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Evidence of Absence: A Guide to Cognitive Assessment in Australia This book offers Australian mental health clinicians a locally written guide to the clinical interpretation of cognitive assessments using the Wechsler scales, including the WAIS-IV, the WMS-IV and the Advanced Clinical Solutions for WAIS-IV and WMS-IV. Using Australian case material, the reader is provided with empirical and interpretative analysis based upon the varying State legal requirements, the range of sociocultural uses to which intellectual assessment is put, and consideration of appropriate norms. |
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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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Parenting teenagers today is a tough challenge. It takes a lot of effort and some practical advice from people who know what they are talking about. Award winning specialist teacher, researcher, mentor and speaker, Dr Jeff Kemp, has spent 30 years helping parents ride the roller coaster of parenting. Combining this wealth of experience with research and academic training Jeff has produced a highly inspirational and practical book full of sage advice as well as dozens of real-life teen scenarios parents may face and action plans to deal with them. |
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Speaking Out: Stopping Homophobic and Transphobic Abuse in Queensland Based on the largest survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transgender and queer reactions to violence and harassment ever undertaken in Australia, this book provides a roadmap for all Australian legislative, policing, and judicial jurisdictions via a wide ranging set of recommendations, from the individual's understanding of their rights and responsibilities, to the responses of police, legal professionals and judicial officers. |
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Counselling Christian Women on How to Deal With Domestic Violence This book explores women's experiences of physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, financial, and spiritual abuse at the hands of their perpetrator husbands who claim themselves to be good Christians. Through extensive interviews combined with academic research, the reader learns how counselling can be effective through the encouragement of a variety of religious and non-religious coping strategies. Of interest to victims of domestic abuse, as well as to the members of the clergy, psychologists, and counsellors. |
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As the challenge of climate change begins to impact upon all aspects of everyday life, the need for a wider approach to its legal implications is never more urgent. This unique text from some of the country's top legal academics as well as Stanford University's Professor Armin Rosencranz, illustrates with disturbing clarity how legal policy, litigation, investment, corporations law, labour law, property law, international law, and WTO law all intersect with the environmental legal framework when considering the impacts of climate change. |
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DIRT for Obsessive Compulsive Checkers: A Comperhensive Guide to Treatment A unique evidence-based treatment program designed to specifically reduce expectancies of danger or threat in OCD checkers. DIRT is based on the rationale that the therapist should provide as much factual information as possible to decrease the expectancy of harmful events and thus reduce the high dropout rate seen in conventional OCD exposure and response prevention programs. |
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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. |