This book provides an introduction to clinical supervision and support in primary care. Split into four parts, it explains the need for clinical supervision and support alongside other current processes of appraisal and revalidation. Also included is practical information and guidance on the nature and purpose of clinical supervision, perspectives from the world of mental health, and clinical supervision for practice nurses. This book also looks at how clinical supervision can be integrated into GP vocational training, as well as the opportunities that can be gained for introducing clinical supervision into GP postgraduate training.

A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana, where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States, known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics. The stories that statistics can't tell unfold in this book, in which twenty-three recent immigrants recall navigating the paradoxes, pitfalls, and triumphs of becoming Americans. Candid, evocative, and richly detailed, their oral histories comprise a compelling portrait of the changing face of the American population. In venues from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times, Ellen Alexander Conley's fiction has been hailed as "wonderful," "impassioned," and "memorable." Conley brings the same passion and skill to her depiction of our nation's most recent arrivals. These personal histories, along with Conley's thoughtful overview of literature on immigration, give us a firsthand sense of what it means to become an American.