Dr. Morley D. Glicken &
The Institute for Personal Growth
Dr. Morley D. Glicken &
The Institute for Personal Growth
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Dr. Glicken has a number of books published by national publishing
houses on such diverse topics as resilience; the Strengths Perspective;
Evidence-Based Practice; Men’s Issues; understanding social research;
and supervision. On the management side, we have articles available on
selecting personnel; budget preparation; grant writing; marketing
services, and other selected management subjects. Please contact Dr.
Glicken for management articles.
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Morley D. Glicken (2009)
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Description:
At a time when the mental health difficulties/
disorders of the elderly are coming to the fore
of many practitioners' patient rosters, naming
and treating those problems is still too often
handled as an art as much as a science.
Inconsistent practices based on clinical experience and intuition rather
than hard scientific evidence of efficacy have for too long been the basis
of much treatment. Evidence-based practices help to alleviate some of the
confusion, allowing the practitioner to develop quality practice guidelines
that can be applied to the client, identify appropriate literature that can be
shared with the client, communicate with other professionals from a
knowledge-guided frame of reference, and continue a process of self-
learning that results in the best possible treatment for clients.
The proposed volume will provide practitioners with a state-of-the-art
compilation of evidence-based practices in the assessment and treatment
of elderly clients. As such it will be more clinically useful than anything
currently on the market and will better enable practitioners to meet the
demands faced in private and institutional practice. Focusing on the most
current research and best evidence regarding assessment, diagnosis, and
treatment, the volume covers difficulties including, but not limited to: social
isolation/loneliness, elder abuse/neglect, depression and suicidal
inclinations, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, dementias, prolonged
bereavement, patients with terminal illnesses.
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Description:
A Simple Guide to Retirement: How to Make
Retirement Work for You is a book for older
Americans planning for retirement. It is also
for people who have left work before they
were ready and are now experiencing
anxiety, depression, and/or financial
weakness in their new role as retirees.
Written to be at once affirming, positive, and practical, the book covers all
of the many topics that will help retirees better prepare themselves for a
positive, fulfilling, and satisfying retiremen, beginning with financial
security. These topics include saving for retirement, working part time,
staying healthy and fit, dealing with the emotional and financial burden of
health care, cultivating optimism, and much more. Case examples and
vignettes will help readers apply the principles to their own lives.
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Morley D. Glicken (2009)
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Description:
At a time when increasing numbers of
children are being treated for emotional
problems, naming and treating those
problems remains more of an art than a
science often leaving children and
their parents to navigate a confusing path.
This is a practical guide for clinicians, social workers and school
counselors covering evidence-based practices for the assessment and
treatment of emotionally troubled children and adolescents.
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Morley D. Glicken (2007)
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Description:
A Guide to Writing for Human Service
Professionals helps students and
professionals in the human services
learn to improve their writing by explaining
the process and rules of writing in non-
technical and practical ways. Effective
use of APA style, how to write research
reports, client assessments and
evaluations, and how to avoid common writing mistakes, among other
topics, are explained in clear, concise prose. The book will appeal to
students and professionals who struggle with writing and is a necessary
resource book for writers in human services who suffer the consequences
of poor writing.
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Description:
Using an accessible writing style, author
Morley D. Glicken introduces readers to the
noble and exciting profession of Social Work
with the hope to motivate student interest
in BSW and MSW Programs. This engaging
text addresses a number of social issues in America, looks at how the
social welfare system attempts to resolve these issues, and considers
the many roles assumed by professional social workers within the social
welfare system.
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Lessons for Therapists From
Resilient People
Glicken, M.D.
Sage Publications (2006)
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From the Preface:
This book is about the way resilient people
navigate the troubled waters of life’s traumas.
While a number of researchers believe that
resilience is the key to understanding how
people successfully cope with traumatic life
events and why they often come out of a
crisis stronger and more certain of their goals and directions in life,
the concept of resilience is still fairly new in the research literature.
While we think we know what it means to be a resilient, we know far
less about why people are resilient, or how their resilience functions
across the life cycle and through difficult life events.
This book continues the development of ideas found in two other
books I’ve written, one on the Strengths Perspective (Glicken, 2004)
and the other on Evidence-Based Practice (Glicken, 2005). In both
books I’ve argued for a knowledge-guided approach to practice that
focuses on client strengths. Much of what I’ve found in the research
for each book leads me to believe that there is demonstrable
evidence that many people are resilient and that positive and deeply
supportive approaches to treatment can improve our treatment
effectiveness. In addition, I’ve found that self-help groups led by
highly talented and resilient non-professionals show great promise in
improving the social functioning of group members through a focus
on affirmation, unconditional acceptance, and positive reinforcement,
conditions not always found in the work done by professional
helpers. And there is strong reason to suggest that natural healing,
the internal processes that many people use to deal with addictions
and other life problems, is very often effective in coping with a range
of emotional problems. Most people stop smoking, lose weight, and
stop using substances on their own. Focusing on why they do so
well when others don’t and applying their approaches to coping with
life difficulties might lead to breakthroughs in the way we conduct
therapy with a range of troubled clients.
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Ending the Sex Wars: A Woman’s Guide
to Understanding Men
Glicken, M.D.
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From the Preface:
This book about men is written to help women
understand the often strange and perplexing behavior
of the men in their lives. There’s no reason men might
not read it as well since the book is written to help
men and women get along better. If it’s true that we have a sex war
going on, then all of us lose by not making peace and getting on with
the pleasant task of loving and enjoying each other. This book is a
practical guide, but for readers who want something more academic,
a book I wrote entitled Working with Troubled Men: A Contemporary
Practitioner’s Guide (2005), written specifically for psychotherapists
is available through Lawrence Erlbaum Publisher at
www.erlbaum.com. Parts of this book were written while I was living in
Southern California and teaching at a university. I am now writing
books full-time and serve as director of the Institute for Personal
Growth: A Consulting, Research, and Training Cooperative serving
people’s needs that are often ignored by psychotherapists and the
media. Men are one of those ignored areas of concern. I’m not sure
why since men seem to be having their share of problems these
days from lagging behind women in educational achievement, to
having more health problems, and to significant amounts of
alcoholism drug abuse, crime, and violence. When men do badly, we
all suffer. So, for the reader who makes this journey into the world of
men, God bless and good journey.
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Remembering Zion
Glicken, M.D.
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Remembering Zion is a deeply spiritual novel
of love set in the beauty and splendor of the
American Southwest and Mexico. It is about
a man who finds his perfect love and then
loses her, only to be given gifts he never
dreamed were possible. Remembering Zion
is a journey of the heart and the soul. It is
about the wonder and immortality of love.
The author writes: “For those of you who
believe in the notion of the Beshert, that for everyone there is a chosen
one with whom we can achieve an immortal love, I hope you find this
novel as touching to read as it was for me to write.”
Remembering Zion has wonderfully romantic descriptions of Mexico
and the Southwest, beautiful love poetry, and unforgettable characters
who love deeply and show the reader how spiritual love leads to love for
the ages, eternal love.
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Working with Troubled Men:
A Contemporary Practitioner's Guide
Glicken, M.D.
Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers (2005)
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From the Preface:
This book on men comes at a time when very
little is being written about men, even though
they are doing badly. Working with Troubled Men: A Contemporary
Practitioner's Guide is a book for helping professionals who work
with men. It is an up to date overview of the problems men have at
home, in relationships, with their children, at work, with anger, with
education, with violence, with substance abuse and, ultimately, with
being fulfilled and productive human beings. The emphasis of the book
is on why men are having such serious problems and what we can do
to help them by using new and male-specific treatment approaches
and social programs. It is written as a sympathetic and positive book
that will hopefully help academics, professionals, and the many men
who want to change their lives.
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Evidence Based Practice:
A Research Guided Approach
for the Helping Professions
Glicken, M.D.
Sage Publications (2004)
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research and critical thinking in assisting practitioners to determine
the most appropriate and helpful ways of treating clients with social
and emotional problems. The use of EBP comes at a time when
managed care and concerns over health care costs coincide with
growing evidence that psychotherapy, case management, and
counseling may not be sufficiently effective ways of helping people
in social and emotional difficulty. In a review of the effectiveness of
psychotherapy over a 40-year period, Bergin (1971) writes,
”Psychotherapy has had an average effect that is modestly positive.
It is clear, however, that this conclusion---obscures the existence of
a multiplicity of processes occurring in therapy, some of which are
now known to be unproductive or actually harmful” (p. 263).
In providing a reason for the lack of good evidence that
psychotherapy works, Flaherty (2001) believes that there is a
“murky mythology” behind certain treatment approaches that
causes them to persist and that, “Unfounded beliefs of uncertain
provenance may be passed down as a kind of clinical lore from
professors to students” (p. 1).
As a response to subjective and sometimes incorrect practice
approaches, Evidence-Based Practice believes that we should
consult the research and involve clients in decisions about their
treatment. This requires a cooperative relationship with clients
where helping professionals act in a facilitative way to encourage
their clients to gather information and to rationally and critically
analyze it. EBP differs from authoritarian approaches that assume
the worker knows more about the client than the client does, and
that the worker is the sole judge of what is to be done in the
helping process.
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Using the Strengths Perspective:
A Positive Approach for the Helping Professions
Glicken, M.D.
Allyn and Bacon/Longman (2003)
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The idea that people can resolve serious social and
emotional problems by focusing on the strengths in their lives
is an elegant concept, but one at odds with many current notions
of psychotherapy that focus on what's wrong with people. The
strengths perspective is interested in showing how the day-to-day
work that most of us do to keep ourselves going, even in the midst
of crisis, is the basis for a more effective way of helping people.
Furthermore, the strengths perspective suggests that even without
the help of trained professionals, many people in deep despair show
resilience and actually resolve their problems by using the positive
influences of family, community, support networks, religious and
spiritual beliefs, and a philosophy of life that not only guides them
through moments of deep sorrow, but actually enhances and
improves their social and emotional lives.
This is a book for helping professionals. It is a "how to do it" book,
in a sense, because it shows clinicians how to understand and
apply the strengths perspective. It comes from almost 40 years
of practice experience by the author, thirty-five of which have
also been spent as a social work educator. Most of my career
has been spent teaching students to apply empirically based
theories to their practice. Similarly, this book comes from a
belief that much of what is wrong with practice today is the inability
of practitioners to be guided by research findings.
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Social Research: A Simple Guide
Glicken, M.D.
Allyn and Bacon/Longman (2003).
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From the Preface:
Research. It's just no one's favorite subject. And
research books? My own daughter who graduated
with a degree in sociology calls the books she had to read,
"akin to living the rest of my life in North Dakota on the worst winter day
since the Dinosaurs became extinct." Now that hurts. "Why?" I asked her,
"Why don't you like research?" "Because, Dad," she said with a groan, "it's
so useless and it's B-O-R-I-N-G." My own daughter. Painful.
I thought about that for a while. To be honest, I disliked research
until I started teaching it, and then it took a while for the light to go
on. I taught research in the same way it was taught to me...mind
numbingly technical and unexciting. And the books I assigned to
my students. Ugh! I couldn't even read them. But after a while, when
I started seeing the way the course could be taught, when I took
away the confusing language and the unnecessarily technical terms
and pared the subject down to it's basics, it really became interesting
and, dare I say it? Fun. Really fun.
So I decided to write a book in the same way I teach research. I
decided that it would be easy to read, funny, not serious, interesting,
short, non-technical, relevant to the real world we all live in and, not
once.... and this is a promise...would I mention rats or mice running
through a maze. If I gave examples, I promised myself, I would use
material from the real world. In the real world you have to make
decisions, important ones, based upon such limited information
that you wonder why you're being put on the spot. Need an
operation? Try and get some accurate data about the success rate
of a surgery from a specific doctor. Need to buy a car? Try and
figure out the confusing and contradictory information about repair
rates and crash impact studies. That's the real world where what we
know about research can help us make important life decisions.
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The Role of the Helping Professions in the
Treatment of Victims and Perpetrators of Crime
Glicken, M.D. and Sechrest, D.K.
Allyn and Bacon\Longman (2003)
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From the preface:
This is a book that integrates theory with practice.
It is concerned with prevention, intervention, and treatment in the
control and management of violent behavior. The book includes the latest
research available coupled with the clinical experiences and case studies
of helping professionals working in forensic facilities and agencies around
the country. It is a book, we hope, that will serve as a reference for helping
professionals who are suddenly faced with violence where it hadn't existed
until recently: in American schoolyards, in the parking lots of stores, and
in the lunchrooms of the American workplace. It is a book for the
organizational and community workers among us who believe that
changing the social context of life for people in America may actually
reduce violence. People living in poverty face the potential for violent
behavior in far greater numbers than the general population. Lowering the
rates of violent crime for the poorest of the poor would be cause to exalt.
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Violent Young Children
Glicken, M.D.
Allyn and Bacon/Longman (2003)
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From the Preface:
As this book will document, violent young children
commit acts of violence that take a terrible toll on the
lives of other children and adults in America. And while some reports
suggest that violence has gone down steadily since 1993 and that
childhood violence has also decreased, the fact remains that America
has far more violent behavior among its children than any industrialized
country in the world. The homicide rate among pre-adolescent and
adolescent males in the United States is 10 times higher than
in Canada, 15 times higher than in Australia, and 28 times higher
than in France or in Germany, data that should impress on everyone
that childhood violence is a terrible problem in America.
Because childhood violence is such a serious problem, this book
was written to urge helping professionals, school personnel, policy
analysts and, above all, parents, to take childhood violence
seriously. As we will repeatedly note throughout this book, the
younger the onset of violent behavior, the more likely it is to cycle
into serious adolescent and adult violence. Half of the children who
commit violent acts before the age of 12 go on to commit violence
as teenagers and adults. This small cohort is responsible for much of
the violent adolescent and adult crime in America. Those of us who
work professionally with young children who have committed acts of
violence at very young ages should be anxious to provide the best
possible diagnostic and treatment assistance to these children. One
of the primary reasons that all violent young children don’t cycle on
to additional violence as adolescents and adults is that they receive
needed help and their behavior modifies and changes. No one
should give up on children, and the younger the child, the more
hopeful we should be.
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