Catch Them Before They Fall

Author: Christopher Bollas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415637198
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests that the unconscious purpose of breakdown is to present the self to the other for transformative understanding; to have its core distress met and understood directly. If caught in time, a breakdown can become a breakthrough. It is an event imbued with the most profound personal significance, but it requires deep understanding if its meaning is to be released to its transformative potential. Bollas believes that hospitalization, intensive medication and CBT/DBT all negate this opportunity, and he proposes that many of these patients should instead be offered extended, intensive psychoanalysis. This book will be of interest to clinicians who find that, with patients on the verge of breakdown, conventional psychoanalytical work is insufficient to meet the emerging crisis. However, Bollas's challenging proposal will provoke many questions and in the final section of the book some of these are raised by Sacha Bollas and presented in a question-and-answer form.

What Teachers Need to Know about Learning Difficulties

Author: Peter Westwood
Publisher: Aust Council for Ed Research
ISBN: 0864319363
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
This book draws on international research about learning difficulties, presenting a clear picture of the issues involved. It focuses on early identification, so that intervention can prevent or minimize the negative outcomes of persistent failure and it explains how teachers can address problems effectively. Problems of socialization and behavior are discussed and brief coverage is given to students' specific difficulties with reading and mathematics. A comprehensive range of links to additional sources of information will help teachers find positive solutions for their students.

A Little Too Much Is Enough

Author: Kathleen Tyau
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
A young woman's story of growing up Hawaiian-Chinese. The short chapters deal with various aspects of her upbringing such as mixing poi, pouring tea and learning to dance the hula. Other chapters describe the impact of general events on the family, such as Pearl Harbor and the Vietnam War.

A Practical Guide to Service Learning

Author: Felicia L. Wilczenski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387465405
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
This book describes how service learning, an intervention that can be both remedial or preventive and individual or systemic, can enable school psychologists to expand their role beyond special populations to serve students within the academic mainstream. It draws connections between the positive psychology movement, the nurturing of purpose in youth, and the benefits of service learning.

100 Ideas for Teaching Physical Development

Author: Simon Brownhill
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847061931
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Essential reading for any practitioner involved with children's development in the early years. >

If Life Is a Circus I Must Be the Clown

Author: Frances Bevan
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 150433714X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
When life has turned into a three ring circus and you dont know how it got that way it can cause you to feel overwhelmed and out of control. Change needs happen, but where do you start? This book is designed to help you: identify what you are juggling, determine why you are juggling these things, decide what to put down, learn how to put them down without breaking them, and how to get back up after you fall.

The A C T Balance To Life

Author: Ken F. Riley Jr.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 138722946X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
The absolute, complete, and total balance to life with can be used to govern one's self. A guide on how to be a good person and how not to be a bad person.

Psychoanalysis

Author: Jeffrey Berman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438495706
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective offers in-depth discussions of and conversations with six psychoanalytic writers: Christopher Bollas, Nancy Chodorow, Sander L. Gilman, Adam Phillips, and Allen and Joan Wheelis. All are genuinely interdisciplinary in their work, bridging multiple cultural and professional positions, but all are deeply rooted in the humanities. They are all also highly controversial, challenging and critiquing conventional psychoanalytic wisdom while also devoting themselves to expanding psychoanalytic knowledge. Drawing on interviews as well as his own readings, Jeffrey Berman examines the continuities and discontinuities in each writer's work while also exploring the interrelationships between psychoanalysis and the humanities. The book ultimately offers a portrait of psychoanalysis as a work in progress, a plurality of visions that might more aptly be termed psychoanalyses.

Creating Relationship Wellness

Author: Stephanie Wijkstrom
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1627343377
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Mindfulness for your marriage is a tool book to be used by couples who want to gain the skill of relationship wellness. Each chapter offers evidence-based, and therapist verified techniques to gain insight into yourself and your partners world. Mindfulness for your marriage offers skills-based interventions that draw upon the fields of mindfulness and behavioral psychology, both recognized as pathways to enrichment. Each segment of this text builds upon the previous in an effort to lead the reader toward a mastery of relationship wellness. Divorce, separation, or disconnection do not always need to be the solution, a new approach to your problems will empower your path to reconnection. Prepare to break down specific methods of mindfulness and apply them during each chapter’s exercises as you practice to enhance your relationship. Each segment ends with practical exercises to do together or independently. In this unique text, you are offered thoughtful meditations that make relationship improvement understandable and easy. The writer houses an intimate understanding of human emotions and connections that she intersects in a meaningful way. It is not necessary to wait to improve your love until it is ailing, but here and now, relationship enhancement is offered as a preventative strategy in the attainment of interconnected wellbeing.

Deeper Learning

Author: Eric Jensen
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1452294461
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
"I felt like I walked the walk and could implement many of the strategies after reading it once." —Andrea Golarz-Ziemba, Teacher O.P. Morton Elementary School, Hobart, IN "If our newest teachers came out of college with this knowledge, supplemented with the learning standards, their students would be more successful from day one." —Patti Larche, Director of Curriculum and Instruction Phelps-Clifton Springs CSD, NY Practical strategies to take your students′ understanding from "So what?" to "Wow!" With the amount of content that teachers have to teach, how can we ensure that students gain a deep and lasting understanding of what they have learned? Based on the most current research on cognition and the brain, this exciting book for Grades 4–12 provides teachers with a systematic, reflective approach to incorporating powerful learning and content processing techniques into everyday instruction. Nationally recognized experts Eric Jensen and LeAnn Nickelsen outline the Deeper Learning Cycle (DELC), an instructional model that incorporates brain research, standards, and individual learning differences, to help educators teach for deeper understanding and critical thinking. This invaluable resource includes: In-depth chapters explaining the seven stages of the DELC: planning with standards and curriculum, pre-assessing, building a positive learning culture, priming and activating prior knowledge, acquiring new knowledge, processing the learning, and evaluating student learning A Deeper Learning lesson plan template to apply to daily instruction 50 strategies to differentiate instruction based on learning levels and to help students process content in meaningful ways Reflection questions to help teachers apply the material to their own practice Deeper Learning is a powerful tool to promote and support student progress beyond the surface level of understanding in any subject area.