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	NORTON HAS ONLINE TESTS WHICH YOU CAN DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND SEND (search for red links below) Norton Books JournaLearning International offers C.E. credits in conjunction with the Norton Book titles which are listed below. Norton Books' homepage is located at http://web.wwnorton.com. For each of the Norton books listed here, you can download the test from this site, print it on your printer, then mail your completed copy with payment to JournaLearning International for CE credit. The number of credits varies by book. Memory Quest Elizabeth A. Waites Book Order Information How is memory formed, reformed, modified in the telling, lost and found? How does it contribute to our sense of self? How are both memory and the self affected by trauma and subsequent distortions and evasion? And how can the past be brought into the present safely and productively? Merging memory research and clinical experience, this book explores these questions and many more that are encountered in a quest for personal memory. Waites shows how memory and one's sense of self are inextricably joined. The search for autobiographical memory becomes a search for the authentic voice of the self, a voice often drowned out by competing narratives, contradicted by cover stories, and silenced by intimidation. This book recognizes the complexity of memory development, its vulnerability to traumatic loss and distortion, and the value of its recovery. The book contains the following learning objectives: The processes of memory and how they are impacted by trauma. Memory's role in the development of the self. Processes by which memory is distorted including denial, dissociation, and intimidation. Traumatic symptoms and their effects on memory. Therapy as a context for remembering. Clinical issues in the integration of memory in therapy. JournaLearning Test and Test Information for Memory Quest Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities Jill Freedman and Gene Combs Book Order Information This book describes the clinical application of the growing body of ideas and practices that has come to be known as narrative therapy. The primary focus is on the ways of working that have arisen among therapists who have organized their thinking around two metaphors: narrative and social construction. The heart of the book is devoted to specific clinical practices: locating problems in their sociocultural context, opening space for alternative stories, developing stories, questioning, reflecting, thickening plots, and spreading the news. Each practice is described, located in relation to the ideas and attitudes that support it, and illustrated with clinical examples. The book contains the following learning objectives: The history of and theoretical framework for narrative therapy. Why the telling of stories can create new realities for people, which in turn can transform their lives. Specific steps for opening and developing new stories. How to use language, via skillfully developed questions, to help people develop their new stories. How to use various strategies -- including summaries, note taking, letters, documents, and the creation of an audience -- to keep new stories (and therefore therapy) active between sessions. How the narrative therapists' view of ethics differs from those of more traditional therapists. JournaLearning Test and Test Information for Narrative Therapy Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy : A Therapist's Guide to Transforming Relationships (formerly Integrative Couple Therapy: Promoting Acceptance and Change) Neil S. Jacobsen and Andrew Christenson Book Order Information To the traditional behavioral therapy techniques of communication training, conflict resolution, and problem-solving, the authors have added the best elements of other therapies--strategic, experiential, and ego analytic--integrating them within a simple, compelling behavioral theoretical framework. The result is integrative couple therapy--an innovative, intuitively appealing approach. The book offers rich clinical detail on how to develop a formulation encompassing the couple's disparate conflict areas, enhance intimacy through acceptance, build tolerance for difference, and improve communication and problem-solving. The clinical implications of diversity in gender, culture, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation are taken into account, as are issues related to domestic violence, infidelity, depression, and drug and alcohol addiction. The book contains the following learning objectives: To understand how traditional behavioral therapy has been adapted to include promotion of acceptance. To recognize the transformation a couple makes from a loving relationship to one plagued by apparent incompatibilities. To master the skills for developing the core element of Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy. To understand the assessment and feedback steps, which provide the raw material for formulations. To understand the context of Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy and the ordering and sequencing of its recommended interventions. To master acceptance strategies as a tool to foster a fundamentally new experience of the presenting problem. JournaLearning Test and Test Information for Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy Understanding Biological Psychiatry Robert J. Hedaya, M.D. Book Order Information Clinicians on both sides of the mind-body equation, whether physicians or counselors, ignore the principles of biological psyciatry at their peril. Their formal training may have left huge gaps in their knowledge of this rapidly evolving area, gaps now filled in the pages of this book. Beginning with a tour of the brain, the author explains how the brain works and how brain function relates to physical symptoms and cognitive and emotional well-being. He explains how biological psychiatrists consider the biology of the individual as an integral part of the whole picture, and demonstrates a new way of conceptualizing clinical problems. The book contains the following learning objectives: Basic brain anatomy, including nerve cell function. Current biological theories of mental disorders. Application of biological theory to specific clinical disorders. Application of medical models to screen out physical disorders. Development of the split-treatment model with emphasis on the therapist's role in facilitating the success of pharmacotherapy. The various classes and uses of medication used in biological psychiatry. JournaLearning Test and Test Information for Understanding Biological Psychiatry Norton Books homepage is located at http://web.wwnorton.com