This book is a treatment manual providing guidance for therapists treating clients with gambling addictions.

In this book the authors use a cognitive behavioural approach and provide a session by session guide for overcoming problem gambling. Essential topics covered include:

• assessment and psychoeducation
• cognitive behavioural strategies to stabilize gambling
• identifying and challenging thinking errors
• relaxation and imaginal exposure
• problem solving and goal setting
• managing negative emotions
• relapse prevention: maintaining a balanced lifestyle and coping with high risk situations

A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Programme for Problem Gambling supplies detailed information to help the therapist and client understand gambling behaviours, as well as practical advice on techniques that can be used with the client to change these behaviours.

This practical guide will provide helpful guidance for addiction counsellors and therapists worldwide.

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BONUS: FREE PRINTABLE WORKBOOK INCLUDED!

It’s super fun to be a teen. I mean, all that extra independence and freedom is great! But there’s a flip side to the coin, too. You have more responsibilities now, right? You might be expected to do your own laundry, take care of the car that you love driving, and even cook a few meals.

“I have no idea how to do these things I’m suddenly supposed to do!”

If this is what you’ve been thinking lately, then this book is for you! We’ve loaded it simple tips for taking care of yourself, helping around the house, and doing even more adult-y things like maintaining your car, budgeting, and thinking ahead to when you’ll be out on your own.

In this book, you’ll learn how to…

• Take care of yourself
• Take care of your home
• Take care of business

And we’ve even included a FREE printable workbook so that you can practice all of the new things you’ll learn.
Go on, dazzle the adults in your life with all the amazing new skills you’ll gain by reading this book!

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Did you know the Pope has the most influential Twitter account?

Did you know that there are 18 times more bacteria on a cell phone screen than on a toilet seat?

Or that the first video to get over 1 billion views on YouTube was PSY’s “Gangnam Style” in 2010?

Got curious?

Perfect, because in this book you can expect exciting facts about categories such as
Fashion
Mobile & Internet
Generation Z
Social Media
Gaming

But also interesting facts about everyday life, technology, medicine, etc.

This book also makes a wonderful gift for teens – whether it’s for a birthday, Christmas or graduation.

Take the opportunity to buy this book now and you will never run out of things to talk about.

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Attachment is at the heart of family life and at the heart of foster care and adoption. Attachment theory and research provide a vital developmental framework for making sense of the behaviour and relationship strengths and difficulties that children bring from their complex backgrounds. It also offers a valuable resource for understanding the kind of caregiving in foster care and adoptive families that can enable children to feel more trusting, confident, competent and secure.

This book traces the pathways of secure and insecure patterns from birth to adulthood, exploring the impact of past experiences of abuse, neglect and separation on children s behaviour in foster and adoptive families. It then explains, from an attachment perspective, the dimensions of parenting that are associated with helping children to feel more secure and to fulfil their potential in the family, with peers, at school and in the community. Finally, it tackles the key role which keeping attachment in mind can play in a range of areas of family placement practice, including contact.

Vivid case examples are used to make connections with the reality, both the challenges and the rewards, of daily life in foster and adoptive families.

This book is an indispensable resource for practitioners, foster carers, adoptive parents and all those seeking to ensure that children in need of family care get the very best experience possible and that foster carers and adoptive parents get the support they need and deserve.

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Discover how to navigate adolescence with confidence – preparing yourself for success in adulthood in the process!

Ready to master the art of handling things like emotions, finances, and conflicts like a pro?

Want to discover the secrets to acing school, tackling chores, and still having plenty of personal time?

Curious about effective strategies to conquer stress from academic demands, social situations, and the uncertainties of tomorrow?

The teenage years can often be a rollercoaster of emotions and experiences… and it’s valid to feel a bit overwhelmed at times.

Adolescence can be quite stressful because it marks a significant transition in your life. It’s a time of self-discovery, growth, and adaptation… and the uncertainties that accompany this stage often make it a demanding and emotionally turbulent time.

To make matters worse, in just a short while, you’re supposed to have all the answers, to know what you want to do with your life.

While this can all be overwhelming, remember, you’re not the only one going through this. Many teens find themselves in the same predicament, trying to make sense of it all.

Thankfully, this guide will empower you with the knowledge and strategies you need to navigate the complexities of teenage life with confidence.

In this book, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:

• 5 steps to managing your emotions so you can stay calm even under stressful situations
• How to create a budget, stick to it, and track your expenses so you can save more money without feeling like you are missing out!
• An effective decision-making process to help you make wiser decisions and avoid second-guessing your actions
• How to master time management to perform better at school and work… and create more time for those activities you love
• 7 core elements of a healthy relationship – and how to nurture positive connections that will contribute happiness to your life
• How to express your frustrations without making personal attacks so you can resolve conflicts in a respectful manner – be a part of the solution and not the problem, as the saying goes
• The first step to solving a problem… and how to implement your solution and become a better problem solver
• How to plan your career and make the most of your first job experience – figure out how to build your foundation for success!

And much more.

Let’s face it – there’s a lot left to discover before you are ready for the adult world. Heck, there is plenty still left to explore about being a teen!

But with the guidance provided here, you can step out into the world as the confident, capable person you know you can be!

Start equipping yourself with essential life skills today to put yourself on track to success – you’ll thank yourself someday!

Discover how to become more independent and achieve success when you venture out on your own! Scroll up and click the “Add to Cart” button right now.

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The areas covered in this book each include their own sections with specific examples to help explain and gain knowledge from:

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Personal Development
• Chapter 2: Setting Goals and Creating Action Plans
• Chapter 3: Time Management and Productivity
• Chapter 4: Communication Skills
• Chapter 5: Building Resilience and Coping with Challenges
• Chapter 6: Financial Literacy and Money Management
• Chapter 7: Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
• Chapter 8: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Basics
• Chapter 9: Leadership Skills and Teamwork
• Chapter 10: Networking and Relationship Building
• Chapter 11: Personal Branding and Online Presence
• Chapter 12: Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship
• Chapter 13: Problem Solving
• Chapter 14: Negotiation Skills

The book covers many life skills and knowledge area’s people often look back on and say ‘I wish I knew that when I was younger’ So take the opportunity and use this book to skill up now! Whether in school, for your first job or in social settings ‘How To Be A Useful Teenager’ makes a brilliant reference guide.

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Christmas 45 + Images Coloring Book Color By Number for all ages! Cute Christmas characters, cozy festive scenes, playful Santa’s, beautiful Christmas trees, presents, ribbons, decorations and holiday cheer to help celebrate the most wonderful time of the year! Take time for relaxation as the holiday approaches with this gorgeous and simple-to-see Christmas Color By Number Adult and Senior Coloring Book from . Our Christmas coloring book features easy, stress relieving festive scenes with bold lines is a perfect, joyful, winter coloring companion for seniors, beginners and anyone who enjoys less intricate coloring. hours of creative enjoyment for adults of all ages. Reasons To Enjoy This Book. Awaken your talents and be proud of yourself

This Book Details:

45 + hand-drawn images exclusively designed to stimulate your
artistic ambition
Separately printed sheets to prevent bleed-through and allow you
to easily remove and frame your favorites!
Suitable for markers, gel pens, colored pencils, fine-liners, and
watercolors
An assortment of simple designs to accommodate every skill level
And hours upon hours of coloring enjoyment and meditative relaxation

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MOOD TRACKER JOURNAL FOR TEENAGERS

This mood tracker journal has been created for tweens and teenagers to help reduce anxiety and frustration and help to share feelings. Each log has two pages to track mood for morning, afternoon and evening by the use of faces. Hydration is important and being hydrated can help to increase mood to ensure the body has the water it needs for basic functions. The water log helps to identify days when it needed to be improved and can help to focus on water intake for future days. Exercise and diet are also very important factors in general mental health and wellbeing. There are sections to fill in food eaten and exercise taken, again to help identify and track correlations between low mood and poor diet etc.

The second page for each log prompts your child to identify positive impacts on their day as well as goals and things to aim for, to make the next day better. Finally finishing with space to write down things that they are grateful for and a positive affirmation to end on a positive note.

Writing down thoughts and feelings helps to recognise that they are just feelings and whilst they are part of you, they are not the whole you. They come and go and recognising them and writing them down can help with reflecting and letting go of them.

★ Track mood for morning, afternoon and evening

★ Log and track sleep each day

★ Log diet, hydration and exercise

★ Identify and log feelings and emotions felt that day

★ Identify and log positive things that happened

★ Log ideas for improvements for the next day

★ Practise gratitude

★ Helps to understand and acknowledge feelings and emotional triggers

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This collection brings together international experts to present a comparative analysis of wrongful conviction and criminal procedure. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach with authors drawn from a broad range of backgrounds including law, psychology, forensics and journalism. All are experts in their field with direct experience of the investigation of wrongful conviction in their own countries. Focusing on the main areas of concern in their own jurisdiction, each author discusses common themes, including: the extent of the problem; the types of cases that feature in miscarriages of justice; the legal mechanism for the correction of a wrongful conviction; compensation for the wrongly convicted; public awareness and concern about the issue generally and in light of highprofile cases; and the extent to which wrongful conviction has driven criminal justice reform. The book will be essential reading for students, researchers and policy-makers interested in comparative law, criminology and psychology.

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This Textbook addresses a gap in the market, as currently there are no contemporary books exploring nursing within a prison setting. The main focus is the provision of healthcare in the Prison Service of England and Wales, although examples will also be drawn from the United States of America and Australia. Healthcare within prison settings has changed remarkably to address the needs of the changing prison populations. Thus, this text is clearly structured to support student nurses to understand the role of the nurse within prison and how the different specialities of nursing are applied in this unique setting. This textbook provides an overview of the context of prison, prisoners, and healthcare, as well as the experiences of nurse specialists who work in this field, including adult, mental health, and learning disability nurses across primary care, mental health services, substance misuse and end-of-life care. 

This volume is informative for both undergraduate student nurses and for qualified nurses and dispels many myths regarding working as a nurse in a prison. Each chapter is written by experts within the field, including nurses who have worked or still working within the prison setting. An important objective of this work is to inform student nurses of the possibility and opportunity of a nursing career within a prison setting. 

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Struggling with a gambling habit? If you feel that a ‘flutter’ has evolved into something out of your control, this indispensable book is for you.

This self-help manual uses cognitive behavioral techniques, pioneered by clinical psychologist Professor Alex Blaszczynski, and now used all over the world, to help with gambling addiction. It will help you to understand how your own gambling problem has developed and what is keeping it going; also, crucially, how to develop the motivation to stop and control any future urges to gamble again.

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HIGHLY COMMENDED for the British Medical Awards book prize for Popular Medicine

Up to 10% of people will suffer a mild head injury (or ‘mild traumatic brain injury’) in their lifetime and up to 50% of those people will also find they have lingering post-concussion symptoms in the months or years afterwards. These symptoms can include headaches, dizziness, fatigue, irritability, sleep disturbance, reduced day-to-day memory, poor concentration, taking longer to think, ‘muzzy’ headedness, depression, anxiety, tinnitus, blurred or double vision, sensitivity to light or noise, frustration, nausea, restlessness and sensitivity to alcohol. In such circumstances the ‘mild’ head injury may feel anything but mild. This is particularly so if large areas of your day to day life are affected.

People in these circumstances can have their difficulties compounded by the very different explanations for their persisting difficulties. These usually involve receiving contradictory opinions about the extent to which ongoing symptoms are caused by neurological brain injury or other factors.

These complicating factors can make it very difficult to find the right kind of service or expertise after a TBI. Patients can easily feel like they are being ”pushed from pillar to post” when trying to find services that can help with their problems. On top of all of this, there is a distinct lack of good, science- based information for patients about the best ways to manage PCS. It is therefore very common for those who experience prolonged difficulties to find their situation extremely confusing, frustrating and stressful.

Dr Nigel King is an expert with much experience in this area, and has written a very valuable book weaving together the most useful knowledge in this area. It clarifies some of the complex issues for those who suffer with prolonged problems and provides practical, science-based self-help guidance for managing TBI difficulties. Using cognitive rehabilitation techniques and CBT approaches for the associated mental health complications of PCS, this much need book provides help, hope and understanding for what can be a highly disabling and misunderstood condition.

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This book provides an analysis of the meaning of safety and security across the contexts of community and public life, throughout the life span, and within a therapeutic framework, examining threats and the strategies for coping with them.

The book starts in Part I with a discussion of general safety and security concepts in the socio-cultural context. Part II of the book details the role of a sense of security in psychological assistance, psychotherapy and supervision, while Part III centres on safety and security at different life stages. Drawing on the tenets of modern attachment theory and trauma theory, chapter authors address questions of safety, danger, and protection for both individuals and groups, across a variety of fields of knowledge and expertise. Themes such as loneliness, play and exploration, evil and forgiveness, health and death, and spirituality and healing are discussed as practice examples, learning points, and tips.

A wide range of health and social care professional practitioners will find this book useful in exploring social, interpersonal, and psychological aspects of safety and security.

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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with the LGBT Community is a practical guide for mental health professionals who wish to increase their therapeutic skills and work more effectively with LGBT clients. This book shows how to help clients reach their goals in tangible, respectful ways by identifying and emphasizing the hope, resources, and strength already present within this population. Readers will increase their knowledge about the practical application of SFBT through case examples and transcripts, modified directly from the author’s work with the LGBT community, and by learning more about the miracle question, exceptions, scaling, compliments, coping, homework, and more.

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Sport Psychology: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental ideas at the heart of Sport Psychology today. This new revised and updated second edition examines the links between sport participants’ behaviours, their personality, and their environment to identify the factors which affect performance. Exploring theory and practice, it uses case studies to illustrate how key areas of theory are applied within a sport psychologist’s practice, answering such questions as:

• What is sport psychology and what do sport psychologists do?

• What factors affect sporting performance?

• How can sport psychologists help parents and sport organizations?

• Which psychological characteristics are associated with achievement in sport?

• How can sport psychologists help with athlete’s mental health?

With a glossary of key terms, suggestions for further study, and ideas for improving performance, Sport Psychology: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students of sport and coaches who would like to know more about how sport psychologists address questions about human behaviour in sport.

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Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved. This book explores the emotional experience of adoption from a psychoanalytic perspective, and demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can contribute to thinking about and working with adopted children and their families.

Drawing on psychoanalytic, attachment and child development theory, and detailed in-depth clinical case discussion, The Emotional Experience of Adoption explores issues such as:

• the emotional experience of children placed for adoption, and how this both shapes and is shaped by unconscious processes in the child’s inner world

• how psychoanalytic child psychotherapy can help as a distinctive source of understanding and as a treatment for children who are either in the process of being adopted or already adopted

• how such understanding can inform planning and decision making amongst professionals and carers.

The Emotional Experience of Adoption explains and accounts for the emotional and psychological complexities involved for child, parents and professionals in adoption. It will be of interest and relevance to anyone involved at a personal level in the adoption process or professionals working in the fields of adoption, social work, child mental health, foster care and family support.

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