Allied Health Services category: 2328 books
Women's Stories of Divorce at Childbirth
When the Baby Rocks the Cradle
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Explore the reasons that new families break up!
This landmark book examines the causes and consequences of divorce occurring during pregnancy or within a year of childbirth. Women’s Stories of Divorce at Childbirth: When the Baby Rocks the Cradle draws from the experiences of seventeen women...
by Brian Sheldon, Geraldine Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Where did professional social work originate from? How effective are social work interpretations in the lives of vulnerable people?
A Textbook of Social Work provides a comprehensive discussion of social work practice and its evidence-base. It strikes a balance between the need for social workers...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Imagining Welfare Futures explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium. By drawing on contemporary debates about the 'citizen', 'the community' and 'the consumer',...
Powerful Occupational Therapists
A Community of Professionals, 1950-1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Powerful Occupational Therapists examines the life and times of a small group of occupational therapy leaders and scholars in a post-1950s America, to market their profession as one of increasing importance. Participating in the 1950s rehabilitation, the 1960s equal rights, and the 1970s women’s...
Institutional Abuse
Perspectives Across the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Institutional Abuse brings together a number of different research studies and accounts of institutional abuse from leading academics and researchers.
Public enquiries and court cases concerning institutional abuse in a range of settings have generated considerable media interest and have highlighted...
Nursing the Image
Media, Culture and Professional Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ideas of 'nursing' and 'nurses' carry a powerful social charge. The image of the nurse continues to be a symbol of caring and of duty at the same time as it projects a view of femininity, 'stereotypical' in its gender relations.
How has this image come to be constructed?
An empirical...
by Maurice Scott Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Develop a comprehensive understanding of cardiac disease process
Cardiovascular problems are on the rise in America. Care providers need to understand the overall clinical and statistical significance these life-changing events have to patients and families alike. Social Group Work with Cardiac...
When Parents Die
Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for adults too, a parent's death can be a tremendous blow.
When Parents Die speaks to bereaved children...
The MELT Method
A Breakthrough Self-Treatment System to Eliminate Chronic Pain, Erase the Signs of Aging, and Feel Fantastic in Just 10 Minutes a Day!
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
In The MELT Method*,* therapist Sue Hitzmann offers a breakthrough self-treatment system to combat chronic pain and erase the effects of aging and active living—in as little as ten minutes a day.
With a focus on the body's connective tissues and the role they play in pain, stress, weight...
Role Emerging Occupational Therapy
Maximising Occupation-Focused Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Role Emerging Occupational Therapy: Maximising Occupation Focused Practice is written for an audience of occupational therapy practitioners, educators and students.
This text offers an exploration of emerging innovative directions for the profession of occupational therapy with a focus upon...
by Michael W Ross
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In this important book, editor Michael Ross brings together the latest knowledge and research concerning the relationship between HIV and AIDS and sexual functioning. HIV/AIDS and Sexuality explores the experiences of being HIV-infected and the impact of infection on an individual's sexuality. It...
Adventures in Senior Living
Learning How to Make Retirement Meaningful and Enjoyable
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
If retirement is approaching or you've recently retired, Adventures in Senior Living can help you prepare for the opportunities, needs, problems, and challenges that retirement often brings. Through 31 lively and interesting interviews, you learn how other people have found positive and rewarding...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Globalisation, the wired planet, the global village, these are a few of the terms associated with the social and political changes that are said to describe the world at the beginning of the new millennium. One of the most important institutions of the social ordering has been that of policing, but...
by Jane C. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Postural Correction presents 30 of the most commonly occurring postural conditions in a comprehensive format, providing hands-on therapists and body workers the knowledge and resources to help clients address their malalignments. Focusing on treatment rather than assessment, it takes a direct approach...