Drawing on Catholic social teachings from St Augustine to Pope John Paul II, this title reviews health system successes and failures from around the world and assesses market approaches to health care as proposed by leading economists such as Milton Friedman, Regina Herzlinger, Mark Pauly, and Alain Enthoven.
A comprehensive, accessible guide to Brief Behavioural Activation, a structured intervention for treating adolescents with depression. It provides guidance on every stage of delivering the process in practice, with photocopiable worksheets, and a section on the theory behind the approach. Suitable for both new and experienced practitioners.
Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge
Looks at how ordinary people borrow the expert language of medicine to describe their enviromentally induced illnesses, and how these explanations influence public policies and laws.
Beyond the Medical Meltdown describes the predicament we are in today in relation to health care and prescribes positive and concrete solutions to create a new effective and affordable health care system. These solutions require us to step out of the box and form new economic partnerships of practitioners and patients on local levels throughout ......
Offers information on how to develop effective partnerships with parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Topics covered include how to be more sensitive to families' needs, how to make one's assumptions cohere with families' assumptions, and how best to approach controversial topics in treatment and research.
The definitive "go to" text for Master's and Doctoral level courses on behavioural intervention research, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of the development, testing, and implementation of novel behavioural interventions in service and practice settings.
Serving as a guide to aid clinicians who provide AAC interventions for adults with acquired communication disabilities, this book covers a range of communication disabilities and disorders caused by injury and illness. It offers AAC intervention strategies and procedures in medical settings.
The first resource fully dedicated to quantitative EEG (QEEG) analysis. The book is configured to meet daily practice challenges. It addresses not only technical fundamentals, but also provides numerous examples of signature QEEG patterns and artifacts to instruct both untrained and experienced eyes.
