Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Health & Sexuality

Although many schools and educational systems, from elementary to tertiary level, state that they endorse anti-homophobic policies, pedagogies and programs, there appears to be an absence of education about, and affirmation of, bisexuality and minimal specific attention paid to bi-phobia. Bisexuality appears to be falling into the gap between the binary of heterosexuality and homosexuality that informs anti-homophobic policies, programs, and practices in schools initiatives such as health education, sexuality education, and student welfare. These erasures and exclusions leave bisexual...

In North America obesity continues to be a problem, one that extends throughout life as children move into adolescence and adulthood and choose progressively less physical activity and less healthy diets. This public health issue needs to be addressed early in childhood, when kids are adopting the behaviors that they will carry through life. Eat Well & Keep Moving, Third Edition, will help children learn physically active and nutritionally healthy lifestyles that significantly reduce the risk of obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and other diseases.

In this book has been written for women wanting to learn exercises that create superior internal strength. It is for women desiring true embodiment and a holistic internal exercise program that leads to exceptional control, even mastery, over their pelvic floor muscles (the love muscles).

These practices are for creating superior sexual fitness, satisfaction and increased libido in women. These exercises ensure a life of continence. They greatly asist the prevention and cure of incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and unsatifsying sex.

In this book, you will find numerous...

For decades, public discourse on the Australian health system has been reduced to focusing on limited issues such as e-health or budget cuts while failing to capture the greatest challenge facing our national healthcare system. That is, inefficient access to crucial information that empowers patients and their carers to make more effective health decisions and maximise patient outcomes, leading to the dilemma and tragedy of 'the Medicare Nightmare.' This nightmare is not just a personal nightmare but a national one as well, considering poor medical information flow in our healthcare system...

How can we teach prevention, healing skills, and self-advocacy to the next generation--including those who have suffered the deep wounds of trauma and abuse?

How can we guide young people toward becoming independent, self-confident adults?

How do we foster healing in adults who have experienced traumatic abuse and support them in breaking the cycle?

SafeArt, Inc., a non-profit healing arts organization, has been working to address these questions since 2000. Their proactive approach to healing celebrates the power of creative expression and focuses on prevention,...

This is the first research-based text intended to help teachers and practitioners implement mindfulness and yoga programs in schools. A complete review of the literature on mindfulness and yoga interventions is provided along with detailed steps on how to implement such programs. Training requirements, classroom set-up, trauma-sensitive practices, and existing quality programs are reviewed. Twelve core principles of mindfulness and yoga in schools are woven throughout for the utmost in continuity. As a whole, the book provides tools for enhancing classroom and school practices as well as...

This book is about a vital aspect of healthcare; that is, how people collaborate. At the heart of this book is the RESPECT Model of Collaboration in healthcare produced during a doctoral research project. Following this research a number of practitioners have explored this model in their practice and they were invited to write up their experiences and insights in a number of chapters in this book.

The intended audience for this book includes healthcare practitioners, educators, managers and others with an interest in how people in healthcare collaborate. Readers will be invited...

This book is about a vital aspect of healthcare; that is, how people collaborate. At the heart of this book is the RESPECT Model of Collaboration in healthcare produced during a doctoral research project. Following this research a number of practitioners have explored this model in their practice and they were invited to write up their experiences and insights in a number of chapters in this book.

The intended audience for this book includes healthcare practitioners, educators, managers and others with an interest in how people in healthcare collaborate. Readers will be invited...