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Personal development in counsellor training
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ISBN: 1446288625 1446258289 Year: 2012 Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE,

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What is personal and professional development and why is it necessary for counsellors? This edition explores the importance of personal development and the core concepts that underpin it.


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Liability of asset managers
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ISBN: 9780199608737 0199608733 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press


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The Ponzi scheme puzzle : a history and analysis of con artists and victims
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ISBN: 0190258519 1283577259 9786613889706 019992662X 9780199926626 9781283577250 9780199926619 0199926611 0199977224 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme almost a hundred years ago. But his method of using new investments to pay existing investors and finance a highflying lifestyle is alive and well: just as much money is lost in the United States today from Ponzi schemes as from shoplifting. Somehow, con artists are able to dazzle wealthy, educated individuals and sophisticated institutions and convince them to hand over huge sums of money. How? This book explores these con artists' fascinating power of persuasion and deception, uncovering the subtle signals that mimic truth and honesty.


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Understanding Autism
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ISBN: 1283290707 9786613290700 1400840392 9781400840397 9781283290708 9780691150468 069115046X Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the role of emotion--specifically, of parental love--in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism. Chloe Silverman tracks developments in autism theory and practice over the past half-century and shows how an understanding of autism has been constituted and stabilized through vital efforts of schools, gene banks, professional associations, government committees, parent networks, and treatment conferences. She examines the love and labor of parents, who play a role in developing--in conjunction with medical experts--new forms of treatment and therapy for their children. While biomedical knowledge is dispersed through an emotionally neutral, technical language that separates experts from laypeople, parental advocacy and activism call these distinctions into question. Silverman reveals how parental care has been a constant driver in the volatile field of autism research and treatment, and has served as an inspiration for scientific change. Recognizing the importance of parental knowledge and observations in treating autism, this book reveals that effective responses to the disorder demonstrate the mutual interdependence of love and science.

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