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Significant demographic changes are transforming the structure of American population to include a much larger proportion of older people. This work examines the implications of these changes and the ways in which they affect age distribution, immigration, increasing longevity, and family change.
Talks about Borderline personality disorder, a term within the field of clinical psychology which came to possess specific stereotypes and negative meanings. This book applies a variety of modalities to identify treatment goals, including: selecting assessment tools, conceptualizing progression, pinpointing pitfalls, and developing techniques.
Portrays the personal experience of breast cancer through the stories of three women and their partners. The combination of emotional and factual information on the disease, treatment options, and health promotion strategies makes this book useful reading for health professionals and patients. It includes study questions and a knowledge review.
This promotes the transformative teaching of caring science. It intertwines visionary thinking with blueprints, living exemplars, and dynamic directions for the application of fundamental principles; and features emancipatory teaching/learning scholarship, and student/teacher, relation/evaluation models for adoption into education and practice ......
By understanding the processes that underlie language ability, we can help develop more effective ways to teach people to read and make the books they read easier to understand. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic issues in psycholinguistic research, including its history and the methodologies typically employed in research.
Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) is a goal-directed therapy that utilizes questions and scales to help clients determine their goals, and then reveal the behaviors needed for them to achieve or maintain further progress. This book presents an introduction to SFT, with explanations of the origins, tenets, and common techniques associated with SFT.
Contains more than sixty activities to help practitioners educate teens about pregnancy and STD/HIV/AIDS prevention. This book is divided into six sections based on activity type: Role plays; Group discussions; Homework assignments; Group activities; Teacher-led discussions; and, Other modalities.
Perspectives and Treatment Guide for the Health Care Practitioner
Pregnancy related mood disorders have become the focus of healthcare advocates and legislators alike with subsequent reflection in nationwide media. This book is suitable for healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, and medical, nursing, psychology, and social work students who confront this problem in their practices.
Celebrates the remarkable stories of nurse educators from around the globe. It gathers together an extensive and compelling body of stories from more than 70 nurse educators, detailing their professional and personal experiences, their goals, challenges, and tremendous breakthroughs in the field.
