This title was first published in 1981. International experts from the newly-independent states of the former Soviet Union analyse the nuclear issues complicating the relations between Russia and its new neighbours. This text emphasises global issues of ecological safety and international military security.

International experts from the newly-independent states of the former Soviet Union analyse the nuclear issues complicating the relations between Russia and its new neighbours. This text emphasises global issues of ecological safety and international military security.

The third edition of Counseling Techniques follows in its predecessors’ steps, presenting the art and science of counseling in a clear and common-sense manner that makes it accessible for counseling students and seasoned practitioners alike. New to this edition are chapters on play therapy and a host of other updates that illustrate ways to use different techniques in different situations. Counseling Techniques stresses the need to recognize and treat the client within the context of culture, ethnicity, interpersonal resources, and systemic support, and it shows students how to meet these needs using more than five hundred treatment techniques, each of which is accompanied by step-by-step procedures and evaluation methods.

Providing counseling techniques from a broad spectrum of theoretical approaches, this book provides multitherapeutic options when working with clients. It stresses a need to recognize the client within the context of culture, ethnicity, interpersonal resource, and systemic support. More than 200 treatment techniques are included, along with 17 treatment plans. Techniques are arranged according to areas or problems, each offering step-by-step procedures and evaluation means to determine whether or not desired outcomes are being achieved.

The Playing Self is a groundbreaking new work from influential cultural sociologist and clinical psychologist Alberto Melucci, best known for his work on social movements and collective identities. In this book, he delves deeper into questions about the self as both a psychological and socio-cultural entity, particularly in the context of a global society for which information has become a basic resource. His phenomenological approach accounts for the self both as a site of highly subjective and intimate experiences, such as crying, laughing and loving, and in relation to social structural dynamics, through more impersonal experiences, such as the experience of time, and links of the self to politics. Melucci explores the critical search for meaning at the boundary of visible collective processes and individual day-to-day experience.