Use new knowledge of the LGBT culture to ably counsel same-sex couples! Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples provides psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors with an overview of the array of treatment issues they may face when working with couples from the LGBT community. This book highlights the experiences of therapists who have encountered concerns particular to LGBT clients—especially those in intimate relationships. This intriguing resource covers clinical issues, sex therapy, special situations, and training issues for helping therapists successfully counsel same-sex couples. Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples explores the therapist’s role in working through universal issues in couples therapy—such as communication problems, infidelity, and decision-making—with a focus on how therapy should differ for same-sex couples. This important guide also identifies which problems are unique to couples as an aspect of their sexual orientation, including gender role socialization and societal oppression. With this book, you will be able provide appropriate therapy without over- or under-attributing a couple’s problems to their LGBT status. This book shows how experienced therapists have developed methods for working with: gay and lesbian parents heterosexual spouses and ex-spouses couples in HIV serodiscordant relationships "lesbian bed death" couple and family dynamics supporting transgender and sexual reassignment issues and more! Relationship Therapy with Same-Sex Couples contains several features for you to utilize in your own practice, including the Sexual Orientation Matrix for Supervision (SOMS) to assist supervisors and trainers in preparing supervisees to work with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. The book also offers guidelines for heterosexual therapists who plan to work with same-sex couples and how to overcome any residual homophobia or heterosexual guilt. Lastly, this essential sourcebook reviews several articles, book chapters, books, and Web sites that are relevant to same-sex couples and the therapists who work with them.
SOUL SOIL is useful for all those concerned about maintaining and creating healthy relationships in their lives. It offers a perspective that will challenge you to take responsibility for the role you play in your relationships. It will provoke you to be proactive about dealing with the 'dirt' in your life, so that you are able to get the greatest benefit from your encounters with others.
A memorable guidebook for fathers to help them create a new adventure with their married daughters. Standing at the altar giving their little girl away begins a new day and the need for a new way for fathers to relate to their daughters. Robert Wolgemuth, author of the best-selling She Calls Me Daddy, reminds fathers of the important role they still play while offering insight as to how it must change in the next chapter of their girls' lives. Topics cover seven relational issues: Protection Conversation Affection Discipline Laughter Faith Conduct Includes thoughts on an ongoing relationship as well as on becoming a granddaddy. Discussion questions provide a great opportunity for personal or group study.
There has never been a CRM manual like this. 100 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of CRM. Instead, it answers the top 100 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. This book is also not about CRM's best practice and standards details. Instead, it introduces everything you want to know to be successful with CRM.
Life can be sweet. Our relationships with friends, spouses, colleagues, and family members can be wonderfully rewarding. They can also bring heartache, frustration, anxiety, and anger. We all know the difference between times when we feel open, generous, and at ease with people versus times when we are guarded, defensive, and on edge. Why do we get trapped in negative emotions when it's clear that life is so much fuller and richer when we are free of them? Bonds That Make Us Free is a ground-breaking book that suggests the remedy for our troubling emotions by addressing their root causes. You'll learn how, in ways we scarcely suspect, we are responsible for feelings like anger, envy, and insecurity that we have blamed on others. (How many times have you said, "You're making me mad!") Even though we fear to admit this, it is good news. If we produce these emotions, it falls within our power to stop them. But we have to understand our part in them far better than we do, and that is what this remarkable book teaches. Because the key is seeing truthfully, the book itself is therapeutic. As you read and identify with the many true stories of people who have seen a transformation in their lives, you will find yourself reflecting with fresh honesty upon your relationships. This will bond you to others in love and respect and lift you out of the negative thoughts and feelings that have held you captive. You will feel your heart changing even as you read. "It would not be accurate to describe this book as supplying the truths upon which we must build our lives," writes author C. Terry Warner. "Instead it shows how we can put ourselves in that receptive, honest, and discerning condition that will enable us, any of us, to find these truths on our own." Finding these truths is the key to healing our relationships and coming to ourselves, and Bonds That Make Us Free starts us on that great journey.
Cracking the Networking CODE: 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships is Recommended Reading by United Professional Sales Association and Profit magazine. "Dean Lindsay is a master of progress, and in this book will show you how to be the same. He’ll take you by the hand – a pleasurable experience, because the man is an awesome writer – and lead you into the land of networking nirvana." -- Jay Conrad Levinson The Father of Guerrilla Marketing ( Brief Excerpt taken from Mr. Levinson's Foreword for Cracking the Networking CODE) While Mastering the 4 Steps to Priceless Business Relationships... You’ll Discover: - The Top Ten Benefits of Networking - 37 Questions for Defining a Powerful Networking Plan - The Way Around the "Do Not Call" List - 16 Examples of Proven Places to Network - 16 Tips for Running a Successful Trade Show Booth - 9 Strategies for Opening Face-to-Face Relationships - 6 Often Overlooked Networking Strategies - 20 Quick Tips for Delivering Solid First Impressions - 10 Ideas for Creating a Series of Positive Impressions - Insight on Business Cards and Note-taking And...Learn How to: - Be a Success in Your Own Eyes - Conquer the FEAR of Networking - Harness the Power in Numbers - Gain Confidence Talking to Strangers - Ask Progress-Focused Questions - Listen As If Your Lifestyle Depended on It. - Design Your Rise & Shine (30-Second Commercial) And of Course How to … Crack the Networking CODE.
People who suffer from mental illness rarely do so alone. Their families and loved ones face their own set of unique challenges-problems that deserve their own resources and sources of support. This is the first book written specifically to the loved ones of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It helps readers examine how OCD affects their lives and offers a straightforward system for building a healthier, more constructive relationship with OCD sufferers. The book contains basic information about OCD-its definition, cause, and symptoms-and a brief overview of treatments available for the disorder. After these introductory sections, the book focuses on ways readers can foster a healthy relationship with someone with OCD. It includes tips for increasing family involvement, making accommodation for the disorder in daily life, and creating an action plan for change using family contracts. The book also covers relational topics such as parenting and marriage, self-care, and support networking. Throughout, the book illustrates important points with the real-life stories of families living with OCD.
Ralph Blum's commentaries on the Runes have been a source of wisdom, comfort, and guidance for millions of readers around the world. Now the Runes speak to all of us in loving relationships of every kind. Whether we need to face the challenges that arise with an intimate partner, or the issues between friends, family, colleagues, and neighbors, The Relationship Runes offers valuable counsel. This new interpretation will provide you with a reliable compass to help you get your bearings on your own journey of loving relationships.Pack contains: - Book of interpretation- 25 intensely beautiful frosted glass Rune stones- Drawstring casting bag
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