In Practicing Prodependence: The Clinical Alternative to Codependency Treatment, Drs. Weiss and Buck present a new social and psychological model of human interdependence-focused treatment for families and loved ones of addicts. Unlike Codependence, Prodependence celebrates the human need for and pursuit of intimate connection, viewing this as a positive force for change. This strength and attachment-based model is focused on accepting and celebrating human connection in ways that are healthy and life affirming for each person – even in the face of addiction. In this way, Prodependence presents a new paradigm through which loved ones can learn to love more effectively, without bearing shame or judgment for the valuable help they give. This book will assist counselors, therapists, and addiction professionals in improving the ways they treat loved ones of addicts and other troubled people, teaching readers how to offer clients more dignity for their suffering than blame for the problem.
In Practicing Prodependence: The Clinical Alternative to Codependency Treatment, Drs. Weiss and Buck present a new social and psychological model of human interdependence-focused treatment for families and loved ones of addicts. Unlike Codependence, Prodependence celebrates the human need for and pursuit of intimate connection, viewing this as a positive force for change. This strength and attachment-based model is focused on accepting and celebrating human connection in ways that are healthy and life affirming for each person – even in the face of addiction. In this way, Prodependence presents a new paradigm through which loved ones can learn to love more effectively, without bearing shame or judgment for the valuable help they give. This book will assist counselors, therapists, and addiction professionals in improving the ways they treat loved ones of addicts and other troubled people, teaching readers how to offer clients more dignity for their suffering than blame for the problem.
Loneliness is among the most common distresses. In one survey, a quarter of Americans interviewed said that they had suffered from loneliness within the past few weeks. Yet for a condition so pervasive, loneliness has received little professional attention. Loneliness: The Experience of Emotional and Social Isolation brings together papers which attempt to capture the phenomena of loneliness with case materials that illuminate the descriptive and theoretical acccounts. It is organized into seven sections, covering: explanations for the neglect of loneliness, and an attept to describe the condition; mechanisms underlying some forms of loneliness; a discussion of situations in which loneliness is commonly found; loneliness among those suffering the loss of a loved one; the loneliness of social isolation; resources available to the lonely; and, finally, a look at issues yet to be dealt with and some suggestions for the management of loneliness. This book is a useful resource for social scientists, clinicians, and individuals who now or in the future may suffer from loneliness.
The number of affordable, easy links to pleasurable sexual online content is on the rise. Activity increases with the accessibility of technology. So, too, has sex addiction. People struggling with sex, porn, and love addiction typically have little understanding of this incredibly complicated disease. Sex Addiction 101 covers everything from what sexual addiction is and how it can best be treated, to how it affects various subgroups of the population such as women, gays, and teenagers. The book also provides sex addicts with strategies to protect themselves from the online sexual onslaught. Sex Addiction 101 is intended to enlighten the clinical population as well as actual sex addicts and their loved ones. Along with his mentor Patrick Carnes, Weiss has become the face of and driving force behind understanding and treating sex addiction; this book should be a core title in every addiction collection.
Prodependence revolutionized addiction healthcare by improving the ways we treat loved ones of addicts and other troubled people by offering them more dignity for their suffering rather than blame for the problem. This revised edition builds on the model, revealing many more ways to put the method into practice and strategies for setting healthy boundaries. Do you love an addict? Do you sometimes feel like their addiction is your fault? Are people calling you codependent? If our treatment toward loved ones of addicts alienates them, it's time we change our approach.With Prodependence, Dr. Robert Weiss offers us the first fully new paradigm in nearly 40 years for helping those who love and care for addicts. An attachment-focused model, prodependence recognizes that no one can ever love too much, nor should anyone be pathologized for whomever they choose to love as is often the case. Prodependence informs caregivers how to love more effectively, but without having to bear a negative label for the valuable support they give. When treating loved ones of addicts and other troubled people using prodependence, we need not find something “wrong” with them. Instead, we acknowledge the trauma and inherent dysfunction that occurs when living in relationship with someone whose life is failing and keep moving forward. Validating a caregiver's painful journey for what it is opens the door to support them in useful, non-shaming ways.Helping people take incremental, positive steps toward intimate healing is what Prodependence is all about!
Tress of the Northern Pacific Coast is a photographic guidebook that identifies over sixty of the most prominent native and naturalized tree species of the coastal region spanning from California, Oregon and Washington, to British Columbia and Southern Alaska. Entires for each species contains a full descriptions that details shape and form, physical characteristics, habitat, wildlife uses and informations on identifying potential signs of disease and damage. Each entry will also include multiple photographs, detailing the tree's bark, needles/leaves, seeds/pine cones and overall appearance.
Trees of the Rocky Mountains will fill a gap in Falcon’s nature category by providing readers with a dedicated guidebook to identifying the most prominent tree species occurring in the Rocky Mountain region of North America. This guide will cover a selection of the most prominent native and naturalized tree species of the iconic Rocky Mountain region spanning Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, and Idaho.Each species will get a full description detailing shape and form, physical characteristics, habitat, wildlife uses, and information on identifying potential signs of disease and damage. Each species entry will include multiple photographs, detailing the tree’s bark, needles/leaves, seeds/pinecones, and overall appearance.
Technology has significantly changed our world. Sexual imagery and encounters can now be accessed anywhere, anytime, using portable electronic devices. Users can generate a stream of graphic pornography, a wide variety of virtual sexual activities, and casual, anonymous, or paid-for sexual encounters with a click or a tap. Simply put, we have greater access to highly stimulating sexual content, and potential sexual partners, with much less built-in accountability. Porn addicts are especially vulnerable to the lure of digital technology and the seemingly endless array of stimulation it provides. Research suggests that cyber-porn addicts spend at least eleven or twelve hours per week online viewing porn. Today, all forms of sex addiction are technology driven--from porn websites to webcams to casual sex hook-up apps found on smartphones. Sex addicts organize their lives around the pursuit of sexual activity with self or others, spending inordinate amounts of time viewing and masturbating to porn or planning, pursuing, and engaging in sex acts. At the same time, they neglect important relationships, work, and personal responsibilities.Overwhelming feelings of guilt, shame, and remorse invade when the acting out ends. While it's complicated, recovery is possible. Always Turned On shows readers how to turn those temptations off while providing practical long-term solutions for recovery.
You wake up and find out that you’re being targeted for blackmail by a “one night stand” you met online, that your child has been abducted by your ex-wife, or that your accountant has been embezzling from you. You don’t know how to solve such problems—or even where to begin. You might even be too embarrassed to seek help. These are the calls Private Investigator Daniel Weiss receives. Handling bad takes skill— skill that combines the classic methods of private investigation with modern, cutting-edge developments in digital forensics. In HANDLING BAD, Weiss delves into the flourishing digital realm of cyber based criminal activity in order to provide examples of threats that may lurk closer to home than you think.
Christian men aren't immune from the decimating plague of infidelity. Yet underneath the hurt and betrayal, often there is still love. Without proper guidance, though, men have little chance of restoring relationship trust. In fact, they often make things worse. Robert Weiss, a nationally acclaimed secular expert in the treatment of sex and intimacy issues, provided a practical, effective guide for recovery after infidelity in his original version of Out of the Doghouse. He then invited colleague Marnie C. Ferree, an equally acclaimed expert within the Christian community, to adapt the book for a faith-based audience. The result is a perfect marriage between Weiss' concrete relationship-saving steps and Ferree's incorporation of a Christian perspective. Ferree brings familiar faith values and scripture to deepen the discussion of taking responsibility, rebuilding trust, and restoring intimacy. Out of the Doghouse for Christian Men provides a path of redemption for the men who cheat and a possibility of healing for the women they hurt. Not only can relationships be saved, they can emerge from the doghouse stronger than ever. "Marnie Ferree is trustworthy. Without judgment, she writes with personal experience and practical solutions. Marnie has helped many a struggler regain integrity, re-earn trust, and restore a relationship never thought possible. You'll be blessed to read this book " June Hunt, Founder and CSO (Chief Servant Officer) of Hope For The Heart Author, How to Forgive... When You Don't Feel Like It "Can a relationship be resolved after infidelity? Some of the most troubled and broken relationships that I thought had little or no hope of surviving, I have seen redeemed and made beautiful by God's healing grace and power. Is it tough? Sure. Possible? Absolutely. This book] shows a redemptive way forward." Dr. Tim Clinton, Ed.D., LPC, LMFT President of the American Association of Christian Counselors
Newburgh Theological Seminary and Newburgh College of the Bible is truly the finest theological seminary and Bible College in the world. They are very practical, yet scholarly. You will study the finest textbooks and learn from some of the greatest minds in the world. Congratulations to the entire staff of the school. The Review Council and Academic Board Newburgh Theological Seminary and Newburgh College of the Bible is on the cutting edge of good, solid training and education. We recommend them to meet your educational and ministerial training needs! The Observer and Biblical Proclaimer Earning Your Degree at Home just got better! This school offers students around the world the opportunity to train for ministry and earn their degree while continuing to care for their families and maintain their duties while at home. This is truly a wondeful Christ-filled opportunity for a great education and a degree that will make any student proud. The Plain Truth Educational Review
A compelling account of the personal experiences of those whose marriages have ended. Dr. Weiss brings a new understanding of the specific stresses and difficulties of the separated. He makes concrete, practical, and unmistakably humane suggestions designed to ease the transition and to aid in the reorganization of the life of the newly separated. The emotional and social challenges that one might expect to encounter are fully described and coupled with "strategies for recovery": how to tell one's children, relatives, and friends what to expect of (and ask) a lawyer and what to look for in forming new relationships.
Retirement brings with it the promises of leisure and freedom as well as the risks of boredom and isolation. When retirees rid their schedules of anything resembling the kinds of obligations that once had been imposed by work, they will experience a sometimes-uncomfortable absence of structure. In The Experience of Retirement, the distinguished sociologist Robert S. Weiss provides a detailed description of how some people plan their retirement, what life in retirement is like, and what makes for a fulfilling retirement. His engaging book can thus serve as a most useful guide. Weiss shows us both retirement's benefits and its possible costs, both the relief retirees can feel once free of work's stresses and constraints and the discomfort that can be caused by loss of the positive aspects of working life.The book is based on extensive interviews with eighty-nine men and women before and after their retirement from middle-income careers. Weiss makes vivid their experiences by presenting, in their own words, their descriptions of leaving their careers, considering what to do with their time, confronting issues of income in retirement, dealing, sometimes, with social isolation, and reorganizing their lives. The interviews reveal the way in which retirement affects marriages and other familial relationships. Weiss concludes by presenting advice about retirement based on the actual experiences of retirees. For anyone approaching the age of retirement or already retired and looking for a more satisfying post-career life, for personnel managers, health care professionals, and all those who provide services for the retired, The Experience of Retirement will be an illuminating guidebook to this phase of life.
Public Argument celebrates real argumentation for real people. Weiss guides the reader through the debate practice, providing instruction on how to participate in argumentation designed to facilitate reasoned deliberation by audiences in the public sphere. Contents: A Rationale for Public Argument; The "Public" in Public Argument; Formats for Public Debates; Audience Members as Participants; Topics in the Public Realm; Analysis of Propositions and Audiences; Premises in Public Debate; Testing the Premises; The Warranting Process; Continuity and Clash; Facilitating Communication; Evaluation and Decisions; Planning and Administration.
Winner of the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians Award of ExcellenceRobert R. Taylor and Tuskegee interweaves the life of the first academically trained African American architect with his life’s work—the campus of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. In this richly illustrated architectural history, the author delves into such questions of how a black boy born in North Carolina shortly after the Civil War could earn a professional architecture degree at MIT, and how he then used his design and administrative skills to further Booker T. Washington’s agenda of community solidarity and, in defiance of strengthening Jim Crow, the public expression of racial pride and progress. The book also considers such issues as architectural education for African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century, the white donors who funded Tuskegee’s buildings, other Tuskegee architects, and Taylor’s buildings elsewhere. Individual narratives of Taylor’s Tuskegee buildings conclude the volume.
CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Exam Cram is an all-inclusive study guide designed to help you pass the updated version of the CompTIA Security+ exam. Prepare for test day success with complete coverage of exam objectives and topics, plus hundreds of realistic practice questions. Extensive prep tools include quizzes, Exam Alerts, and our essential last-minute review Cram Sheet. The powerful Pearson Test Prep practice software provides real-time assessment and feedback with two complete exams. This edition comes with a Pearson Test Prep Practice Test access code that is delivered upon product registration. Follow the instructions in the book's introduction to register your product. Covers the critical information needed to score higher on your Security+ SY0-701 exam! General security conceptsThreats, vulnerabilities, and mitigationsSecurity architectureSecurity operationsSecurity program management and oversight Prepare for your exam with Pearson Test Prep Realistic practice questions and answersComprehensive reporting and feedbackCustomized testing in study, practice exam, or flash card modesComplete coverage of CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 exam objectives
