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This companion guide to 'Getting Better Bite by Bite' is written for the health care professional to help maximize the benefit that patients obtain from the self-help book in the treatment of eating disorders.

This volume contains essays which were originally intended as a series of lectures for the general public, outlining the basic ideas of psychoanalysts Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion and examining their theories and ideas in the setting of contemporary analysis.

The second edition of this user-friendly text for students taking introductory courses in politics provides completely updated and stimulating coverage of topics essential to the understanding of contemporary politics.

Exploring the nature of coaching, this text covers: educational concepts in coaching; coaching, teaching, and leadership; athletes' learning; coaching communities and the social process; reflective practice; mentoring; and developing expert coaches.

This is a current and complete summary and synthesis of what is known about the media's role in and impact on children's cognitive, social and emotional development.

Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures of elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost? This book examines drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, over the years, used performance-enhancing drugs.

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext explores the nature of the electronic word and presents the new types of text in which it is found.

Examines and guides students through the way that legal rules are applied in company law. This title breaks down the fundamental topics into short, clear sections separated by subheadings for easy navigation before references are made to further literature in specific and extensive reading lists.

This authoritative volume, written by one of the world's leading pioneers in the field, provides an integrative framework for the practice of drama therapy.

Teachers who want to cut lesson planning time should welcome this title. It aims to help teachers cover every sort of writing type they need with a model provided for each one, fine tune lessons by following key teaching points, deliver the literacy hour to pupils of varying ability and more.

Pages: 224, Edition: 1, Paperback, Routledge

Suitable for clinicians, people who self-harm and their families and carers to understand its causes, meaning and treatment, this book explores unconscious meanings for self-harming and the sense in which it is a language of the body.

Pages: 240, Edition: 1, Paperback, Routledge

A series of essays exploring new theories and models for art psychotherapy, drawing on case studies of work done with drug and alcohol abusers, institutionalised patients moving into the community, forensic patients, children, and the elderly.

Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work, which succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.

This reader includes material relevant to everyone involved in developing new relationships in health and social care and brings material with a management focus relating to care together with some classic management texts.

This work explains ways to open up the curriculum to pupils who have autistic spectrum disorders. The particular difficulties experienced by pupils are discussed in direct relation to specific areas of the curriculum, including both core and foundation subjects.