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Schwab, Keri A., Ed.; Stevens, Cheryl L., Ed.; Allen, Lawrence R., Ed.; Sheffield, Emilyn A., Ed.; Murphy, James F., Ed. – Sagamore-Venture, 2014
"A Career with Meaning" is a tailor-made journey that enables individuals to match their core beliefs and values with numerous professional opportunities within the leisure industry. Leading experts provide detailed discussion and insight for 11 primary areas related to recreation, parks, sport management, hospitality, and tourism. Once…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreation, Parks, Athletics
Gladding, Samuel T. – American Counseling Association, 2016
This latest edition of "The Creative Arts in Counseling" is a powerful, evidence-based examination of how creative expression can be used in counseling with clients of various ages and backgrounds. It explores the clinical application of all of the major creative arts, including music, dance/movement, imagery, visual arts,…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Art Activities, Art Education, Counseling Services
McFarlane, Penny; Harvey, Jenny – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012
A collaborative therapeutic approach often proves the best way to assess and meet the needs of children experiencing barriers to learning. This book gives a concise overview of drama and family therapy and describes how both therapies can work together to provide essential pieces of the jigsaw of emotional support for troubled children within an…
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Therapy, Barriers, Learning Problems
Austin, David R. – Sagamore Publishing LLC, 2010
"Lessons Learned" provides a personalized approach and a fresh, bold guide for students and practitioners in recreational therapy. This thought-provoking, inspiring, and accessible text will help the next generation of recreational therapists to find purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in their own lives and to bring health and happiness to their…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Methods, Recreational Activities, Therapeutic Recreation
Leigh, Lauraine, Ed.; Gersch, Irvine, Ed.; Dix, Ann, Ed.; Haythorne, Deborah, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools" is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment. A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and young people, and also in relation to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Needs, Educational Psychology, Academic Achievement
Weiss, Amy L., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This volume examines the ramifications of individual differences in therapy outcomes for a wide variety of communication disorders. In an era where evidence-based practice is the clinical profession's watchword, each chapter attacks this highly relevant issue from a somewhat different perspective. In some areas of communication disorders,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Stuttering, Autism, Oral Language
Gardner, James E. – 1975
There is a severe shortage of professionally trained workers in the fields of remedial reading, psychotherapy, and preventive psychological/educational preschool programs. In response to this shortage, many paraprofessional workers have entered these fields. Since 1966, the Children's Center for Educational Therapy in Venice, California, has…
Descriptors: Educational Therapy, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children
Whitaker, Dorothy Stock – 2001
This book is designed to help practitioners plan and conduct diverse therapeutic groups. It presents the framework to assist practitioners in understanding and judging how to respond to situations that arise during group sessions. This second edition works towards building stronger connections between theory and practice and considers short-term…
Descriptors: Brief Psychotherapy, Case Studies, Counseling Theories, Counselor Client Relationship
Reid, Kenneth E. – 1997
This guide is written for beginning and advanced social work students, as well as battle-weary social workers. It instructs practitioners in how to do social work with groups and how to integrate small-group theory and therapeutic principles in such a way that is therapeutic and life enhancing. The wide-ranging concepts and skills presented here…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training
Cole, Ellen, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This anthology contains 18 chapters that deal with wilderness therapy for women and the symbolic value of wilderness accomplishments to women's mental health. Sections of the book present theoretical perspectives on wilderness therapy; describe programs providing empowerment, challenge, and therapy for general populations of women and special…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Camping, Females, Feminism
Richards, Kaye, Ed.; Smith, Barbara, Ed. – 2003
This proceedings presents a variety of international perspectives on the nature of adventure therapy and charts new insights into its historical, philosophical, theoretical, and practical realms. Following an editorial "Adventure and Therapy: 'Dancing in the Moonlight'" (Kaye Richards, Barbara Smith), the 21 papers are: (1)…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Experiential Learning, Group Dynamics, Group Therapy
Lago, Colin; Thompson, Joyce – 1996
Some of the major dimensions and subtleties underlying issues of race and culture and the impact these can have on counseling and psychotherapy relationships are explored. The context is British, but many of the issues and concerns are applicable to therapists in other societies. Chapter 1 describes the climate in which the discussion is set, a…
Descriptors: Counseling, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Ferguson, Gary – 1999
This book describes a wilderness therapy program for troubled youth. Teenagers struggling with drugs, abusive or neglectful families, depression, suicidal thoughts, or their own impulses to lie or steal spend months in the Utah desert learning to survive in the wilderness, cooperate in group activities and problem solving, communicate with other…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Camping, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Kaiser, Tamara L. – 1997
This book focuses on the supervisor-supervisee relationship as it occurs in social service and counseling agencies. It teaches supervisors and supervisees to anticipate the workplace issues they may face and provides valuable insights about what really goes on in the clinical supervisory relationship. The book contains many diverse, real-life…
Descriptors: Adults, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Evaluation, Counselor Performance
Guralnick, Michael J. – 1978
This collection of 11 articles focuses on integrating handicapped and nonhandicapped children in preschool programs. Article 1 presents arguments for preschool integration. Article 2 discusses research on peer interaction and mixed-age socialization. Article 3 advocates a behavior analysis and operant conditioning approach to studying and…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Day Care, Deafness, Educational Environment
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