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Routledge launches Mental Health podcast

Beginning May 2008, we're releasing regular interviews with figures in the world of mental health, asking them about their fields of interest, opinions, and published works.

In our first podcast episode, Jane Harris interviews Denise Cullington, author of Breaking Up Blues, an indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce.

Denise Cullington is a psychoanalyst living and working in Oxford. She trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis; the Tavistock Clinic, London; and as a Clinical Psychologist.

You can listen to the interview without subscribing to the podcast by simply going to the Breaking Up Blues mini-site.

If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast and have iTunes or other Podcast software installed then use one of the links below:

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe via RSS

New Free Shipping Levels for UK, US and Canadian orders

We've lowered the amount you have to spend to get free shipping for orders in the UK and we've introduced a brand new free shipping threshold for customers in the US and Canada.

From now on, UK customers only need to spend £20 to qualify for free shipping (reduced from our previous post-free threshold of £30).

And US and Canadian customers can now also get free shipping on their orders by spending $35 (USD) or more.

Please note: these free shipping thresholds only apply to online orders placed through this website using our standard shipping service, not our express shipping service or for orders placed by other methods.

Smart Marriages Conference Review

The 2007 annual Smart Marriages Conference took place in Denver, Colorado.

This year's location in Denver drew almost 2500 attendees to the Smart Marriages Conference, and Routledge was pleased to be on hand to welcome a broad range of counselors, therapists, students, nonprofit organizations, and interested couples.

The Routledge booth was the preeminent publisher at the conference, and everyone took a minute to stop by and see what was on display.

See our photos from the Smart Marriages conference

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American Counseling Association in Detroit, Annual Meeting 2007

This year's location in Detroit drew over 3,000 attendees to the ACA convention, and Routledge was pleased to be on hand to welcome ACA members as well as visitors from across the border in nearby Ontario, Canada.

This year Lawrence Erlbaum Associates joined Routledge under the Taylor & Francis group, and we were glad to represent this wonderful addition to our program.

Congratulations to Don Dinkmeyer, Jr. and Jon Carlson (pictured here), on receiving the award for Publication of the Year from ACES for Consultation: Creating School Based Interventions, 3rd Edition.

read more about the conference (plus photos!)

Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption

by Micky Duxbury

Adopted persons face challenges their entire lives as they struggle to answer the most basic question: Who am I?

The hope of open adoption is that adopted children will develop stronger identities if they have the opportunity to develop healthy ongoing relationships with their families of origin.

Making Room in Our Hearts offers an intimate look at how these relationships evolve over time, with real-life stories from families who have experienced open adoption first-hand. This book helps both adoptive and birth parents address their fears and concerns, while offering them the support to put the child's psychological and spiritual needs at the center of adoption.

Based on interviews with more than one hundred adopted children, birth and adoptive parents, extended families, professionals and experts, the book is an effective and invaluable resource for those considering open adoption, those experiencing it, and professionals in the field. Openness has altered the landscape of adoption, and Making Room in Our Hearts will help us catch up to the reality that is open adoption today.

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