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The author then applies the theory to practice, drawing on his wide personal experience with hundreds of clients in transition to outline a model of significant change. Mahoney identifies common themes and experience patterns associated with dramatic change, emphasizing the role of emotionality and cognitive processes, and challenging long-revered notions about thinking and feeling.Here is an important work that will point researchers in new directions, will help practicing therapists adapt theoretical concepts to helping patients change, and will make fascinating reading for anyone exploring his or her own life journey.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49549907853585,"sku":"GOR006049995","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50762194387217,"sku":"CIN0465031188G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51461009932561,"sku":"CIN0465031188VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52149949563153,"sku":"NLS9780465031184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52410605306129,"sku":"CIN0465031188A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0465031188.jpg?v=1751325463"},{"product_id":"ibs-audio-program-100-cd-9780954751302","title":"IBS Audio Program 100","description":"Characters: 2m 2f \/ Unit SetAnna Marie has raised her surly contentious son Micah alone. Though Micah has long been pharmaceutically treated for his O.D.D. - Oppositional Defiance Disorder - she's desperate to introduce a paternal influence. Anna Marie hires Joe Eskin an itinerant waiter with a vague past and take-no-prisoners tutoring style. Over one critical autumn Joe brings focus and structure to Micah's daily life. But as he opens incurious Micah's eyes to a world outside his sleepy New Jersey suburb Joe ingratiates himself into the family and inadvertently stirs in Anna Marie dormant romantic longing. In a revelatory battle royal Micah realizes that equally combative Joe is a kindred spirit - likely O.D.D. himself. When Micah attracts the brilliant but volatile Ilona Joe's Cyrano-like coaching to help Micah romance the older girl segues into near obsession. Though smitten Anna Marie remains oblivious Ilona slowly realizes that Joe's emotional investment in Micah is invasive and threatening. During a Halloween trip into rain-drenched New York City Ilona ends Joe's control by confronting him in front of Micah with life-altering results. 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