Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Allied Health Services - General

Many first and second generation Asian immigrants experience acculturation challenges to varying extents. These challenges, such as language barriers, racial discrimination, underemployment, the loss of support networks and changes in family role and structure, may exacerbate a myriad of mental health issues. In addition, their help-seeking behaviour, as shaped by a general adherence to a collectivistic worldview and indirect communication style, often creates challenges for the practitioners who are trained under a Western practice modality.

Drawing on literature from English-speaking...

Military Sexual Trauma: Current Knowledge and Future Directions showcases the work of several prominent military sexual trauma (MST) researchers, scholars, and clinicians from across the United States. A review of existing research and original empirical findings converge to indicate that MST contributes to a range of physical health problems, complex posttraumatic responses, and other mental health consequences above and beyond the effects of other types of traumatic experiences. This collection also presents evidence suggesting that MST is often difficult to identify both within the...

A stimulating and thought-provoking analysis of the issues faced in the real world of midwifery and maternity care! Rosemary Mander discusses the context of contemporary childbearing and analyses a range of political in the broadest sense issues which need to be understood and addressed by those practising in a system of public maternity care, particularly the new midwife.

Designed to help professionals cope with the transition from education and the ideals which brought them into health care to the reality of the system within which they learn and practise, this text includes...

Social work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities frequently suffer greater forms and degrees of physical and mental illness. However, social justice work has all too often been conceptualized as a macro intervention, separate and distinct from clinical practice.

This practical text is designed to help social workers intervene around the impact of socio-political factors with their clients and integrate social justice into their clinical work. Based on past radical traditions, it introduces...

Social work theory and ethics places social justice at its core and recognises that many clients from oppressed and marginalized communities frequently suffer greater forms and degrees of physical and mental illness. However, social justice work has all too often been conceptualized as a macro intervention, separate and distinct from clinical practice.

This practical text is designed to help social workers intervene around the impact of socio-political factors with their clients and integrate social justice into their clinical work. Based on past radical traditions, it introduces...

Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of social science studies on men s health and biotechnologies including anti-aging perspectives.

This book discusses both healthy and diseased states of aging men in medical practices, bringing together theoretical...

Master the basics of surgical technology in a flash
Quiz yourself in any setting with these handy flash cards. 219 cards illustrate the instruments and staplers most commonly used for general, laparoscopic, robotics, and OB/GYN surgeries. Plus, 20 bonus cards cover even more specialties.

This book is written to bring to light the many wrongs that are going on in the health care insurance system in the U.S.

The U.S. health care insurance system is the most expensive health care system in the world and the most inefficient health care system of all the health care systems of other industrial countries in the world. The U.S. health care system is controlled by the HMOs. The HMOs run the health care system for financial gains as their only motives.

The CEOs of the HMOs device all sort of business models that en-able them and their share holders to pocket the lion share...

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"Inventario II: Palabras y Enunciados, " sold in packages of 25 for easy re-ordering, is one of the two standardized, parent-completed report forms that make up the the Spanish adaptation of the "MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs), " which was designed by top language researchers to assess language and communication skills in young children ages 8 30 months.

With the "Inventarios, " professionals can tap into parents' invaluable day-to-day knowledge about their children's language and communication skills and respond...