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Falls in Older People
by Stephen R. Lord Catherine Sherrington Hylton B. Menz Jacqueline C. T. CloseSince the first edition of this very successful book was written to synthesise and review the enormous body of work covering falls in older people, there has been an even greater wealth of informative and promising studies designed to increase our understanding of risk factors and prevention strategies. This new edition is written in three parts: epidemiology, strategies for prevention, and future research directions. New material includes the most recent studies covering: balance studies using tripping, slipping and stepping paradigms; sensitivity and depth perception visual risk factors; neurophysiological research on automatic or reflex balance activities; and the roles of syncope, vitamin D, cataract surgery, health and safety education, and exercise programs. This new edition will be an invaluable update for clinicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, researchers, and all those working in community, hospital and residential or rehabilitation aged care settings.
False Images, Deadly Promises: Smoking and the Media
by Ann MalaspinaThough it's illegal to advertise tobacco products on television and Big Tobacco no longer sponsors major sporting events, it doesn't mean that cigarettes have been relegated to the back pages of little-read magazines. Quite the contrary. Though they might not be advertised--at least in the traditional meaning of the word--cigarettes continue to hold a prominent place in the media.
False Images, Deadly Promises: Smoking and the Media
by Ann MalaspinaEveryone knows that smoking is an expensive habit. Cigarettes, after all, cost money. But as readers will learn from Burning Money: The Cost of Smoking, buying cigarettes and other smoking materials is only part of the costs associated with smoking.
False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
by Stanley AronowitzThe book explains the historical development of the working class, particularly its ethnic, sexual, racial, and skill divisions and charts the relationship between these divisions and working class institutions, particularly the trade unions. And Part One of this book discusses the new developments in working class life and labor.
Fame da Stress
by The BlokeheadVoglio ringraziarVi per aver scelto "La Fame da Stress: Gestire gli agenti stressanti che provocano Fame Emotiva e Fame Compulsiva & Sconfiggerla Ora!” Il libro illustra passi e strategie sperimentate per liberarsi dallo stress con successo, vincere la fame emotiva e condurre una vita migliore. Il libro contiene anche informazioni utili sui sintomi e sulle cause dello stress e su come lo stress influisce nella vita. Chiarisce anche gli effetti dello stress sulla mente e sul corpo, fornendo suggerimenti su come evitare di stressarsi e come cambiare atteggiamento di fronte agli agenti stressanti.
Familiars in Witchcraft: Supernatural Guardians in the Magical Traditions of the World
by Maja D’AoustA comprehensive exploration of familiars and their many forms and powers • Explores witch’s familiars in folklore, shamanic, and magical traditions around the world, including Africa, India, Scandinavia, ancient Greece, and China • Explains how familiars are related to shamanic power animals and how the witch draws on her personal sexual energy to give this creature its power • Examines the familiar in alchemical, Hermetic, and Egyptian magical literature, including instructions for procuring a supernatural assistant Exploring the history and creation of a “witch’s familiar,” also known as a spirit double or guardian spirit, Maja D’Aoust shows how there is much more to these supernatural servant spirits and guardians than meets the eye. She reveals how witches are not the only ones to lay claim to this magician’s “assistant” and examines how the many forms of witch’s familiars are well known in folklore throughout Europe and America as well as in shamanic and magical traditions around the world, including Africa, India, and China. The author explains how familiars are connected with shapeshifting and how the classic familiars of medieval witchcraft tradition are related to the power animals and allies of shamanic practices worldwide, including animal guardian spirits of Native American traditions and the daimons of the ancient Greeks and Romans. She examines the fetch spirit, also known as the fylgia in Scandinavian tradition, and how the witch or sorcerer draws on their personal sexual energy to give this creature its power to magnetize and attract what it was sent to retrieve. She looks at incubus, succubus, doubles, doppelgangers, and soul mates, showing how familiars can also adopt human forms and sometimes form romantic or erotic attachments with the witch or shaman. Reviewing alchemical, Hermetic, and Egyptian magical literature, including the nearly forgotten alchemical works of Anna Kingsford, D’Aoust explores their instructions for procuring the attention of a supernatural assistant as well as an extensive description of the alchemical wedding and how this ritual joins the magician and familiar spirit into a single unified consciousness. Exploring fairy familiars, she reveals how a practitioner can establish a “marriage” with a totemic plant or tree spirit, who, in return, would offer teachings about its medicinal and visionary powers. Delving deeply into the intimate relations of humanity with the spirit world, D’Aoust shows how forming connections with living forces other than human enables us to move beyond the ego, expand our magical abilities, as well as evolve our conscious awareness.
Families, Illness, and Disability: An Integrative Treatment Model
by John S. RollandWhen a family member is diagnosed with cancer or faces challenges from living with a disability, the impact reverberates throughout the family, leaving no one untouched. How should a clinician help the parents of a child who is critically ill? How can a marital relationship be skewed and a child's well-being compromised when a parent becomes permanently disabled-and how can a clinician best intervene in such cases? In presenting his clinically powerful Family Systems Illness Model, John Rolland addresses these and other vital questions of importance to families in which there is a member with a major illness or disability. Rolland's integrative treatment model is based on his experience with more than five hundred families, first as Founding Director of the Center for Illness in Families while at Yale University and currently at the University of Chicago. He applies it to a broad range of disorders that affect adults and children over the entire course of the life cycle. Richly illustrated with varied case examples, Families, Illness, and Disability is unique in describing this comprehensive model and in providing a highly practical guide to effective intervention. Through a normative, preventive lens, the book's useful framework shows how the biopsychosocial demands of different illness and disabilities create particular strains on the family, how the stages of an illness affect the family, how family legacies of loss and illness shape their coping responses, and how family belief systems play a crucial role in the ability to manage health and illness. Practitioners will learn how to help families live well despite physical limitations and the uncertainties of threatened loss, how to encourage empowering rather than shame-based illness narratives, how to rewrite rigid caregiving scripts, how to encourage intimacy and maximize autonomy for all family members. With its superb integration of individual and family modalities, this outstanding book is ideal for all health and mental health professionals and students who work with illness, disability, and loss in a wide variety of clinical settings.
Families, Relational Attachments, and the Law of Collaborative Family-Making
by Pamela Laufer-UkelesThis book points to a crisis at the heart of modern family law’s treatment of “collaborative family-making”: gamete contributions, surrogate motherhood, adoption, functional parenthood, foster care, and kin caregiving. Born of inequality and anchored by exclusivity and secrecy, the dominant legal framework governing collaborative family-making focuses on the acquisition of collaborative services by legal and intended parents without expecting or fostering any lasting bonds between them. This acquisitional framework is starkly disconnected from empirical accounts of the lived experience of collaborations, which demonstrate complex and ongoing relational attachments that extend beyond a transactional moment. At the intersection of law and sociology, the book is to account for relational realities that fail to conform to neat legal categories of parent and stranger, asking: How should the law reflect the complex interconnections between families and family-making collaborators? Should collaborators be treated as legal strangers? Who is impacted by the lack of legal status possessed by family-making collaborators? Who benefits and who loses? Ultimately, this is a work of optimism that seeks to facilitate family-making collaborations in more ethical ways by insisting that family law recognize and support family-making collaborators. It introduces a bold new legal framework of interconnection and guides the reader in implementing practical legal and contractual changes that promote human dignity, uphold children’s right to identity, and support ongoing relational attachments with adults who are fundamental to children’s lives. The volume provides deep and accessible insight into families and family law for legal practitioners, academics, students, and laypersons interested in family-making collaboration.
Family Blessings for Special Moments Great and Small
by Gale PryorA book that “compiles more than 200 poignant and warmly humorous blessings” to still your mind and lighten your heart (Publishers Weekly).Gale Pryor offers found blessings, traditional blessings, and her own original blessings, which are at times funny, at times thought provoking, but always meaningful. Included are “Blessings for Home,” “Blessings for Friends & Neighbors Wherever They Are,” “Blessings for Our Daily Bread,” “Blessings for Babies and Children,” “Blessings for Partnership,” and “Blessings for Small Pleasures.”Pryor gathers blessings from many cultures that aid the search for peace in the midst of chaos. Examples include:May your home have more books than shelves, more food than plates, and more guests than chairs.Bless the partner who sorts and cleans the spice cabinet.May every small child watch an ant and let it live.Sometimes looking to traditional prayers for comfort and guidance can only take you so far. You need “prayers drawn up from the little things more than prayers drawn down from the heavens.” The kinds of blessings included in this book are those that have been swept up from daily life, those that open your eyes to the small graces in all of our homes and families, the moment-by-moment blessings.
Family Circle Healthy Family Dinners
by Family Circle EditorsThe cookbook that proves fast and tasty dinners can be healthy, too! Busy parents want to provide fast and healthy everyday meals for their families without giving up their favorite foods. In Healthy Family Dinners, the editors of Family Circle compile more than 200 mouthwatering yet good-for-you recipes of every kind-including main-dish salads, pasta, meat, poultry, fish, as well as vegetarian dishes, simple slow cooker favorites, and even desserts. 100 luscious full-color photos will whet any appetite while nutrition information and shopping tips help parents make smart food choices day-in and day-out. With no exotic or hard-to-find ingredients, these recipes are more than just nutritious, they're quick to the table, too. And at less than 500 calories per serving, Healthy Family Dinners will be a book you can turn to any night of the week. From Family Circle magazine, a trusted brand for almost 80 years with a circulation of almost 4 million readers Features more than 200 recipes offering tasty, healthy weeknight dinner options Includes more than 100 gorgeous full-color photos for dinnertime inspiration Nutrition information for every recipe For healthy dinner ideas from a name you can trust, Healthy Family Dinners is the perfect cookbook.
Family Circle Healthy Family Dinners
by Family Circle EditorsThe cookbook that proves fast and tasty dinners can be healthy, too! Busy parents want to provide fast and healthy everyday meals for their families without giving up their favorite foods. In Healthy Family Dinners, the editors of Family Circle compile more than 200 mouthwatering yet good-for-you recipes of every kind--including main-dish salads, pasta, meat, poultry, fish, as well as vegetarian dishes, simple slow cooker favorites, and even desserts. 100 luscious full-color photos will whet any appetite while nutrition information and shopping tips help parents make smart food choices day-in and day-out. With no exotic or hard-to-find ingredients, these recipes are more than just nutritious, they're quick to the table, too. And at less than 500 calories per serving, Healthy Family Dinners will be a book you can turn to any night of the week. From Family Circle magazine, a trusted brand for almost 80 years with a circulation of almost 4 million readers Features more than 200 recipes offering tasty, healthy weeknight dinner options Includes more than 100 gorgeous full-color photos for dinnertime inspiration Nutrition information for every recipe For healthy dinner ideas from a name you can trust, Healthy Family Dinners is the perfect cookbook.
Family Contexts of Sleep and Health Across the Life Course
by Susan M. Mchale Valarie King Orfeu M. BuxtonThis unique volume advances the literature on sleep and health by illuminating the impacts of family dynamics on individuals' quality and quantity of sleep. Its lifespan perspective extends across childhood, adolescence, adulthood and older age considering both phenomena of individual development and family system dynamics, particularly parent-child and marital relationships. It extends, as well, to the broader contexts of social disparities in sleep as a significant health behavior. Emerging concepts and practical innovations include ancestral roots of sleep in family contexts, sleep studies as a lens for understanding family health, and methodologies, particularly the use of actigraphy technology, for studying sleep patterns in individuals and families. This rich area of inquiry holds significant keys to understanding a vital human behavior and its critical role in physical, psychological, and relational health and wellbeing. Among the topics covered: #65533; Sleep and development: familial and sociocultural considerations. #65533; Relationship quality: implications for sleep quality and sleep disorders. #65533; Couple dynamics and sleep quality in an international perspective. #65533; Family influences on sleep: comparative and historical-evolutionary perspectives. #65533; Sociodemographic, psychosocial, and contextual factors in children's sleep. #65533; Dynamic interplay between sleep and family life: review and directions for future research. Family Contexts of Sleep and Health Across the Life Course will advance the work of researchers and students in the fields of population health, family demography and sociology, sleep research and medicine, human development, neuroscience, biobehavioral health, and social welfare, as well as that of policymakers and health and human services practitioners.
Family Gratitude Project: Raise a Thankful Child with 52 Fun Activities and Crafts for Every Season
by Joanna GrzeszczakA month-by-month guide to fostering an attitude of gratitude as a familyGratitude is a key component of happiness and mindfulness. But not only for adults. Children benefit greatly from learning, understanding and appreciating gratefulness. An interactive journal and activity book for parents and youngsters to enjoy together, A Year of Gratitude is the perfect tool for building a mindful foundation that will last a lifetime.Including 52 step-by-step activities with full-color photos, this book offers strategies for cultivating gratitude and strengthening parent-child bonds every week of the year. Discover a variety of fun, family-oriented projects and activities including Valentines Day Cookies, Family Gratitude Jars, DIY Thank You Cards, Nature Appreciation Walks, and much more!
Family Interventions Throughout Chronic Illness and Disability
by Paul W. Power Martha Blechar Gibbons Arthur E. Dell OrtoTextbook covering a wide range of disabilities and chronic illnesses. Intended for health, allied health, and other helping professionals.
Family Resilience and Chronic Illness
by Ginger L. Welch Amanda W. HarristThis interdisciplinary volume offers theoretical, empirical,and practical insights into the strengths of families beset by chronic healthissues. Featuring topics that run the lifespan from infancy to late adulthood,its coverage reflects both the diversity of family challenges in long-termillness and the wealth of effective approaches to intervention. The component skillsof resilience in life-changing circumstances, from coping and meaning making tobalancing care and self-care, are on rich display in a framework for theirenhancement in therapy. The book's expert contributors include tools to aidreaders in the learning and teaching of concepts as they model respectful,meaningful research methods and ethical, non-judgmental practice. Among the topics covered: Helping families survive and thrive through the premature birth of an infant. Enhancing coping and resiliency among families of individuals with sickle cell disease. A family science approach to pediatric obesity treatment. Risk and resilience of children and families involved with the foster care system. Strengthening families facing breast cancer: emerging trends and clinical recommendations. The unfolding of unique problems in later life families. With its mix of practical and empirical expertise, Family Resilience and Chronic Illness: Interdisciplinary and Translational Perspectives has much tooffer both researchers in the family resilience field and mental healthpractitioners working with clients with chronic illness.
Family Stress Management: A Contextual Approach (Second Edition)
by Pauline BossIn this Second Edition, the author continues to explore both the larger context surrounding families and stress and the inner context, which includes perceptions and meanings. The author emphasizes the need for a more general contextual model of family stress and crises than other models. The goal is to provide a framework for students and professionals engaged in helping families learn how to manage their stress.
Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities
by George H. S. Singer David E. Biegel Patricia ConwayFamily members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Recognition is growing that family caregiving deserves and may require societal support, and evidence-based practices have been established for reducing stress associated with caregiving. Despite the substantial research literature on family support that has developed, researchers, advocates and professionals have often worked in separate categorical domains such as family support for caregiving for the frail elderly, for individuals with mental illness, or for people with development disabilities. Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities addresses this significant limitation through cross-categorical and lifespan analyses of family support and family caregiving from the perspectives of theory and conceptual frameworks, empirical research, and frameworks and recommendations for improvements in public policy. The book also examines children with disabilities, children with autism, adults with schizophrenia, and individuals with cancer across the life cycle. This book was published as a two-part special issue in the Journal of Family Social Work.
Family Therapy and Chronic Illness
by Joan AtwoodTreatment for the chronically ill has traditionally focused on physical factors and symptoms, despite the fact that chronic illness also affects life in an emotional and spiritual way. The approach toward treatment described in this volume addresses all aspects of a patient's life, including their interpersonal experiences and relationships, presenting family therapists and family physicians as part of the same treatment team. This volume thus provides a foundation for understanding the role illness plays in family systems. The meaning an individual gives to an illness is profoundly influenced by and influences that person's social world. In turn, social culture and social networks both shape and are shaped by the individual's experiences. Exploring how the meaning of chronic illness is defined tells us much about the individual's interpersonal relations and the resultant meaning given to the person's illness. As a consequence, family therapy must be an integral part of the treatment plan for chronically ill patients . Family Therapy and Chronic Illness approaches chronic illness from a leading-edge perspective. This approach enables therapists to listen attentively to complicated narratives. Because these stories, feelings, and emotions are difficult to describe, the clients have demanding "telling" tasks while therapists have demanding "listening" tasks. This book sends an important message not just about the chronically ill, but also about their families, therapists, and doctors, and how they can work together to develop the best treatment plan possible.
Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
by Barbara MarciniakWith compassion and compelling insight, the Pleiadians, those system-busting time-travelers from the future, take us on a journey through the unchartered lands of The Book of Earth, which comprises all human experience. While “our world goes belly-up in these most absurd of times,” they offer us “tools for survival.” During the crucial period between 1987 and 2012--a nanosecond in the annals of existence where secrets and solutions are stored--we have the unique opportunity to move from the deepest of density to the highest of frequencies--where we shift from linear to multi-dimensional living. To make this transition, we must face not only the limitations of our 3-D world with its electronic manipulation and mind control, we must embrace our own wounds, and those of our ancestors and our leaders. To heal ourselves, to raise our frequency from one of despair and fear to one of great inspiration and love, the Pleiadians urge us to rethink and reevaluate our lives: “You shall change, you will change, you must change, because this is the season of change.”
Famous Curses (The Paranormal)
by Elliott O'DonnellFrightening accounts of the Erskines of Mar, Lambton Worm, Gordons of Gight, Screaming Skull of Calgarth, Wild Cunliffe of Wycoller Hall, Smithhills Hall, Corfe Castle, Dread Coruisk and the Curse of Rudesheim.The Paranormal, the new ebook series from F&W Media International Ltd, resurrecting rare titles, classic publications and out-of-print texts, as well as new ebook titles on the supernatural - other-worldly books for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts and witchcraft.
Famous Ghosts: True Encounters With The World Beyond (True Encounters with the World Beyond #3)
by Hans HolzerJoin paranormal expert and storyteller extraordinaire Hans Holzer as he tracks the ghosts of Americans who made history, including national heroes, Hollywood stars, and famous and infamous figures who made headlinesIn this groundbreaking book, Hans Holzer tracks down the most famous and infamous ghosts who lurk among national monuments, historical houses and mansions, and even museums. Holzer searches for true encounters with eminent politicians such as Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson; literary ghosts such as Robert Louis Stevenson; and Hollywood ghosts, including Jean Harlow. Each new encounter is more fascinating than the last, as Holzer investigates notable souls who have moved to the world beyond.
Famous Western Sensitives
by Alan VaughanSince the advent of Spiritualism over a century ago in America, certain individuals with unusual psychic abilities have dominated the scene of psychic research. This essay, chapter 2 from Psychic Exploration, describes famous Western "sensitives," or those who can sense various paranormal activity. The full volume of Psychic Exploration can be purchased as an ebook or paperback version from all major online retailers and at cosimobooks.com.
Fancy Nancy and the Too-Loose Tooth (I Can Read! #Level 1)
by Jane O'ConnorNancy is about to lose her first tooth, but if she can prevent it from falling out until she arrives at school she will get a special necklace from the nurse.
Fangs for the Memories
by Stephen DeBockCount Dracula is starting to feel his age. He’s losing his hair, his joints hurt, and worst of all, his fangs are falling out! A trip to the dentist is in order. Follow along with this funny story and learn all about puns!
Fantasmas de Alcatraz y otros lugares embrujados del oeste (América Embrujada)
by Suzanne Garbe¿Existen los fantasmas? ¡Viaja al oeste de Estados Unidos y deci´delo tu´! Atre´vete a visitar la isla de Alcatraz, hospe´date en el hotel Stanley y sube a bordo del Queen Mary. ¡Te espera una aventura espeluznante!