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Art Therapy Exercises
Inspirational and Practical Ideas to Stimulate the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
This accessible book comprises a collection of 80 tried-and-tested exercises, with guidelines for applying them and advice for devising new ones. Liesl Silverstone offers a variety of exercises for a diverse and multicultural client base, such as guided fantasies, one-to-one and group work focusing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is the most prevalent sleep disordered breathing disorder. It has become apparent that in more than half the patients with OSA, the frequency and duration of apneas are influenced by body position. To treat patients with Position Dependent OSA (POSA), positional therapy...
by Diane Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This important volume addresses a growing problem prevalent in hospitalized patients--eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Experts present the latest findings on the theories, evaluation, and treatment of this pernicious syndrome. Clearly written and up-to-the-minute, this outstanding...
Universal Design as a Rehabilitation Strategy
Design for the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
A unique resource for rehabilitation engineers, design and building professionals, rehabilitation counselors, gerontologists, psychologists, and other health and mental health professionals, this volume covers the significance and impact of universal design as a change agent for social and health...
Distributed Situation Awareness
Theory, Measurement and Application to Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key commodity for teams working within military systems. 'Situation awareness' (SA) is the term that is used within human factors circles to describe the level of awareness that operators have of the situation that they are engaged in; it focuses...
Modelling Command and Control
Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Since its inception, just after the Second World War, Human Factors research has paid special attention to the issues surrounding human control of systems. Command and control environments continue to represent a challenging domain for human factors research. Modelling Command and Control takes a...
by Stian Antonsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The aim of this book is to show how a cultural approach can contribute to the assessment, description and improvement of safety conditions in organizations. The relationship between organizational culture and safety, epitomized through the concept of 'safety culture', has undoubtedly become one of...
Risky Work Environments
Reappraising Human Work Within Fallible Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Risky Work Environments provides new insights into the multiple and dynamic trajectories of both near misses and mistakes in complex work environments, based on actual case examples. It also studies the interactions between various activity systems or work practices (design, maintenance, incident...
by Daniel P. Jenkins, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
'Complex sociotechnical systems' are systems made up of numerous interacting parts, both human and non-human, operating in dynamic, ambiguous and safety critical domains. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of...
Human Performance and Productivity
Volumes 1, 2, and 3
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
These volumes represent a concerted attempt to link what is known from human performance research to recognized national needs for improving productivity. The product of a National Science Foundation project directed by the series editor, the set features authoritative reviews by leading psychologists...
Intellectual Teamwork
Social and Technological Foundations of Cooperative Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This book seeks to establish an interdisciplinary, applied social scientific model for researchers and students that advocates a cooperative effort between machines and people. After showing that basic research on social processes offers much needed guidance for those creating technology and designing...
Innovating Minds
Rethinking Creativity to Inspire Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A groundbreaking, scientific approach to creative thinking From entrepreneurs to teachers, engineers to artists, almost everyone stands to benefit from becoming more creative. New ways of thinking, making, and imagining have the potential to bring about revolutionary changes to both our personal...
A Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology
Volume 4: Organizational Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Organizational processes and the organization-environment interaction are discussed in this volume of the Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology. Both organizational and environmental characteristics affect the behaviour of individuals and groups, but such characteristics are in turn also...
Neuro-Organizational Culture
A new approach to understanding human behavior and interaction in the workplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This book introduces a new concept on organizational culture, called ‘Neuro-Organizational Culture’, or ‘Neuroculture’; a concept that is based on the most recent neuroscientific knowledge. The book describes a new approach to understanding human behavior and interaction in the workplace,...