Travel Perspectives or Corporate Therapy and Consulting

Travel Perspectives: A Guide to Becoming a Travel Professional

Author: Ginger Gorham

Travel Perspectives: A Guide to Becoming a Travel Professional, 4th edition, is a book designed to address the challenges of today's travel professional. Travel professionals must know and use technology that did not exist just a few years ago, and be able to develop their customer base by keeping ahead of the Internet. The knowledge required to meet these challenges is staggering and can be intimidating. With this newly updated reference, professionals can approach these challenges with confidence. The book takes the reader on a journey beginning with career opportunities, new technologies, and the new realities involved in traveling, and then progresses through travel products, geography and sales. The focus is on building skills and developing critical thinking abilities. The book provides both a complex survey of the travel industry and the hands-on skills needed to secure and retain employment as a travel professional. There is considerable attention paid to the Internet and the World Wide Web as a reference tool and also as a tool for sales and marketing in the dot com travel environment. Relevant information on travel safety and security is a primary concern for today's travelers and travel professionals, therefore policies, government agencies, and procedures are all investigated in the book. Ecotourism is explored and there is a new section on geography. Being a travel professional in the 21st century requires complex product knowledge as well as a whole new set of skills, and readers will benefit from this informative and explorative book that addresses these products and skills in a real-world way.

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Corporate Therapy and Consulting, Vol. 5

Author: Len Sperry

Mental health professionals are increasingly having to consult with various kinds of organizations - a result of changes wrought by managed care, corporate downsizing, and expanding technology. Given these new realities, Corporate Therapy and Consulting serves as an indispensable guide for translating clinical skills into an organizational setting. Dr. Sperry has crafted a book that introduces these new realities and helps clinicians negotiate their way to a successful practice by interacting in a corporate setting. It includes a thorough analysis of contemporary economic and societal trends, the different kinds of responses to them, and the role corporate therapy and consultation plays in promoting a viable work environment - no matter what the external variables. The text provides a clear, cogent description of the hierarchy of intervention processes (and some predictable mutations) from contracting, assessing, and planning to effecting meaningful organizational change. In Corporate Therapy and Consulting, today's mental health professional will find the fundamental knowledge and tools necessary for effective modern-day practice.

Booknews

As corporations downsize and restructure they are increasingly bringing in mental health consultants to deal with the emotional fallout of change. Sperry (psychiatry and behavioral medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin) translates therapeutic practices to meet the specific needs of corporate settings, unraveling the economic and social trends of corporate therapy including organizational dynamics, diagnosis, interventions, executive consulting, psychotherapy, coaching, and consultations with health care organizations. Although the volume emphasizes helping strategies it also describes a burgeoning new area of clinical practice and the ways in which counseling skills can be enhanced to meet a new market. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	The Practice of Corporate Consulting and Therapy	1
2	Preparing to Practice Corporate Therapy and Consultation	13
3	Organizational Dynamics	30
4	Organizational Diagnosis	69
5	Organizational Interventions	101
6	Clinical-Organizational Interventions	120
7	Executive Dynamics	154
8	Executive Consulting, Psychotherapy, and Coaching	182
9	Consultation with Health Care Organizations	202
	References	217
	Name Index	229
	Subject Index	233