Books
How to support English Second Language learners
Nel M 2015
In the modern world, language is the most important tool to succeed socially, academically and professionally. Since the foundation of any learning is established in the Foundation and Intermediate Phases, it is critical that English Second Language (ESL) learners who struggle with.....
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Ideas for Career Practitioners: Celebrating Excellence in Career Practice
Edited by Mary McMahon & Wendy Patton
This book represents a compilation of ideas that career practitioners use in their everyday work and covers all facets of what is broadly termed career guidance.
Presenting a smorgasboard of 48 ideas from over 50 experienced career.....
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Innovations and Future Directions in the Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies
Edited by Ross G. Menzies, Michael Kyrios, Nikolaos Kazantzis
University of Sydney, Australian National University, Monash University
Child, Adolescent and Youth Mental Health
1. The development of anxiety in childhood and adolescence: The transmission of cognitive.....
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Introduction to Psychological Assessment in the South African Context - Fourth Edition
C. Foxcroft, G. Roodt
What exactly is psychological assessment? Which professionals are permitted to use psychological tests? How are tests applied in a culturally diverse country such as South Africa? The fourth edition of Introduction to Psychological.....
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Let’s Talk Colouring Books
J. Mundy, Ph.D.
This series of four colouring books makes it easier to interview and treat troubled children. Especially helpful in dealing with difficult subjects such as child sexual abuse, these appealing colourings encourage expression – without leading the child. They address four different aspects of the.....
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Mental health care in Africa - a practical, evidence-based approach.
A. Pienaar 2013
Despite the fact that more than 80 per cent of mental health care users make use of African indigenous practitioners, previous texts on mental health care in Africa have focused predominantly on sharpening.....
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No Body's Perfect: A helper's guide to promoting positive body image in children and young people
Dr Vivienne Lewis
Body image doesn't discriminate gender or age. Yet its importance to our health, both mental and physical, is vital. A negative body image in childhood can lead to a lifetime of struggle and self-doubt.
In today's image-conscious.....
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Parenting Made Easy: The early years
Dr Anna Cohen
A bag of tricks approach to parenting the 1 to 5 year old
The early years of parenting are often a tricky and challenging time - a time when you will watch your baby fade and a child emerge, a time of amazing growth, development and change. Your 'bag of tricks' to deal with these changes must.....
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Positive Bodies: Loving the Skin You're In
Dr Vivienne Lewis
Positive Bodies is designed to equip you with the skills, knowledge, and thinking to foster a positive body image in yourself and others. It is based on tried and tested CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) principles and features real-life examples of those who have struggled but won.....
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Preventing and Managing Workplace Bullying and Harassment: A Risk Management Approach
Dr Moira Jenkins
Preventing and managing workplace bullying, including sexual harassment, is not just a 'feel good' exercise, or something organisations should only do when they are faced with a complaint. It is part of core business. Employers and managers.....
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The Principles and practice of psychological assessment, 2/e
Moerdyk A 2014
Assessment is an important part of any psychologist's role and the outcome can have consequences, positive and negative, for the person being assessed. The principles and practice of psychological assessmentis a guide to drawing up, administering and.....
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Psychological Assessment in South Africa. Research and Applications.
Sumaya Laher and Kate Cockcroft
This book provides an overview of the research related to psychological assessment across South Africa. The thirty-six chapters provide a combination of psychometric theory and practical assessment applications in order to combine the currently.....
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Content
Chapter 1: The Challenge of Explaining Sexual Behaviour
On 'maleness' and 'femaleness' On what is and isn't 'sexual' The relational goals of connection and belonging On belonging: further considerations
Chapter 2: Drives and Sexual Behaviour
Drive theory: what prompts me to do something? A dual drive-source, multiple-drive.....
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Sexual abuse - dynamics, assessment and healing
Spies GM 2006
Sexual abuse is a highly complex phenomenon that encompasses the dynamics of sexual abuse, the wide-ranging effects it has on victims and their families, the legal rights of all the parties involved, and the role played by professional practitioners working in this field. In.....
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Speech-language therapy in a school context: Principles and practices
Moonsamy S, Kathard H (Editors)
The education system in South Africa is struggling to help learners to develop their full potential, particularly those from poor and rural communities. Research has shown that a lack of communication skills has become a major challenge and a.....
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Strategies for Surviving Bullying at Work
Evelyn Field
Private Practice
No one goes to work to be humiliated, abused, ostracised, subjected to rumours, or assaulted. Yet this is the reality of a working day for many employees. Now you can do something about it. From the author of the highly successful introduction to workplace bullying "Bully.....
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Supervision of counsellors in South Africa, The - travels in new territory
Dunbar-Krige H, Fritz E 2006
The supervision of inexperienced counsellors and other helping professionals should be regarded as an integral, rather than a peripheral part of their initial and ongoing training. Furthermore, supervision can play an important role in the.....
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Talk Therapy Toolkit - Theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy
Naidu T, Ramlal S 2016
Through the development of increasingly complex human social groups, social and economic changes and challenges, industrialisation, technological advancement, global mobility and electronic communication, a significant gap of care has emerged......
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The Anger Fallacy Workbook: Practical Exercises for Overcoming Irritation, Frustration and Anger
Ross G Menzies and Steven Laurent
Using this workbook, either on your own or with a therapist, you can practice the anger management concepts from The Anger Fallacy, and learn to master anger, the most toxic of emotions.
Exercise 1: Anger.....
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The Anger Fallacy: Uncovering the Irrationality of the Angry Mindset
Steven Laurent and Ross G Menzies
A life without anger is attainable - if you understand The Anger Fallacy.
This is a book meant to challenge us. The authors have taken such an engaging and witty approach that the reader is likely to get hooked and will stop to think — to.....
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