Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Counseling - Career Development

Structured, therapist-led approaches to play therapy are becoming increasingly popular due to their time-limited nature and efficacy for such specific disorders as trauma and attachment issues. This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of numerous directive play therapy techniques and interventions that are empirically validated and can be adapted for use in clinical, school, group, and family settings. Designed for both students and practitioners, the text addresses the theoretical bases for these approaches and provides in-depth, practical guidance for their use.

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Selbstkompetenzen (personale Kompetenzen) sind in aller Munde. Sie werden von MitarbeiterInnen gefordert, in Lernumgebungen gefordert und von unterschiedlichen Disziplinen systematisiert. Eine erziehungswissenschaftliche Grundlegung des Begriffs und seiner empirischen Dimensionen fehlt allerdings, und das ist wichtig, um die Bedeutung von Selbstkompetenzen in aktuellen Debatten um Verstehen und Fordern von Kompetenzen ermessen zu konnen. Sind Selbstkompetenzen per se forderlich oder versteckt sich dahinter haufig nur eine Technik der Disziplinierung und Optimierung ohne Rucksicht auf das...

Maria Richter betrachtet in ihrer empirischen Studie den Berufsorientierungsprozess von HauptschulerInnen und analysiert, ob diesbezuglich Unterschiede zwischen Jugendlichen verschiedener ethnischer Herkunft bestehen. Besonders in den Fokus ruckt die Autorin den Einfluss der Eltern und Peers. Ihre Analysen zeigen, dass vorhandene Defizite bei Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund vor allem auf geringere Kenntnisse der Eltern uber das deutsche Ausbildungssystem sowie eine fehlende Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt zuruckgefuhrt werden konnen. Zudem weisen die Ergebnisse auf institutionelle...

This is he first edited book on gender issues in transnational business cooperation concerning knowledge work. This area has so far been researched mainly by organizational theorists, with their background in business studies, finance, communication or sociology, and gender has seldom been taken into account in these studies. This book shows how fruitful a gendered take on issues within this area is, both for a deepened understanding of these organizational issues and for a widened understanding of gender issues. The chapters in the book cover a range of themes from a gender perspective;...

This book aims to provide insight into the complexities confronting higher education today and to highlight tangible opportunities that exist to address such issues. We are in a constant state of flux and higher education needs to respond in more proactive, intentional and innovative ways to remain a relevant cornerstone to society and culture. The editors begin by asking how our collective reality might change if the complexity and uncertainty surrounding us were embraced and leveraged to serve the learner and society as a whole. They invite the reader to explore collaborative approaches...

The body matters, in practice. How then might we think about the body in our work in and on professional practice, learning and education? What value is there in realising and articulating the notion of the professional practitioner as crucially embodied? Beyond that, what of conceiving of the professional practice field itself as a living corporate body? How is the body implicated in understanding and researching professional practice, learning and education?

Body/Practice is an extensive volume dedicated to exploring these and related questions,...