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The Child Survivor - Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation (Paperback, 2nd edition): Joyanna L. Silberg The Child Survivor - Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Joyanna L. Silberg
R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Includes a new chapter on organized abuse, with complete and updated discussion of advances in the field, the Covid-19 pandemic, telehealth, and more Readers need this book so that they can stay updated with the latest techiques for treating dissociative children and so that they have at their fingertips answers to puzzling clinical quandaries. Readers should choose this book over its closest competitor because it is very readable and accessible; it organizes therapy in a step by step way and incorporates the most recent clinical and neuropsychological research and theory about childhood dissociation.

Zero - Eliminating unnecessary deaths in a post-pandemic NHS (Paperback): Jeremy Hunt Zero - Eliminating unnecessary deaths in a post-pandemic NHS (Paperback)
Jeremy Hunt
R393 R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Save R64 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

How many avoidable deaths are there in the NHS every week? 150. What figure should we aim for? Zero. The NHS is the pride of Britain. It's an army of highly skilled and talented healthcare professionals, armed with the most cutting-edge therapies and medicines, and a budget bigger than the GDP of most countries in the world. Yet avoidable failures are common. And the result is tragic deaths up and down the country every day. Jeremy Hunt, the longest-serving Health Secretary in history, knows exactly what the cost is. In the letters he received from bereaved family members, he was constantly confronted by the heart-breaking reality of slip-ups and mistakes. There is increasing conflict between public pride in the NHS and the exhausted daily reality for many doctors and nurses, now experiencing burnout in record numbers. Waiting lists are up, staffing numbers inadequate, and all the while an ageing population and medical advances increase both demand and expectations. With pressures like these, is it surprising that mistakes start to creep in? This great British institution is crying out for renewal. In Zero, taking the broadest approach, thinking through everything from staffing to technology, budgets to culture, Hunt presents a manifesto for that renewal. Mistakes happen. But nobody deserves to become a statistic in an NHS hospital. That's why we need to aim for zero.

Supporting Young Children to Cope, Build Resilience, and Heal from Trauma through Play - A Practical Guide for Early Childhood... Supporting Young Children to Cope, Build Resilience, and Heal from Trauma through Play - A Practical Guide for Early Childhood Educators (Paperback)
Julie Nicholson, Julie Kurtz, Lafeshia Edwards, Jonathan Iris-Wilbanks, Samantha Watson-Alvarado, …
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Now more than ever, there is a need for early childhood professionals to comprehensively integrate trauma-sensitive practices into their work with children and families. This essential resource offers instructional strategies teachers can use daily to support their students dealing with trauma in early learning environments. Readers will learn to create opportunities for children to use their natural language—play—to reduce their stress, to cope with adversity, to build resilience, and even to heal from trauma. Nicholson and Kurtz provide vignettes, case study examples, textboxes, photographs, and descriptions of adapted therapeutic strategies ready for implementation in the classroom. Practical and comprehensive, this book is ideal for both prospective and veteran early childhood educators seeking to understand trauma-informed practices when working with young children (birth–8) in a range of environments.

On Vulnerability - A Critical Introduction (Paperback): Patrick Brown On Vulnerability - A Critical Introduction (Paperback)
Patrick Brown
R1,174 Discovery Miles 11 740 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different social groups, alongside the everyday social processes that render us vulnerable - interactions, identity and group dynamics. Each chapter equips the reader with a particular sensitising framework for navigating and questioning what it means to be vulnerable or how people cope amid vulnerability. From deviance, stigma and the spoiling or fracturing of identity, to perspectives such as intersectionality, risk, emotions and the vulnerable body, the book traces the theoretical roots of these different analytical lenses, before applying these through illuminating examples and case studies. Drawing on scholarship across more interpretative, analytic and critical traditions, the chapters combine into a multi-dimensional toolkit which will enable the study of the cultural meanings of vulnerability, the political-economic factors that shape its patterning, with a critical sensibility for 'unlearning' many assumptions, therefore challenging our sense of who is, or who can be, vulnerable. This book is designed to equip undergraduate and post-graduate students and researchers across the social, health and human sciences, aiding them as they study and question the experiences and structures of vulnerability in our social world.

Critical Dementia Studies - An Introduction (Hardcover): Richard Ward, Linn J. Sandberg Critical Dementia Studies - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Richard Ward, Linn J. Sandberg
R3,705 Discovery Miles 37 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book puts the critical into dementia studies. It makes a timely and novel contribution to the field, offering a provocative and thought-provoking critique of current thinking and debate on dementia. Collectively the contributions gathered together in this text make a powerful case for a more politically engaged, deconstructive and critical treatment of dementia and the systems and structures that currently govern and frame it. The book is interdisciplinary and draws together leading dementia scholars alongside dementia activists from around the world. It frames dementia as first and foremost a political category. The book advances both theoretical and methodological thinking in the field as well as sharing learning from empirical research. Outlining the limits to existing efforts to frame and theorise the condition it proposes a new critical movement for the field of dementia studies and practice. The book will be of direct interest to researchers and scholars in the field of dementia studies and wider fields of health, disability and care. It will provide a novel resource for students and practitioners in the fields of dementia, health care and social care. The book also has implications for dementia policymaking, commissioning and community development.

Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United States (Hardcover, 2011 ed.): Ginny Garcia Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United States (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Ginny Garcia
R2,934 Discovery Miles 29 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the experience of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the US. Given that these two groups experience some of the highest rates of poverty of any ethnicity and that it persists even while a majority work and reside in dual parent households, it becomes imperative that we explore a multitude of related factors. This book offers a systematic empirical analysis of these groups in relation to other ethnic groups, explores the individual and contextual factors associated with the determination of poverty via the use of logistic and multi-level models, details the historical context associated with Mexican immigrants, and discusses the major policies that have impacted them. It discusses the newest destinations of Mexican immigrants and also provides a discussion of undocumented migrants. Further, it details the current measure of poverty in the United States and offers a number of alternatives for modeling and measuring it.

Alkaline Breakfast - The Ultimate Guide for Your Daily Healthy Alkaline Breakfast (Hardcover): Isaac Vinson Alkaline Breakfast - The Ultimate Guide for Your Daily Healthy Alkaline Breakfast (Hardcover)
Isaac Vinson
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Successful Aging - Strategies for Healthy Living (Hardcover, 1997 ed.): Martin Bloom, Waldo C. Klein Successful Aging - Strategies for Healthy Living (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Martin Bloom, Waldo C. Klein
R3,057 Discovery Miles 30 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is a near-universal folk saying that everyone wishes to live a good long life, but no one wishes for old age. More contemporarily, the rock and roll band, Little Feat, sang, "You know that you're over the hill when your mind's making promises your body can't fill. " This book is about the good long life. It is a book about primary prevention strategies in the aging process; it is not about preventing that process. It is not about being old. Instead, it is about the things that individuals - and the helping professionals who provide them with counsel and assistance - can do to prevent the preventable problems of advancing age, and to better manage those changes in functioning that cannot be prevented. In short, it is about extending all our capacities to the fullest so that we can better keep all those promises that we make to ourselves and others. Aging is a life-long process. We focus here on the changes that are taking place in our selves and in our society as we age. In particular, we focus on what we can do to affect these changes by the choices we make and how we live. This book offers primary prevention strategies for mature and older adults, with the recognition that mature adulthood starts as soon as we are old enough to truly appreciate our active role in our own aging processes.

Pandemic Communication (Paperback): Stephen M. Croucher, Audra Diers-Lawson Pandemic Communication (Paperback)
Stephen M. Croucher, Audra Diers-Lawson
R1,222 Discovery Miles 12 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda of those effects across the broad field of communication studies. Through contributions from experts in communication subdisciplines such as crisis, organizational, interpersonal, health, intergroup, and intercultural, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the emerging field of study "pandemic communication." Each chapter has four primary objectives: to 1) define critical issues of consideration for pandemic communication from its subdiscipline's perspective, 2) examine how communication varies during pandemic(s), 3) provide examples of how pandemic(s) have affected communication, and 4) propose a research agenda to build pandemic communication theory. This book is suited to undergraduate or post-graduate courses or modules in communication studies across a variety of subdisciplines as well as a reference for researchers in the subject.

The Impact of New Health Imperatives on Educational Policy and Schooling (Hardcover): Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood The Impact of New Health Imperatives on Educational Policy and Schooling (Hardcover)
Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood
R3,770 Discovery Miles 37 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young people's diets, and a putative steep rise in obesity. Children and young people are increasingly being identified as a population at 'risk' in relation to these health concerns. Such concerns are driving what might be described as new 'health imperatives' which prescribe the choices young people should make around lifestyle: physical activity, body regulation, dietary habits, and sedentary behaviour. These health imperatives are a powerful force driving major policy initiatives on health and education in a number of countries in the Western world. Schools in particular have been targeted for the implementation of a plethora of initiatives designed to help children and young people lose weight, become more active and change their eating patterns inside and outside school. Addressing these issues requires an innovative theoretical approach. Neither the fields of 'eating disorders' nor 'obesity research' has addressed these issues from a sociological and pedagogical perspective. The contributors to this edited collection draw on a range of social theories, including Michel Foucault and Basil Bernstein to interpret the data collected across three countries (Australia and New Zealand, United Kingdom) and from a range of primary and secondary schools. Each chapter addresses various aspects of the relationship between health imperatives as constituted in government policies, school programs and practices, their recontextualised in school practices and the impact of this on the subjectivities of children and teachers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Ultimate Dash Diet Plan - Delicious Recipes to Lower Blood Pressure and Improve Your Health (Hardcover): Eleonore Barlow Ultimate Dash Diet Plan - Delicious Recipes to Lower Blood Pressure and Improve Your Health (Hardcover)
Eleonore Barlow
R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Health: The Basics, Global Edition (Paperback, 11th edition): Rebecca Donatelle Health: The Basics, Global Edition (Paperback, 11th edition)
Rebecca Donatelle
R2,140 Discovery Miles 21 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For Personal Health Courses Connecting Your Health to Your World-Money and Technology Edition Health: The Basics, Eleventh Edition focuses health coverage on real-world topics that have the greatest impact on students' lives, bringing health topics to life and keeping students hooked on learning and living well. This text addresses students' diverse needs and learning styles with new Video Tutors and the new (optional) MasteringHealth.(TM) Along with its dynamic new content and technology, this book retains its hallmarks of currency, excellent research, strength in behavior change, attractive design, imaginative art, and unique mini-chapters. This program presents a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. Health: The Basics, Eleventh Edition will: *Personalize learning with MasteringHealth (optional): MasteringHealth coaches students through the toughest health topics. Engaging tools help students visualize, practice, and understand crucial content, from the basics of health to the fundamentals of behavior change. *Cover health topics with a real-world focus: Money and Technology are two of the timeliest issues arising in health today and are addressed through the new Money & Health and Tech & Health boxes. A new mini-chapter targets financial challenges students face every day, such as budgeting, scams, and debt. *Make health mobile: Video Tutors throughout the text present key figures or points of discussion in an engaging video. QR codes make these short videos easily viewable from a smartphone, tablet, or laptop. *Support instructors: Robust instructor tools, including the Teaching Toolkit with rich media, the Test Bank, and the new MasteringHealth learning platform help you plan your lecture and assess students. *Encourage critical thinking and behavior change: Learning Catalytics(TM) is a "bring your own device" student engagement, assessment, and classroom intelligence system that enables instructors to assess students in real time, improve students' critical-thinking skills, access rich analytics, and more. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MasteringHealth does not come packaged with this content. MasteringHealth is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.

Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence (Hardcover): Julie Robert Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence (Hardcover)
Julie Robert
R2,577 R1,562 Discovery Miles 15 620 Save R1,015 (39%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Where did Temporary Sobriety Initiatives (TSIs) such as Dry January, FebFast and Ocsober, come from? And what is their role, if any, in prompting people to revisit their relationship with alcohol? These organized campaigns have flourished throughout the English-speaking world in the past decade. Collectively, they involve thousands of participants and raise substantial sums of money for medical research, as well as drug and alcohol related charities. Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence considers these campaigns as part of a lifestyle movement that transcends single events and even singular national contexts. It uses case studies from Australia, the USA and the UK to examine both the short history of TSIs as a response to problematic localized drinking cultures – including binge drinking – and their relationship to a much longer and transnational history of temperance activism. In taking TSIs as a case study of both embodied philanthropy and participatory health promotion, this book considers how TSIs are structured, promoted and experienced as an embodied event to create imitable, and sometimes contradictory, examples to create a public pedagogy of ‘responsible drinking’.

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society (Hardcover): Matthew Jones, Louis Rice, Fidel Meraz Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society (Hardcover)
Matthew Jones, Louis Rice, Fidel Meraz
R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities (Paperback): J. Michael Ryan COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities (Paperback)
J. Michael Ryan
R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities provides critical insights into the tensions between individual rights and community responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions about mandates, lockdowns, priorities, and broader questions related to neighborly responsibilities and human rights have been central to debates about how to confront the pandemic. The scholarship presented in this volume adds to those debates by confronting such issues as the role of social media in spreading misinformation, mask mandates, pandemic politics, and the very ethos of what is meant by human and individual rights. Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world, the work presented here represents a remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship on the impact of COVID-19 and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic.

Lean and Green Air Fryer Cookbook for Beginners - The Perfect Cookbook for Tasty and Easy Recipes (Hardcover): Roxana Sutton Lean and Green Air Fryer Cookbook for Beginners - The Perfect Cookbook for Tasty and Easy Recipes (Hardcover)
Roxana Sutton
R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Pescatarian Diet Cookbook - Easy, Delicious Pescatarian and Vegetarian Recipes for a Balanced Lifestyle (Hardcover): Jacob... Pescatarian Diet Cookbook - Easy, Delicious Pescatarian and Vegetarian Recipes for a Balanced Lifestyle (Hardcover)
Jacob Aiello
R804 R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Save R124 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Death and Religion: The Basics (Paperback): Candi Cann Death and Religion: The Basics (Paperback)
Candi Cann
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides a thorough introductory overview of the intersection of death and religion from a multitude of religious perspectives. An accessible format with helpful pedagogic features such as a glossary, further reading and key terms. This volume can be used on a range of courses due to its interdisciplinary nature, appealing to students of religious studies, thanatology, anthropology, philosophy and sociology.

Applied Theatre in Paediatrics - Stories, Children and Synergies of Emotions (Paperback): Persephone Sextou Applied Theatre in Paediatrics - Stories, Children and Synergies of Emotions (Paperback)
Persephone Sextou
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores applied theatre practice for children in environments of illness and cure and how it can powerfully normalise children's hospitalisation experience. It is an essential tool for making meaning of children's illness, putting it into a fictional context and developing better control of their clinical experiences. It can be central to raising the standards of care and quality of life during illness. Taken from the author's research and participatory bedside theatre practice in hospitals before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, this book demonstrates new learning about aesthetics, ethics, emotions, stories, puppetry, digital arts and research methodologies about children's health and wellbeing. It provides a selection of ten unique stories told by children inspired by applied theatre practice in paediatrics, cardiac, oncology, neurosurgery, burns units and complex and intensive care wards. Stories aid in understanding the language of children's pain for a better assessment and management of pain by healthcare professionals through the arts. It analyses synergistic theatre performance in 'stitched lands' between challenging realities and safe fictionalities. This book enables artists to develop new ways of thinking and contributes to further improvements in the provision of education and reflective learning in the field. It also addresses the emotional labour of the artist in healthcare and makes recommendations for balanced training to prevent emotional exhaustion. Designed for artists, healthcare professionals, therapists, play specialists and teachers who work with children in healthcare, this text aims to help many people find creative ways of making a positive difference in sick children's lives. It is a book for those who love and care for children.

Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction - Ending the Stalemate (Paperback): Matthew Bacon, Jack Spicer Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction - Ending the Stalemate (Paperback)
Matthew Bacon, Jack Spicer
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. This book brings the large fields of policing and drugs together; two distinct areas rarely studied together. 2. This book also has a market among public health scholars, given the overlapping areas of interest.

Disneyization of Drug Use - Understanding Atypical Intoxication in Party Zones (Paperback): Tim Turner Disneyization of Drug Use - Understanding Atypical Intoxication in Party Zones (Paperback)
Tim Turner
R1,178 Discovery Miles 11 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Disneyization of Drug Use offers an innovative, ground-up understanding of the atypical patterns of illegal drug use that often permeate multi-day party zones such as nightlife tourist resorts and music festivals. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over three summers in Ibiza, the book contextualizes the drug and alcohol-related experiences of tourists and seasonal workers operating in the island's infamously hedonistic party spaces. Through an innovative application of Alan Bryman's (2004) seminal work, The Disneyization of Society, the book argues how the same marketing principles that generate consumption in the legal economy of Disney theme parks also drives illicit drug use in Ibiza and music festivals, where the line between legal and illegal substances rapidly blurs to the point of collapse. This highly innovative book offers rich insights into the complex interplay between drug and alcohol use, agency, pleasure, risk, consumerism, and social context. It will be of great appeal to academics and students interested in the fields of cultural criminology, deviant leisure, drug and alcohol studies, youth culture, and ethnographic research methods.

The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World - The COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges, and the Prospects for the Future (Paperback):... The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World - The COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges, and the Prospects for the Future (Paperback)
Masami Tamagawa
R1,141 Discovery Miles 11 410 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book: sheds light on the intersectionality of lived experiences, including gender, sexuality, family, (mental) health, race and ethnicity, migration, and nationality, offering a picture of a community whose experience is deeply embedded in the dynamic society around. takes an innovative approach in viewing the community as an integral part of the world in flux, rather than an isolated monoracial and monolingual tightly-knit entity. is ideal for students and scholars of Gender Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Sociology, Health, and Asian Studies.

Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health (Hardcover, 2002 ed.): Gina M. Wingood, Ralph J. DiClemente Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Gina M. Wingood, Ralph J. DiClemente
R4,526 Discovery Miles 45 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume is designed to motivate and engage scientists, policymakers, and practitioners to greater scientific discourse, reduce the stigma on and validate the importance of women's sexual and reproductive health. It brings together historians, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, public health researchers, genetic counselors, attorneys, social workers, nurses and physicians, and presents comprehensive coverage that will benefit women's health advocates, students, and practitioners.

Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): Sheila Campbell, Bert Hall, David Klausner Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
Sheila Campbell, Bert Hall, David Klausner
R2,925 Discovery Miles 29 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines how medieval medical theories were derived from the teachings of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. It maintains that the mystical element was the most attractive branch of medical wisdom and shows how religious rites and observances like prayer and anointing were adapted to medical usage.;But while for thinkers like Roger Bacon disease was a fall from grace, there was also a practical approach to illness. The book evaluates medieval recipes for drugs and more mundane notions of disease in the light of the findings of modern medicine. It shows for instance how the concept of "flying venom" relates to modern germ theory.

Inequality Kills Us All - COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World (Paperback): Stephen Bezruchka Inequality Kills Us All - COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World (Paperback)
Stephen Bezruchka
R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

--Vital reading for the public and students who wish to get at the core issues behind lagging US health care. --The Covid-19 basis of the book is timely for classroom discussion and points to new and continuing issues. --Details solutions for US society and health care policy.

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