Emphasizes the conceptualization and use of measurement concepts and principles in relationship to decisions routinely made in various phases of direct practice - assessment, planning interventions, implementing intervention, and termination and follow-up.

When we bask in the sun, tanning on the shore, we dream and think of our fondest desires away from the beach. Love and Hope by the Sea is a collection of original poems inspired by the moods of people who dream and walk by the sea. The poems are about sadness and joy, ranging from frivolous observations to the mystery of religion in our lives. Above all, they are about hope and the promise of love, yearnings by the sea.

My Cane and I: A Memoir of a Disability, by Tony Tripodi, a retired university professor, is a personal journey of one man's struggle in using a cane to ward off arthritis. He shares his fears and anxieties about old age and the perceptions that we have about cane users. Poignant, hilarious, tragi-comical, and amusing anecdotes are presented to depict human foibles in the cane world: the window washer who wishes to retire but can't stand his wife; the lady who had hip surgery, limps, and is proud she doesn't need to use a cane; an unexpected adventure with an acupuncturist; three men who call...

My Cane and I: A Memoir of a Disability, by Tony Tripodi, a retired university professor, is a personal journey of one man's struggle in using a cane to ward off arthritis. He shares his fears and anxieties about old age and the perceptions that we have about cane users. Poignant, hilarious, tragi-comical, and amusing anecdotes are presented to depict human foibles in the cane world: the window washer who wishes to retire but can't stand his wife; the lady who had hip surgery, limps, and is proud she doesn't need to use a cane; an unexpected adventure with an acupuncturist; three men who call...

This book is a chronologue of personal and historic events that have occurred in the lifetime of Dr. Tony Tripodi, a former dean and professor emeritus of Ohio State University. His thoughts and feelings are expressed in 50 vignettes that span 78 years from Birth, The Great Depression, and WWII to the assassination of J.F.K. and Reverend Martin Luther King's speech, "I Have a Dream" to the Holocaust, the rescue of coal miners in Chile, Funerals, and the love of Italy, the home of his ancestors. Dr. Tripodi provides poignant reflections and insights in a format by which each of us can write...

This is a book of poems about celebration and reflections of significant events during the years of 2012 and 2013. It covers a range of emotions from the joys of celebrations to feelings of tragedy and despair as explicated in mass murder and horror. Scenes of love and adoration are depicted in poems about Thanksgiving, Father's Day, Mother's Day, and patriotic holidays. The author reflects on his life as it is affected by days of celebration such as Independence Day, Easter and Christmas.

This is a book of poems that is based on the premise that products of art such as musical composition, painting, sculpture, and architecture can serve as stimuli for the development of original poems. These products of art evoke a range of emotions from love, anger, and hate to anxiety, fear, and melancholy; and they can be expressed in original poems. Forty-four works of art were identified; for example, Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, Picasso's Guernica, Michelangelo's David, and the Great Pyramid of Giza. For each of the works of art an original poem emphasizing feelings and emotions...