Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming for Older Adults
ISBN: 9781932529029 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Actively engage older adults and help preserve their cognitive functioning using this innovative, integrative approach to therapeutic art and recreation. Use Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming (TTAP(TM)) to create an enriching environment that effectively meets older adults' cognitive, emotional, physical, and social needs. In a clearly outlined nine-step process, Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming involves exploring a broad theme through a range of artistic expressions, including music, dance, poetry, sculpture, and photography. Stimulating all areas of brain functioning, the TTAP...
Actively engage older adults and help preserve their cognitive functioning using this innovative, integrative approach to therapeutic art and recreati...
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255,77 zł |
Learning Disabilities: Contemporary Viewpoints
ISBN: 9783718606238 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the field of learning disabilities and the education of learning disabled (LD) children through the eyes of several experts. Contributors bring to the book such diverse academic backgrounds as education, psychology, special education and medicine. The chapters, adapted from lectures given at the Landmark West School in California, include audience questions and responses. Chapters on new medications for the LD child, contemporary research on dyslexia and educational strategies for improving reading are complemented bychapters on social and emotional issues that affect the...
This volume examines the field of learning disabilities and the education of learning disabled (LD) children through the eyes of several experts. Cont...
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288,78 zł |
Acupuncture : Efficacy, Safety and Practice
ISBN: 9789058231642 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the scientific basis and efficacy of acupuncture and the quality of training and standards of competence in its practitioners. Patients are increasingly asking about CAM alternatives to orthodox medical practices as they fear the side-effects of ever more potent traditional drug therapy. The book discusses the important issues of safety and the education and training of acupuncture specialists. In addition the book investigates GP's attitudes to acupunture and the extent to which they offer the treatment to their patients.
This book investigates the scientific basis and efficacy of acupuncture and the quality of training and standards of competence in its practitioner... |
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217,84 zł |
Slee's Health Care Terms
ISBN: 9780763746155 / Angielski / Miękka / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With Over 8,000 Nonmedical Words, Phrases, And Acronyms Related To The Health-Care Industry, Slee's Health Care Terms Is The Leading Healthcare Dictionary Available Today. Now In Its Fifth Edition, It Covers Finance & Reimbursement, Managed Care, Government Regulation, Health Professionals, Legal Issues, Governance, And More. Written Expressly For Trustees, And Others Who Need Quick, Precise Information, Slee's Tells You What A Term Means And Why You Need To Know It In Today's Healthcare Environment. It Is An Essential Reference For Anyone Who Deals With The Health Care Industry.
With Over 8,000 Nonmedical Words, Phrases, And Acronyms Related To The Health-Care Industry, Slee's Health Care Terms Is The Leading Healthcare Dictio...
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571,16 zł |
Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery: Towards a Critical Social Science
ISBN: 9780415368469 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the historical, social, political and cultural facets of integration between complementary and alternative medicine and nursing/midwifery. It examines the ever-expanding integration in relation to:
This book explores the historical, social, political and cultural facets of integration between complementary and alternative medicine and nursing/... |
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481,34 zł |
Evidence-Based Social Work: A Critical Stance
ISBN: 9780415468220 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evidence-based practice is now a core element of many governments' approaches to policy-making and social intervention. It has become a powerful movement that promises to change the content and structure of social work and its allied professions. Its emergence has generated much debate and raised challenging questions, however, particularly at the interface of research, policy, and practice. This book provides a critical analysis of evidence-based practice in social work. It introduces readers to the fast changing research, policy, legislative, and practice context. It discusses... Evidence-based practice is now a core element of many governments' approaches to policy-making and social intervention. It has become a powerful mo... |
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658,75 zł |
Management of Communication Needs
ISBN: 9781861562081 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical text, focused mainly upon children with learning disability, follows a need to know order starting with an exploration of a range of topics including theoretical and practical issues related to the appraisal and assessment of communication needs, management and intervention issues and work on pre-symbolic and pre-linguistic development. For those requiring help with more specialized subjects, following chapters deal with a variety of subjects such as the use of augmentative and alternative communication and low and high tech approaches. The last two chapters address topics...
This practical text, focused mainly upon children with learning disability, follows a need to know order starting with an exploration of a range of to...
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341,11 zł |
The Needs of Children: A Personal Perspective
ISBN: 9780415083928 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'A compelling book' - Observer '...an exceptionally clear and comprehensive synthesis of current research findings made readily comprehensible to both parents and teachers' - Dr M Levy in the Foreword to the French edition Mia Kellmer Pringle was commissioned by the Department of Social Security: To prepare a comprehensive document about the development needs of all children, about the ways in which these needs are normally met, and about the consequences for emotional, intellectual, social and physical growth and development of children when, for some reason or another, these needs are not...
'A compelling book' - Observer '...an exceptionally clear and comprehensive synthesis of current research findings made readily comprehensible to both...
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Symptom Fluctuation in Fibromyalgia: Environmental, Psychological and Psychobiological Influences
ISBN: 9783110313734 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fibromyalgia is a syndrome of wide spread pain that is known from all parts of the world. An aspect of the syndrome of fibromyalgia is fluctuation as in onset of pain, variation in the level of symptoms, time off from pain and recovery from pain and other symptoms. The analysis of these fluctuations might create a basis for solid suggestions regarding the nature of the syn-drome itself. E.g. the pain level is well known to vary with mental and physical load including exposure to cold. Simultaneously, fibromyalgia has been found to mean an altered balance in the autonomic nervous system. In... Fibromyalgia is a syndrome of wide spread pain that is known from all parts of the world. An aspect of the syndrome of fibromyalgia is fluctuation ... |
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Autism and Ict: A Guide for Teachers and Parents
ISBN: 9781853468247 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a practical approach for staff and carers who want to develop the use of ICT for children on the autistic spectrum and for those with language and communication difficulties. It combines descriptions of current research and literature on the subject of autism and ICT with practical guidance on software and hardware. A practical approach encourages experimentation, values the skills and attributes that participants bring and minimizes the technical barrier to ICT use. It includes concise information on what autism is, and examples of a range of pupils and... This book offers a practical approach for staff and carers who want to develop the use of ICT for children on the autistic spectrum and for those w... |
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182,37 zł |
Sexuality, Health and Human Rights
ISBN: 9780415351188 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing quickly, as are traditional family structures and gender norms. What were once viewed as private matters have become public, and an array of new social movements transgender, intersex, sex worker, people living with HIV have come into the open. The book is split into three sections:
This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains i... |
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197,58 zł |
Eq-5d Value Sets: Inventory, Comparative Review and User Guide
ISBN: 9781402055102 / Angielski / Twarda / 91 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rosalind Rabin, Frank de Charro, Agota Szende 1.1 Purpose of this booklet Governments and healthcare funders worldwide are making increasing use of economic evaluation to inform priority setting in health care. For various reasons, cost benefit analysis is usually rejected in favour of cost-effectiveness or cost-utility analyses, often involving the estimation of the incremental cost per Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) gained (Drummond et al, 2005). The estimation of QALYs gained requires valuations for all relevant health states on a scale anchored at 1 = Full health and 0 = Dead. The...
Rosalind Rabin, Frank de Charro, Agota Szende 1.1 Purpose of this booklet Governments and healthcare funders worldwide are making increasing use of ec...
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389,98 zł |
Transformatnl Theory Aesthetcs
ISBN: 9780415041966 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How we perceive and respond to visual art has been a central concern of psychologists, philosophers and art historians. Today, where the visual image increasingly permeates our everyday life and consciousness, the question becomes ever more relevant. How do we, for instance, instinctively know what it is that a picture represents without having to be taught? How is it that we often want to talk about the pictures we look at? Such questions are currently asked by a wide range of disciplines, including: semiotics, psychoanalysis, anthropology, neuropsychology, and in general, contemporary...
How we perceive and respond to visual art has been a central concern of psychologists, philosophers and art historians. Today, where the visual image ...
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430,67 zł |
Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision
ISBN: 9780415050005 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years the problem of homelessness has escalated into a critical social issue stimulating a wave of concern from the voluntary sector, pressure groups and policy makers. As shopfronts, underpasses and doorways are transformed into hotels for the needy, the shock of homelessness becomes ever more public. These homeless people are the most vulnerable sector of the population to illness and disease and, as they are not part of the system, they are the most isolated from the welfare services.
In recent years the problem of homelessness has escalated into a critical social issue stimulating a wave of concern from the voluntary sector, pressu...
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238,11 zł |
Scapegoats: Transferring Blame
ISBN: 9780415110198 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scapegoats are a universal phenomenon, appearing in all societies at all times in groups large and small, in public and private organizations. Hardly a week passes without some media reference to someone or something being made a scapegoat. Tom Douglas examines the process of scapegoating from the perspectives of victims and perpetrators, tracing its development from earliest times as rite of atonement to the modern forms of the avoidance of blame and the victimisation of innocents. The differences and similarities between the ancient and modern forms are examined to reveal that despite the...
Scapegoats are a universal phenomenon, appearing in all societies at all times in groups large and small, in public and private organizations. Hardly ...
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After Adoption: Direct Contact and Relationships
ISBN: 9780415282086 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact. Practice has outstripped evidence in this respect and not enough is known about how contact arrangements actually work out, particularly for older children adopted from state care. Such children have often experienced neglect, and sometimes abuse, and have frequently been adopted without parental agreement.
Based on research with a large number of adoptive parents, children and birth relatives,... Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to a...
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Psychology for Social Workers : Black Perspectives on Human Development and Behaviour
ISBN: 9780415369121 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing together research material and literature on black perspectives in human development and behaviour from North America and Britain, this book provides an introductory text which will help qualifying and practising social workers to:
Providing a starting point that will inspire discussion and debate the book covers topics including; black... Drawing together research material and literature on black perspectives in human development and behaviour from North America and Britain, this boo... |
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760,10 zł |
Women's Health and Social Change
ISBN: 9780415190862 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap between men and women appears to be closing in many affluent societies. Many men appear to be far more 'body and health conscious' than they ever were in the past and there are perceptible changes in women's 'health behaviours', such as increases in cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Ellen Annandale... Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 Traditional distinctions between the experiences of... |
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633,41 zł |
Women's Health and Social Change
ISBN: 9780415190879 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap between men and women appears to be closing in many affluent societies. Many men appear to be far more body and health conscious than they ever were in the past and there are perceptible changes in women s health behaviours, such as increases in cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Ellen Annandale... Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 Traditional distinctions between the experiences of... |
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202,64 zł |
Defeating Autism : A Damaging Delusion
ISBN: 9780415449809 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Autism: disease, disorder or difference? What causes autism - genes or environment? Can biomedical treatments cure autism, and are they safe? An increased public awareness of autism has resulted in a rising trend of diagnoses, creating the impression of an epidemic'. Many parents of children newly diagnosed with autism have been impressed by plausible theories blaming vaccines and other environmental causes. Many have also been captivated by claims that biomedical' treatments - including special diets and supplements, detoxification and medications - can achieve dramatic results. In Defeating...
Autism: disease, disorder or difference? What causes autism - genes or environment? Can biomedical treatments cure autism, and are they safe? An incre...
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658,75 zł |