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A Contemporary Approach to Substance Abuse and Addiction Counseling: A Counselor's Guide to Application and Understanding
by Bill Mchenry Ford BrooksA Contemporary Approach to Substance Abuse and Addiction Counseling provides a basic understanding of the nature of substance abuse and addiction, its progression, and clinical interventions for college/university, school, and community/mental health agency settings.
A Contemporary Approach to Substance Use Disorders and Addiction Counseling, Second Edition
by Bill Mchenry Ford BrooksWritten as an introduction to the field of addiction counseling, this text covers the fundamental knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to counsel people who are struggling with addiction. Drs. Brooks and McHenry provide a straightforward, compassionate, and holistic approach to treatment and recovery, from the major theoretical underpinnings, to assessment and diagnosis, to relapse prevention and spirituality. With a focus on current clinical applications and how-tos, this book is ideal both for master s-level addictions courses and for mental health clinicians.
A Contemporary Manual of Left Atrial Appendage Closure
by Steven J. Filby Luis Augusto Palma Dallan Mauricio ArrudaThis book is the first authoritative and comprehensive manual dedicated to left atrial appendage closure (LAAC). It provides an up-to-date and highly illustrated synopsis of the pre-, post- and peri-procedural approach for a state of the art contemporary approach for LAAC, and clinical applications of LAAC and its role in the treatment for Atrial Fibrillation. It relays to the reader a contemporary view of the emerging interplay between LAAO and atrial fibrillation. In addition, this manual discusses the clinical implications and therapeutic targets of LAAC in atrial fibrillation and increased risk for bleeding. A Contemporary Manual of Left Atrial Appendage Closure is an essential resource for physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students in cardiology, internal medicine, primary care, and health promotion and disease prevention.
A Courageous Doctor
by Alison RobertsTaking a risk with a redhead Dr. Hugo Patterson has his life just how he wants it--a rewarding job at a small but busy New Zealand hospital and an undemanding relationship. Until a flame-haired firebrand called Maggie bursts into his life...and turns it upside down.The sparky paramedic finds Hugo's reserved charm irresistible, and she's determined to help him loosen up, but there's no way the dedicated doctor could ever fall for someone like her. She has no idea what she's started...
A Course in Morphometrics for Biologists: Geometry and Statistics for Studies of Organismal Form
by Fred L. BooksteinThis book builds a much-needed bridge between biostatistics and organismal biology by linking the arithmetic of statistical studies of organismal form to the biological inferences that may follow from it. It incorporates a cascade of new explanations of regression, correlation, covariance analysis, and principal components analysis, before applying these techniques to an increasingly common data resource: the description of organismal forms by sets of landmark point configurations. For each data set, multiple analyses are interpreted and compared for insight into the relation between the arithmetic of the measurements and the rhetoric of the subsequent biological explanations. The text includes examples that range broadly over growth, evolution, and disease. For graduate students and researchers alike, this book offers a unique consideration of the scientific context surrounding the analysis of form in today's biosciences.
A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court
by Ginger Lerner-Wren Rebecca A. EcklandThe story of America's first Mental Health Court as told by its presiding judge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren--from its inception in 1997 to its implementation in over 400 courts across the nationAs a young legal advocate, Ginger Lerner-Wren bore witness to the consequences of an underdeveloped mental health care infrastructure. Unable to do more than offer guidance, she watched families being torn apart as client after client was ensnared in the criminal system for crimes committed as a result of addiction, homelessness, and mental illness. She soon learned this was a far-reaching crisis--estimates show that in forty-four states, jails and prisons house ten times more people with serious mental illnesses than state psychiatric hospitals. In A Court of Refuge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren tells the story of how the first dedicated mental health court in the United States grew from an offshoot of her criminal division, held during lunch hour without the aid of any federal funding, to a revolutionary institution. Of the two hundred thousand people behind bars at the court's inception in 1997, more than one in ten were known to have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression. To date, the court has successfully diverted more than twenty thousand people suffering from various psychiatric conditions from jail and into treatment facilities and other community resources. Working under the theoretical framework of therapeutic jurisprudence, Judge Lerner-Wren and her growing network of fierce, determined advocates, families, and supporters sparked a national movement to conceptualize courts as a place of healing. Today, there are hundreds of such courts in the US.Poignant and compassionately written, A Court of Refuge demonstrates both the potential relief mental health courts can provide to underserved communities and their limitations in a system in dire need of vast overhauls of the policies that got us here. Lerner-Wren presents a refreshing possibility for a future in which criminal justice and mental health care can work in tandem to address this vexing human rights issue--and to change our attitudes about mental illness as a whole.
A Creative Toolkit for Communication in Dementia Care
by Karrie MarshallHow can carers and relatives support a person's identity, relationships and emotional wellbeing through changes that occur in the later stages of dementia? Drawing on over ten years' experience of working with people with dementia, Karrie Marshall provides a toolkit of tried and tested creative activities to support communication and relationships. Activities are vast and varied, with outdoor activities such as bird-watching and star-gazing aimed at supporting physical health, artistic activities such as collage creation to support identity, and musical activities such as sounds and voice warm-ups to support self-expression. Marshall also sensitively covers end of life care for people with dementia, explaining how emotional support can be provided through gentle breathing activities and even puppetry, as well as covering the legal importance of power of attorney.
A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition: Text, Translation and Commentary (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean #3)
by Patricia Ann ClarkIn 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia, practical handbooks dating mainly to the 17th to 19th centuries which compiled healing wisdom, along with snippets of agricultural, meteorological and veterinary advice, and admixtures of religion, astrology and magic. Both fascinating and of critical importance, iatrosophia allow glimpses of classical and Byzantine medical sources and illustrate the vitality and resilience of Greek traditional medical and botanical knowledge. From years spent exploring local healing customs in Crete's Amari region, Patricia Clark is able to present Theodorakis' iatrosophion against a rich historical, geographical and social background. Introductory essays and explanatory notes to the translation give context to the iatrosophion and provide the specialized information necessary for a good understanding of the text. The abundant materia medica of the notebook is treated in a substantial appendix. Each animal, mineral, plant or product is provided with an overview of its various names through the millennia. Such entries are not only a key to understanding the Greek medical legacy, but also a vivid illustration of its usage from antiquity to the present day.
A Critical Examination of Ethics in Health Care and Biomedical Research: Voices and Visions (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine #60)
by Richard M. ZanerThis book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as trust and uncertainty, dialogue involving talk and listening, the vulnerability of the patient against the asymmetric power of the health professional, along with professional and individual responsibility. It emphasizes several themes fundamental to ethics and health care: (1) the work of ethics requires strict focus on the specific situational understanding of each involved person. (2) Moral issues, at least those intrinsic to each clinical encounter, are presented solely within the contexts of their actual occurrence; therefore, ethics must not only be practical but empirical in its approach. (3) Each particular situation is in its own way imprecise and uncertain and the different types and dimensions of imprecision and uncertainty are critical for everyone involved. (4) Finally, medicine and health care more broadly are governed by the effort to make sense of the healer's experiences with the patient, whose own experiences and interpretations are ingredient to what the healer seeks to understand and eventually treat. In addition to providing a way to develop ethical considerations in clinical life and research projects, the book proposes that narratives provide the finest way to state and grapple with these themes and issues, whether in classrooms or real-life situations. It concludes with a prospective analysis of newly emerging issues presented by and within the new genetics, which, together within a focus on the phenomenon of birth, leads to an clearer understanding of human life.
A Critical History of Schizophrenia (Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology)
by Kieran McNallySchizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness. Yet for most of that century it was both problematic and contentious. This history explores schizophrenia's historic instability via themes such as symptoms, definition, classification and anti-psychiatry. In doing so, it opens up new ways of understanding 20th century madness.
A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
by Ericka JohnsonWhat contemporary prostate angst tells us about how we understand masculinity, aging, and sexuality.We are all suffering an acute case of prostate angst. Men worry about their own prostates and those of others close to them; women worry about the prostates of the men they love. The prostate--a gland located directly under the bladder--lurks on the periphery of many men's health issues, but as an object of anxiety it goes beyond the medical, affecting how we understand masculinity, aging, and sexuality. In A Cultural Biography of the Prostate, Ericka Johnson investigates what we think the prostate is and what we use the prostate to think about, examining it in historical, cultural, social, and medical contexts. Johnson shows that our ways of talking about, writing about, imagining, and imaging the prostate are a mess of entangled relationships. She describes current biomedical approaches, reports on the "discovery" of the prostate in the sixteenth century and its later appearance as both medical object and discursive trope, and explores present-day diagnostic practices for benign prostate hyperplasia--which transform a process (urination) into a thing (the prostate). Turning to the most anxiety-provoking prostate worry, prostate cancer, Johnson discusses PSA screening and the vulnerabilities it awakens (or sometimes silences) and then considers the presence of the absent prostate--how the prostate continues to affect lives after it has been removed in the name of health.
A Cultural Safety Approach to Health Psychology (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Kerry Taylor Pauline B. ThompsonThis book applies the concept of cultural safety to the field of health psychology in a US context as a means to achieve health equity. First developed in New Zealand by Māori midwives, cultural safety can be understood as both a philosophy and a way of working within a social model of health as an alternative approach to understanding health and illness. Health, social, and human service professionals are at the forefront of interactions with a range of people who often experience disparities in health and social outcomes. In thirteen chapters, the authors explore the social determinants of health; the practices and pitfalls of intercultural communication; and community capacity, resilience, and strengths as correctives to discourses of deficiency. The book concludes with a comparative look at cultural safety in different national contexts, and a discussion of the value of critical reflective practice. Complete with chapter objectives, scenarios, suggested readings and films, and questions for critical thinking, this book is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners alike in health psychology and related fields, and a vital contribution to the literature on cultural safety.
A Culture's Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada
by Erika Dyck Fannie Kahan Abram Hoffer Duncan Blewett Humphry Osmond Teodoro WeckowiczIn 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church of Canada. Inspired by their experience, they wrote a series of essays explaining and defending the consumption of peyote and the practice of peyotism. They enlisted the help of Hoffer’s sister, journalist Fannie Kahan, and worked closely with her to document the religious ceremony and write a history of peyote, culminating in a defense of its use as a healing and spiritual agent. Although the text shows its mid-century origins, with dated language and at times uncritical analysis, it advocates for Indigenous legal, political and religious rights and offers important insights into how psychedelic researchers, who were themselves embattled in debates over the value of spirituality in medicine, interpreted the peyote ceremony. Ultimately, they championed peyotism as a spiritual practice that they believed held distinct cultural benefits. “A Culture’s Catalyst” revives a historical debate. Revisiting it now encourages us to reconsider how peyote has been understood and how its appearance in the 1950s tested Native-newcomer relations and the Canadian government’s attitudes toward Indigenous religious and cultural practices.
A Cup of Comfort Stories for Nurses
by Colleen SellThe kindness and skill of a good nurse is critical to the healing process. Every day, nurses help us when we are at our most vulnerable--and every day they make enormous differences in our lives. These three stories in A Cup of Comfort Stories for Nurses remind you that there's nothing more healing than a soft touch, a warm voice, and a capable hand. These stories are a small way to say thank you to dedicated nurses everywhere.
A Cup of Comfort Stories for Nurses: Celebrating compassion, kindness, and caring
by Colleen SellThe kindness and skill of a good nurse is critical to the healing process. Every day, nurses help us when we are at our most vulnerable - and every day they make enormous differences in our lives. These three stories in A Cup of Comfort Stories for Nurses remind you that there’s nothing more healing than a soft touch, a warm voice, and a capable hand. These stories are a small way to say thank you to dedicated nurses everywhere.
A Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors: Inspiring Stories of Courage and Triumph
by Colleen SellIf stories are medicine, then this collection will help keep hopes up and spirits alive on the road to recovery. Readers will applaud the bravery of 50 exceptional survivors as they tell their unique experiences with breast cancer. Every breast cancer survivor has a different story, but they all have one thing in common: courage. From dealing with diagnosis to undergoing chemotherapy, facing hair loss and possibly the loss of a breast, these fearless women undergo more than anyone ever should. These stories pay tribute to these women and their battles, and celebrate their victories. In this stunning new collection, readers will find compelling, inspiring, and uplifting personal essays about the experiences and emotions of living with—and after—breast cancer. $.50 of every copy will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
A Cup of Comfort for Courage: Inspiring Stories of Courage and Triumph
by Colleen SellTo avid fans around the world, A Cup of Comfort has gained recognition as the #1 series for providing a pick-me-up when readers need it most--as well as for remarkable stories that turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. A Cup of Comfort for Courage is the boldest volume yet, celebrating heroines and heroes who transformed the lives of everyone who knows them. <p>This remarkable collection tells of more than fifty advocates, hard workers, and small-town stars, such as: <ul><li>A young immigrant who follows the ancient advice to "go west"--and creates her own American dream </li><li>A high school football hero who braves a strong current to save more than a dozen lives when a catastrophic flood washes away a school bus </li><li>A young woman who escapes war-torn Bosnia with nothing but the clothes on her back and her daughter in her arms </li><li>A young woman who survives a near-fatal car accident and not only regains her mobility, but summons the strength to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail </li><li>A coal miner who holds back the flow of oncoming water in a tunnel--just long enough for his comrades to escape certain death! </li></ul>The stories in A Cup of Comfort for Courage will kindle the spirit of its readers and offer hope whenever they need it. It's nothing less than a supportive friend and a powerful mentor in times of struggle--and triumph.
A Cup of Comfort for Nurses
by Colleen SellDoctors have long been considered the heroes of the medical profession. Yet it is the nurses who are there for us at birth, death, and every bump, bruise, or break in between. A Cup of Comfort for Nurses brings the tales of more than fifty of these underappreciated professionals to life, including: Bonnie, who along with one of her fellow nurses, became known to her patients as "Comfort and Joy"; Julie, who became a nurse (along with four of her siblings) after caring for a physically and mentally delayed sister in her home under the guidance of her doting mother; Dot, who served her country during World War II by caring for injured soldiers home from the front. The moving tales of these dedicated nurses, along with the dozens of others in A Cup of Comfort for Nurses are sure to appeal to readers everywhere-and may even inspire some of them to take up the nurses mantle themselves.
A Cup of Comfort for Nurses: Stories of Caring and Compassion
by Colleen SellThe moving tales of these dedicated nurses, along with the dozens of others in a Cup of Comfort for Nurses are sure to appeal to readers everywhere-and may even inspire some of them to take up the nurses mantle themselves.
A Cup of Comfort for Nurses: Stories of Caring and Compassion
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A Cura Energética do Reiki: Um Livro para Iniciantes para um Melhor Entendimento
by Lewis Haas Johann PiresAprenda como Mudar Profundamente sua Vida com a Poderosa Arte de Cura do Reiki Você gostaria de se sentir fisicamente e emocionalmente energizado? Você precisa se livrar da ansiedade e da depressão? Você pode imaginar se sentir mentalmente e emocionalmente mais forte? E se você pudesse se aliviar das dores físicas e emocionais? Você gostaria de liberar antigos traumas e finalmente curar a si mesmo? E se você pudesse perceber que você vale a pena, achasse um caminho em sua vida para se ver livre de raiva, preocupações e dúvidas? Você gostaria de cultivar uma saúde vibrante para você e para outras pessoas também? A solução é simples e natural – Reiki. Depois de ler “A Cura Energética do Reiki: Um Livro para Iniciantes para um Melhor Entendimento” você saberá o que Reiki é e como receber seu poder. A arte de cura do Reiki é uma maneira incrível de criar uma vida cheia de saúde, felicidade e abundância. “A Cura Energética do Reiki” inclui: •Como o Reiki afeta positivamente o doador e o recipiente •Como ajuda você a se tornar seu melhor Eu •Descubra como o Reiki funciona para você e para quem você ama •Perceba seus pontos fracos e equilibre-se •Melhore seus cuidados com a saúde •Símbolos Reiki e técnicas para liberar situações do passado, curar traumas, perdoar outros, eliminar bloqueios emocionais, criar poderosos novos hábitos e atrair abundância •Os passos para como você pode se tornar um praticante de Reiki •Se tornando um profissional Reiki de sucesso •Respostas para perguntas frequentes e enganos sobre Reiki •A história e fatos intrigantes sobre Reiki •Entenda um pouco das mais avançadas técnicas •E muito mais! Com Reiki, A Qualidade Da Sua Vida Está Para Melhorar – Revolucione Sua Saúde e Sua Vida De Uma Maneira Natu
A Curriculum for Plastic Surgery: A Cognitive and Case-Based Approach
by Edward LuceThis book offers a comprehensive curriculum on plastic surgery, centered on adult learning principles. The pedagogical structure includes a base of cognitive knowledge that consists of the entire spectrum of plastic surgery; reconstructive and aesthetic; a guide for an interactive discussion of each component of the knowledge base; a set of multiple-choice questions with a syllabus of explanation of correct and incorrect responses; and clinical cases to illustrate each element. Over one hundred modules constitute the curriculum, all of which are grouped into thirteen general categories. Each module includes a selected bibliography of relevant and contemporary readings, a discussion guide of broad questions and answers for a faculty member to drive an interactive discussion of the module, a set of multiple-choice questions for each module to serve as a short written quiz, and 1-3 cases that are utilized in a case-base conference to discuss the practical application of cognitive knowledge to problem-solving of a clinical scenario. Finally, a several-page review of the particular case provides an optimal approach to diagnosis and treatment. A Curriculum for Plastic Surgery provides an encyclopedic yet facile vehicle to deliver a comprehensive, contemporary, and interactive curriculum. The curriculum reflects the author’s four decade long career in academic practice and teaching within this field.
A Célula Maligna
by Brian L. PorterUm grupo de mulheres se reúne em uma clínica de fertilidade belga, onde a Dra. Margherita Dumas oferece um tratamento experimental e revolucionário para seus problemas de infertilidade. Um ano depois, cada uma das mulheres dá à luz meninos saudáveis. Trinta anos depois, um misterioso assassino começa a exterminar as crianças nascidas no programa de Dumas. O inspetor Harry Houston e sua equipe são designados para resolver o caso e levar o assassino à justiça. Com pouco tempo e quase nenhuma pista, Harry e sua equipe podem encontrar o elo entre os eventos do passado e as mortes dos indivíduos inocentes da Clínica Sobel? A Célula Malígna, de Brian L. Porter, é um conto arrepiante de exploração científica, assassinato e mistério.
A DIY Guide to Telemedicine for Clinicians
by S. B. BhattacharyyaThis book is a do-it-yourself guide for clinicians who wish to set up and run a telemedicine facility of their own. The contents are largely based on the understanding and experience gained by the author as a practising physician, management post-graduate (capstone thesis was on telemedicine) and as a business architect for digital health systems over more than thirty years. Full of management techniques, tricks and tips written in an easy-to-follow manner, this book provides sufficient information to clinicians looking to leverage telemedicine to augment their range of service offerings that would lead to increased levels of patient satisfaction. Various aspects related to definitions, technology, infrastructure, methodologies and legal issues for setting up and running telemedicine services have been dealt with to sufficient depths for the readers to help grasp the issues involved. Sections on privacy, confidentiality and data integrity have been provided to help allay the many concerns the readers might have in those regards. Additionally, financial evaluations based on realistic-enough figures have been used to demonstrate that telemedicine is a viable option financially. Although meant primarily for medical doctors, any care provider including institutional will be able to use the contents to plan, design, set up and run telemedicine services that they feel would benefit those who receive their care.