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Aims to introduce students to the complex skills necessary for effective management in human service administration. This textbook presents actual problems through concise case studies with study-guide questions for discussion. It covers a range of situations and dilemmas that a human services student can expect to encounter as an administrator.
A Contemporary Rehabilitation Approach to the Practice of Medicine
This introduction to the management of chronic illness is based on a course given at the University of Washington School of Medicine. It examines the factors related to evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation of these patients and is essential reading for all medical students and rehabilitation professionals.
During the past few decades, the dramatic social changes with regard to our aging population and changes in the family unit have made both demographic and socioeconomic consequences, as well as an effect on matters of social policy. The prestigious editors, George L. Maddox and M. Powell Lawton, have assembled an impressive group of expert ......
Introducing a basis for dialogue across humanistic, scientific, and professional disciplines, this work addresses topics as industrial employment, retirement, life styles of older women, and biological research. It includes philosophical reflections on the ""third age"", perspectives on institutional adaptations, and an aging society.
Cognition: Duplication and Transformation of Information
Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect Imagery Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories - neither of which placed much importance on the role of basic emotions in everyday human ......
Draws together and critically reviews all the existing research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing
