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Now in a fully rewritten fourth edition, this is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. It has been updated and streamlined to be even more user-friendly as a practitioner guide and course text. MI originators William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick elucidate the four tasks of MI—engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning—and vividly demonstrate what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples illustrate the dos and don'ts of successful implementation in diverse contexts.

When it comes to helping patients manage chronic and acute conditions and make healthier choices in such areas as medication adherence, smoking, diet, and preventive care, good advice alone is not enough. By using MI techniques, doctors, nurses, and other providers can transform conversations about change. The book shows how even the briefest clinical interaction can serve to build trust, clarify patients' goals as well as reasons for ambivalence, and guide them to take positive steps.

What is it that makes some therapists so much more effective than others, even when they are delivering the same evidence-based treatment? This instructive book identifies specific interpersonal skills and attitudes—often overlooked in clinical training—that facilitate better client outcomes across a broad range of treatment methods and contexts. Reviewing 70 years of psychotherapy research, the preeminent authors show that empathy, acceptance, warmth, focus, and other characteristics of effective therapists are both measurable and teachable.

With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson...

Written through the eyes of a growing child, this is the story of a very particular family and their circle of brilliant, idealistic and intellectual friends in London in the '60s, '70s and '80s. We follow William through the ups and downs of childhood, as he explores the back gardens and homes of his famous neighbours, attends dramatic rehearsals with his dad, Jonathan Miller, fails exams and is bullied at school, gets drugs from the philosopher A. J. Ayer's wife, and tries to watch the moon landing with Alan Bennett and a room full of writers. 

For centuries, the Westminster Shorter Catechism has helped Christians young and old to know their "chief end." Now, authors William Boekestein, Jonathan Landry Cruse, and Andrew J. Miller value this venerable catechism and winsomely introduce a new generation to its powerful message. Dividing the catechism into 52 brief devotions, they explain and apply each question and answer in a year's worth of Lord's Days. This valuable new resource is great for individual and family use for all who desire to "glorify and enjoy God forever."

Most salespeople work hard to become proficient in reaching the frontline managers in their markets. However, a salesperson who wishes to achieve long-lasting success with a client will learn how to also appeal to top-level executives from an “above the line” perspective. Master sales...

Sometimes, sales organizations rely too heavily only on inbound lead generation. However, when the inbound leads dry up and marketing efforts stop yielding results, the need for outbound activity becomes more crucial than ever. Many companies have let their sales people devolve into an...

Now more than ever, business leaders around the world are beginning to reexamine their roles in the corporate environment and question their life's purpose. For employees, managers, and business owners, The Art of Spiritual Leadership in Business explores the many benefits of bringing a...

The Babb Group, Inc. provides educational services to students, educators, and universities, and is a solid, reputable firm.A flexible model allows the business to accommodate client needs, including mid-project changes, by providing resources to all three groups.In 2009, The Babb Group started developing fully online curriculum development solutions. To enhance online learning, we merged with Edusity in 2022 to combine technological and pedagogical innovations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A doomsday device is on the open market. Jake Noble, along with Ezra Cook and Gwendolyn Witwicky, are dispatched to eastern Europe to track down the missing scientist. They find themselves hunted by a terror organization hell-bent on changing the world. It’s a race against time. Will Jake have to sacrifice a friend to stop a global catastrophe?

Welcome to The Breakthrough, hosted by health coach and author, William Gage Miller. Inside, we'll talk about how to: lose weight, breakthrough plateaus, reverse chronic health conditions and maximize your health. This podcast will help you cut through the noise of the diet industry and get crystal clear on exactly how to take back control of your health. In each episode, we also post links for additional resources and guides to help fast track your results so feel free to take full advantage of them!

In the fifth book of this best-selling series, Jake Noble accepts a suicide mission to save a little girl from a ruthless regime but someone has set Jake up for a fall, and when the rescue attempt fails, the CIA cuts all ties and disavows any knowledge of the mission.

When a beautiful but deadly assassin murders a man in a DC hotel room, Noble is ordered to find the killer and bring her to justice. After the devastating death of Samantha Gunn, Jake Noble has spent every night since drinking himself into oblivion. Jake’s world is shattered and he’s looking for answers. Instead he gets a call from Langley. A Secret Service agent has been found dead. The CIA wants to know who killed him and why. Noble tracks the assassin across two continents only to discover a larger, more sinister plot at work.

When Sam Gunn is accused of murdering a fellow intelligence officer in cold blood, the new CIA director charges Jake Noble with tracking her down. But Jake isn't the only one after Sam. A trio of highly trained freelancers wants Sam dead before she can blow the lid on their operation. It's a heart-pounding race against time to see who will find her first.

When a friend and former teammate goes missing while on assignment, Jake Noble gets on the first plane to Mexico. Determined to catch his friend's killer and exact revenge, Jake finds himself pitted against a ruthless drug cartel, aided by a mysterious woman with a haunted past, and hunted by members of the CIA. Someone in Washington is hell-bent on stopping Noble before he uncovers a deadly secret that will shake the very halls of power.

Jake Noble, Special Forces veteran and ex-CIA operative, is living on his boat, trying to scrape together enough money for his mother's cancer treatments. When the Company offers him 150k dollars to track down a missing girl, Noble has no choice but to delve back into the seedy underbelly of Manila's sex trade.

One hundred and seventy years from now, aliens decimate Earth. A relative handful of humans survive, hidden in deep subterranean enclaves that offer some protection from surface radiation. Although the main attack is now seven years in the past, one alien ship remains in orbit, and the conquerors are not content merely to let humanity lick its wounds...

The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world. And back in the 19th century, a great man held that office. William Lee Miller's new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.

In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The "it" in Miller's "losing it" refers mainly to mental faculties - memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as wel l- sags and flaccidities, aches and pains, failing joints and organs. What are we to make of these tell-tale signs?