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Key Thinkers in Psychology
by Rom HarréIt is important for every student of psychology, wherever they might be in the world, to understand the classic scholars, the classic studies, and the subsequent generations of people and ideas that have come to define the broad discipline that is 'psychology'. This book achieves this in the most accessible and engaging manner possible. Rom Harré presents a unique textbook orientation, combining the biopic with the significance of the major protagonists of the last century, organized by 'schools of thought', yet with cross-references throughout the text.
Key Thinkers in Psychology
by Rom Harre`For anyone that has spent years rowing off into convoluted estuaries, and would like an entertaining and useful chart to remind them of River Psychology as a whole, I thoroughly recommend this book′ - The Psychologist `This is a highly enjoyable, erudite and beautifully written manuscript. It conveys a rare depth of understanding and ability to strike at the core debates. The lively style, concentration on the biopic, use of text features such as links between names, and formal division of each sub-section will all appeal.… I have taught History of Psychology for nearly 6 years. This text will prove for more palatable to students than any of the competitors′ - Dr Steve Brown, Loughborough University `This book is well-written. It is clever, flowing and engaging. The balance between biography and contribution is excellent and makes it almost un-put-downable′ - Professor Adrian Furnham, University College London The 20th Century was rich in attempts to characterize and explain psychological phenomena and so to understand the human mind. These projects were undertaken by a huge and diverse list of characters from B F Skinner to James Gibson, from Gordon Allport to Hans Eysenck. It is important for every student of psychology, wherever they might be in the world, to understand the classic scholars, the classic studies, and the subsequent generations of people and ideas that have come to define the broad discipline that is `psychology′. This book achieves this in the most accessible and engaging manner possible. Rom Harré presents a unique textbook orientation, combining the biopic with the significance of the major protagonists of the last century, organized by `schools of thought′, yet with cross-references throughout the text.
Key Topics in Perinatal Mental Health
by Mauro Percudani Alessandra Bramante Valeria Brenna Carmine ParianteThe book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of key issues in perinatal mental health. Classic topics such as screening, assessment, pharmacological, psychological and psychosocial interventions of the most common conditions (depression, anxiety disorders, etc.) are combined with lesser known issues, such as mother-infant relationship disorders or thoughts of infant-related harm and aggressive behaviors, sleep disturbances in puerperium, obsessional disorders, fetal death etc., paying particular attention to specific groups of perinatal patients like mothers with cancer, adolescents, fathers, migrants, and preterm babies. The chapters written by health professionals working in hospitals, community services or voluntary agencies alternate with contributions from researchers whose fields of expertise include biology and neuroscience, diagnosis and special needs, treatment and prognosis, etc., striking a balance between scientific investigation and clinical practice.The book offers a valuable tool for a wide range of professionals like psychiatrists, psychologists, gynecologists, midwives, oncologists, pediatricians, and social workers, who want to improve their clinical practice and the effectiveness of their treatment pathways using evidence from perinatal health research.
Keynes
by Robert SkidelskyThe ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely. No one has bettered Keynes's description of the psychology of investors during a financial crisis: OCyThe practice of calmness and immobility, of certainty and security, suddenly breaks down. New fears and hopes will, without warning, take charge of human conductOC the market will be subject to waves of optimistic and pessimistic sentiment. ' Keynes's preeminent biographer, Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, brilliantly synthesizes from Keynes's career and life the aspects of his thinking that apply most directly to the world we currently live in. In so doing, Skidelsky shows that Keynes's mixture of pragmatism and realism OCo which distinguished his thinking from the neo-classical or Chicago school of economics that has been the dominant influence since the Thatcher-Reagan era and which made possible the raw market capitalism that created the current global financial crisis OCo is more pertinent and applicable than ever. Crucially Keynes offers nervous capitalists OCo and Keynes never wavered in his belief in the capitalist system OCo a positive answer to the question we now face: When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative? In the long run, as Keynes famously said, we are all dead. We may not have time to wait for the perfect theoretical operation of capital as the neo-classicists insist will happen eventually. In the meantime, we have Keynes: more supple, more human and more magnificently real than ever.
Keys to Effective Learning: Habits for College and Career Success
by Carol Carter; Sarah Lyman KravitsKeys to Effective Learning nurtures these skills in students entering college by focusing on building accountability, teamwork, and critical/creative thinking skills that can be applied to any academic or workplace setting.
The Keys To Solution In Brief Therapy
by Steve De ShazerJoin de Shazer behind the on-way mirror for a fascinating journey into the land of brief therapy, where the emphasis is not on how problems arise, but on how to solve them. His case examples read like well-written detective novels, and his concept of 'skeleton key' interventions is both provocative and promising. This is a book that is firmly grounded in the tradition of Milton Erickson, but that extends Erickson's work into new areas.
Keys to the Enneagram: How to Unlock the Highest Potential of Every Personality Type
by A. H. AlmaasMore than just a tool to diagnose your personality type, the Enneagram was originally developed to help people find the ultimate freedom of consciousness and achieve spiritual liberation. A. H. Almaas brings us back to this original mission as he shares the essential keys that will help readers break free from the limitations and distortions of each type&’s fixation—and to express their true spiritual nature in everyday life.
The Keys to the Jail (American Poets Continuum)
by Keetje KuipersThe Keys to the Jail asks the question of who is to blame for all we’ve lost, calling us to reexamine the harsh words of failed love, the aging of a once-beautiful body, even our own voracious desires. Keetje Kuipers is a poet of daring leaps and unflinching observations, whose richly textured lyrics travel from Montana’s great wildernesses to the ocean-fogged streets of San Francisco as they search out the heart that’s lost its way.Dolores ParkIn the flattening California dusk,women gather under palms with their bagsof bottles and cans. The grass is featheredwith the trash of the day, paper napkinsblowing across the legs of those who stilldrown on a patchwork of blankets. Shirtlessin the phosphorescent gloom of streetlamps,they lie suspended. This is my one goodlife-watching the exchange of embraces,counting the faces assembled outsidethe ice-cream shop, sweet tinge of urine bythe bridge above the tracks, broken bike lockof the gay couple’s hands, desperate clappingof dark pigeons-who will take it from me?A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Keetje Kuipers's debut collection, Beautiful in the Mouth, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. She has been the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, and is currently an assistant professor at Auburn University.
Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (Keywords #13)
by Kyla Wazana Tompkins Aren Z. Aizura Aimee Bahng Karma R. Chávez Mishuana Goeman Amber Jamilla MusserIntroduces key terms, debates, and histories for feminist studies in gender and sexualityKeywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements. Many of the keywords featured in this publication call attention to the fundamental assumptions of humanism’s political and intellectual debates—from the racialized contours of property and ownership to eugenicist discourses of improvement and development. Interventions to these frameworks arise out of queer, feminist and anti-racist engagements with matter and ecology as well as efforts to imagine forms of relationality beyond settler colonial and imperialist epistemologiesReflecting the interdisciplinary breadth of the field, this collection of seventy essays by scholars across the social sciences and the humanities weaves together methodologies from science and technology studies, affect theory, and queer historiographies, as well as Black Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American, and Indigenous Studies. Taken together, these essays move alongside the distinct histories and myriad solidarities of the fields to construct the much awaited Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.
KFA – Die Konfigurationsfrequenzanalyse
by Wolfgang Wiedermann Alexander von EyeDieser Band stellt umfassend die Methoden der Konfigurationsfrequenzanalyse (KFA) vor, eines von G.A. Lienert erstmals eingebrachten Verfahrens zur Testung von Hypothesen in Bezug auf Häufigkeiten in individuellen Zellen oder Gruppen einer Kreuzklassifikation. Die Autoren, die die Methode weiterentwickelt haben, bieten eine umfassende Darstellung der Grundlagen, Modelle und konkreten Anwendungsfälle in der psychologischen und sozialwissenschaftlichen, personen-orientierten Forschung. Dabei werden die Anfänge der KFA und ihr Bezug zur Chi-Quadrat Analyse ebenso beschrieben wie die Entwicklungen, die auf log-linearen Modellen basieren. Für jedes Modell und für jede Fragestellung, die mit der KFA untersucht werden können, werden empirische Datenbeispiele präsentiert. Neue Ergebnisse werden durch Monte-Carlo Simulationen untermauert sowie neue Modelle entwickelt und vorgestellt.Das Buch richtet sich zum einen an Leser*innen, die über grundlegendes Hintergrundwissen in der angewandten Statistik aus einführenden Kursen und Kursen über log-lineare Modelle verfügen. Aber auch Leserinnen und Leser ohne diese Kenntnisse können von diesem Buch profitieren, weil alle nötigen technischen Elemente eigens eingeführt und erklärt werden. Computerprogramme werden vorgestellt und in Beispielen angewendet. Insgesamt stellt sich die KFA als statistische Methode dar, mit der für kategoriale Daten wichtige und interessante Fragen bearbeitet werden können, die im Kontext der Anwendung von Routinemethoden der Statistik nicht zugänglich sind.
KI im Job: Leitfaden zur erfolgreichen Mensch-Maschine-Zusammenarbeit
by Andreas MoringDieses Buch ist ein praktischer Leitfaden für die Nutzung von Künstlicher Intelligenz mit motivierten Mitarbeitern in Unternehmen und Organisationen. Sie erfahren, was die Voraussetzungen dafür sind, dass Menschen sich auf eine produktive Zusammenarbeit mit „intelligenten Maschinen“ freuen können. Denn nur so kann das volle Potenzial von KI gehoben werden. Dazu erhalten Sie einen Überblick, wie und wo KI in Unternehmen eingesetzt werden kann und wie Sie die richtigen Einsatzfelder für KI in Ihrem Unternehmen identifizieren. Dabei geht es vor allem um die folgende Fragestellung: Welche Aufgaben übernimmt zukünftig die KI und welche sollen weiterhin von den Mitarbeiter/innen durchgeführt werden. Diese Entscheidungen verändern Prozesse und Aufgaben und erfordern praktisches Change Management und Motivation. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, wie Sie Menschen für diese neuen Aufgaben motivieren und begeistern können, damit die Schritte zum Einsatz von KI im Arbeitsumfeld bestmöglich gelingen können. Zum Autor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Moring ist Professor für Digital Business, Innovation & AI an der International School of Management. Er ist Gründer und Leiter des JuS.TECH Instituts für KI und Nachhaltigkeit, Co-Gründer der Initiative WeGoFive für eine produktive Mensch-KI.Kooperation und Themenpate für Mensch-KI-Kooperation am Artificial Intelligence Center ARIC in Hamburg.
KI in der Psychologie - ist der Mensch eine Maschine? (essentials)
by Peter Gloor Marc SchreiberIm Buch wird die Frage diskutiert, ob der Mensch eine Maschine ist und ob Algorithmen der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) das menschliche Erleben und Handeln jemals komplett abbilden können werden. Die Fragen werden sowohl aus der Perspektive der Psychologie als auch aus derjenigen der Informatik beleuchtet. Anhand von konkreten Projekten werden die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der beiden Perspektiven erläutert und es werden Probleme sowie ethische Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit der Anwendung von KI-Algorithmen in psychologischen Anwendungsfeldern thematisiert.
Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts
by Melanie D GibsonMelanie Gibson was an independent woman with a good job, multiple college degrees, and a condo in the trendy part of town. She also had a few mental illnesses, a minor substance abuse problem, and rotten relationship skills. She was a high-functioning crazy who needed a good kick in the pants, literally and metaphorically.In early 2013, as a last desperate means to save her sanity, Melanie turned to a nearly forgotten childhood activity: the Korean martial art of taekwondo. As if the universe were listening, she discovered her West Texas childhood taekwondo instructors’ Grandmaster operated a taekwondo school a few miles from her home in Fort Worth, Texas—and she decided to start her training over as a white belt.In taekwondo, Melanie felt like she had a fresh start in more ways than one. She found an inner peace she’d never known before, a sense of community, a newfound confidence, and a positive outlook on life. The kicking and screaming she was doing in class quieted the long-term kicking and screaming in her mind. Funny and frank, Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts is the story of Melanie’s life-changing journey from troubled, lost soul to confident taekwondo black belt.
Kidding Ourselves
by Joseph T. HallinanFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings' astonishing ability to deceive themselves. To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception--of ourselves and the world around us--is much more malleable than we realize. This self-deception influences every major aspect of our personal and social life, including relationships, sex, politics, careers, and health. In Kidding Ourselves, Joseph Hallinan offers a nuts-and-bolts look at how this penchant shapes our everyday lives, from the medicines we take to the decisions we make. It shows, for instance, just how much the power of many modern medicines, particularly anti-depressants and painkillers, is largely in our heads. Placebos in modern-day life extend beyond hospitals, to fake thermostats and "elevator close" buttons that don't really work...but give the perception that they do. Kidding Ourselves brings together a variety of subjects, linking seemingly unrelated ideas in fascinating and unexpected ways. And ultimately, it shows that deceiving ourselves is not always negative or foolish. As increasing numbers of researchers are discovering, it can be incredibly useful, providing us with the resilience we need to persevere, in the boardroom, bedroom, and beyond. Provocative, accessible, and easily applicable to multiple facets of everyday life, Kidding Ourselves is an extraordinary new exploration of our mind's flexibility.
A Kidnapped Mind: A Mother's Heartbreaking Memoir of Parental Alienation
by Pamela RichardsonHow do we begin to describe our love for our children? Pamela Richardson shows us with her passionate memoir of life with and without her estranged son, Dash. From age five Dash suffered Parental Alienation Syndrome at the hands of his father. Indoctrinated to believe his mother had abandoned him, after years of monitored phone calls and impeded access eight-year-old Dash decided he didn’t want to be "forced" to visit her at all; later he told her he would never see her again if she took the case to court. But he didn’t count on his indefatigable mother’s fierce love. For eight more years Pamela battled Dash’s father, the legal system, their psychologist, the school system, and Dash himself to try and protect her son - first from his father, then from himself. A Kidnapped Mind is a heartrending and mesmerizing story of a Canadian mother’s exile from and reunion with her child, through grief and beyond, to peace.
Kidnapping and Violence: New Research and Clinical Perspectives
by Stephen MorewitzThis book analyzes kidnapping in various forms and from various perspectives. First it argues that kidnapping, including the threat of kidnapping, reflects a breakdown in the mechanisms of social control in society. This volume also discusses the ways governments and para-military and terrorist groups employ kidnappings as part of their foreign and domestic policy. This analysis evaluates why and under what conditions governments, para-military and terrorist groups decide to abduct individuals and groups. It emphasizes how individuals, groups, and governments employ abductions to achieve their psychological, social, religious, and political objectives. This analysis also examines the ways in which cultural traditions in different societies emerge to foster behaviors such as bride abductions. Moreover, this book addresses the extent to which social change modifies these cultural patterns.Suitable for students and researchers, mental health practitioners, and law enforcement, this volume is a unique analysis of our contemporary understanding of kidnapping and violence, and the social, psychological, political, and cultural motivations for such an act.
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
by Meryl AlperAn ethnographic study of diverse children on the autism spectrum and the role of media and technology in their everyday lives.In spite of widespread assumptions that young people on the autism spectrum have a &“natural&” attraction to technology—a premise that leads to significant speculation about how media helps or harms them—relatively little research actually exists about their everyday tech use. In Kids Across the Spectrums, Meryl Alper fills this gap with the first book-length ethnography of the digital lives of autistic young people. Based on research with more than sixty neurodivergent children from an array of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, Kids Across the Spectrums delves into three overlapping areas of their media usage: cultural belonging, social relationships, and physical embodiment. Alper&’s work demonstrates that what autistic youth do with technology is not radically different from their non-autistic peers. However, significant social and health inequalities—including limited recreational programs, unsafe neighborhoods, and challenges obtaining appropriate therapeutic services—spill over into their media habits. With an emphasis on what autistic children bring to media as opposed to what they supposedly lack socially, Alper argues that their relationships do not exist outside of how communication technologies affect sociality, nor beyond the boundaries of stigmatization and society writ large. Finally, she offers practical suggestions for the education, healthcare, and technology sectors to promote equity, inclusion, access, and justice for autistic kids at home, at school, and in their communities.
The Kids Are All Right: Parenting with Confidence in an Uncertain World
by Gabrielle Stanley Blair Ben BlairFrom Design Mom blogger Gabrielle Blair and her husband, Ben Blair, a unique guide that subverts the concept of "perfect parenting" by embracing uncertainty. Gabrielle and Ben Blair have been raising kids for over two decades. Through the years, they&’ve charted their own unconventional path: working from home before remote work was a thing; uprooting their kids four, five, six times – including a move to France where they enrolled in local schools without knowing the language. It&’s been a unique parenting journey characterized by experimentation, trial and error, decisions prompted by financial or psychological necessity, varying levels of anxiety and tension, despair, and hope. This unique path turned out to be fertile soil for growing independent, resilient, and creative kids, and a family that is genuinely close and truly enjoys each other&’s company. With this book they share how they did it, and how we can too: by letting go of tired expectations of what it means to be a good parent (focus less on grades and more on seeing your kid for who they are); by accepting that the old rules won&’t necessarily apply in the future (changes in higher ed and career-building are evolving at a rapid pace) and instead focus on making your time with your kids one of connection, adventure, shared projects, creativity and joy. And it doesn&’t require moving to France!
A Kids Book About Anxiety: Kids Are Ready (A Kids Book)
by Ross SzaboAn honest exploration of the symptoms of anxiety and what learning to manage it can look like. This is a book about anxiety. Having anxiety doesn&’t just mean you feel nervous sometimes or need to calm down. It means having an uncontrollable feeling that gets in the way of what you normally do, or something new that you&’d like to do. Covering themes of anxiety, fear, loneliness, and crying. This book for kids aged 5-9 explores the impact anxiety can have and the steps they can take to begin to manage any anxious feelings they might have. A Kids Book About Anxiety features: - A large and bold, yet minimalist type-driven design that allows kids freedom to imagine themselves in the words on the pages.- A friendly, approachable, yet empowering, kid-appropriate tone throughout.- An author who has first-hand experience on the topic of anxiety.Tackling important discourse together! The A Kids Book About series are best used when read together. Helping to kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups through beautiful and thought-provoking pages. The series supports an incredible and diverse group of authors, who are either experts in their field, or have first-hand experience on the topic. A Kids Co. is a new kind of media company enabling kids to explore big topics in a new and engaging way. With a growing series of books, podcasts and blogs, made to empower. Learn more about us online by searching for A Kids Co.
A Kids Book About Failure: Kids Are Ready (A Kids Book)
by Dr. Laymon HicksA clear explanation of what failure is, helping to turn negative feelings from it into important life lessons.Failure is something that everyone encounters at some point in their lives, no matter how much you try to avoid it. Whether that&’s in school, in a friendship, or even playing your favourite sport, success is not a 100% certainty.Grownups, it&’s up to you to teach kids how to embrace it. This book doesn&’t paint a pretty face on failure. Instead, it rethinks what it means, and shows kids aged 5-9 how to live their lives not trying to avoid it.Teach kids the importance of failure, how to reframe negative feelings surrounding the inevitability of it, and how we can learn from it.A Kids Book About Failure features: - A large and bold, yet minimalist font design that allows kids freedom to imagine themselves in the words on the pages.- A friendly, approachable, yet empowering, kid-appropriate tone throughout.- An incredible and diverse group of authors in the series who are experts or have first-hand experience of the topic.Tackling important discourse together! The A Kids Book About series are best used when read together. Helping to kickstart important, challenging, and empowering conversations for kids and their grownups through beautiful and thought-provoking pages. The series supports an incredible and diverse group of authors, who are either experts in their field, or have first-hand experience on the topic. A Kids Co. is a new kind of media company enabling kids to explore big topics in a new and engaging way. With a growing series of books, podcasts and blogs, made to empower. Learn more about us online by searching for A Kids Co.
Kids' Club Letters: Narrative Tools for Stimulating Process and Dialogue in Therapy Groups for Children and Adolescents
by Georgia A. DeGangi Marc A. NemiroffKids' Club Letters provides an innovative approach to group psychotherapy for school-aged children who experience a range of social and emotional problems. A narrative therapy approach is adapted, taking the form of letters written by the therapist in the voice of a child who is asking for advice about interpersonal or emotional problems. The child in the letter is asking for guidance from the participants in the group. These letters were devised and written for the purpose of structuring responses in group psychotherapy, allowing the participants to address relevant issues for them individually and at the group level. The children in the groups had previously experienced difficulty discussing these issues spontaneously. Hence the 'Dear Group' letter format was born. The children did not know that the therapist had written the letters.
Kids, Drugs, And Alcohol: A Parent's Guide to Prevention and Intervention
by Anne Swany Harrity Ann Brey ChristensonThe quotation is taken from the book; “This guide proposes to help fill the gap in preventive education. It does not presume to be a do-it-yourself drug/alcohol manual. Rather, it is designed to acquaint parents with the scope of the issue, target specific social problems (such as keg parties), provide basic information about some of the drugs most commonly used and abused by teenagers and offer practical suggestions for prevention, early detection and intervention. If, after reading this book, you feel that your teenager might have a serious problem, GET HELP! Your family doctor or pediatrician is an excellent place to start. Some potential sources of help are listed in the Appendix.
Kids of Knutby: Living in and Leaving the Swedish Filadelfia Congregation (Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities)
by Sanja NilssonThis book tells the story of the children and youth of the charismatic new religious commune Knutby Filadelfia in Sweden. It recounts the history of the congregation, which started out as a part of the Swedish Pentecostalmovement in 1921. In the 1990s, it developed into a new religion, when the congregation’s female pastor embraced the role of the Bride of Christ. The congregation became widely known in 2004 when one of its members was murdered by another member, the latter claiming to have been acting on orders from God. In 2018, the congregation dissolved after a few years of internal crisis.Sanja Nilsson provides rich empirical analysis of archival material and interviews with the congregation’s children and youth. The young informants’ personal perspectives on their own childhoods encompass narratives from their time inside the congregation, when they identified as members of a stigmatizedminority religion, as well as from the time after the dissolution of the group, when they identified asdefectors from what they came to view as a sectarian milieu.This work offers a comprehensive insight into the Knutby Filadelfia congregation, a group, that although notoriously charted by the media, has been hitherto unexplored by academics. It adds to the growing field of studies concerned with childhoods within new religions and expounds the dynamics of the defection process from the rarely applied perspective of children and youth themselves.
Kids on Meds: Up-to-Date Information About the Most Commonly Prescribed Psychiatric Medications
by Kevin T. KalikowA popular guide for consumers about all the psychiatric drugs used with kids. Arguments abound about whether psychiatric medicines are over- or underprescribed, even as their use in childhood and adolescence has become commonplace. Knowing how various medicines work, their side effects and doses, will help parents understand their child's experience. And if you are considering medication for your child, the crucial question is, could it help? This book is an overview of the four groups of medicines most commonly used in child and adolescent psychiatry--for ADHD, depression and anxiety, psychosis, and mood disorders. It discusses not only the drugs but also how they work in the body, as well as the culture of today's medical practice. Kevin T. Kalikow offers measured advice on how to evaluate and treat young people with medicine and how to decide if medicine isn't the right course of action. It is essential reading for anyone who needs to wade through the complicated--and often contradictory--medical information about kids and drugs.
Kids' Skills: Playful and Practical Solution-finding with Children
by Ben FurmanWorking with children to convert problems into skills. Well-known Finnish psychotherapist and TV presenter, Ben Furman, shares the Kids' Skills model for working with children that is influencing parents, teachers, counsellors and policy makers around the world. This is a playful and practical approach to solving difficulties faced by children where practically all problems can be seen as skills that need to be developed. This method invites children to become active participants in skill-building and solution-finding. A book buzzing with ideas, stories and suggestions. - Converting problems into skills. - Agreeing on the skill to learn - Naming the skill and choosing a power creature - Gathering supporters and building confidence - Planning the celebration and going public - Practising the skill and creating reminders