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Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In this book, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

📘 Social Work Licensing Clinical Exam Guide – 2025 Edition Pass the ASWB Clinical Exam on Your First Try – With the Strategy-First System That Gets ResultsStudying hard isn’t enough. You need strategy. If you're preparing for the ASWB Clinical Exam (LCSW), you already know it’s not just about memorizing facts—it’s about thinking like a clinician. Most guides overload you with theory, but leave you lost when it comes to applying that knowledge to real exam questions. Mharta Leuman’s guide is different. Designed to help you think like the test-maker, not just the test-taker, ...

Getting an accurate diagnosis is the first step toward reclaiming your life from bipolar disorder. But if you or someone you love is struggling with the frantic highs and crushing lows of this illness, there are still many hurdles to surmount at home, at work, and in daily life. You need current information and practical problem-solving advice you can count on. You've come to the right place.

Finally, a guide that actually understands how your autistic brain works. You've tried the productivity hacks. The relationship advice. The self-help books that promise everything and deliver nothing that works for YOUR brain. You've masked until you burned out. Pushed through until you crashed. Wondered why strategies that work for everyone else leave you exhausted and overwhelmed. You're not broken. You've just been using the wrong manual. This isn't another book written by someone who doesn't get it. Four complete books in one, with over 400 practical, autism-specific strategies covering...

Expert Gerald Sklare provides fresh insights and new applications for solution-focused brief counseling (SFBC).

If you're the parent of a "smart but scattered" teen, trying to help him or her grow into a self-sufficient, responsible adult may feel like a never-ending battle. Now you have an alternative to micromanaging, cajoling, or ineffective punishments. This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens' independence by building their executive skills - the fundamental brain-based abilities needed to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions.

If you are the parent of a toddler or preschooler, chances are you know a thing or two about tantrums. While those epic meltdowns can certainly be part of "normal" toddler behavior, they are still maddening, stressful, and exhausting - for everyone involved. What can you do to keep your cool and help your child calm down? Rebecca Schrag Hershberg, child psychologist and mother of two, has a unique understanding of both the science behind tantrums and what works in the heat of the moment to nip blowups in the bud.

This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the psychology of mindfulness.

Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as “other people’s religion.” But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment - or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world’s most powerful myths support the individual’s heroic path toward bliss. In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth.

This best-selling classic presents seminal theory and research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Together, the leading editors and contributors comprehensively examine how trauma affects an individual's biology, conceptions of the world, and psychological functioning. Key topics include why certain people cope successfully with traumatic experiences while others do not, the neurobiological processes underlying PTSD symptomatology, and enduring questions surrounding traumatic memories and dissociation.

Cuando te enfadas o sientes emociones que te dificultan actuar racionalmente, reaccionas de manera impulsiva: pierdes los papeles, tomas malas decisiones o dices cosas de las que luego te arrepientes.

This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains to a therapeutic context. Louis Cozolino is a master at synthesizing neuroscientific information and demonstrating how it applies to psychotherapy practice. New material on altruism, executive function, trauma, and change round out this essential book.

Building the Bonds of Attachment is the third edition of a critically acclaimed book for social workers, therapists, and parents who strive to assist children with reactive attachment disorder. This work is a composite case study of the developmental course of one child following years of abuse and neglect.

On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help? Listen for more.

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done - whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby have worked with thousands of kids and teens who struggle with an area of cognitive functioning called "processing speed" and who are often mislabeled as lazy or unmotivated.

Emotional Intelligence: Behaviors and Habits for Career Growth is Book 1 in the Leadership’s Most Wanted series—a 3-part journey co-developed with Todd Gilmore. In this first installment, Jessop helps you build your internal EQ: self-awareness, emotional control, empathy, and purposeful communication.

Pop Psychology Explained: How Everyday Ideas About the Mind Shape Relationships, Work, Identity, and Modern Life explores the psychological concepts that have quietly reshaped how people understand themselves and others. From personality labels and attachment styles to trauma language, boundaries, confidence culture, and happiness advice, pop psychology now influences conversations, social media, dating, workplaces, and self identity. This book examines where these ideas came from, why they spread so widely, and how they continue to shape modern thinking. Written for curious readers rather ...

Emotional intelligence is what you need to live better and relate to others. The ability to understand and appropriately respond to emotions, overcome stress, and be aware of your words and actions and how they affect others is the only path toward becoming the effective leader you have always wanted to be.

You can't just "get over" anxiety. In fact, the very things most people do to try to feel better - avoiding feared situations, pushing worry out of mind - only make the problem worse. Leading psychologists Susan M. Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer present a powerful new alternative that can help you break free of anxiety by fundamentally changing how you relate to it. With clarity and compassion, this book describes clinically tested mindfulness practices specifically tailored for anxiety in its many forms.

The national best seller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today - and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy.