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As the field of counseling continues to experience major growth,
the need for clinical supervisors is growing proportionally. This
stand-alone text for graduate and post-Masters level supervision
courses contains all of the information clinical supervisors will
need to practice effectively in community mental health and private
practice settings. It aligns with current supervision standards
issued by the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision,
and with the recommendations of the American Association for State
Counseling Boards.
The book integrates theoretical and practical information while
addressing all stages of the supervision process, from initial
conceptualization and preparation to direct application and
advanced skill utilization. Special attention is paid to ethical
and legal issues, professional development, multicultural
competence, evaluation, supervisory alliance, parallel process, and
advanced supervision strategies. The text presents helpful tools
for effective problem solving, including the supervisor
self-concept exercise that guides the student in solidifying his or
her identity as a supervisor. It will be useful for all levels of
experience from novice to advanced supervisors. Key Features:
Aligns with current national and state-specific supervision
standards Engages readers in multiple exercises that readily
facilitate application of concepts and theories Provides solutions
to common and emerging supervision dilemmas Addresses such
underrepresented supervision components as group supervision and
dilemmas specific to private practice or agencies
This volume is unique inits systematic approach to these three
pillars of health systems analysis will give readers of various
backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their
own specialties. Assembling such comparative materials is usually
an onerous task because so many programs possess their own
vocabularies, goals, and methods. This book will provide common
grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance,
allied health, business and management, and the social sciences,
including psychology.
This volume is unique inits systematic approach to these three
pillars of health systems analysis will give readers of various
backgrounds authoritative material about subjects adjacent to their
own specialties. Assembling such comparative materials is usually
an onerous task because so many programs possess their own
vocabularies, goals, and methods. This book will provide common
grounds for people in programs as diverse as economics and finance,
allied health, business and management, and the social sciences,
including psychology. "
Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia
offers a unique new perspective to longstanding debates on
healthcare reforms in Bosnia. In this penetrating analysis, Philip
C. Aka argues that twenty-five years after the ethnic war that
shook Bosnia and Herzegovina to its foundations, healthcare reforms
are a function of preventive medicine, defined as genetic
counselling, backed by tobacco and alcohol control. At its core,
the book offers a fresh examination of healthcare reforms in Bosnia
set in the multidisciplinary field of bioethics, supplemented by
comparative health studies, and comparative human rights. By
offering an extensive list of electronically accessible literature
on healthcare accessible in the public domain, Aka delivers an
exemplar of research possibilities in the Information Age.
Because progressive advancements to healthcare practices are
leading to longer lifespans, an increased number of aging
individuals now require constant care from practiced caregivers.
The financial costs of in-home care can be quite high; therefore,
many families are opting to stand in as caregivers, and this can
lead to various impacts on their own social and psychological
wellbeing. The Mental Health Effects of Informal Caregiving:
Emerging Research and Opportunities provides autobiographical
accounts and statistical data associated with the caregiving
experience, as well as the methods to discern the positive
psychological forces that shape the subjective wellbeing of
informal caregivers. Highlighting topics such as institutional vs.
informal caregiving, special healthcare needs, and veteran care,
this book is ideally designed for psychologists, therapists,
researchers, medical institutions, academia, and students seeking
current research on the subjective wellbeing of informal
caregivers.
In this era of healthcare applications predominantly occupy both
individuals as well as the healthcare industries, so the need for
analytical reports becomes an essential component for success.
Especially, the IoT applications employed for healthcare which
generate a huge amount of data that needs to be analyzed to produce
the expected reports. To accomplish this task, a cloud-based
analytical solution will be the right choice by which the reports
can be generated faster compared to the traditional ways. In this
book, the different analytical methods coupled with AI to analyze
the IoT data on the cloud are discussed. This book applies AI in
edge analytics for healthcare applications, analyzes the impact of
tools and techniques in edge analytics for healthcare, and provides
security solutions for edge analytics in healthcare IoT. Each
chapter provides in-depth details on how to apply different
analytical methods and tools for analytics of healthcare
applications devised using IoT. As the IoT devices are generating
huge amounts of data, it is highly essential to do the analytics on
the cloud and this book showcases the mechanisms that are going to
be applied for it. Hence, this book provides a holistic idea on how
to do edge analytics for healthcare IoT using AI.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, computational intelligence and
computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have supported the effective
treatment of the virus. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been
playing a significant role in the rapidly emerging healthcare
sector in terms of CAD, software algorithms, hardware
implementation, and applications in the medical field. Through
this, the constraints of the traditional system must be addressed
to innovate and shed light on emerging healthcare technologies.
Computational Intelligence and Applications for Pandemics and
Healthcare explores the state-of-the-art computational intelligence
approaches in medical data and classifies existing computational
techniques used in medical areas. It discusses the tactics and
methods as well as the limitations and performances of
computational intelligence applications for healthcare. The
constraints of traditional healthcare systems are addressed by
using CAD and computationally-intelligent medical data. Covering
topics such as cloud-based monitoring systems, detection and
diagnosis, and intelligent medical systems, this book is an
excellent resource for computer scientists, government officials,
medical students, medical professionals, hospitals, researchers,
and academicians.
This is a resource for professionals involved in determining the
driving capacity of individuals with neurological involvement and
or trauma. While much work has been completed in this new and
growing field, this is the first attempt to bring together clinical
work on assessing driving capacity for different clinical
populations and conditions. Specific topics include, traumatic
brain injury, stroke, dementia, normal aging, medications,
retraining, interventions, medical conditions, legal issues,
practical issues, assessment instruments, simulators, research and
epidemiology. Each chapter will address clinically relevant issues
specific to the clinical population. This comprehensive compilation
of driving assessment of cognitively compromised populations is the
first of its kind and Dr. Schultheis is regarded as a leader in the
field.
*The first definitive handbook about driving assessment of
cognitively impaired populations, a growing area of research
*Addresses a myriad of clinical populations and conditions such as
brain injured and elderly patients
*Written by nationally recognized leaders in their fields of
expertise
In 1997, Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) therapy (Cyberonics,
Houston, Texas) was approved by the United States Food and Drug
Administration for the treatment of epilepsy refractory to
antiepileptic medications. In 2005, VNS received FDA approval for
treatment-resistant depression refractory to antidepressants, and
Cyberonics recently received FDA approval for the clinical study of
VNS for rapid cycling bipolar depression. Many researchers continue
to investigate the anxiolytic effects of VNS in human and non-human
animal models. The author presents a study of VNS effects on
anxiety and the capacity of atropine methyl nitrate to attenuate
these effects. The results indicate that VNS decreases anxiety in
the laboratory animals tested. These findings provide evidence to
support the testing and subsequent use of VNS therapy for the
treatment of clinical anxiety in humans. Because many therapies
that are effective in the treatment of depression effectively treat
anxiety, VNS therapy should be effective and approvable for
clinical anxiety. This book can serve as a research tool, training
mechanism, or surgical guide to the implantation of the vagus nerve
stimulating electrode in the laboratory rat. Hopefully, this
resource provides information that facilitates FDA approval of VNS
for treatment-resistant anxiety, a chronic, devastating and often
debilitating illness.
This volume of Research on Economic Inequality contains research on
how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how these
measurements contribute towards policies for social mobility. The
volume contains eleven papers, some of which focus on the uneven
impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty and welfare. Opening
with debates on theoretical issues that lie at the forefront of the
measurement of inequality and poverty literature, the first two
chapters go on to propose new methods for measuring wellbeing and
inequality in multidimensional categorical environments, and for
measuring pro-poor growth in a Bayesian setting. The following
three papers present theoretical innovations for measuring poverty
and inequality, namely, in estimating the dynamic probability of
being poor using a Bayesian approach, and when presented with
ordinal variables. The next three chapters are contributions on
empirical methods in the measurement of poverty, inclusive economic
growth and mobility, with a focus on India, Israel and a unique
longitudinal dataset for Chile. The volume concludes with three
chapters exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as an
economic shock on income and wealth poverty in EU countries and in
an Argentinian city slum.
The six writers in this book explore the contribution and the
transferability of narrative inquiry from curriculum studies to
daily life in education and in healthcare. They examine the
interconnectivity of reconstructed experience with the construction
of disciplinary identity and knowledge. Thinking narratively, they
write auto/biographically about relationships between teachers,
students, nurses, colleagues, and/or people in their care. As
narrative inquirers, they are curious how research moves forward
professional situations in education and healthcare. The narrative
plotlines of knowledge construction, curriculum building and
identity formation thread through the chapters. In education and
healthcare, the reconstructed experience of a teacher is shown to
be foundational to curriculum content and processes. In nursing
education, we see congruence between narrative inquiry (Clandinin
& Connelly, 1995, 2000; Connelly & Clandinin, 1988, 1999)
as a process that includes the teacher-researcher as
co-participant; and, theorists, such as Watson (1999), include the
nurse in the caring situation as shapers of the experience of
people in their care. As practitioner-researchers, teachers in
education and healthcare construct who they are and how they are in
relationship in the context of social situations. Inquiry, not
certainty (Dewey, 1929), is a life stance that is formative for
education. Practitioners in education and in healthcare will be
interested in this book as a way to make meaning of their
experience. Policymakers and administrators will be interested in
this book as a way of conceptualizing teachers' knowledge as a
source of curriculum. Researchers will be interested in this book
as a demonstration of how narrative inquiry illuminates ways of
being that are educative and an innovative way to study curriculum.
Our health care system is broken and messy. It is serving neither
the patient nor the doctor well. It behooves us, the physicians, to
take the lead and diligently try to fix it. --from THE SENSE OF
DIRECTION The "invisible hand" will start healing and Adam Smith's
"what is good for me" will still be vehemently pursued but not at
the expense of others. With a restored sense of direction, it will
be easy to not only fix the health care mess but tackle other
problems also. --from THE SENSE OF DIRECTION
Modern technology has impacted healthcare and interactions between
patients and healthcare providers through a variety of means
including the internet, social media, mobile devices, and the
internet of things. These new technologies have empowered,
frustrated, educated, and confused patients by making educational
materials more widely available and allowing patients to monitor
their own vital signs and self-diagnose. Further analysis of these
and future technologies is needed in order to provide new
approaches to empowerment, reduce mistakes, and improve overall
healthcare. Impacts of Information Technology on Patient Care and
Empowerment is a critical scholarly resource that delves into
patient access to information and the effect that access has on
their relationship with healthcare providers and their health
outcomes. Featuring a range of topics such as gamification, mobile
computing, and risk analysis, this book is ideal for healthcare
practitioners, doctors, nurses, surgeons, hospital staff, medical
administrators, patient advocates, researchers, academicians,
policymakers, and healthcare students.
The National Health Service is the most enduring of the
institutions created by the first real Labour Government (1945-51).
Before the NHS was created, treatment of ill health was provided by
doctors in their surgeries and in hospitals, all of which had to be
paid for by the patients. Many poorer families paid their GP's a
monthly sum as they were usually in arrears with the fees. The
Labour Government's vision was for a health service free for
everybody and this was launched in 1948, with Aneurin Bevan as
first Minister for Health. Now after nearly seventy years, with the
costs of the NHS running at some GBP120 billions annually, and
threatened by the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, the NHS is in
danger of being classed as any other utility, gas, water,
electricity and is imminent danger of marketization and
commercialisation. In his book The Health of the Nation, David Owen
has explained the consequences of the 2012 Act and the damage to
the NHS that will result. Those most affected will be those who can
least afford good health care. This book presents a powerful case
for the repeal of the 2012 Act and for the restoration of the NHS
to its traditional values.
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