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Rebuilding Communities: Challenges for Group Work
ISBN: 9780789007223 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 18th Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work With Groups (held in Ann Arbor in October 1996) come three keynotes, two invitationals, four papers, and five workshops summaries focusing on the use of group work for the improvement of community multicultural relations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
From the 18th Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work With Groups (held in Ann Arbor in October 1996) come three keynot...
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Hiv/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean
ISBN: 9780789014412 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. HIV/AIDS experts from the Caribbean region examine the biopsychosocial, environmental, spiritual, and policy issues that impact HIV/AIDS prevention and service delivery for children and adolescents in Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, and The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. They give special att
HIV/AIDS experts from the Caribbean region examine the biopsychosocial, environmental, spiritual, and policy issues that impact HIV/AIDS prevention an...
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Women's Experiences with Hiv/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves
ISBN: 9780789017574 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a woman with the added burden of HIV/AIDS.Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected with HIV. Their stories...
Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, t...
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Women's Experiences with Hiv/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves
ISBN: 9780789017581 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a woman with the added burden of HIV/AIDS.Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing...
Meet the women behind the statistics Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest...
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161,57 |
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Practice Issues in Hiv/AIDS Services: Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications
ISBN: 9780789023018 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Improve quality of life for patients with HIV/AIDS
Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services: Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications provides a sound framework of intervention practices for case managers and care coordinators to help HIV/AIDS patients live longer and healthier lives. This book focuses on client-based care that addresses the social and psychological needs of the patient as well as his or her physical and medical requirements. Filled with concrete information and recommendations from practitioners and researchers, this instructive text will help increase the... Improve quality of life for patients with HIV/AIDS
Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services: Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications provi... |
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195,86 |
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Social Work Visions from Around the Globe: Citizens, Methods, and Approaches
ISBN: 9780789023667 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increase the effectiveness of the services you provide to clients
Social Work Visions from Around the Globe examines the fundamental principles and dilemmas of social work with people whose health is under threat. This valuable resource was compiled from material presented at the Third International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health in Tampere, Finland. The book explores key issues in social work in health and mental health, from the early historical roots of social work in health to developing a human rights perspective on the lives of men who face capital... Increase the effectiveness of the services you provide to clients
Social Work Visions from Around the Globe examines the fundamental princi... |
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881,59 |
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Behind the Eight Ball : Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women
ISBN: 9780789024565 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women documents an American tragedy that highlights the widening gap between social and economic classes. In their own words, poor black women--nameless, faceless, and marginalized by poverty--share the details of their lives before and after crack cocaine invaded their communities, each recalling the circumstances of her introduction to the drug and her first experience using sex to support her addiction. These candid interviews expose the socioeconomic changes in inner-city neighborhoods that created the perfect conditions...
Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women documents an American tragedy that highlights the widening gap between soci...
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Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women
ISBN: 9780789024572 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inner-city black women open their hearts to share the pain of crack addiction and its consequences
Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women documents an American tragedy that highlights the widening gap between social and economic classes. In their own words, poor black women--nameless, faceless, and marginalized by poverty--share the details of their lives before and after crack cocaine invaded their communities, each recalling the circumstances of her introduction to the drug and her first experience using sex to support her addiction. These... Inner-city black women open their hearts to share the pain of crack addiction and its consequences
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The Geometry of Care: Linking Resources, Research, and Community to Reduce Degrees of Separation Between HIV Treatment and Prevention
ISBN: 9780789032126 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Connect multiple resources to form effective strategies to deal with AIDS
An effective strategy to deal with the AIDS epidemic is to have a wide range of scientists, clinicians, front-line workers, and clients distribute theory, care, and resource knowledge geometrically through all levels. The Geometry of Care: Linking Resources, Research, and Community to Reduce Degrees of Separation Between HIV Treatment and Prevention shows how to link bottom-up and top-down approaches to advance care, services, resources, training, theory, and policy analysis. Leading authorities draw upon... Connect multiple resources to form effective strategies to deal with AIDS
An effective strategy to deal with the AIDS epidemic is to have a... |
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239,94 |
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Outreach and Care Approaches to Hiv/AIDS Along the Us-Mexico Border
ISBN: 9780789034670 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Get the latest on culturally sensitive health care practices
The United States-Mexico border region extends over 2,000 miles, and those residing there struggle to come to grips with several health and poverty challenges. Outreach and Care Approaches to HIV/AIDS Along the US-Mexico Border discusses the various complex factors influencing the control of HIV/AIDS along the US-Mexico Border. The book presents in-depth insights into the problems of language differences, lack of resources, poverty, culture, social stigma, fear of rejection from their communities, and other pressing... Get the latest on culturally sensitive health care practices
The United States-Mexico border region extends over 2,000 miles, and those re... |
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Social Work, Health, and International Development: Compassion in Social Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780789035127 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sharpen your social work in health care knowledge and skills
Social Work, Health, and International Development: Compassion in Social Policy and Practice presents leading international experts from a range of disciplines providing the latest in research, theory, and practical solutions to advance social work in health care issues. Readers get a refreshed view on ways to put social policy into a compassionate and empathetic framework with strategies to more effectively meet today's challenges in social work and health care. This superb selection of papers from the Fourth International... Sharpen your social work in health care knowledge and skills
Social Work, Health, and International Development: Compassion in Social Policy and P... |
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AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic
ISBN: 9780791461686 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since public discourse about AIDS began in 1981, it has characterized AIDS as an apocalyptic plague: a punishment for sin and a sign of the end of the world. Christian fundamentalists had already configured the gay male population most visibly affected by AIDS as apocalyptic signifiers or signs of the "end times." Their discourse grew out of a centuries-old American apocalypticism that included images of crisis, destruction, and ultimate renewal. In this book, Thomas L. Long examines the ways in which gay and AIDS activists, artists, writers, scientists, and journalists appropriated this...
Since public discourse about AIDS began in 1981, it has characterized AIDS as an apocalyptic plague: a punishment for sin and a sign of the end of the...
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Herpesviruses, the Immune System, and AIDS
ISBN: 9780792308034 / Angielski / Twarda / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortly after the reeognition of the aequired immunodefieieney syndrome (AIDS) in 1981 (1-3), it was hypothesized that herpesviruses may play an important role in the etiology or pathogenesis of this newly identified syndrome (4,5). This theory was based on the faet that infeetion with herpesviruses was a prominent elinieal feature in nearly all patients with AIDS (3-5). Chronie mueocutaneous herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections were one of the first opportunistie infeetions deseribed in patients with AIDS (3), and both cytomegalovirus (CMV) and HSV infections were extremely common in...
Shortly after the reeognition of the aequired immunodefieieney syndrome (AIDS) in 1981 (1-3), it was hypothesized that herpesviruses may play an impor...
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Gene Therapy for Acute and Acquired Diseases
ISBN: 9780792372684 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years much enthusiasm and energy has been directed toward the development of human gene therapies, especially for inherited conditions and cancers. However, current gene transfer technology is limited in its transduction efficiency and ability to permanently and safely correct genomic defects. Thus the promise of gene therapy for these conditions is as yet unrealized. The progression of gene transfer technology will eventually surmount these limitations.
Gene Therapy for Acute and Acquired Diseases includes selected examples of ongoing studies in molecular genetics... In recent years much enthusiasm and energy has been directed toward the development of human gene therapies, especially for inherited conditions and c...
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A Neighborhood Divided
ISBN: 9780801485794 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighborhood, residents might be expected to respond, "Not in my backyard." But, as Jane Balin recounts in A Neighborhood Divided, when that community is known for its racial and ethnic...
When a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighborhood, residents might be expected to respond, "Not in my backyard." But, as Ja...
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Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS
ISBN: 9780801881916 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have in many ways given way to an onslaught of confession. Yet for those who are HIV positive, decisions about disclosure of their diagnosis force them to confront intimate, fundamental, and rarely discussed questions about truth, lies, sex, and trust. Drawing from interviews with over seventy gay men and women, intravenous drug users, sex workers, bisexual men, and heterosexual men and women, the authors provide a detailed portrait of moral,... In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have ... |
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Safer Sex in Personal Relationships: The Role of Sexual Scripts in HIV Infection and Prevention
ISBN: 9780805844467 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on safe sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship types that are experiencing a rise in HIV infection and AIDS. Moving beyond studies of gay adult males and IV drug-users, this work paints a clear picture of the very real risk that exists for these less-studied, more general populations, so individuals may better personalize the risk and engage in more preventative measures Authors Tara Emmers-Sommer and Mike Allen examine issues surrounding safer sex, utilizing research that focuses on how...
This book focuses on safe sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship t...
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710,17 |
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Prediction and Change of Health Behavior: Applying the Reasoned Action Approach
ISBN: 9780805862829 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Prediction and Change of Health Behavior" honors the work of Martin Fishbein by illustrating the breadth and depth of the reasoned action approach. Focused on attitudes and their effects on health-related behavior, the book demonstrates the profound impact of Fishbein and Ajzen’ s theories of reasoned action on attitude research and on the solution of social problems.
Part I is devoted to theoretical and conceptual issues aspects of the reasoned action approach. Leading figures in the field address such issues as measurement compatibility, the interaction of belief... "Prediction and Change of Health Behavior" honors the work of Martin Fishbein by illustrating the breadth and depth of the reasoned action approach. F...
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Fighting for Our Lives: New York's AIDS Community and the Politics of Disease
ISBN: 9780813538679 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, New York City was struck like no other. By the early nineties, it was struggling with more known cases than the next forty most infected cities, including San Francisco, combined. Fighting for Our Lives is the first comprehensive social history of New York's AIDS community-a diverse array of people that included not only gay men, but also African Americans, Haitians, Latinos, intravenous drug users, substance abuse professionals, elite supporters, and researchers. Looking back over twenty-five years, Susan Chambre focuses on the ways... In the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, New York City was struck like no other. By the early nineties, it was struggling with more known cases th... |
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To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme
ISBN: 9780814750834 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -A sensitive, intelligent book.- How is AIDS treated in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William Hoffman? How important is the Black Death to a reader of Boccaccio's Decameron? How have the historical and current outbreaks of contagious disease affected the creation of literature, and how has this literature in turn shaped our response to disease? Original and moving, To Blight with Plague addresses these and other central questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious,... -A sensitive, intelligent book.- How is AIDS treated in the contempor... |
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