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Focus

The Hidden Driver of Excellence

by Daniel Goleman ...

New York Times Bestseller“A powerful guide for taking control of our attention.” —Tony Schwartz, author of The Power of Full Engagement and CEO of The Energy ProjectFrom the author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, comes a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.For more than two decades, psychologist ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

New York Times Bestseller“A powerful guide for taking control of our attention.” —Tony Schwartz, author of The Power of Full Engagement and CEO of The Energy ProjectFrom the author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, comes a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.For more than two decades, psychologist
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No One to Miss Me

Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth

by Cathy Glass ...

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN.OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING.CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN.Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth?Late on boxing day, Cathy hears a strange noise outside her house, only to find Lily, a child she fostered ten years ago, shivering on her front step.But she is no longer the vulnerable girl Cathy once knew. Withdrawn and on edge,... ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

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ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN.OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING.CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN.Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth?Late on boxing day, Cathy hears a strange noise outside her house, only to find Lily, a child she fostered ten years ago, shivering on her front step.But she is no longer the vulnerable girl Cathy once knew. Withdrawn and on edge,...
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Raising a Secure Child

How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore

by Kent Hoffman, RelD, Glen Cooper, MA, Bert Powell, MA, Christine M. Benton ...

Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful "Circle of Security" parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell have taught thousands of families are available in self-help form for the first time.You will learn:How to balance ... Read more

$17.59 CAD

Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful "Circle of Security" parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell have taught thousands of families are available in self-help form for the first time.You will learn:How to balance
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Reframed

A Self-Reg Revolution, Revised Edition

by Stuart Shanker ...

Stuart Shanker’s Reframed presents a comprehensive exploration of self-regulation, grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience, to help individuals thrive and society flourish. Aimed at parents, educators, and all adults invested in individual well-being, this revised and expanded edition is presented in a reader-friendly format, with engaging vignettes that appeal to a wider audience.Employing the same ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Stuart Shanker’s Reframed presents a comprehensive exploration of self-regulation, grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience, to help individuals thrive and society flourish. Aimed at parents, educators, and all adults invested in individual well-being, this revised and expanded edition is presented in a reader-friendly format, with engaging vignettes that appeal to a wider audience.Employing the same
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Breaking Point

Daniel just wants someone he can rely on

by Casey Watson ...

Daniel just wants someone he can rely on…With his parents in and out of prison, Daniel has spent the last three years in a children’s home, feeling forgotten and with nowhere to truly belong.When he arrives at Casey and Mike’s, his challenging and unpredictable behaviour soon reveals a much darker past than anyone had imagined.Can Casey find a way to reach Daniel and help him build a brighter ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Daniel just wants someone he can rely on…With his parents in and out of prison, Daniel has spent the last three years in a children’s home, feeling forgotten and with nowhere to truly belong.When he arrives at Casey and Mike’s, his challenging and unpredictable behaviour soon reveals a much darker past than anyone had imagined.Can Casey find a way to reach Daniel and help him build a brighter
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Social Work Licensing Masters Exam Guide

Covers the 2026 Exam

by Dawn Apgar, PhD, LSW, ACSW ...

Now better than ever, the Social Work Licensing Masters Exam Guide, Fifth Edition, gives you everything you need to pass the ASWB Masters exam and become fully licensed. This updated bestselling resource by Dr. Dawn Apgar has helped thousands succeed on their licensure exams and is fully aligned with the January 2026 ASWB Applied Knowledge Statements.This comprehensive guide delivers concise ... Read more

$135.19 CAD

Now better than ever, the Social Work Licensing Masters Exam Guide, Fifth Edition, gives you everything you need to pass the ASWB Masters exam and become fully licensed. This updated bestselling resource by Dr. Dawn Apgar has helped thousands succeed on their licensure exams and is fully aligned with the January 2026 ASWB Applied Knowledge Statements.This comprehensive guide delivers concise
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Attachment Theory and Research in Clinical Work with Adults

Edited by Joseph H. Obegi, PsyD, Ety Berant, PhD ...

Written with the practicing psychotherapist in mind, this invaluable book presents cutting-edge knowledge on adult attachment and explores the implications for day-to-day clinical practice. Leading experts illustrate how theory and research in this dynamic area can inform assessment, case formulation, and clinical decision making. The book puts such concepts as the secure base, mentalization, and ... Read more

$75.99 CAD

Written with the practicing psychotherapist in mind, this invaluable book presents cutting-edge knowledge on adult attachment and explores the implications for day-to-day clinical practice. Leading experts illustrate how theory and research in this dynamic area can inform assessment, case formulation, and clinical decision making. The book puts such concepts as the secure base, mentalization, and
... Read more
The List

‘A terrifyingly twisted and devious story' that will take your breath away

by Carys Jones ...

Five names on a list. The first two are dead.The third is yours.A rip-roaring, addictive, intense and emotional thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, Phoebe Morgan, CL Taylor and Lisa Jewell...* * * * * * *Beth Belmont runs every day, hard and fast on the trail near home. She knows every turn, every bump in the road. So when she spots something out of place - a slip of white pa... ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

Five names on a list. The first two are dead.The third is yours.A rip-roaring, addictive, intense and emotional thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, Phoebe Morgan, CL Taylor and Lisa Jewell...* * * * * * *Beth Belmont runs every day, hard and fast on the trail near home. She knows every turn, every bump in the road. So when she spots something out of place - a slip of white pa...
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Psychoanalytic Diagnosis

Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process

by Nancy McWilliams, PhD ...

This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience. She explains major character types and demonstrates specific ways that understanding the patient's individual personality structure ... Read more

$51.99 CAD

This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience. She explains major character types and demonstrates specific ways that understanding the patient's individual personality structure
... Read more
Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Edited by Fred R. Volkmar, Brian Reichow, James C. McPartland ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
The second edition of this book examines the numerous research and practice advances with regard to adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Expert contributors offer cogent reviews of complex issues, from education to employment, leisure activities to illegal behaviors, mental health issues to medical health concerns. The volume explores the latest findings in key areas, such ... Read more

$256.99 CAD

The second edition of this book examines the numerous research and practice advances with regard to adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Expert contributors offer cogent reviews of complex issues, from education to employment, leisure activities to illegal behaviors, mental health issues to medical health concerns. The volume explores the latest findings in key areas, such
... Read more
The DBT® Solution for Emotional Eating

A Proven Program to Break the Cycle of Bingeing and Out-of-Control Eating

by Debra L. Safer, MD, ABPN, Sarah Adler, PsyD, Philip C. Masson, PhD ...

Eating can be a source of great pleasure--or deep distress. If you've picked up this book, chances are you're looking for tools to transform your relationship with food. Grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this motivating guide offers a powerful pathway to change. Drs. Debra L. Safer, Sarah Adler, and Philip C. Masson have translated their proven, state-of-the-art treatment into a ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

Eating can be a source of great pleasure--or deep distress. If you've picked up this book, chances are you're looking for tools to transform your relationship with food. Grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this motivating guide offers a powerful pathway to change. Drs. Debra L. Safer, Sarah Adler, and Philip C. Masson have translated their proven, state-of-the-art treatment into a
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Walking This Path Together, 3rd Edition

Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice

by Gwendolyn Gosek ...

Canadian child welfare policies and practices have been central to maintaining a settler colonial nation by controlling and managing the childhoods and future lives of children. While ostensibly grounded in the “best interests of the child,” child welfare policies and practices far too often make the lives of young people more precarious because they are stratified along race and class lines ... Read more

$51.99 CAD

Canadian child welfare policies and practices have been central to maintaining a settler colonial nation by controlling and managing the childhoods and future lives of children. While ostensibly grounded in the “best interests of the child,” child welfare policies and practices far too often make the lives of young people more precarious because they are stratified along race and class lines
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Finding Your Best Self

Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both

by Lisa M. Najavits, PhD ...

Addiction and trauma are two of the most common and difficult issues that people face. In this motivating book, leading expert Lisa Najavits explains the link between addiction and trauma and presents science-based self-help strategies that you can use no matter where you are in your recovery. Every chapter features inspiring words from people who have "been there," plus carefully designed ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

Addiction and trauma are two of the most common and difficult issues that people face. In this motivating book, leading expert Lisa Najavits explains the link between addiction and trauma and presents science-based self-help strategies that you can use no matter where you are in your recovery. Every chapter features inspiring words from people who have "been there," plus carefully designed
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Child Neglect and Emotional Abuse

Understanding, Assessment and Response

by Celia Doyle, Charles Timms ...

Protecting children from emotional abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice. This book takes readers step-by-step through the underlining theory, skills and practice of working with vulnerable children, highlighting essential contemporary research evidence throughout.Part 1: Understanding introduces the nature and consequences of child neglect and emotional abuse, ... Read more

$86.39 CAD

Protecting children from emotional abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice. This book takes readers step-by-step through the underlining theory, skills and practice of working with vulnerable children, highlighting essential contemporary research evidence throughout.Part 1: Understanding introduces the nature and consequences of child neglect and emotional abuse,
... Read more
Psychotherapy for Psychosis

Integrating Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatment

by Michael Garrett, MD ...

In this innovative book, master clinician Michael Garrett shows how to weave together cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy to support the recovery of persons suffering from psychosis. This integrated framework builds on the strengths of both methods to achieve lasting gains, even for patients with severe, chronic mental illness. The therapist is guided to use CBT to help ... Read more

$59.99 CAD

In this innovative book, master clinician Michael Garrett shows how to weave together cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy to support the recovery of persons suffering from psychosis. This integrated framework builds on the strengths of both methods to achieve lasting gains, even for patients with severe, chronic mental illness. The therapist is guided to use CBT to help
... Read more
Creating Together

Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across Canada

Edited by Diane Conrad, Anita Sinner ...

Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and mural painting to performance art and poetry, the contributors explore how the process of creating together generates and disseminates ... Read more

$30.39 CAD

Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and mural painting to performance art and poetry, the contributors explore how the process of creating together generates and disseminates
... Read more
Innocent

The True Story of Siblings Struggling to Survive

by Cathy Glass ...

Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries.Aneta and Filip, the children’s parents, are distraught when their children are taken into care. Aneta maintains she is innocent of harming them, while Filip appears bewildered and out of his depth. It’s true the family ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries.Aneta and Filip, the children’s parents, are distraught when their children are taken into care. Aneta maintains she is innocent of harming them, while Filip appears bewildered and out of his depth. It’s true the family
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Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity

A Comparative Introduction

by Gregg M. Olsen ...

Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity puts a sharp focus on rising levels of poverty and homelessness in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Highlighting the important differences between these countries, Gregg M. Olsen examines how poverty and homelessness have been conceptualized, defined, measured, and addressed in each country. Olsen critically contrasts the two main theoretical ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

Poverty and Austerity amid Prosperity puts a sharp focus on rising levels of poverty and homelessness in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Highlighting the important differences between these countries, Gregg M. Olsen examines how poverty and homelessness have been conceptualized, defined, measured, and addressed in each country. Olsen critically contrasts the two main theoretical
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Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice

Edited by Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Diane J. Goodman, Davey Shlasko, Rachel R. Briggs, Romina Pacheco ...

For over 30 years, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations, pedagogical and design frameworks, and curricular models for social justice teaching practice. Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition continues in the tradition of its predecessors to cover the most relevant issues and controversies in social justice education ... Read more

$114.99 CAD

For over 30 years, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations, pedagogical and design frameworks, and curricular models for social justice teaching practice. Thoroughly revised and updated, this fourth edition continues in the tradition of its predecessors to cover the most relevant issues and controversies in social justice education
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Doing Couple Therapy

Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners

by Robert Taibbi, LCSW ...

Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert Taibbi presents effective strategies for rapidly identifying a couple's core issues and conducting each stage of therapy, from the first sessions to termination. Rich with sensitive case material, the ... Read more

$44.99 CAD

Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert Taibbi presents effective strategies for rapidly identifying a couple's core issues and conducting each stage of therapy, from the first sessions to termination. Rich with sensitive case material, the
... Read more
Bullying Scars

The Impact on Adult Life and Relationships

by Ellen Walser deLara ...

An explosion of research on bullying has raised our collective awareness of the serious impacts it can have on children. No longer do we accept it as an innocuous rite of passage, just a part of growing up that we grin and bear and grow out of later. But do we grow out of it, or are there lingering effects that last well beyond the school playgrounds and lunchrooms? Is bullying traumatic and, if ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

An explosion of research on bullying has raised our collective awareness of the serious impacts it can have on children. No longer do we accept it as an innocuous rite of passage, just a part of growing up that we grin and bear and grow out of later. But do we grow out of it, or are there lingering effects that last well beyond the school playgrounds and lunchrooms? Is bullying traumatic and, if
... Read more
Designing and Managing Programs

An Effectiveness-Based Approach

by Peter M. Kettner, Robert M. Moroney, Lawrence L. Martin ...

This classic text for social work and human services helps readers grasp the meaning and significance of measuring performance and evaluating outcomes. Hands-on and practical, Designing and Managing Programs incorporates the principles of effectiveness-based planning as it addresses the steps of designing, implementing, and evaluating a human services program at the local agency level.Written by ... Read more

$108.79 CAD

This classic text for social work and human services helps readers grasp the meaning and significance of measuring performance and evaluating outcomes. Hands-on and practical, Designing and Managing Programs incorporates the principles of effectiveness-based planning as it addresses the steps of designing, implementing, and evaluating a human services program at the local agency level.Written by
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Narrative Therapy

Making Meaning, Making Lives

by Catrina Brown, Tod Augusta-Scott ...

"This volume is especially useful in demonstrating the effects of placing social discourses at the center of therapy. It gores many sacred cows of the larger modernist therapeutic community, but in doing so it offers new ideas for mental health professionals attempting to help their clients with common and serious life problems." —PSYCRITIQUES"This compilation is an insightful read for ... Read more

$87.19 CAD

"This volume is especially useful in demonstrating the effects of placing social discourses at the center of therapy. It gores many sacred cows of the larger modernist therapeutic community, but in doing so it offers new ideas for mental health professionals attempting to help their clients with common and serious life problems." —PSYCRITIQUES"This compilation is an insightful read for
... Read more
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures

by Francine Shapiro, PhD ...

The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this groundbreaking book--now revised and expanded--has been translated into multiple languages. Originally developed for treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this evidence-based approach is now also used to treat adults and children with complex trauma, anxiety disorders, depression, ... Read more

$89.99 CAD

The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this groundbreaking book--now revised and expanded--has been translated into multiple languages. Originally developed for treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this evidence-based approach is now also used to treat adults and children with complex trauma, anxiety disorders, depression,
... Read more

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