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Bully Blocking at Work: A Self-Help Guide for Employees and Managers Bullying in the workplace causes billions of dollars in lost productivity, expensive mistakes, employee replacement costs, and health and welfare rehabilitation expenses. Yet most organisations currently have few resources and systems to deal with the problem, leaving the victims to sink or swim, and the bullies to remain professionally incompetent. Bully Blocking at Work reveals the evil nature of workplace bullying, helping the reader to understand its toxic, destructive impact on all employees — whether they are targets, bullies or onlookers — and provides advice for coping and confronting bullying, from both a personal and organisational perspective. |
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The Fitzgerald Legacy: Reforming Public Life in Australia and Beyond The Queensland Government Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct, commonly referred to as the Fitzgerald Inquiry, lasted for two years. Its findings and recommendations, tabled in Parliament in May 1989, continue to have a significant effect on many aspects of public life in Queensland and beyond. This edited collection recalls the events that led up to the Fitzgerald Inquiry and examines the extraordinary influence the ‘watershed’ inquiry has had on police and public sector reform at the state, national and international levels. |
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The idea that a single person can change the course of nations, peoples, and movements through the force of their own personality is something many may find fascinating and more than a little scary. In his latest book psychologist Len Oakes draws on a range of disciplines including theology, history, sociology and psychoanalysis to explore a personality so different from the general population that it is used by groups to solve problems that reason and tradition have failed to answer. |
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Turning Points : An Extraordinary Journey into the Suicidal Mind In this remarkable book, Professor Diego De Leo, distinguished Italian psychiatrist and tireless researcher into suicide prevention, takes us on a revealing journey into the suicidal mind. Told in the form of letters, 12 life stories reveal much about the human spirit as well as the deep complexities of suicidal behaviour and the struggle for psychological science to understand this worst of human tragedies. Diego adds his own honest interpretations and comments as a roadmap to guide the reader on the many messages these stories reveal. |
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Confidentiality for Mental Health Professionals: A Guide to Ethical and Legal Principles Those who work in the mental health sector will sometimes need to consider whether they are ethically or legally obliged to disclose certain personal information revealed by their clients and patients to third parties. This book focuses on the actual decision-making process of disclosing confidential information to allow mental health professionals to find a solution that is ethically and legally sound and able to be recognised as such by external authorities. |
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Australian School Leadership Today This book is distinctly Australian in flavour and substance, bringing together the expertise, research, and experience of the best of Australia’s educational academics and practitioners to dissect the social, historical and cultural contexts within which educational leadership is understood and practised today. A must read for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of school leadership, current teacher and leader practitioners, system-level educational leaders and policy makers. |
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The Practice of Clinical Supervision Quality clinical supervision for counselling, psychotherapy and other mental health and related disciplines is the result of strategic planning by counsellors, administrators and supervisors working in partnership. This book is a state-of-the-art summary of where supervision is today and what are some of the crucial themes that supervisors need to consider. It is cross-professional in scope and is relevant for counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, and life and business coaches. |
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Ethics and Accountability in Criminal Justice: Towards a Universal Standard This book is designed to meet head on the urgent need for academics, advocates and policymakers to develop universal ethical standards in criminal justice practice. By using quality research and policy analysis focusing on the core components of the criminal justice system — police, courts and corrections— Professor Prenzler formulates a basic checklist that can be used to assess the ethical quality and accountability of the criminal justice system in any jurisdiction. |
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The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies: Creating Wealth from a New Employment Relationship The employment relationship as we know it is a relic of the last century. Globalisation and heightened competition are challenging organisations to be more responsive to fluctuations in market conditions and trends. This book offers managers and professionals a new, research-based employment model that will alter the way employees and employers think about their working relationship, aligning the changing needs and interests of individuals and organisations to produce a sustainable, productive and profitable workplace. |
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Music Autoethongraphies: Making Autoethnogrphy Sing / Making Music Personal Autoethnography is an autobiographical genre that connects the personal to the cultural, social, and political. The synergies between music and autoethnography are promising, ready to be fully realised. For the first time, this edited volume explores these synergies by presenting work in which the relationship between these two areas is explored through the eyes, ears, emotions, and stories of music and autoethnography practitioners. |
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Fight Your Dark Shadow: Managing Depression with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy A delightfully
illustrated book with a clear and uplifting message for the more than
one million Australians affected by depression each year. Co-written
by a long-term sufferer of depression and one of Australia’s
leading cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) experts, this is a practical
guide on what depression is and how to overcome it using CBT, the most
accessible, effective and widely used Medicare registered treatment
of choice. Highly recommended
by a range of mental health professionals, this book is a must-have for
all sufferers of depression whether in treatment or contemplating it.
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