If you re in the market for a detailed, pragmatic knowledge base for dealing with discipline, relationships with regulatory and funding agencies, and staff training, you ll find all you need and more in Treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements. This unique and insightful volume gives you the information you need to successfully manage quality assessment and improvement in out-of-home placements, especially in a managed care environment.

Treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements reviews for you the field of residential treatment of adolescents in the child welfare system. With...

If you re in the market for a detailed, pragmatic knowledge base for dealing with discipline, relationships with regulatory and funding agencies, and staff training, you ll find all you need and more in Treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements. This unique and insightful volume gives you the information you need to successfully manage quality assessment and improvement in out-of-home placements, especially in a managed care environment.

Treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements reviews for you the field of residential treatment of adolescents in the child welfare system. With...

Look at how hypnosis can help people change behaviors and why meditation has become a popular way of reducing stress.

Gain a better understanding of how and why the brain causes us to sleep and to dream, how sleep patterns work, and how dreams fit into the sleep process.

This intriguing book explores love in all its forms and from manyy perspectives. The biological underpinnings of feelings are explored, including the interaction of brain, nervous system, hormones, and body chemistry. Love is considered as an evolutionary phenomenon with origins in animal behavior. According to Shakespeare, "The course of true love never did run smooth," and the Brain and Love indeed looks at love as a give-and-take process involving costs and benefits. The author describes attempts to classify, categorize, and measures the various components of love (as distinguished from...

A psychological thriller (novel) in four parts consisting of over 1,000 words. Clinical psycholgist Morrie Schwartz has four separate adventures: Shrink-therapy with a psychopathic killer; Soul Search-spiritual encouters with seminal philsophers and psychologists; Finding Jackson-therapy with a man claiming to be Stomewall Jackson reincarnated; and Nobody--Morrie must solve his identity theft.

A Clinical Psychologist explores the mind-body problem. His out-of-body experiences include time travel to the past. He encounbters Maimonides, Spinoza, Einstein, and Freud. He addresses issues of soul, afterlife, and mysticism. The thin line between fantasy and reality become apparent and his mental appears questionable.

A Clinical Psychologist goes beyond his scientific training to explore paranormal phenomena. He travels back in time and encounters long-gone philosophers to explore the existence of soul and the possibility of life after death. His own mental health is challenged.