Brief Intervention for School Problems: Outcome-Informed Strategies, Second Edition

by John Murphy & Barry Duncan (2007, Guilford Press, 30.00/hardback)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 23.70]

Focusing on "what works," this book reviews current findings on successful outcomes and translates them into clear-cut guidelines for practice. Illustrated are dozens of creative strategies for addressing disciplinary problems, poor academic performance, anxiety, compulsive behaviors, and other common difficulties. You'll find it filled with real-world examples from both elementary and secondary settings. The authors' creative approach to building solutions and "busting problems" puts students in the driver's seat. [6” x 9”...210 pages]

Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents

by Matthew Selekman (2008, Guilford Press, 24.00)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 18.96]

This innovative, practical guide presents an effective brief therapy model for working with challenging adolescents and their families. It demonstrates powerful ways to help families gain new perspectives on longstanding problems and co-construct realistic, well-formulated goals, even when past treatment experiences have left them feeling demoralized. Solution-oriented techniques and strategies are augmented by ideas and findings from other therapeutic traditions, with a focus on engagement and relationship building. Illustrated with extensive clinical material, the book shows how to draw on each family's strengths to collaboratively bring about significant behavioral change. [6” x 9”...292 pages]

Adolescent Psychotherapy Homework Planner, Second Edition

by Arthur Jongsma, et al. (2006, Wiley, 65.00)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 51.35]

The Adolescent Psychotherapy Homework Planner, Second Edition provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. It features new and updated assignments and exercises to meet the changing needs of mental health professionals. [8.5” x 11”...352 pages]

Narrative Counseling in Schools: Powerful & Brief, Second Edition

by John Sinslade & Gerald Monk (2007, Corwin Press, 30.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 24.45]

The authors present case studies, guidance, and examples of counseling practice to help students narrate stories that "redescribe" who they are, and what they can be. Mindful that today's busy counselors need effective and brief techniques, the authors make plain the steps with which can externalize problems and draw out student self-knowledge. Grounded in a deep respect for students, this book's principles and practices will enable students to choose for themselves the new reputations by which they'll be known. Grades K-12. [6” x 9”...185 pages]

Brief Counseling That Works: A Solution-Focused Approach for School Counselors, Second Edition

by Gerald Sklare (2005, Corwin Press, 28.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 22.87]

Combines step-by-step instructions with vivid case examples to provide a comprehensive and practical overview of the fundamental principles of brief counseling. The author has extensively revised this second edition to include new adaptations of solution-focused methods; and more opportunities to practice the techniques. Reproducibles. Grades K-12. [6” x 9”...121 pages]

Brief Counseling in Schools: Working with Young People from 11 to 18, Second Edition

by Dennis Lines (2006, Sage Publications, 34.95)
     [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 27.61]

A practical guide to providing help and support to young people experiencing a range of difficulties in their home and school lives. Recognizing the constraints of working within school settings, the book illustrates how counseling can nevertheless be effective, even when time is short and confidentiality is hard to preserve. Written from a British perspective. [7” x 10”...217 pages]

Child Psychotherapy Homework Planner, Second Edition

by Arthur Jongsma, Jr. (2006, Wiley, 65.00 with disk)
      [Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 51.35]    

This planner provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. Features new and updated assignments and exercises to meet the changing needs of mental health professionals. Includes 82 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues encountered by children, such as academic underachieving, low self-esteem, depression, and separation anxiety; interactive assignments are grouped by behavioral problems from blended family problems and divorce reaction to ADHD, attachment disorder, disruptive/attention seeking, and speech and language disorders. Also has CD-ROM that contains all the exercises in a word-processing format. Grades K-5. [8.5" x 11"...360 pages]

Order by 1:00 P.M. (Central Time)... We'll send a confirming e-mail, and normally ship the same day!

Tracking information ... We'll have the U.S. Postal Service or UPS send you tracking information each time your package is scanned.

We're best known for two things... The way we pack (very carefully); and the way we ship (very quickly).

We take book safety seriously... Your books will be shrink-wrapped on a heavy piece of cardboard, and placed in a heavy-duty box or a padded mailing bag (depending on the size of your order). We also pack around the books with plenty of clean paper to keep the books from moving. And, when the order is ready to ship, we'll stamp the box with our traditional red "HANDLE WITH ENTHUSIASM" stamp.

Our customers tell us... That we are pretty good at what we do. And we ought to be! We've been dispatching books to all corners of the planet since 1978. We're one of those old-fashioned companies with real toll-free telephones—and real people to answer them. It will not be an accident that your books will arrive in perfect condition. We make sure they will.

Standard Shipping... 3.50 for orders under 50.00; free shipping for any order over 50.00 (including Purchase Orders).

Expedited Shipping... 5.00 for one book; 9.95 for two or more books. We normally use First Class Mail for home addresses; UPS for school addresses.

Can't find what you're looking for?
Just send us an e-mail (paperbacks@usmo.com), or call (800-227-2591). We'll give you pricing information, and availability. If we don't have a particular book in stock, or can't get it to you rather quickly, we'll help find a source.