Lawrence M Rubin

Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture

Historically, few topics have attracted as much scholarly, professional, or popular attention as food and eating-as one might expect, considering the fundamental role of food in basic human survival. Almost daily, a new food documentary, cooking show, diet program, food guru, or eating movement aris...

Popular Culture in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Play-Based Interventions

With a Foreword by Danny Fingeroth, former Group Editor of Marvel's Spiderman comics line Popular culture, simply stated, is the language of a people, expressed through everything from its clothing, food choices, and religious practices to its media. The popular and predominant values, interests, an...

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills for Mental Health Professionals: A Popular Culture Casebook Approach

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills for Mental Health Professionals by Alan Schwitzer and Lawrence Rubin is a comprehensive textbook addressing all of the clinical thinking skills required in today's professional counseling settings. The text covers diagnosis, case conceptualization, and treatme...

Supervision Can Be Playful: Techniques for Child and Play Therapist Supervisors

Supervision Can Be Playful focuses on the dynamic nature of the clinical supervisory relationship when the supervisee is a mental health professional working with children. The contributors focus on the unique issues faced in supervising child and play therapists, as well as the unique challenges fa...

Mighty Mac: The Official Picture History of the Mackinac Bridge

With a total span length of 8,344 feet from anchor block to anchor block, the Mackinac Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world. It surpasses the Golden Gate Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and the Humber Bridge in England, even with their longer center spans. Every phase of const...

Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalisation: New Approaches to Counter-terrorism (Cass Series on Political Violence)

This book seeks to explore the new frontiers in counter-terrorism research, analyses and practice, focusing on the imperative to rehabilitate terrorists. The post-9/11 world is in a very early stage of global rehabilitation both of terrorists and criminals. Nonetheless, some correctional rehabilit...

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills: A Popular Culture Casebook Approach

The Second Edition of Alan M. Schwitzer and Lawrence C. Rubin’s Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills: A Popular Culture Casebook Approach comprehensively addresses the clinical thinking skills required in professional counseling settings through the innovative use of case examples drawn from popu...

Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics

Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics is an analysis of how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states react to ideational threats. It examines the threat perception and policies of two Arab, Muslim majority states, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in response to the...

Bridging the Straits: The Story of Mighty Mac

Bridging the Straits: The Story of Mighty Mac

Mighty Mac

Using Superheros in Counseling and Play Therapy