Choosing to Maintain Control of My Life This is a 'self-help' book about choosing to maintain control of your life; a responsible, positive and effective level of control that puts YOU in the driver's seat of what happens in your life. It is about making CHOICES, simple choices, to dramatically impact your present and future in areas of work, relationships and personal life. The book contains several worksheets and assignments for evaluating yourself and planning your choices. It also includes alternatives regarding building and strengthening relationships. It is a simple book with clear and straightforward language and examples. The book is written as a tribute to some of the author's teachers and mentors who have contributed much to my learning and support over more than 40 years.
Getting Back to Basic Values: A Series of Fundamentals and Plans for Helping contains plans and ideas to use in personal growth and development, teaching and counseling, and helping yourself and others. It is an update of some material published in the early 1970's with newly developed and different materials from and about today. These plans can be applied over and over to personal growth and family decision-making and can be used in therapeutic work with groups and individuals. Teachers will also find these applicable to classroom work and discussions or lessons with students. This series will contain several plan book volumes and a foundations volume containing basic fundamentals and concepts supporting this theoretical work. This is Vol. 1 of the series which will include lesson plan books listed below.
Getting Back to Basic Values: A Dozen Lesson Plansfor Helping Volume 2 of the series contains strategies and ideas to use in personal growth and development, teaching and counseling, and helping yourself and others. These plans can be applied over and over to work with personal growth and family decision-making and can be used in therapeutic sessions with groups and individuals. Teachers will also find these applicable to classroom work and discussions or lessons with students concerning Character Education. This is Vol. 2 in the series containing several plan book volumes and is a companion book to the foundations volume above containing basic fundamentals and concepts supporting this theoretical work.
Getting Back to Basic Values: More Plan for Helping. Volume 3 of the series contains more lesson plans and ideas to use in personal growth and development, teaching and counseling, and helping yourself and others. These plans can be applied over and over to work with personal growth and family decision-making and can be used in therapeutic sessions with groups and individuals. Teachers will also find these applicable to classroom work and discussions or lessons with students concerning Character Education. This is Vol. 3 in a series containing several plan book volumes and is a companion book to the foundations volume above containing basic fundamentals and concepts supporting this theoretical work.
Getting
Back to Basic Values: Series of 3 volumes. For counseling, teaching,
character education and personal growth. 2017. Signed by author. Set
price for all 3 volumes. This series addresses 'values and character
education' with all ages as well as personal growth and development.
Useful to teachers, counselors, social workers, marriage and family
therapists, and individuals in helping themselves and others.
Co-authored with Sidney B. Simon, EdD, professor emeritus University of
Massachusetts.
Steve J. Leatherwood, MA, LPC, NCC, CT/RTC, has been
involved in providing mental health therapy, evaluation and counseling since
1970. He has worked at a state facility
for mentally and physically disabled youth, as a psychologist in a local mental
health program and Director of Psychological Services for children/family in
that facility and as an adjunct professor of psychology at Gardner-Webb
University. He has maintained a private
counseling practice since 1975 providing individual, family and group psychotherapy
and specializes in anxiety and stress management, PTSD and personal
development.
Sidney B. Simon, Ed. D. is internationally
known for his pioneering work in Values Clarification, now retired as Professor
Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mass. He has authored
over 100 articles and more than a dozen books on values, self-esteem and
personal growth and development and conducted many seminars and week-long
workshops from Massachusetts to California.
His work helped develop a set of practical strategies that have impacted
counseling practice, education, social work, medical care and personal growth
and development.
Steve J. Leatherwood, MA, LPC, NCC, CT/RTC, has been involved in providing mental health therapy, evaluation and counseling since 1970. He has worked at a state facility for mentally and physically disabled youth, as a psychologist in a local mental health program and Director of Psychological Services for children/family services in that facility and as an adjunct professor of psychology at Gardner-Webb University. He has maintained a private counseling practice since 1975 providing individual, family and group psychotherapy and counseling. He specializes in anxiety and stress management, PTSD and personal development as well as conducting staff training and development workshops and seminars on various mental health subjects. Topics include: Stress and Anxiety Management, Getting Back to Basic Values, Choosing to Maintain Control of Your Life, Parenting Skills, Choosing to Maintain a Healthy Marriage and others.
