integrated foundation on which to build further knowledge of both skills and theory. Highly recommended!" -- Paul Bogacs, Lecturer and Counselling Strand Convenor, Avondale College of Higher Education
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"It is such a unique text in the way it clearly explains issues for the beginning therapist, and what this strange beast called “process” looks like." -– Kim Kownacki, Morling College
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Pages: 212
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - March 2019 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Peace studies & conflict resolution : Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) |
| List Price: 34.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: No Longer Distributing
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| Title: A world without maps |
| By (author): Jane M. Simpson |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231372 : 9781925231373 |
| In poems that range from the minimalist to the theatrical, Jane Simpson evokes the fascinatingly unfamiliar world of the Arabian Peninsula, where she found her preconceptions about Muslim women completely shattered. She writes of home and family with great tenderness. Choked forms wonderfully match the sensations of grief. In a synthesis of home and abroad, science and art, the poems reveal a compassionate, searching gaze in a world without maps. |
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Pages: 70
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - September 2016 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: No Longer Distributing
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| Title: Along My Way |
| By (author): Harold Hunt |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231291 : 9781925231298 |
| In this compelling book, Harold Hunt OAM charts his life from his childhood during the Great Depression to the present. One of eight children raised by a single Mum in New South Wales bush towns, with only a primary school education, he forged a career as a stockman and shearer, but then graduated as a drunk. His recovery set him on a path to help others experiencing the same horrors he had. Though he never achieved his dream of becoming a boss drover, Harold was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 2014 for services to the community. This is a good yarn by an ordinary man at 90 years who has led an extraordinary life with humour, sorrow and ambition. |
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - December 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Biography: general : Black & Asian studies : Indigenous peoples : Political activism |
| List Price: 25.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Amethysts and Emeralds |
| By (author): Daniel King |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231739 : 9781925231731 |
| A selection of Daniel Kings award-winning poetry, much of which has been published in journals around the world. The poems embrace a wide variety of forms, from free verse to sonnet, roundel, villanelle, and sestina. Thematically, too, the poems are very varied, ranging from the realist Head in the Sand, published in the prestigious London Magazine, to a song lyric from Shadows of 1876: The Wild Birds have Returned, a CD of mystical country music songs about historical figures and events from the United States in the year 1876. Most of the poems, however, have a special interest in Catholicism, Hinduism and mysticism. |
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Pages: 82
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - December 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets : Oriental & Indian philosophy : Hinduism : Theology |
| List Price: 19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: No Longer Distributing
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| Title: Animating Freedom |
| Sub-title: Accompanying Indigenous Struggles for Self-determination |
| By (author): Jason MacLeod |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231976 : 9781925231977 |
| In 1991, Jason MacLeod travelled to occupied West Papua. That visit changed his life. Eight years later, in 1999, Jason made athirty-year commitment to journey in solidarity with West Papuans as they search for nonviolent ways out of occupation. Since then he has been regularly traveling inside the country. He has walked alongside Papuan leaders as they travelled from West Papua to Washington; Port Moresby to Port Vila. It is a journey has taken him deep into the mountains and forests of West Papua; from the halls of power to the inside of police interrogation rooms.In this Backhouse Lecture, Jason shares what he has learnt about accompanying West Papuans and to a lesser extent Aboriginal people, Bougainvilleans and East Timorese in their struggle for self-determination. Through personal stories, he tries to make sense of this experience in ways that might speak more broadly to Quakers. This lecture is a deeply personal reflection on what one person thinks it takes to animate freedom and accompany Indigenous peoples on a journey from empire to the good life. |
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Pages: 72
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - July 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Aquamorphia |
| Sub-title: falling for water |
| By (author): Shé Hawke |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231003 : 9781925231007 |
| Aquamorphia: Falling for Water is a mythological, psychological and elemental poetic history of water in three deeply entrancing parts. Each section of this exciting and tumultuous water narrative takes the reader for a ride on different streams of intoxicating, daring and at times playful water worlds. From ancient Greek creation myths to the Australian beach, Aquamorphia moves symphonically, praising the maternal and generative qualities of fluidity since the Big Bang, or splitting of the Cosmic Egg. The verse is afloat with metaphors that flesh out the minutiae of the aquatic landscapes that sustain life. |
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Pages: 86
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - November 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 19.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Black Books Publishing |
| Sub-title: A novel |
| By (author): David P. Reiter |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231674 : 9781925231670 |
| Ph.D. student Dylan Cashew abandons his thesis on D H Lawrence for the uncertain world of top secret aerospace editing, college teaching and then independent publishing. Dogged and even mentored by Lawrence and others from parallel Dimensions, Dylan finds himself immersed in a publishing venture that, with aid of his PR-savvy wife, interjections from the Internet, and a bottomless supply of scotch, nearly goes under before he receives an offer from a Chinese conglomerate that may be too good to refuse. If you are an author, published or unpublished, or wished you were one -- or someone whos worked in publishing, or wished you could -- this book is for you. (Have we missed anyone?!) This is David P Reiters latest sortie into the satiricsphere of digital narrative. His having won two Western Australian Premiers Awards for Timelord Dreaming and My Planets Reunion Memoir has done nothing to curb his rash flirtation with innovation. Nearly 200 Internet call-outs will tempt you away from the central storyline. Can you resist? |
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Pages: 296
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - March 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Communication studies : Publishing industry & book trade |
| List Price: 25.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: No Longer Distributing
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| Title: Brothers and Sisters |
| Sub-title: Coping with Loss and Grief |
| By (author): Barbara Snook |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231798 : 9781925231793 |
| "When a family member dies, often the response of children is overlooked or underestimated. This very important book makes tangible the range of emotions felt but not completely understood by children for the loss of a parent or sibling. It offers welcome channels of response that can help survivors to not only understand their feelings but also come to grips with the loss and get on positively with their lives. Barbara Snook offers insights into a range of peoples experiences with the loss of a family member. It normalizes the variety of experiences of grieving, that it is not a linear process, not something to get over, rather the impacts are lifelong and require developing ways to live with the grief." Pauline Brown, registered psychologist. "This book is like a cocoon. It is beautiful from start to finish. The growth and transformation about such grief is anticipated and transparent yet mesmerising through its entire unfolding. It holds the reader, in the same way that siblings who have lost (and actually anyone who has lost a loved one) need to be held and need to be seen, as they transit their own unique process." Jenni van der Schoot, psychotherapist. "I recognise myself in the pages written by the brave contributors to this book, as will other readers who struggle with the complex and conflicting emotions of losing a loved sibling. Realising that others also struggle with grief and have feelings of guilt is a repeated thread in the stories that weave readers together, giving them the realisation that they are not the odd one out, but that their reactions are normal in a heart-rending situation." Tilly Brasch, author of No Middle Name" |
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Pages: 140
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - July 2018 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Child & developmental psychology : Psychology: emotions : Coping with personal problems : Coping with death & bereavement |
| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: No Longer Distributing
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| Title: Cards on the Table |
| By (author): Jeremy N Roberts |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231119 : 9781925231113 |
| Ranging from quick-fire questions for us to ponder to provocative longer works drawing on classical themes, this highly entertaining collection will surprise and inspire with its wit and honesty. Lean, yet vivid, Jeremy Robert's style can be sensuous, graphic or outspoken.He weaves in and out around Pop Culture icons such as James Dean & Andy Warhol, as well as making irreverent commentaries on Kiwi culture. Whether 'seeking answers' in Auckland's Western park, hanging out with crazies at LA's Venice Beach, contemplating a cheap Margarita in a Texas bar, observing human tragedy on a Paris street, reflecting in steamy Bali evening, or contemplating a piece of rubbish in London, Roberts articulates with truth and honesty during his journey of discovery. Roberts does more than put his cards on the table - he lines up his targets and then hammers the poetic nails in. |
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Pages: 156
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - August 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 20.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Control |
| By (author): Laura Kinch |
| ISBN10-13: 1925231445 : 9781925231441 |
| The System knows what goes on down here, trust me. And the City? You might enjoy some level of protection but it's not so different from Below. The System just uses a different method. You're just as much controlled as we are, perhaps more so. Rebecca is tired of her job in the City. The Systems rules dont allow asking too many questions and shes close to losing her job. Then she meets Jason Gray, who tells her shes a Controller - she has the ability to control machinery with her mind. At first, Rebecca scoffs. But when her apartment is attacked by a machine called a Peacekeeper and she finds herself hunted by the cops and a Controller called Valerie Chase, she has no choice but to follow Jason to the world Below. Below, Rebecca discovers her life in the City has been a bubble of security. She knew nothing of the massive mines and burnt-out workers who live there, managed by System Controllers wholl wipe out a village at the first hint of production loss. And amongst all this: Jason, his resistance fighters, and their warship Leviathan. Jason says Rebeccas talents are special, that he needs them for an important task. But the man is slow to reveal exactly what this task is. After being misinformed her entire life, can Rebecca trust Jasons mission will make a difference for those living Below? Its starting to sound like something much more personal. |
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Pages: 218
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| Published: Interactive Press Australia - November 2016 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Adventure : Science fiction |
| List Price: 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: No Longer Distributing
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