Coping with Trauma is a concise, readable and practical book about the nature of traumatic experiences and their impact on both victim and helper. With contributions from some of Australia’s leading trauma specialists, Coping with Trauma provides a unique and systematic analysis of trauma reactions in individuals suffering directly from the experience. As well as the professionals who render assistance to them. This book outlines major principles of assessment and intervention based on contemporary research and experience, and provides vivid, real-life case histories. Coping with Trauma is a well-referenced and valuable resource text for any person who finds themselves working in the area of trauma.

Coping With Trauma: The Victim and the Helper

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Australian Academic Press

Land: The elusive quest for social justice, taxation reform & a sustainable planetary environment

Business & Money

Day, Philip

Economics

The Friends for Life Workbook for Children: Workbook

This is a book on politics, history and legal philosophy like no other. Featuring an introduction by the late Sir Walter Campbell AC QC, former Governor and Chief Justice of Queensland, it argues that the republican ideal of government ""...of the people, by the people, for the people"" has permanently parted company from the republican form of government. A monarchist, not a royalist, the author argues that the important aspects of the monarchy are not the sentimental or tabloid details, but the constitutional role that has evolved within parliamentary democracy over centuries, in Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth. The book advocates the importance of the Crown in the Westminster parliamentary system of democracy, to limit executive power and help preserve peaceful, culturally diverse societies in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. Contrasts are presented between the legal safeguards inherent in the Westminster system with the failures of governance in the United States and France.

For the Sovereignty of the People: A Conversation with Niccolo's Ghost, and a Defence of the Crown in the Westminster System

Politics & Social Sciences

Greenwood, Nigel

Politics & Government

Friends For Life Workbook For Youth

Paula M. Barrett

Ministry of Children and Family Development Staff British Columbia

“The game of golf is a ‘work in progress’ for the ambitious player. You never reach the point at which you have mastered the game, because the knowledge and skills it demands are virtually limitless.” Jack Nicklaus. Led by a Foreword on how to win by the world’s greatest player, this book provides key insights from sport science research, professional practice and case-study contributions from internationally recognised experts. Coaches, sports scientists, players and those involved in their preparation will benefit from this excellent resource.

Optimising Performance In Golf

Sports & Outdoors

Thomas, Patrick

Golf

There is an expectation that teachers are, and will be, transformers of society as they prepare young people to deal with an ever-changing world. While the importance of this role has never been greater, the status and respect once enjoyed by teachers has declined over recent years. Diminishing status and negative stereotypes have in turn contributed to a growing teacher shortage crisis, worldwide. Home economists, as one group of increasingly scarce teachers, have carried their share of negative stereotyping, led by tired cliches such as cookers and sewers and stitchers and stirrers. This book encourages rethinking of home economics and home economics teaching by providing insights into the embodied pedagogy of teachers who refuse to live by tired cliches. It explores ways in which these teachers engage in fun and pleasure, demonstrating that transformative moments are part of their classroom culture. This re-thinking offers challenges not only for home economics teachers, their profession and home economics as a cultural practice, but for the broader teaching community engaged in embodied pedagogy, thereby providing a paradigm shift for re-thinking the status and perceptions of teachers and teacher professionalism.

Virginal Mothers, Groovy Chicks & Blokey Blokes: Re-thinking Home Economics (and) Teaching Bodies

Education & Teaching

Pendergast, Donna

Schools & Teaching

We live in a multicultural society, yet how well do we understand the differences that exist across cultures and how they may impact on mental health and mental health assessment? Assessing Mental  Health Across Cultures provides a framework for mental health professionals and students to obtain an in-depth understanding of a client whose  cultural background is different to their own. The book uses a combination of theoretical discussion and case examples set in the context of Australia’s multicultural society. Chapter titles include: Issues and Dilemmas in Diagnosis Across Cultures Cultural Values, the Sense of Self and Psychiatric Assessment Expression and Communication of Distress Across Cultures Issues in Translating Mental Health Terms Across Cultures Crosscultural Beliefs about Illness Negotiating Explanatory Models

Assessing Mental Health Across Cultures

Andary, Lena

Stolk, Yvonne

“An individual with Morton Deutsch’s theoretical brilliance  comes along maybe two or three times a century.”David Johnson, University of Minnesota “The richness of Morton Deutsch’s work is like a goldmine that has barely begun to be mined.”Susan Opotow, University of Massachusetts Morton Deutsch is one of the most distinguished psychologists of our time and has been honoured by his profession with numerous awards. His ideas permeate the boundaries of law, international politics, education, business, and industrial relations. Yet today many people working in mediation and conflict resolution remain unaware of his great contributions to social and organisational psychology. His professional life spans the very existence of modern social psychology, beginning with his student days in the New York of 1935, through to his continuing work at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, the influential research and teaching center he founded. Psychologist Erica Frydenberg spent two years documenting the life and legacy of this remarkable man through interviews with Morton and his many students and colleagues. The result is a book that enlightens us about the man’s family and work life as well as illustrating the importance of using rigorous theoretical analysis to drive practical research and application in a way that can make a true difference in our everyday lives.

Morton Deutsch: A Life and Legacy of Mediation and Conflict Resolution

Biographies & Memoirs

Frydenberg, Head of Educational Psychology Unit Erica

Community & Culture

Coaching in its many forms is emerging as an exciting and important branch of positive psychology. Evidence-Based Coaching (Vol.1): Theory, Research and Practice From the Behavioural Sciences is a landmark in coaching publishing — a collection of 15 peer-reviewed chapters by leading writer–practitioners that places the practice of coaching in the context of up-to-the-minute theory and research. The book presents key presentations from the First Evidence-Based Coaching Conference, which took place in July 2003 at the University of Sydney, Australia. The aim of the conference was to provide an academically grounded forum that would foster the development of a broad, evidence-based knowledge foundation and facilitate an intelligent, open and informed dialogue between coaches. The last 10 years have seen a rapid increase in interest in life coaching and in executive and workplace coaching. In the workplace, coaching is beginning to move from being the latest management fad to a mainstream component of organisation development and talent management. This growing popularity of coaching as a human and organisational change methodology carries with it enormous opportunities and challenges for those who deliver coaching services and coach training. The term ‘evidenced-based coaching’ was coined by staff of the Coaching Psychology Unit of the University of Sydney to describe executive, personal and life coaching that goes beyond adaptations of the popular self-help or personal development genre, is purposefully grounded in the behavioural and social sciences and is unequivocally based on up-to-date scientific knowledge. An excellent resource and guide for best practice, this book is essential reading for coaches, psychologists, managers and human resources specialists who wish to extend their theoretical and practical understanding of coaching in its various forms.

Evidence-Based Coaching Volume 1: Theory, Research and Practice from the Behavioural Sciences

Psychology & Counseling

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