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Providers serving older adults face a growing problem. Older adults are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with service quality citing deficits in provider communication and relationship skills. The author argues this dissatisfaction is largely related to three widespread issues: ageism, use of professional jargon, and age-related changes in the older adult. To address these concerns, Dr. Storlie advocates adoption of an evidence-based, person-centered approach to communication. The benefits of person-centered communication are many. They can increase older adult satisfaction with provider services, enhance mutual respect and understanding, improve accuracy of information exchanged, positive...
Dr. Storlie explains how you can communicate with your subconscious mind-the super-intelligence within you-using mental imagery, contemplation and daydreaming. Using his unique 7-step process, you'll learn to request and receive help from the power of your subconscious mind and create a better personal and/or professional life. This book incorporates accelerated learning methods so you can quickly deepen your understanding of how to use contemplation, daydreams, and daydreaming to improve nearly any aspect of your life. Timothy provides you with 22 tools that you can use to help create a better future in 37 different areas of your life. You'll learn methods to accelerate learning; become a d...
The complete and authoritative guide to modern packaging technologies —updated and expanded From A to Z, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology, Third Edition covers all aspects of packaging technologies essential to the food and pharmaceutical industries, among others. This edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to include important innovations and changes in materials, processes, and technologies that have occurred over the past decade. It is an invaluable resource for packaging technologists, scientists and engineers, students and educators, packaging material suppliers, packaging converters, packaging machinery manufacturers, processors, retailers, and regulatory agen...
Glenn Morris examines the fabulous Togakure Ryu in ninth century Japan and moves to present day applications of the ancient skills the stealthy ninja must apply to living in the modern world. Mr. Morris' fans will not be disappointed with the riches offered here: secrets of balance and alignment; seeing with the minds and eyes of gods and spirits; energy applications of qi for healing, warfare and sexual fulfillment; the care and feeding of Bujin, protective spirits; and cross-cultural comparisons of shamans, saints and masters of Budo and Bugei.
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END YOUR HEALTH WORRIES TODAY! Everyone has felt the need to scratch when a friend reveals a rash, but for some of us, unfounded concerns about potential illness can take over our lives. If you are one of the millions of people plagued by irrational thoughts about minor physical symptoms, and remain certain that there is something wrong with you despite a doctor's repeated assurances to the contrary, then you know what it is to live with a health anxiety. In this first-ever self-help guide for people who are excessively concerned about their health, mind-body-spirit physician and psychologist George D. Zgourides offers effective, step-by-step strategies for countering illness obsession. Learn to identify and treat the underlying causes of worry, counteract irrational self-talk about minor, everyday physical symptoms, and accept and finally redefine your experience of aches and pains-for good.
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A 1990s study on how the indigenous people in the northern Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East experienced, interpreted, and struggled with the changing living conditions of post-Soviet Russia. The book describes how Koriak women and men actively negotiated the manifold historical and social process, from tsardom, to Soviet state to democracy, by protesting, accommodating and reinterpreting the factors by which their conditions were made and remade. Special emphasis is on how the women in this culture are adjusting and combating their oppressed position in society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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What percentage of graduate students entering PhD programs in the arts and sciences at leading universities actually complete their studies? How do completion rates vary by field of study, scale of graduate program, and type of financial support provided to students? Has the increasing reliance on Teaching Assistantships affected completion rates and time-to-degree? How successful have national fellowship programs been in encouraging students to finish their studies in reasonably short periods of time? What have been the effects of curricular developments and shifts in the state of the job market? How has the overall "system" of graduate education been affected by the expansion of the 1960s ...