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This book is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health and legal services professionals. In a highly readable format you'll find case studies, helpful charts, exercises and specific solutions you and your organization can implement now. Discover how to redesign programs to better serve people you work with, upgrade training for front-line staff such as case workers and managers, improve treatment outcomes in healthcare and behavioral healthcare, and increase the likelihood of moving from welfare to work.
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When viewed through an economic lens, poverty can be defined as an absence of resources. Since it was first published in 1995, the basic premise of A Framework for Understanding Poverty: A Cognitive Approach has been that the middle-class understandings of those who work with children and adults in poverty are often ill-suited for connecting with and helping people build up resources and rise out of poverty. Now, 18 years and 1.5 million copies later, Framework has been revised, updated and expanded.
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From Understanding Poverty to Developing Human Capacity details how schools, churches, courts, businesses, and communities can build resources for people in poverty. With ten articles written by Dr. Payne, along with two co-written with her colleague, Philip DeVol, these writings cover the gamut of Dr. Payne's efforts in dealing with poverty-related issues. Now educators of all levels, clergy, community leaders, business professionals, and others are better positioned to help raise achievement, grow resources, and aid in the personal and professional development of everyone they work with.
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Tricky People profiles the whole range of 'difficult' types we've all encountered at times in social or business situations: back-stabbers, white-anters, blamers, whingers, bullies, tyrants, controllers, charmers, know-it-alls, perfectionists, competitors and the seriously self-obsessed.
It offers imaginative yet practical ways to deal with these dangerous and frustrating creatures and identify the slippery techniques they employ to get their way. Buried cleverly within all the humor is an in-depth look at how difficult people manage us for their own ends - and how to overturn that. It helps us understand relationship patterns, office politics, our own shortcomings in our dealings with others, and what a difficult person might be able to teach us. |
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In Tricky Teens, clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller covers the joys and challenges of raising teenage girls and boys. With his trademark warmth, good humor and insight he offers crucial advice on achieving a happy home life while raising teens.
He focuses on:
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"Tricky Kids provides insights into the behaviors of these young people and practical strategies to support them develop new behaviors while retaining their individual identity. These insights can be used to better support and educate these young people at such a pivotal point in their lives." Trevor Fletcher, Deputy Director General, Schools, NSW.
What makes some kids 'tricky'? They've found one particular way to get what they want in the world, and they've kept using that approach over and over again. They are not 'bad' kids, but they can make their parents and teachers feel like doing some very bad things. Why? Because they are used to getting their own way, and they are not the type of people to give up an advantage easily. |
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The practice of mindfulness at any age is both simple and pro-found. Above all, it involves learning -- learning how to cultivate greater self-awareness and greater awareness of others and the world, and then reaping the substantial benefits of that awareness...
You cannot control the sea. You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf on them. This is the central idea of underlying mindfulness practice.
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" The power of uplift enables any organization to do more with less, beat the competition, and perform better than ever. Leaders who uplift their employees' passions, intellects, and commitments produce remarkable results. "
1 - Dreaming with Determination
2 - Creativity and Counter-Flow 3 - Collaboration with Competition 4 - Pushing and Pulling 5 - Measuring with Meaning 6 - Sustainable Success 7 - Uplifting Action |
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" It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking " MALCOM GLADWELL
1. The Problem Of Extreme Complexity
2. The Checklist 3. The End Of The Master Builder 4. The Idea 5. The First Try 6. The Checklist Factory 7. The Test 8. The Hero In The Ages Of Checklists 9. The Save |
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"Being a patient, rather than a participant in one's healing process, separates people from their community & alienates them from an inner sense of self."
"Restoring relationships & community is central to restoring well-being."
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"The House of Wellbeing has been developed to address the storyline of Aboriginal people in Australia but applies to all people. The model delineates 6 key pillars that an individual needs in order to achieve wellbeing in today's world."
The Wall of Education and Learning
The Wall of Employment
The Wall of Home and Place
The Wall of Self and Purpose
The Floor of Hope
The Roof of Opportunity
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