Wat sal gebeur as jy die skoolhoof kielie?
Kan jy die alfabet van A tot Z burp?
Kruip daar ’n wurm in hierdie boek weg?
Waarom is dit ’n slegte idee om jou toonnaels te kou?
Wat is die moeilikste vraag op aarde?

Die antwoorde op al hierdie vrae is in hierdie SKREEUSNAAKSE rympieboek uit die pen van Jaco Jacobs! Meer as 60 rympies wat gewaarborg is om jou lagspiere hope oefening te gee. Briljant vir eisteddfods!

GROUP COUNSELING: STRATEGIES AND SKILLS, Eighth Edition, provides an in-depth look at group counseling with an emphasis on practical knowledge and techniques for effective group leadership. The authors discuss the many facets of group counseling and provide examples of how each skill can be applied in a wide range of group settings to produce effective and efficient group sessions. The book's active approach focuses on the skills necessary for starting and ending a session, as well as on how to make the middle phase productive and meaningful. Through its integration of traditional theories and concepts of group process with thoughtful strategies and specific skills, this reader-friendly book meets the needs of practicing or future counselors, social workers, psychologists, and others who are leading or preparing to lead groups in a variety of settings.

During the past five years there has been a reawakening of interest in the psychotherapy of patients with medical disorders characterized as psychosomatic. For three decades, psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy were used extensively to treat and study psychosomatic disorders. Early in the 1960s, interest in this approach to these conditions faded, and the .Psychosomatic Service. in most hospitals became the .Consultation Liaison Service. (Lipowski, 1967). The recent focus of biofeedback on psychosomatic conditions provides a new technique with which the physician or psychiatrist may treat these patients (Rickles, 1981). In addition, the successful application of biofeedback training to a variety of complaints such as those presented in this volume has heralded the addition of biofeedback to the treatment modalities used for medical complaints. Frequently, psychological factors can still be seen; for example, when biofeedback treatment may require lifestyle changes on the part of the patient, the exploration of secondary gains or resistances before the disorder can be success fully treated, and the establishment of rapport and empathy which is so important for truly effective biofeedback training. Aside from certain psychological dimensions that are always present in biofeed back training, in this case biofeedback is being used in a primarily medical setting for primarily medical complaints."

Dimethylsulfoxid (DMSO) istalsSubstanzkeine Unbekannte: seitJahrzehntenwird es als Lt!sungsmittel fUr bestimmte organische Verbindungen in der chemischen Industrie benutzt. Erst in den letzten Jahren ist DMSO als Arzneimittel (wieder) entdeckt worden. Nachdem erste Versuche bald nach dem 2. Weltkrieg mit unzureichend reinem DMSO aufgrund ihrer Nebenwirkungen eingestellt wurden, begann die systemati- scheUntersuchungvonDMSO spaternochmals- mitderhochgereinigtenSubstanz. Aufgrund der Vorgeschichte - in den USA war DMSO zeitweise unter dubiosen Umstanden in Verkehr gebracht worden - galt es, vieI MiBtrauen und Vorurteile abzubauen. Heute, nach zahlreichen toxikologischen Untersuchungen und jahrelangen Erfah- rungen am Menschen kann diese Substanz als ausreichendsicherbetrachtetwerden. In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gehOrt das DMSO-haltige Dolobene Gel heute zu den fUhrenden Externa im Sport- und Rheumabereich. Diewissenschaftlicheund klinische Erforschung von DMSO und seinen Kombinationen zusammenzufassen und anzuregen, warZieldiesesWorkshops. Heutekonnenwirsagen, daB dieErwar- tungen weit ubertroffen wurden, daB bereits Neuentwicklungen auf der Basis von DMSO in der klinischen Prufung sind. BesondererDankgilt allen Tagungsteilnehmern, besonders aber den beiden Vorsit- zenden, Herrn Dr. Jacob und Herrn Herschler, Portland (USA) sowie Frau Bauer, Frau Eckleund Herrn Dr. Rubsamen von der Abt. Med.-Wiss. undHerrnWandals Organisationsleiter. Blaubeuren, im September 1985 Dr. med. Michael Herschel (LeiterBereich Medizin, Merckle GmbH) Preface Physicalpaincanbeaseriousburden,andreliefofincapacitatingpainmustbeviewed as a great blessing; any degree ofreliefcontributes to the overall quality oflife.

A compilation of poetry from childhood to adulthood this book spans fifteen years of work. Within these pages is an exciting journey of life's up's and down's and the growth of a writer. It is also a symbol of a life long goal accomplished and the beginning of a new journey.

Public opinion polls are everywhere. Journalists report their results without hesitation, and political activists of all kinds spend millions of dollars on them, fueling the widespread assumption that elected officials "pander" to public opinion--that they tailor their policy decisions to the results of polls.
In this provocative and engagingly written book, the authors argue that the reality is quite the opposite. In fact, when not facing election, contemporary presidents and members of Congress routinely ignore the public's policy preferences and follow their own political philosophies, as well as those of their party's activists, their contributors, and their interest group allies. Politicians devote substantial time, effort, and money to tracking public opinion, not for the purposes of policymaking, but to change public opinion--to determine how to craft their public statements and actions to win support for the policies they and their supporters want.
Taking two recent, dramatic episodes--President Clinton's failed health care reform campaign, and Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America"--as examples, the authors show how both used public opinion research and the media to change the public's mind. Such orchestrated displays help explain the media's preoccupation with political conflict and strategy and, the authors argue, have propelled levels of public distrust and fear of government to record highs.
Revisiting the fundamental premises of representative democracy, this accessible book asks us to reexamine whether our government really responds to the broad public or to the narrower interests and values of certain groups. And with the 2000 campaign season heating up, "Politicians Don't Pander" could not be more timely.
"'Polling has turned leaders into followers, ' laments columnist Marueen Dowd of "The New York Times." Well, that's news definitely not fit to print say two academics who have examined the polls and the legislative records of recent presidents to see just how responsive chief executives are to the polls. Their conclusion: not much. . . . In fact, their review and analyses found that public opinion polls on policy appear to have increasingly less, not more, influence on government policies."--Richard Morin, "The Washington Post"

Personality Disorder offers a comprehensive and accessible collection of papers that will be practically useful to practitioners working in secure and non-secure settings with patients who have personality disorders. This book brings together fourteen classic papers, which address the impact that working with personality disorder patients can have on staff. It also offers theoretical explanations for personality disorder, and explores other issues such as the concept of boundaries in clinical practice, psychiatric staff as attachment figures and the relationship between severity of personality disorder and childhood experiences. Each paper is introduced with contextual material, and is followed by a series of questions that are intended to be used as educational exercises. This book will be essential reading for clinical and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, social workers and students.