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Author: Laurence Klavan Publisher: ChiZine ISBN: 1771482044 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 282
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“Wonderfully strange tales―cunningly written―eerie and satiric by turn” from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Cutting Room (David Greenspan, five-time Obie Award–winning author). The Family Unit and Other Fantasies is a superb collection of darkly comic, largely fantastical stories set in our jittery, polarized, increasingly impersonal age. Whether it’s the tale of a corporation that buys a man’s family; two mysterious survivors of a superstorm who are given shelter by a gullible couple; an erotic adventure set during an urban terrorist alert; or a nightmare in which a man sees his neighborhood being developed and disappearing at a truly alarming speed; these stories are by turn funny and frightening, uncanny, and unnerving. “A masterful, unnervingly funny collection set in a society with no place to hide: in other words, our own.” —Irina Reyn, award-winning author of Mother Country “Laurence Klavan uncovers the places you didn’t know exist, the gaps between everyday life and existential horror, where the disconnect between reality and the weird operates its quiet and subtle magic.” —Maxim Jakubowski, author and editor of The Mammoth Book of Erotica “Disturbing, surprising, and unflinchingly intimate, Laurence Klavan’s stories make the mundane bizarre and are absolutely engrossing.” —Danica Novgorodoff, author of The Undertaking of Lily Chen
Author: Marion Polichroniadis Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 0857004409 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 258
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The strain of caring for children struggling with severe and complex mental health needs affects the entire family. The staff at the innovative Croft Child and Family Unit have developed a unique approach of working intensively with the whole family, and encouraging them to share their experiences with other families, to instigate a complete change that will benefit all family members. Using detailed case studies to illustrate the model, the book focuses on the needs of children with a wide range of developmental, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and explores the complicated interactions between these children, their families and their communities. The care team includes nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, family therapists and creative therapists, social workers and teachers. They examine how to integrate a range of therapeutic interventions and how to use the powerful relationships that develop between professionals and families to enable positive, lasting changes. This book will be indispensable reading for trainees and professionals working with children with mental health problems and their families, and special needs educationalists wanting to understand the benefits of an intensive, multi-family approach to treatment for children who do not respond to standard community interventions.
Author: Laurence Klavan Publisher: ChiZine ISBN: 1771482044 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
“Wonderfully strange tales―cunningly written―eerie and satiric by turn” from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Cutting Room (David Greenspan, five-time Obie Award–winning author). The Family Unit and Other Fantasies is a superb collection of darkly comic, largely fantastical stories set in our jittery, polarized, increasingly impersonal age. Whether it’s the tale of a corporation that buys a man’s family; two mysterious survivors of a superstorm who are given shelter by a gullible couple; an erotic adventure set during an urban terrorist alert; or a nightmare in which a man sees his neighborhood being developed and disappearing at a truly alarming speed; these stories are by turn funny and frightening, uncanny, and unnerving. “A masterful, unnervingly funny collection set in a society with no place to hide: in other words, our own.” —Irina Reyn, award-winning author of Mother Country “Laurence Klavan uncovers the places you didn’t know exist, the gaps between everyday life and existential horror, where the disconnect between reality and the weird operates its quiet and subtle magic.” —Maxim Jakubowski, author and editor of The Mammoth Book of Erotica “Disturbing, surprising, and unflinchingly intimate, Laurence Klavan’s stories make the mundane bizarre and are absolutely engrossing.” —Danica Novgorodoff, author of The Undertaking of Lily Chen
Author: Andrea Maloney Schara Publisher: ISBN: 9780615928791 Category : Families Languages : en Pages : 318
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"Your Mindful Compass" takes us behind the emotional curtain to see the mechanisms regulating individuals in social systems. There is great comfort and wisdom in knowing we can increase our awareness to manage the swift and ancient mechanisms of social control. We can gain greater flexibility by seeing how social controls work in systems from ants to humans. To be less controlled by others, we learn how emotional systems influence our relationship-oriented brain. People want to know what goes on in families that give rise to amazing leaders and/or terrorists. For the first time in history we can understand the systems in which we live. The social sciences have been accumulating knowledge since the early fifties as to how we are regulated by others. S. Milgram, S. Ashe, P. Zimbardo and J. Calhoun, detail the vulnerability to being duped and deceived and the difficulty of cooperating when values differ. Murray Bowen, M.D., the first researcher to observe several live-in families, for up to three years, at the National Institute of Mental Health. Describing how family members overly influence one another and distribute stress unevenly, Bowen described both how symptoms and family leaders emerge in highly stressed families. Our brain is not organized to automatically perceive that each family has an emotional system, fine-tuned by evolution and "valuing" its survival as a whole, as much as the survival of any individual. It is easier to see this emotional system function in ants or mice but not in humans. The emotional system is organized to snooker us humans: encouraging us to take sides, run away from others, to pressure others, to get sick, to blame others, and to have great difficulty in seeing our part in problems. It is hard to see that we become anxious, stressed out and even that we are difficult to deal with. But "thinking systems" can open the doors of perception, allowing us to experience the world in a different way. This book offers both coaching ideas and stories from leaders as to strategies to break out from social control by de-triangling, using paradoxes, reversals and other types of interruptions of highly linked emotional processes. Time is needed to think clearly about the automatic nature of the two against one triangle. Time and experience is required as we learn strategies to put two people together and get self outside the control of the system. In addition, it takes time to clarify and define one's principles, to know what "I" will or will not do and to be able to take a stand with others with whom we are very involved. The good news is that systems' thinking is possible for anyone. It is always possible for an individual to understand feelings and to integrate them with their more rational brains. In so doing, an individual increases his or her ability to communicate despite misunderstandings or even rejection from important others. The effort involved in creating your Mindful Compass enables us to perceive the relationship system without experiencing it's threats. The four points on the Mindful Compass are: 1) Action for Self, 2) Resistance to Forward Progress, 3) Knowledge of Social Systems and the 4) The Ability to Stand Alone. Each gives us a view of the process one enters when making an effort to define a self and build an emotional backbone. It is not easy to find our way through the social jungle. The ability to know emotional systems well enough to take a position for self and to become more differentiated is part of the natural way humans cope with pressure. Now people can use available knowledge to build an emotional backbone, by thoughtfully altering their part in the relationship system. No one knows how far one can go by making an effort to be more of a self-defined individual in relationships to others. Through increasing emotional maturity, we can find greater individual freedom at the same time that we increase our ability to cooperate and to be close to others.
Author: Rebekah Hallberg Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781974409778 Category : Languages : en Pages : 142
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"This is the first book about marriage from a Christian perspective that doesn't gloss over the hard stuff." This book is for every wife, whether newlywed or married for fifty-plus years. Most women recognize that healthy marriage requires both commitment and hard work, but how can a wife continue to thrive when marriage goes awry? Hope for the Hurting Wife is a thirty-day devotional journey that meets hurting and heartbroken wives right in the midst of a difficult marriage and gently encourages them to find hope that truly lasts. Rebekah and Jen know many wives truly wish to avoid divorce, but the pain and suffering experienced when marriage doesn't go as planned is very real. Through personal stories of heartache and scriptural insight, they address topics such as: Moving forward after trauma Loving even when you feel unloved Protecting your heart Understanding the power of choice Trusting God while waiting for redemption Hope. Courage. Confidence. It's never too late to experience these realities, even in a troubled marriage!
Author: Sam Goldstein Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 038777579X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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This reference work breaks new ground as an electronic resource. Utterly comprehensive, it serves as a repository of knowledge in the field as well as a frequently updated conduit of new material long before it finds its way into standard textbooks.
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