Published June, 2006
By Patricia M. Burbank
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Explores the concept of vulnerability and addresses five groups of vulnerable older adults: those who are frail, those incarcerated in prisons, homeless older adults, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders, and those who are HIV positive or have AIDS.

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Published April, 2006
By Peter Roger Breggin
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Based on several years of the author's clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a therapist, this book illustrates the importance of developing a therapeutic bond - or healing presence - between helping professionals and their clients. It provides vignettes, case studies, and personal insights to help develop empathy in therapeutic relationships.

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Published April, 2006
By Christopher Mruk and Joan Hartzell
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Presenting a dialog on the ""science"" and the ""art"" sides of the art-science debate, this book includes suggestions for achieving a balance between these two poles of the helping and healing process.

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Published March, 2006
By Barbara Rubin Wainrib
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Offers the educator and the practitioner training methods, exercises, and intervention techniques applicable to the experiences that we encounter. This book also introduces readers to different concepts and their applications such as role play, spirituality, the role of animals in healing, and the concept of forgiveness.

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Published February, 2006
By E.T. Dowd and Steven Nielson
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Examines the thinking, personality, and development processes, as well as clinical concerns of clients who are members of particular religious groups. This book is helpful to therapists who want to understand how religious people ""really think.

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Published February, 2006
By W. Michael Nelson, Alfred Finch and Kathleen Hart
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Helps you take a journey through one of the most costly psychiatric disorders: Conduct Disorder. This book explores why children in the same environment as a child with conduct disorder are more affected than the child diagnosed with the problem. It uses one case study to investigate several treatments used by thirteen practicing clinicians.

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