Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Instant Recess
Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
This lively, inspiring, and informative book zeroes in on the state of American fitness—persistently sedentary, plagued by obesity—and issues a clarion call to action that reaches across economic, racial, and educational lines. Toni Yancey finds that despite our best intentions and repeated resolutions...
by Judith Glover, Gill Kirton
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2006
This book brings together the latest European and North American research on a series of key topics in the field of women's employment. Drawing on published and easily accessible statistics, it sets the topics in the appropriate policy contexts and systematically appraises them from the viewpoint...
Childbirth in the Global Village
Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?
Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience?
If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it?
These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights...
Cyberprotest
New Media, Citizens and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) by social movement activists has offered the prospect for the development of global cyberprotest. The Internet with its transnational many-to-many communication facility...
Researching Families and Communities
Social and Generational Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and particularly how they have been affected by social and economic developments. But how can we think about and research the nature of the present in relation...
Child Custody Litigation
Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Learn what to do when allegations of child sexual abuse become part of the child custody processChild Custody Litigation: Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse is an invaluable resource for forensic mental health professionals involved with conducting custody evaluations in family court proceedings. Each of the book‘s five chapters reviews an important
Safe Haven:
Skills to Calm and De-escalate Aggressive and Mentally Ill Individuals (for Professionals in Inpatient Settings)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance use disorders sometimes display any one of a number of frightening behaviors: verbal outbursts, physical threats and even violence. In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur walks professionals working in inpatient and residential settings through...
by Wendy Mantle
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
There are few people whose lives are unaffected by marriage breakdown. Yet how many are well informed about the divorce process and/or appreciate the wide powers the court has to redistribute property and income after divorce? Those who act without the benefit of specialist legal advice can risk impoverishing...
Surveillance as Social Sorting
Privacy, Risk and Automated Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once the word surveillance was reserved for police...
The Evaluator's Cookbook
Exercises for participatory evaluation with children and young people
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Participation is a vital element of working with children and young people – ensuring that services are meeting their needs as well as promoting citizenship, resilience and general well-being.
The Evaluator’s Cookbook contains 21 participatory evaluation exercises for use with children,...
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Preparing for Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Autism and Asperger Syndrome reviews what is known about adults with autism in terms of their social functioning, educational and occupational status. Focusing mainly on the problems experienced by high functioning people with autism - and those working with and caring for them - the book offers practical...
by Anne Marie Rafferty
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The Politics of Nursing Knowledge puts into context the historical factors which have shaped and sometimes limited the development of nurse education. Anne Marie Rafferty makes a critical reappraisal of Florence Nightingale's vision of nursing and looks at how training and policy-making have evolved...
Nordic Social Policy
Changing Welfare States
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
By focusing on developments in the Nordic welfare states during the past decade, Nordic Social Policy provides new insights into the evolution of welfare state measures and generally assesses the peoples health in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark.
This comparative work includes chapters on
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by Sandra Hutchison
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Successfully reach out and help children through the worst times of their young lives!
Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma from Infancy Through Adolescence: Pain Unspeakable explores an array of trauma-related topics pertaining to children of all ages from a variety of cultures...