Getting Back to Basic Values: More Plans for Helping

Getting Back to Basic Values: A Series of Fundamentals and Plans for Helping contains plans and ideas to use in personal growth and development, teaching and counseling, and helping yourself and others. It is an update of some material published in the early 1970's with newly developed and different materials from and about today. These plans can be applied over and over to personal growth and family decision-making and can be used in therapeutic work with groups and individuals. Teachers will also find these applicable to classroom work and discussions or lessons with students. This series will contain several plan book volumes and a foundations volume containing basic fundamentals and concepts supporting this theoretical work.

Sidney B. Simon, Ed. D. is internationally known for his pioneering work in Values Clarification, now retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mass. He has authored over 100 articles and more than a dozen books on values, self-esteem and personal growth and development and conducted many seminars and week-long workshops from Massachusetts to California. His work helped develop a set of practical strategies that have impacted counseling practice, education, social work, medical care and personal growth and development. Steve J. Leatherwood, MA, LPC, NCC, began working as a psychologist at Western Carolina Center in 1970 following graduation from Western Carolina University with a BA in Psychology/Social Science. After obtaining a master's in Psychology from Appalachian State University and continuing post-graduate education in Greensboro, NC at UNC-G, Leatherwood worked consistently in the field of mental health counseling and psychotherapy. In the 1970's, he became Director of Psychological Services at Cleveland County Mental Health Center and was an adjunct professor of Psychology at Gardner-Webb University for thirty years. In 1975, Leatherwood met Dr. Simon and began conducting youth and adult seminars and workshops with Dr. Simon. In addition, Leatherwood has maintained a private practice in counseling and employee assistance programs since 1975. His focus for much of his career has been in working with children and adolescents, family and marriage counseling, staff/personal growth and development workshops, and anger/anxiety management.