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A Positive Psychology Approach to Clinical Training
One out of every ten children in the U.S. is affected by a pervasive developmental disorder (PPD). This comprehensive volume examines in depth the neuropsychological foundations of these disorders, providing up-to-date, detailed information on the full range of diagnostic, assessment, and treatment tools available to help children suffering from ......
Encompasses three major areas of work with elderly clients: Living in nursing homes; Living in assisted living housing; and Living independently and being seen in private practice. With illustrative examples, this book covers: treatment of stress and mental disorders; Alzheimer's disease; caregiving issues at home; and medicare coverage issue.
Provides a step-by-step guide to implementing external beam treatment plans that meet clinical requirements for each major disease site. The book focuses on the technical aspects of treatment planning and the major challenges in creating highly conformal dose distributions, referenced to as treatment plans, for external beam radiotherapy.
A practical guide to the theory of strategic planning and the principles of strategic management that apply to all organisational settings. This text provides a solid theoretical framework, supplemented with examples and a common case, which is reinforced by hands-on practical student exercises and chapter-specific worksheets.
A comprehensive guide for the practicing physician and medical physicist in the management of intracranial and extracranial disease. It is a state-of-the-science book presenting the scientific principles, clinical background and procedures, treatment planning, and treatment delivery of SRS and SBRT for the treatment of tumours throughout the body.
This essential guide provides a clear, accessible review of the use of statistics in pathology studies. Spanning topics such as exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics as well as the use of comparative statistics, concordance analysis, categorical and continuous data regression analyses, count data, survival analyses, decision point ......
This comprehensive, graduate-level text for advanced practice nurses and other health care professionals provides state-of-the-art tools that facilitate the reading and interpretation of articles in clinical journals that use increasingly complex statistical techniques. It goes beyond the usual offerings of such texts to address clinically ......
This is a nuts and bolts guide to statistics that presents complex calculations and concepts in clear, easy to understand language. It includes numerous examples grounded in social work practice, data sets, and issues that students will encounter in social work practice.
The only biostatistics resource written specifically for MSN and DNP nursing students, this text provides a unique graphic representation of data to help students understand difficult analytic information. Modelled on an effective and proven method of learning-graphical illustrations first, technical details second-the text helps students ......
