Product Description: Staff burnout and work-related stress in mental health professionals cost the National Health Service not only millions of pounds each year, but also impact upon the welfare of those being cared for. Staff Support Groups in the Helping Professions takes the lead from recent Department of Health initiatives, promoting the use of staff support groups to foster emotional resilience, deal with potential conflict and support reflective practice...read more

Product Description: Commended in the Mental Health category of the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition. This book offers an insight into the experience of psychiatric in-patient care, from both a professional and a user perspective. The editors highlight the problems in creating therapeutic environments within settings which are often poorly resourced, crisis driven and risk aversive...read more

A tribute to the author's sheepdogs recounts a succession of devastating setbacks that threatened his family sheep farm and the pivotal contributions of his four working canines, including one who demonstrated particular talents. By the author of A Shepherd's Watch. 15,000 first printing.

Traces a year in the life of a modern English shepherd and his working collies, describing his efforts to safeguard his charges along the Atlantic cliffs in spite of a harsh climate and officious farm inspector, in a personal account that also pays tribute to the author's relationship with his canine companions.

Product Description: Behind the interventions suggested by a panel of group analysts The book gives the trainee a wide and informed appreciation of different situations arising in-groups and appropriate ways of handling them. It provides an excellent base from which to start to practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description:      The River Brahmaputra runs from the Himalayas in Tibet, through India, and on through Bangladesh, winding its way through three countries, numerous languages and cultures, and three great religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam...read more

Product Description: In this comprehensive introduction to the nature and work of therapeutic communities, David Kennard begins by setting them within their historical and social context. He goes on to describe their day-to-day running and the experiences of staff members. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Trainee therapists in groups often have to embark on an apprenticeship in which they learn by being an observer in a group or work almost immediately as a co-therapist. This is in many ways a good way of learning, but it is often difficult for the learner to go into his or her early groups with a full appreciation of the nature of intervention...read more