Gently wades through a torrent of suspects when a body is found floating face down in the river. Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing - that's if you can call having too many suspects, too many potential murderers, 'a good thing'. What Gently has to work out is which of them had the cold blooded nerve to smash the victim's skull and dump him in the river.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is among the most remarkable developments in contemporary psychotherapy. This second edition of the pioneering ACT skills-training manual for clinicians provides a comprehensive update—essential for both experienced practitioners and those new to using ACT and its applications. ACT is a proven-effective treatment for numerous mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, eating disorders, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and more. With important revisions based on new developments in contextual behavioral science, Learning ACT, Second Edition includes up-to-date exercises and references, as well as material on traditional, evidence-based behavioral techniques for use within the ACT framework. In this fully revised and updated edition of Learning ACT, you’ll find workbook-format exercises to help you understand and take advantage of ACT’s unique six process model—both as a tool for diagnosis and case conceptualization, and as a basis for structuring treatments for clients. You’ll also find up-to-the-minute information on process coaching, new experiential exercises, an increased focus on functional analysis, and downloadable extras that include role-played examples of the core ACT processes in action. By practicing the exercises in this workbook, you’ll learn how this powerful modality can improve clients’ psychological flexibility and help them to live better lives. Whether you’re a clinician looking for in-depth training and better treatment outcomes for individual clients, a student seeking a better understanding of this powerful modality, or anyone interested in contextual behavioral science, this second edition provides a comprehensive revision to an important ACT resource.

Boost your self-esteem and truly believe that you are perfectly awesome Looking to get your hands on some more self-esteem? You're not alone. Thankfully, Self-Esteem For Dummies presents clear, innovative, and compassionate methods that help you identify the causes of low self-esteem—as well the lowdown on the consequences. Packed with trusted, hands-on advice to help you improve your overall self-worth, Self-Esteem For Dummies arms you with the proven tools and techniques for learning how to think and behave with more self-assurance at work, in social situations, and even in relationships. Self-esteem is shaped by your thoughts, relationships, and experiences. When you were growing up, your successes, failures, and how you were treated by your family, teachers, coaches, religious authorities, and peers determined how you feel about yourself. But you can shift your thinking and reclaim your self-worth with the help of Self-Esteem For Dummies. Helps you understand the ranges of self-esteem and the benefits of promoting self-esteem Arms you with the tools to learn how to think and behave with more self-assurance Covers the importance of mental wellbeing, assertiveness, resilience, and more Shows you how to improve your self-image, increase personal power, and feel better about yourself If you're looking to boost your sense of self-worth, Self-Esteem For Dummies sets you on the path to a more confident, awesome you.

Separated into seven categories for easy reference, the techniques within each chapter are applied to practice situations in a concise format for easy reference and use. The interventions illustrated include Storytelling, to enhance verbalizations in children; Expressive Art, to promote children's coping ability by using various art mediums; Game Play, to help children express themselves in a playful environment; Puppet Play, to facilitate the expression of conflicting emotions; Play Toys and Objects, to demonstrate the therapeutic use of various toys and objects in the playroom; Group Play, to offer methods and play techniques for use in group settings; and Other, to provide miscellaneous techniques that are useful in many settings. This book is a response to the evident need of clinicians for easy to use play therapy techniques. A welcome addition to the earlier collection, it is designed to help children enhance verbalization of feeling, manage anger, deal with loss and grief, and heal their wounds through the magic of play therapy. Clear and marvelously simple, this manual will be an invaluable addition to any professional's or student's library. A Jason Aronson Book

The Holistic Guide to Hypnotherapy Here is the worlds most comprehensive and detailed revelation of the ancient art of hypnotherapy in two volumes. Whether you are currently learning it, practicing it, a hypnotherapy professional, or just plain interested in the amazing art of hypnotherapy, this book will be your most valuable resource. Hypnotherapy is not the only discipline covered in this huge store of knowledge: among many other things, you will learn about health from a holistic point of view, benefits of nutrition, meditation, about relationships, sexuality and more. Steve Webster brilliantly explains: ? Simple, complex and metaphysical hypnotherapy. ? The differences between hypnosis and hypnotherapy. ? Approaches and amazing new techniques to use on different personality types. ? How to use 18 Laws of Suggestibility to rid clients of illness, disease and behavioral disorder, and how to reprogram your mind. ? Mechanics of hypnosis, the scientific intricacies, and 27 diagnostic tools to help you.... ? How to treat the top 35 afflictions like weight loss, anxiety, pain, sleep disorders, and social phobias. ? Guided imagery, neuroplasticity, epigenetics, neuro-linguistic programming, ideomotor responses and the power of dream venting. ? Your clients coping, blocking, release, and defense mechanisms. ? Body syndromes, how emotions affect us, and the subconscious mind. ? How one health disorder, HHS, might be responsible for 85% of afflictions. ? The real Law of Attraction, and how to make it work for you. Steve has coined a new description for hypnotherapistsConsciousness Engineersbecause thats what they are! The clients consciousness creates their reality, and the hypnotherapist adjusts that consciousness. The subconscious mind vibrates at a level where it does not know illness, disease and behavioral disorder; but the conscious mind vibrates at a lower level and attracts these negative energies. After reading the Consciousness Engineering section (Volume 2), you will understand: ? Your 3 minds, their vibrational levels, and how to increase your power of creation. ? How to manifest anything, and how to become an ascended master. ? Learn what the subconscious mind is, and how to guide your client to engage with it, and harness its amazing powers. The two volumes explain how you create your whole world, and how to create a world that brings you (and your clients!) joy and peace. It explains levels of consciousness, how to increase yours, and how you are immortal in your quantum world. With over 100 inductions, deepeners and convincers, with over 100 original diagrams and images, and with over 100 informative tables and quotes. This book really is your hypnotherapy Bible!

James Riley, author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, returns with another incisive and thought-provoking cultural history, turning his trenchant eye to the wellness industry that emerged in the 1970s. Concepts such as wellness and self-care may feel like distinctly twenty-first century ideas, but they first gained traction as part of the New Age health movements that began to flourish in the wake of the 1960s. Riley dives into this strange and hypnotic world of panoramic coastal retreats and darkened floatation tanks, blending a page-turning narrative with illuminating explorations of the era's music, film, art and literature. Well Beings delves deep into the mind of the seventies - its popular culture, its radical philosophies, its approach to health and its sense of social crisis. It tells the story of what was sought, what was found and how these explorations helped the 'Me Decade' find itself. In so doing, it questions what good health means today and reveals what the seventies can teach us about the strange art of being well.