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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Us and Them: Muslim–Christian Relations and Cultural Harmony in Australia 

Essential reading for all students — secondary through to tertiary and postgraduate — requiring an introduction to Christian Muslim relations and attitudes in Australia, Us and Them offers 11 essays about interfaith relations drawn from a variety of research projects over past years, including results from a national survey on attitudes towards Islam and Muslims among Australian secondary students.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Contemporary Research and Practice

Showcasing the very latest in the theory, research and practice of ACT across a range of clinical applications, including eating disorders, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, PTSD and substance abuse, with contributions from leading ACT practitioners including co-founders Kirk Strosahl, Kelly Wilson and Rob Zettle. Chapters range from detailed treatments of the scientific and theoretical aspects of the ACT model and research program, to detailed discussions of how to apply ACT to a variety of human problems.

Job Stress in University Staff: An Australian Research Study

A variety of changes to academic working conditions have resulted in an increase in occupational stress and a decrease in occupational wellbeing among university academics as well as nonacademic, or general, staff. This book releases for the first time the complete results of the Australian University Staff Stress (AUSS) Project which examined over a number of years the level, extent, and antecedents of occupational stress experienced by staff, and the consequences on individuals and universities.

Practical CBT: Using Functional Analysis, Problem-Maintaining-Circles, and Standardised Homework in Everyday Therapy

It is the clinician’s task to take what they know works and to tailor it to the person seeking their help. The book provides explicit assessment-to-treatment  pathways with links to over 45 tried and tested ready-to-use homework scripts covering a range of common therapy issues including self-monitoring, self-esteem, decision making, depression, anxiety, sleep, and anger.

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