Motivation is key to substance use behavior change. Counselors can support clients' movement toward positive changes in their substance use by identifying and enhancing motivation that already exists. Motivational approaches are based on the principles of person-centered counseling. Counselors' use of empathy, not authority and power, is key to enhancing clients' motivation to change. Clients are experts in their own recovery from SUDs. Counselors should engage them in collaborative partnerships. Ambivalence about change is normal. Resistance to change is an expression of ambivalence about change, not a client trait or characteristic. Confrontational approaches increase client resistance and discord in the counseling relationship. Motivational approaches explore ambivalence in a nonjudgmental and compassionate way.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER For John Wooden's millions of fans--a heartfelt and revealing self-portrait about the people and events that shaped his life Sports Illustrated declared: "There has never been a finer coach in American sports than John Wooden. Nor a finer man." ESPN selected him as the "Greatest Coach of the 20th Century." From his birth on an Indiana tenant farm, to All-American honors at Purdue, to his historic record-setting UCLA dynasty, John Wooden is a towering figure in 20th-century sports, and his experience and wisdom an American treasure. In My Personal Best, Coach Wooden tells how he did it and the lessons he learned on his remarkable journey. Pairing never-before-seen photos from Coach Wooden's private collection with his personal stories and affirmations, this book encompasses the dramatic arc of Wooden's larger-than-life achievements and experiences. As he did in his perpetual bestseller Wooden, Coach offers a wealth of biographical details, personal reflections, and a lifetime of lessons. His millions of fans will cherish this definitive pictorial history of a living sports legend. "John Wooden is a living legend because he practiced what he preached--the code of ethics which created America's strength." --Phil Jackson, head coach, Los Angeles Lakers "Most of what I know, what's made me a smart man, has come from John Wooden." --Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer "A man of John Wooden's accomplishments and integrity would stand out in any era, but now, almost three decades after he coached his last game, he is in some ways an even more striking figure." --Bob Costas
A ground-breaking book in the tradition of The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, The Mosaic, by marketing expert and activist Daniel Bruce Levin invites you to see the world from a new point-of-view-- one that focuses on what connects us to each other and brings us happiness. The Mosaic follows the journey of Mo, a boy who loses his parents two years apart on the same day. When he asks the adults where his parents went, they tell him they are in heaven. Mo sets out to find the place called heaven and along the way, he meets an assortment of ordinary people, who are anything but ordinary. The Mosaic is a magical book that will inspire conversation around the possibilities that exist when we are able to see what we do not see. It will entertain and uplift you through the magic of connection, and it will linger with you well after you finish its story. "The most profound and lasting way to learn is through story, and a story that reflects so many aspects of our shared human journey keeps the lessons learned alive in the heart forever. This is one such beautiful and lasting story." -- Sonia Choquette New York Times best-selling author of The Answer is Simple...Love yourself, Live your Spirit! .
Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawe? Althamer and Paul Chan. Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.
New Testament scholar James D. G. Dunn has published his research on Christian origins in numerous commentaries, books, and essays. In this small, straightforward book designed especially for a lay audience, Dunn focuses his fifty-plus years of scholarship on elucidating the New Testament witness to Jesus, from Matthew to Revelation. Dunn’s Jesus according to the New Testament constantly points back to the wonder of those first witnesses and greatly enriches our understanding of Jesus.
Welcome to this second book, Expressions of Consciousness, in our series exploring our collective human consciousness. Overall, the series of five books will become an embracing tome entitled Bubbles of Consciousness. The end goal is to affect a change in humanity's somewhat self-destructive behaviors, i.e., those behaviors that are steadily and increasingly poisoning our environment, our planet, and ourselves. The immediate aim is to offer creative solutions to humanity's pressing dilemmas. The first and second books have been written, and the third book is under development. The series will complete with a total of five books. The guiding assumption in developing this series is that our values and thoughts determine our behavior, and that in turn, our behavior impacts our environment for better, or for worse. In this series, topic areas touched upon will include (1) human history, psychology and sociology, (2) extra sensory perception, paranormal experience and parapsychology, and (3) spirituality, transcendentalism, mysticism, religion, and the supernatural. The first book, The Edges of Consciousness, explored ESP (extra sensory perception) and came up with some interesting findings. First, we found that we actually do possess the ability to transform our physical realities with thought alone. Second, we found that we really do possess the ability to communicate instantly with each other. Third, we found that we also possess the ability to discern and manage hidden realities and future possibilities. Fourth, we found that we exist independent of the human body. And fifth, we found that we come in and out of human lifetimes in a recurring sort of way. However, we also observed that these extraordinary abilities, generally ESP in nature, have been pushed out to the edges of our daily thinking by socially approved conventional thinking. Consequently, even though our extraordinary gifts may be helpful in pursuing our goal of saving our planet Earth from humanity's misguided adventures, as long as our ESP gifts are marginalized in consciousness, they will not do us much good. Rote conventional thinking keeps getting in the way. In this book, Expressions of Consciousness, we will explore conventional thinking. We will investigate conventional thinking by taking samples of today's major conventional thinkings, and then submit these samples to a common analytic grid, with an eye to our goal of quickly turning our planetary situation around. Samples will include Buddhism, Capitalism, Christianity, Communism, Confucianism, Daoism or Taoism, Hinduism, Individualism, Islam or Islamism, Judaism and Science. Subsequent books in the series will continue the exploration of collective human consciousness by examining related areas. The historical roots underpinning conventional thinking will be charted. Lesser known alternatives to conventional thinking will also be looked at, and possibilities probed for usefulness. In this series exploring collective human consciousness, the ultimate hope is that paths will be discovered and utilized in such a way so as to help us reclaim the beauty and well-being of our awesome planet Earth, and save ourselves in the process. All of us enjoy life here on this planet, and presently humanity is at risk of losing that existence. The signs of imminent environmental collapse are all around us. This book is dedicated to all those who are making the effort to quickly turn things around.
Freedom House's annual press freedom survey has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. Covering 194 countries and territories, Freedom of the Press 2006 provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. The survey is the most authoritative assessment of media freedom around the world. Its findings are widely utilized by policymakers, scholars, press freedom advocates, journalists, and international institutions.
