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Provides a comprehensive source for understanding and intervening with children of incarcerated parents. This text focuses on the daunting clinical implications inherent in trauma throughout development, as well as social and political roles in ameliorating intergenerational delinquency.
A self-help title for Parkinson's disease sufferers and their families. Features up-to-date information on the causes, symptoms and treatment of the disease, with details of helpful organisations and advice on how to minimise the stresses caused by the illness.
Scholarly and wide-ranging, this new, extensively illustrated book provides a historical survey and social history of multiple sclerosis and is rich in sources and detail.
Identifies the factors that making working particularly difficult for women with autoimmune disease, and offers suggestions to address them. This book looks issues such as the complex nature of autoimmune disease; and the correlation between disease, diagnosis, and career development.
Applies the brain imaging techniques of neuroscience to the geriatric population. This book examines our understanding of the aging brain. It focuses on specific populations and clinical syndromes.
A summary of the applications of cognitive-behavioral approaches to common issues and problems confronted by practitioners in primary care medical settings. It elucidates the roles and functions of the cognitive behavioral clinician in primary care with an emphasis on addressing problems and issues that practitioners face daily with patients.
Life-Course Perspectives on Late Life Health Inequalities
It is recognized that an individual's experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences. This title presents an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the Life Span and the Life Course perspectives on health disparities in aging populations, examining them in the context of a changing structure of society.
The need for competency based education (CBE) has been recognized for years. The CBE provides a way to help assure that learners are competent at the end of educational endeavors. This book brings together the elements of CBE and provides a road map to develop, implement, and evaluate competency based approaches to education.
What You Need to Know About Health Care Professionals in the United States
Suitable for health care workers interested in immigrating to US, foreign educated health care professionals in US, and those interested in coming to the US to study, this book presents an overview of US health care delivery system. It offers information on how to secure employment, including tips on the application process and interviewing.
