Frankie Merritt [1], The University of Notre Dame Australia My PhD thesis is about decolonisation and empowerment; it is specifically about First Nations people claiming …
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Book review for Oliver James’s Love Bombing: Resetting Your Child’s Emotional Thermostat
Pia Cerveri Oliver James takes a refreshing approach to raising children in a time when parents are bombarded with techniques ranging from absurd, impossible, cruel and so lofty the ideals are impossible to achieve. His 2012 book, Love Bombing: Resetting Your Child’s Emotional Thermostat is a great read, accessible, plain speaking and compassionate. I enjoyed this book. …
Book review for Oliver James’s Love Bombing: Resetting Your Child’s Emotional Thermostat
Return to Journal Articles Pia Cerveri Oliver James takes a refreshing approach to raising children in a time when parents are bombarded with techniques ranging from absurd, impossible, cruel and so lofty the ideals are impossible to achieve. His 2012 book, Love Bombing: Resetting Your Child’s Emotional Thermostat is a great read, accessible, plain …
How can Psychology and Counselling be agents of change for Aboriginal Australians?
Return to Journal Articles Frankie Merritt [1], The University of Notre Dame Australia My PhD thesis is about decolonisation and empowerment; it is specifically about First Nations people claiming (or reclaiming) their autonomy. I explored concepts and their use with Aboriginal people and I chose one concept to focus on. The concept I chose to focus …
Book review for James Morrison’s DSM-5 Made Easy: The clinician’s guide to diagnosis
Sally V. Hunter, University of New England, Australia This review is written for those of you who believe that the DSM-5 has a place in your practice. I don’t intend to critique the DSM-5 itself or to reflect on the ways in which it is better or worse than the DSM-IV-TR. I want to …
Book review for James Morrison’s DSM-5 Made Easy: The clinician’s guide to diagnosis
Return to Journal Articles Sally V. Hunter, University of New England, Australia The book covers all the main mental health diagnoses across twenty chapters. Each chapter begins with a quick guide to the disorders covered, and explains any big changes between the DSM-IV and the DSM-5. The introduction to each chapter describes the major symptoms, …
Book review – Julie Pallant (2013). SPSS survival manual (5th edition). Sydney: Allen and Unwin
Return to Journal Articles Felicity Allen, Monash University It’s fair to say that not everyone would greet the appearance of a book with the word ‘SPSS’ in the title with a glad cry. There are probably two reasons for my reaction: (1) I taught multivariate statistics for many years and the damage is probably permanent …
Book review – Julie Pallant (2013). SPSS survival manual (5th edition). Sydney: Allen and Unwin
Felicity Allen reviews the fifth edition of Julie Pallant’s SPSS survival manual examining how to use the well know statistics software beginning with the research design process through to data analysis and more…