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This volume disseminates knowledge about the most advanced practices and techniques in the rehabilitation of neuropsychological deficits, covering both specific neuropsychological domains and approaches in neurorehabilitation. It adheres to the philosophy that it is not enough to identify a deficit or diagnose a disease unless doing so helps to ......
Moving well beyond the standard review of ethical issues and basic ethical problem solving, this highly engaging text for counseling professionals offers activity-based learning that is grounded in critical, philosophical thinking and clinical integrity. The text is unique in its provision of innovative, experiential activities and case studies ......
Provides a comprehensive review for practitioners on the current status of melanoma treatment. Due to recent drug approvals and increasing ability to offer combined agents, there are many more treatment options available to melanoma patients than even a few years ago. There is also coverage of the most recent data pertaining to surgical ......
How to Deal with Modern Problems Facing Your Tweens and Teens
The author has done years of market research with children and adolescents and created TV programs, websites and other media for teens and tweens; worked with children in classrooms and institutions and created and evaluated government and nonprofit programs for children and adolescents.
The Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System, a national nursing standard, is a respected resource for documenting patient and nursing care plans for the electronic health record (EHR). It provides a set of standardised, coded patient care terminologies for EHR input in nursing diagnoses and outcomes, as well as in nursing interventions in both ......
Public health social work is an interdisciplinary, epidemiologically oriented approach to improving human health and well-being. About one quarter of all social workers in the United States currently work in medical or public health settings, a number that is expected to increase significantly in coming years. This handbook, written and edited by ......
This volume demonstrates how hospice care leads to improved quality of life for patients with terminal dementia and their families. Much of the information is based on the successful 10-year experience of the E.N. Rogers Memorial Hospital, where the first palliative care program for the management of patients with advanced dementia was developed. ......
Discusses advances in radiation therapy in treatment of Hodgkins lymphoma, B-cell nodal and extranodal lymphomas, follicular lymphoma and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma; mantle cell lymphoma, and leukemia. This title gives the radiation oncology professional an overview of emerging modalities for radiation treatment of hematologic malignancies.
In concise, reader-friendly chapters, this addresses various historical views of personality and compares and contrasts the Five factor Model with competing models of personality. It discusses techniques of assessing and measuring personality and examines the role of personality in life outcomes ranging from choice of career to health to ......
