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Judith S. Beck

Providing readers with a solid foundation for practice, Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond delineates the fundamental building blocks of cognitive conceptualization and treatment. Introductory chapters describe how to conceptualize clients according to the cognitive model, plan and conduct the first session, identify initial problems and goals, and structure therapy within and across sessions. Then, the basic steps for conducting cognitive therapy are presented, with specific instruction on how to identify, evaluate, and respond to a client's automatic thoughts. Effective strategies for modifying underlying assumptions and core beliefs are also explicated. Methods for increasing homework compliance, preparing for termination, and preventing relapse are laid out. Even experienced cognitive therapists will find new strategies and insights in chapters on planning treatment, diagnosing problems, using imagery, and bringing about behavioral change. In addition to numerous practical suggestions, this volume features a variety of sample patient worksheets and appendices that detail resource materials and reading lists for both the practitioner and the client. A final chapter offers guidance in progressing as a cognitive therapist.

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Ella Mae Lentz, Ken Mikos, Cheri Smith

This introductory workbook and DVDs supplement and reinforce classroom instruction in American Sign Language (ASL). Features cultural sections and profiles of famous deaf people. Accompanying DVDs include over seven hours of ASL video clips.

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Richard Siken

Richard Siken's *Crush*, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems. She notes, "Books of this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form."

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Laurent Herz

Ce dictionnaire regroupe quelques 120 entrées de noms d'animaux assez courtes, où l'aspect linguistique et symbolique est mis en avant dans un esprit de comparaison et où l'on a souhaité approfondir un peu les langues et cultures asiatiques et africaines. Des personnages historiques dont le nom se rattache de près ou de loin à un nom d'animal et dont certains méritent d'être mieux connus sont évoqués et la plupart des entrées sont illustrées dans divers systèmes d'écriture.