Bøger udgivet af Australian Academic Press

Since 1803, Australia''s newspapers have had a part in curating and distributing our nation''s stories second only to conversation. In this epic collection of essays, Robert Pullan, a life-long journalist, tells the lives of the poets, preachers, drunks, gunmen and genius-editors who shaped Australian press history and battled the censorship ogre.

Emotional pain is part of most people's reality. For some of us though, that pain can begin to impact on our ability to function in our everyday life. Despite years of valiant attempts to resolve or deny such pain, we may continue to suffer.Before her untimely death early in 2021, Dr Melissa Harte had experienced her own journey through emotional pain that led her eventually to become a counseling psychologist and an internationally accredited Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer. She spent years teaching hundreds of therapists how to use EFT as well as running her own thriving private practice.The legacy of her considerable skill and knowledge remains in this book which sets out a framework and model that works gently, effectively and deeply to assist in reversing the psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical damage of unresolved emotional pain.Applicable to a range of practitioners including counsellors and psychologists, this book will help you to help your clients whose emotional pain may be attachment-related, be a single episode, a series of major trauma experiences, or the culmination of many so-called 'small t trauma' events.This is a 'how-to' book, presenting techniques and concepts to assist practitioners, including investigating the use of the impacts of trauma case studies - an area until very recently often overlooked or minimised when formalising case histories.Chapters also address: The dilemma with the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The value of understanding the importance of emotions and how, as adaptive experiences, they provide essential information that can assist us in our daily lives. The concept of emotional pain and how to work through it with an extended version of the focusing task, including the influences that helped to shape the task and its significant components. The challenges around identifying dissociation and how to manage it. The use of chair work as another element of working through emotional pain.At Melissa's request, all royalties from sales of her book will go to the Australian Institute for Emotion Focused Therapy.

Chris Basten is a highly experienced therapist who has worked in public health and the private sector for over 25 years. Here he presents a master class in CBT - discover the art within the science of evidence-based practice.

In this stunning new work, Tony Schneider, a practising clinical psychologist for over 30 years, outlines a new model of psychological drives around sexual behaviour. He describes a dual biological and subjective, multiple-drive profile, that energises and directs individual sexual behaviour. The book takes a middle path between the determinist thinking that frequently underpins scientific psychological research, and the psychodynamic theory often used by clinicians.

Pelvic pain is one of the most widespread yet least known and understood afflictions facing people today. This book looks at its causes and suggests practical, evidence-based pain management strategies. This book will prove useful to patients as well as health professionals who have an interest in pelvic pain, particularly musculoskeletal therapists.

The best way to tackle the unique nature of veterinary stress that can lead to anxiety, depression and suicide is to use evidence-based research to create an intervention able to have a scientifically measurable positive impact on wellbeing. That's why psychologist Dr Nadine Hamilton wrote this book after spending over 15 years researching, working with thousands of stressed vets, and consulting with industry associations, practice managers and owners. This unique resource combines reading on mindfulness, positive psychology, wellbeing, and resiliency training with a 'toolkit' of practical tasks and tips to teach people how to cope with everyday pressures, so they no longer feel like suicide is the only way out. Its approach has been tested with statistically significant results showing reduced stress, depression, and anxiety.

How do we attain a life of excellence amidst a modern world that has provided so many technical advances yet in which we still suffer so much anxiety, depression, obesity and conflict? Cutting across cultural and religious barriers this unique book provides readers with practical tools in the daily art of living - useful to parents, teachers, mental health professionals, community workers and business leaders.

Casino Life is for those seeking to know more about casinos and their psychological effects, those who seek to find out why others gamble, and those who do gamble.Find out why people gamble, why gambling can become addictive and the treatments used to help problem gamblers, as well as the beliefs around gambling and some of the elaborate theories people use to explain why they try to defy mathematical odds.

'It's the book I wish came with my first machine.'Machine embroidery is so much more than just loading a design into your machine and stitching it out on whatever is under the needle. Just like a recipe for baking cookies, we have ingredients, equipment, and instructions to follow. What ingredients we select - design, fabric, threads - affects other choices such as hooping methods, stabilizers, and needles.In this comprehensive book, Lindee Goodall, founder and former owner of Cactus Punch, the first independent company to design embroidery specifically for the home market, gives you everything you need to know to produce quality embroidery no matter how small and basic or large and fancy your machine. Whether you're brand new to machine embroidery or an old hand, you're sure to find useful tips and tricks you can apply immediately!Included in the book are lots of links to additional online resources. You'll also find a set of designs for experimenting with different threads and techniques as well as checking your thread tensions. Use the handy Design Evaluation form to track your own projects and build your own reference library.Machine embroidery can be fun - and it's even more fun when you know how to get predictably good results time after time! Nothing is more frustrating than spending a lot of time and care on a project and not having it turn out.This book represents nearly a quarter of a century of experience from Lindee , so you can jump-start yours. Foreword by Deborah Jones

This unique book explores the dread of death and its management from a wide range of perspectives with researchers and writers from a variety of cultures, academic traditions and disciplines across the globe. The fields covered are broad - including palliative care and grief, psychodynamic theory, social, developmental and clinical psychology, sociology and anthropology, counselling practice as well as history, art, and philosophy.