Bøger af Jeffrey Kottler

Dealing with stress is the single most frequently mentioned challenge for college (and life) success. Excelling in College: Strategies for Success and Reducing Stress equips students with the ideas and skills needed to excel in higher education and beyond. This unique resource not only helps students to master key academic strategies, but also offers practical approaches for managing stress to support optimal performance and increased enjoyment of the collegiate experience. Students learn how to make the most of learning experiences, capitalize on available resources, set priorities and goals, and make healthy lifestyle choices. Dedicated chapters share approaches for managing anxiety, writing and speaking effectively, and identifying difficulties before they become major obstacles. The text nurtures the development of students' goals, dreams, and strategic career plans. Reflective exercises, experiential activities, and stress reduction methods personalize and deepen the learning experience. Throughout, stories from students highlight the unique joys and challenges of campus life. This new and completely updated edition includes expanded information on the symptoms and causes of stress, as well as proven pathways for dealing with these issues. Updated content throughout reflects the growing diversity of academic institutions and advances in technology, as well as contemporary social and political developments. Excelling in College is an exemplary text for first-year orientation and success courses and programs.Jeffrey A. Kottler is one of the most prominent authors in the fields of psychology, health, and education, having written over 100 books across a broad range of topics. He is professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton and resident scholar at the Alliance for Multicultural Community Service in Houston, Texas, where he works on issues related to refugee mental health and wellness.

Handbook of Refugee Experience: Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery is a comprehensive resource for students, scholars, and practitioners who work with refugee populations. This collection explores contemporary issues including migration, war, oppression, genocide, health crises, and racial and cultural identities to shed light on the refugee experience. The text offers a balance of theory, research, case studies, narratives, and clinical application, while emphasizing the concepts of resilience, recovery, and successful adaptation. The first section of the handbook examines the social, cultural, and political contexts in which refugees experience their lives. The second section features powerful narratives from refugees that illuminate what it feels like to survive, recover, and flourish after exile. In the third section, readers hear from helping professionals about their struggles, challenges, frustrations, and triumphs while serving refugee populations. The fourth section focuses on clinical considerations, discussing common assessment and treatment issues, as well as practical techniques, interventions, and community-based strategies that have proven successful. The final section focuses on resilience and courage, exploring the gifts refugees, and their helpers, have received after surviving difficult life circumstances. Handbook of Refugee Experience is an ideal resource for counseling, health care, and social work courses, or any other course that prepares future practitioners to assist refugee populations.Jeffrey A. Kottler is one of the most prominent authors in the fields of counseling, psychotherapy, health, and education, having written over 100 books across a broad range of topics. He is a clinical professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and professor emeritus of counseling at California State University, Fullerton. He has served as a counselor, therapist, supervisor, educator, and social justice advocate in a variety of professional settings throughout his career.Sophia Banu is an associate professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Baylor College of Medicine.Suni Jani is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. Dr. Jani earned her M.D. and M.P.H. from The George Washington University. She completed the remainder of her psychiatry training at the Baylor College of Medicine and her child and adolescent training at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School.

In Their Finest Hour, therapists, on the cutting edge of their profession, detail their most professionally rewarding cases and share what they learnt from them. These outstanding therapists define achievement in their field, describe how therapy really works and speak frankly about how their cases shaped their ideas. Each interview was recorded and then transcribed and written into narrative prose, including re-created dialogue that was based on case notes and recordings.