Understand the influence of birth order Learn from the shape of a family Between each birth, the family undergoes a reshaping. The experiences of a first child or an only child are very different from those of a youngest child with three siblings. Each person's position within the family affects the way he or she will think and act as an adult. ......
A guide to quit smoking without pain or weight gain. It offers the author's self-help program to those who want to kick the habit of smoking. It contains the author's own story of addiction and success in quitting. It promotes understanding of nicotine addiction and offers a solution to breaking the habit through reduction.
Collects checklists and forms for tracking essential information and advice on home safety, financial planning, assisted living, living wills, and eldercare organizations.
Chemical sensitivity describes people with numerous troubling symptoms attributed to environmental factors, from simple house paint to complex building structures and materials in offices and schools. This book examines this phenomenon and the scientific, legal, ethical, and political issues that surround it.
Keeping Your Faculties while You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve
How do the necessities of caring for others deter, benefit, or redefine research and teaching in higher education? What have universities done to recognize the difficulties facing academic parents, single mothers and fathers, graduate students, lesbian and gay couples? What pro-family policies can be enacted during institutional budget crises? At ......
Modern medicine is one of the most successful branches of science, with a distinguished history of conquering many of the twentieth century's deadliest diseases. Yet today people are turning in record numbers to alternative therapies that have little or no scientific basis. What accounts for this flight from reason in the face of hard evidence ......
Offers hope for the millions who suffer from chronic pain. This book describes how people are living busy, normal lives - despite the pain. It offers suggestions for immediate treatment, provides reasons why exercise and movement can end chronic pain, and shows how sufferers can ease stress and begin to manage their pain.
Providing instructions addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual components of caregiving, this book focuses on advocacy and medical self-care. It offers comprehensive guidelines that help families supplement care. It also highlights the role that family plays in enriching the lives of nursing home residents.
