This book introduces a new theory on the substantial comorbidity that exists between many illnesses and disorders and concurrent symptoms such as pain, impaired sleep and fatigue. The specific illnesses and disorders discussed include obesity, diabetes mellitus type-II, medical illnesses including cardiovascular disease and sleep-disordered breathing, insomnia, disordered eating such as binge-eating disorder and night-eating syndrome, affective distress (anxiety and depression), and comorbidities that are linked to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The book posits that the comorbidities are the result of a complex bio-psycho-behavioral mechanism that includes circadian rhythm dysfunction. It examines the statistical and methodological (e.g. measurement) problems that can complicate the understanding of comorbidity and explores a broad range of novel, existing, and repurposed therapy approaches that could have utility in treating comorbid disorders. This book will be of great value to academics as well as practitioners working in the field of psychiatry, health psychology and medicine more broadly.

This book introduces a new theory on the substantial comorbidity that exists between many illnesses and disorders and concurrent symptoms such as pain, impaired sleep and fatigue. The specific illnesses and disorders discussed include obesity, diabetes mellitus type-II, medical illnesses including cardiovascular disease and sleep-disordered breathing, insomnia, disordered eating such as binge-eating disorder and night-eating syndrome, affective distress (anxiety and depression), and comorbidities that are linked to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The book posits that the comorbidities are the result of a complex bio-psycho-behavioral mechanism that includes circadian rhythm dysfunction. It examines the statistical and methodological (e.g. measurement) problems that can complicate the understanding of comorbidity and explores a broad range of novel, existing, and repurposed therapy approaches that could have utility in treating comorbid disorders. This book will be of great value to academics as well as practitioners working in the field of psychiatry, health psychology and medicine more broadly.

Renowned American textile artist and sculptor Gyoengy Laky (b. 1944) was once described as a 'wood whisperer'. Her highly individual, puzzle-like assemblages of timber and textiles helped to significantly propel the growth of the contemporary fiber-arts movement. Laky's art traverses an extraordinary personal story: Born amid the bombings of World War II, she escaped from post-war, Soviet-dominated Hungary; was sponsored by a family in Ohio, went to grade school in Oklahoma, and went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley. She followed this by founding the Fiberworks Center for Textile Arts in the 1970s and fostering innovations as a professor at the University of California, Davis. This book provides insight into her studio practice, activism, and teaching philosophy, which champions sustainable art and design, original thinking, and the value of the unexpected.

Community and primary health care nursing is a rapidly growing field. Founded on the social model of health, the primary health care approach explores how social, environmental, economic and political factors affect the health of the individual and communities, and the role of nurses and other health care practitioners in facilitating an equitable and collaborative health care process. An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care provides an engaging introduction to the theory, skills and range of professional roles in community settings. This edition has been fully revised to include current research and practice, and includes three new chapters on health informatics, refugee health nursing and developing a career in primary health care. Written by an expert team, this highly readable text is an indispensable resource for any reader undertaking a course in community and primary health care and developing their career in the community.

Establish personal and professional boundaries amd recognizing ones limitations.

Twenty-eight year old psychic Samantha Lopez had fallen hard for Michael Maxwell as much for the fact that she hadn't been able to read him as that he was good-looking, charming and made her feel beautiful and special. However, weeks after their marriage Sam realized that her husband's stark and lifeless house suited him perfectly. How could she have thought a man who could be happy in such surroundings would be a warm and loving husband? Was she so blinded by love that she couldn't see beyond the obvious? One of her grandfather's sayings came to mind. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." If she had seen his house, and if she had met Michael's mother, Winifred, before she and Michael married, would she still have gone through with it? Winifred was a cold person, living in a cold house. Michael also lived in a cold house, one he had not taken her to see before they married. Had she seen him in these surroundings first, would she have rushed into the marriage or would she have backed off? She didn't really know the answer to that question. Especially now that she'd had a glimpse of the temper he had kept hidden from her until last night. How well did she really know this man? Where was the funny, considerate person she had met just a few short weeks ago? He had wooed her and won her heart, but it was obvious she still had a lot to learn about him. Their honeymoon had been perfect, all she could have wished for. Since they'd come home, however, he was often distant and unreachable. She had tried to tell herself that it was an adjustment period and that things would get back to normal soon. She was no longer sure what normal was. With a chill she recalled her grandmother's words of long ago: "Sam, don't ever let yourself be fooled by the outside." Those words were forgotten until now, and she was afraid the outside might have fooled her after all. Had she been looking at Michael with her eyes and not with her heart? And then there had been the dream where her best friend's dead grandmother warned Sam, "You will journey to the San Francisco Peaks to the north and the west, one of the Four Sacred Mountains. There you will find many answers to the questions in your heart. However, you must be aware that, because you are out of balance with your true nature, you will also find great darkness. This darkness will blind you from the truth until you find your inner peace and harmony once again."

Twenty-eight-year-old Samantha (Sam) lapses into an inexplicable coma after giving birth to a child covered with a veil.' Family secrets and long forgotten events are brought to the present as the family waits for Sam to come out of her coma; as they find a journal written when Sam was only a child, a journal that contains detailed personal and sometimes graphic information about their lives, written as if Sam had been there reading their minds. The following excerpt from Sam's journal was written when Sam was barely six years old: Saturday, May 11, 1957: Today, believe it or not, I visited my parents' wedding. I don't know how I got there, but I could actually hear everyone's thoughts. It was confusing at first, but when I looked directly at one person their thoughts would become clear and separate from all the others'. When I looked at my father it felt like I could see backward and forward at the same time. I don't know how to explain it, but it was as if he was telling a story out loud and at the same time showing me a movie. Everything was happening very fast I did not understand a lot of the things I saw or felt, or heard, but I will write down everything I can remember. Somehow I think I will understand things when I am older, but for now I need to get everything down. So here goes: One stupid indiscretion had cost 19-year-old Jose Javier Lopez Jr. the love of his life, Lupita Carmen Garcia. As Sam slips in and out of consciousness, she sees her own and her families lives unfold and finally understands all the things she had written in her journal years ago...

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These politically incorrect volumes include ethnic and religious jokes designed to provoke laughter, not become a racial or prejudicial issue.