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Maintaining Your Balance:
Professional Reading
That Makes a Difference

"My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free." (Kirk Douglas)


We Want Your Recommendations!

Books/article you recommend to others because:

  • it helped you as a mental health professional?
  • it addressed difficult issues in your clinical practice?
  • it offered strategies & approaches that worked?
  • you gained perspective on the meaning of your work?
  • you might work toward a given area of specialization?

Send title, author(s), year, publisher, annotation.
Tell us how it made a difference for you. We'll post your recommendation, your name & brief information about your career. If you prefer anonymity, tell us. cpsycpr@lclark.edu


Workbook: Gambling Addiction Treatment

Marcy Nichols, CADC I, CGAC II, NCGC II, Counseling Psychology graduate student at LC, has helped fill a gap in professional resources related to gambling addiction. She's featured under Spotlight on a Student on our homepage. Read the full page account, which contains links to her book's website No Dice: Safety Net to Recovery where readers can view the table of contents, see 3 sample chapters, access assessment devices & read compelling testimonials from people who are in recovery from gambling addiction. Congratulations to Marcy for writing a book that is making a difference!

Recommendations:
Practice-Based

Windowframes: Learning the Art of Gestalt Play Therapy the Oaklander Way by Peter Mortola Forward by V. Oaklander

How do children emotionally heal after suffering trauma? How do adults help them in a therapeutic relationship? These questions are central in Oaklander's approach. This book is a very readable description of practice-based components of a two-week training in this approach.

Recommendations:
Bibliotherapy

Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward by Prochaska, Norcross & DiClemente

Easy to read introduction to Stages of Change, for clients responsive to bibliotherapy & for professionals unfamiliar with this transtheoretical approach. Applicable to clients with a wide range of attitudes, beliefs & behaviors that impede healthy change. Offers clinical insights.



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