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A People Primer
Untangle the mystery of human behavior with perceptual control theory, and learn a new way of thinking about people. Shelley Roy challenges readers to re-examine their beliefs about behavior. $18.00 detailsbuy |
ACT I Intensive Seminar in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
First step towards certification introduces PCT principles and applications. Prerequisite for ACT I Practicum and ACT II Intensive Seminar. $550.00 detailsbuy |
ACT II Intensive Seminar in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
Second step in the certification process builds upon ACT I. Prerequisites: ACT I Intensive Seminar and ACT I Practicum. $550.00 detailsbuy |
ACT III Intensive Seminar (Certification) in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
Third and final seminar in the certification process. Participants are certified in ACT upon completion. Prerequisites: ACT II Intensive Seminar and ACT II Practicum.$550.00 detailsbuy |
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ACT IV (The Loop: Practicum Supervision & Beyond) in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 17-20, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
An advanced seminar for particpants who want to learn more about perceptual control theory and/or becoming an IAACT faculty member. Prerequisite: ACT III Intensive Seminar.$550.00 detailsbuy |
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Bridges: Building Relationships & Resolving Conflicts
Conflict is inevitable. We see it every day - at work, in schools, within our government, even at home. One of life's most valuable skills is the ability to resolve conflicts and build relationships. Award-winning author Joseph Hester teaches you theses skills using powerful but easy-to-grasp techniques. Dr. Hester's approach has been used successfully in a wide variety of professions, from management to education. Devise a win-win outcome every time!$12.00 detailsbuy |
Counseling Theories: Practical Applications with Children and Adolescents in School Settings
Offers specific counseling applications for children and adolescents from leading experts and school counselors. Together, they explain individual, group, and classroom applications of several theories. $42.00 detailsbuy |
Find Your Natural Weight the Nectar Way
Sick of crash diets? Let Judy McFadden teach you how to eat naturally and manage your weight effectively - without resorting to starvation and gimmicky fad techniques. The secret lies in changing your thinking, not in dieting. Step by step, learn to tune into your body's signals so you can avoid eating from habit, or emotion. Also sold in Australia under the title Diet No More.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Helping Kids Help Themselves
Follow along in this popular book as Perry Good explores the basic psychological needs all children have and how you can help kids avoid self-destructive behaviors. Includes practical solutions to common teen problems.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Helping Kids Help Themselves Facilitator's Guide
This guide shows you how to design, organize, and conduct parent programs or in-service workshops for teachers and counselors based on the book Helping Kids Help Themselves. Adults will learn how to foster self-discipline and independence in kids.$25.00 detailsbuy |
Hold That Thought!
With lots of examples, illustrations, and a lighthearted style, Carey shows readers how to get themselves better using the Method of Levels, an approach to psychotherapy based on a comprehensive model of the behavior of living organisms.$15.00 detailsbuy |
How to Create Positive Relationships with Students
This handbook is a fun collection of teaching strategies for use by counselors, teachers, and others working with children of all ages. Karns introduces us to her tantalizing repertoire of games and activities to captivate youthful audiences. With these activities, you too can teach new skills and self-understanding, and kids will have fun while learning. [Research Press]$25.95 detailsbuy |
In Pursuit of Happiness
Perry Good explains what you can do if you want to have a happier life. Explore the four parts of your behavioral system and discover how basic psychological needs motivate all of our actions.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Introduction to Modern Psychology: The Control Theory View
The first textbook based on Control Theory. The basic Control Theory model provides the foundation for chapters on learning, development, perception, personality, social psychology, and psychotherapy. Edited by William T. Powers and Richard J. Robertson.$29.95 detailsbuy |
Living Control Systems I
This collection of fourteen papers provides a great introduction to Powers' model of living control systems. Selections range from the seminal article "A General Feedback Theory of Human Behavior" to a recent overview of biological Control Theory and its relationship to other ideas in cybernetics. Several of the papers included in this volume are now difficult to obtain elsewhere.$19.95 detailsbuy |
Living Control Systems II
This second selection of Powers' papers contains material that has not previously been published. Powers critiques the theories of mainstream behavioral scientists and shows how Perceptual Control Theory can be used to avoid their mistakes. He also demonstrates the necessity for constructing truly generative models if a genuine science of living control systems is to be developed.$19.95 detailsbuy |
Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control
This book is a simplified look at Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) written in a clear conversational style. Powers uses simple examples to peel back the layers of control theory and reveal universal truths.$19.95 detailsbuy |
My Gift in Return
Barnes Boffey, author of Reinventing Yourself: Becoming the Person You Want to Be, shares his unique thoughts, tales, and reflections on being human in a complicated world. A beautiful book to share with those you care about.$16.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Balance and Variety
Caption: Balance and variety are the spice of life. This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Decide What You Want
Caption: Decide what you want. This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: If You Can Imagine
Caption: If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Things Could Be Worse
Caption: Things Could Be Worse This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: Use Your Imagination
This poster by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale has been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. It can be purchased individually or as a part of a set of 5, to hang in school halls, library, or an individual classroom. Kids love these posters.$5.00 detailsbuy |
New View Posters: set of 5
This set of five posters by Sesame Street animator and artist Jeff Hale have been reproduced from E. Perry Good's In Pursuit of Happiness. They can be purchased individually (listed separately) or as a set to hang in the school halls or library or your individual classroom. Kids love them.$20.00 detailsbuy |
Overall Direction
We all go through tough times - the loss of a loved one, a career change, relationship problems. Don't despair - it may be that you just need a new direction! Using E. Perry Good's flexible, interactive approach you'll learn the six overall directions that point the way toward a more fulfilling life. Each chapter has specific questions and techniques to help you choose the right road, as well as examples of real people who found their way out of difficult situations. This unique book is structured for maximum effectiveness. Learn how you can take control of your life!$15.00 detailsbuy |
Overall Direction Counselor's Guide
Offers counselors a new way to help clients tap into their quality world. Learn how overall direction questions allow counselors to zero in on what their clients really want.$10.00 detailsbuy |
People as Living Things: The Psychology of Perceptual Control Theory
This comprehensive text is a superb overview of Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) and its practical applications for individuals, groups, schools, and organizations of all kinds. Runkel's style is personal, immediate, and often humorous. The book is written for the layperson and professionals interested in obtaining a deeper understanding of PCT and its meaning for people and society. [Living Control Systems Publishing]$75.00 detailsbuy |
Purpose, Meaning, and Action: Control Systems Theories in Sociology
This book marks an important milestone in the growing interest in Perceptual Control Theory among academic researchers -- in this case, seventeen leading sociologists. As one reviewer summarized, the research in this volume "exhibits a remarkable array and depth of empirical applications." The chapters in this volume point to new directions in sociological thinking and research grounded in an understanding of negative feedback. It is encouraging to see that PCT is gaining wider acceptance within disciplines concerned with human behavior and a better understanding of the world. (Palgrave Macmillan). edited by Kent A. McClelland and Thomas J. Fararo$90.00 detailsbuy |
Reinventing Yourself
Become the person you want to be! Barnes Boffey shows you how to make profound personal changes through the process of reinventing yourself. Learn how to examine your "blueprints" and evaluate whether these basic assumptions and behaviors will lead you to a fully functional life. Avoid the pitfalls of denial and recognize when your behavioral choices are working against you. An essential reference for counselors or anyone struggling with addiction and other tough problems.$13.00 detailsbuy |
Silver Bullets
A guide to initiative problems, adventure games, and trust activities. Used by teachers, counselors, and therapists to build trust. This book features 165 activities that require few props. All have been field tested and offer many helpful hints for implementation. [Kendall/Hunt Publishing]$37.95 detailsbuy |
Take Charge! Workshop in Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 21-22, 2011, Hilton Head Island, SC
A curriculum for building self-discipline and promoting positive behavior in teens.$950.00 detailsbuy Includes Implementation Workshop and Kit for 15 students |
Teacher and Counselor Guide to In Pursuit of Happiness
Provides teachers and counselors with activities based on In Pursuit of Happiness for children in grades six to twelve. Contains cooperative learning activities, group discussions, writing exercises, role plays, lectures, and novel ways to use multimedia as an instructional tool in the classroom.$15.00 detailsbuy |
The Happy Hour Guide
A valuable tool for group leaders, counselors, and teachers. The Happy Hour Guide is designed to help group facilitators teach the ideas presented in In Pursuit of Happiness. Follow the ten group meetings exactly as presented or use the guide as a springboard to design a format to fit the specific needs of your group. Appropriate for group work with both adults and teenagers.$15.00 detailsbuy |
The Method of Levels
This book is the first in-depth effort to explain an emerging therapeutic approach known as the Method of Levels which is based specifically on Perceptual Control Theory (PCT). In his foreward to the book, William T. Powers, the originator of PCT, explains: "The basic idea behind PCT is that organisms act to control a world presented to them as perceptions, rather than reacting to stimuli or planning their action or being conditioned or any of those other ideas that have been proposed since before I was born." The book includes two DVDs, one which includes introductions to PCT, tutorials, simulations, articles, and links; and another which includes actual MOL sessions. [Living Control Systems Publishing]$45.00 detailsbuy |
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