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Learn more about psychiatric medications to better understand your clientele! Psychiatric Medication Issues for Social Workers, Counselors, and Psychologists explores a range of issues and dilemmas in psychopharmocology practice that emerge especially for social workers, counselors, and psychologists because of their unique roles and perspectives. This book contains qualitative and quantitative research examining the subjective experience of clients who use psychiatric medication. You’ll find unprecedented discussion of clinical and ethical situations that arise when social workers and allied health caregivers collaborate with clients and providers around psychiatric medicine. This book co...
Explore and understand new approaches in Borderline therapy. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) lags far behind other disorders such as schizophrenia in terms of research and treatment interventions. Debates about diagnosis, etiology, neurobiology, genetics, medication, and treatment still persist. Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment brings together over two dozen of the field’s leading experts in one enlightening text. The book also offers mental health providers a view of BPD from the perspectives of sufferers as well as family members to foster an understanding of the experiences of relatives who are often devastated by their loved ones’ ...
Overcome the challenges facing social workers today with international guidance Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe is a valuable stepping stone toward an understanding of the diversity of methods utilized in social work for community health services. This work stems from material gathered at the Third International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, held in Tampere, Finland. In this book, you will find new creative theoretical and practical orientations for designing, developing, and analyzing social work to help you produce policies and services in which clients can positively and productively invest. Social Work Approaches in Health...
Learn how to better clinically serve risky adolescentsfrom the clients themselves! Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About explores the research on adolescent behavior culled from the answers to a clinician-designed intake questionnaire given to adolescent clients asking how they view their own risks, what they worry about, and what they wish to talk about. Respected authorities discuss the enlightening findings and present ways to reshape services, taking into account customer preference, risk and worry, and youth development (YD) perspectives while presenting practical clinical strategies to engage at-risk adolescents in ...
Who will save the day when the seaside town of Bellevue Heights is in trouble? The Team Adventure Club! Twelve-year-old Carrie Calusa and her friends are excited when they learn a meteor is going to land right on their beach, but they never expected the meteor would turn out to be an alien weapon! Now, the mysterious extraterrestrial artifact has coated their town—and its residents—in a thick layer of ice. Oh no! This is a job for Team Adventure Club! As Carrie, Leanne, and Robbie assemble to rescue Bellevue Heights, billionaire Sir Oliver Hedgestone's fights against the squad, but his greed is no match for this group and their combined talents. Daredevils, computer wizards, and inventors (of super secret adventurer gadgets) must join forces to save their town from the cold and stop the impending alien invasion.
Find out how best to develop HIV prevention programs that work Community Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts is a must read for anyone interested in developing prevention programs within high-risk urban environments. Illustrative case studies, quality research, revealing personal stories, and helpful tables and figures provide valuable insights on innovative ways to partner in the prevention of the spread of HIV in youths. Leading experts in the field offer practical strategies to dissolve the distrust individuals in a community hold for researchers not a part of that community, fostering an effective collaboration to deal with problems. The book al...
The teaching profession has a long history in motion pictures. As early as the late 19th century, films have portrayed educators of young children--including teachers, tutors, day care workers, nannies, governesses, and other related occupations--in a variety of roles within the cinematic classroom. This work provides a broad index of more than 800 films (both U.S. and foreign) which feature educators as primary characters. Organized alphabetically by title, each entry contains a short plot summary and many also include cast and crew details. A detailed subject index is also included.
Provides extensive legal analysis of key issues associated with understanding the policy implications of the Agreement. Topics discussed include dispute resolution procedures and the effects of the review mechanism that applies to the trade laws of both countries; technical aspects of the free trade area and some of the specific issues involved in the elaboration of national treatment; Canadian constitutional dimensions and the issues involved in implementation of the Agreement; and the broader implications for Canada's sovereignty.
Determined and recovering Lana Valentine is a walking, talking miracle who is still overcoming the left-over lingering odd effects of her brain illness. However, despite worry from her family she’s now determined to follow her dreams on her own terms. Not, shielded by the sweet but overprotective love she’s been wrapped in since a small spot in her brain almost stole her life. And so, in her beloved ancient jeep she’s set out on her own having accepted a part-time job in Mule Hollow, Texas. Promising her family she’s only taken a low stress job while continuing her writing—the gift from God that was helping her so far making a remarkable recovery. She’s not ready for her own love...
Middle-aged, a single mother, and newly divorced, Debra Bergman is a woman who freely admits she has gone to hell and back one too many times in her life due to the bad choices involving men with addictive and destructive behaviors. She has survived a disastrous ten-year marriage to her daughters father, making her strong enough, she believed, to weather any storm that would come her way. Despite a reputation for being a player, Debra discovers a fierce attraction to the charismatic and captivating musician, Michael Jamison. In spite of flashes of past relationships and Michaels excessive drinking and suspicious behaviors, Debra surrenders to her desires, believing the marriage was Gods plan...