Meet the hardest men from a country where the streets are the most dangerous and the gangsters and criminals are the scariest in Britain. These faces have seen it all: the guns, the knives, the fights and the toughest prisons. This book will take you deep inside the rough, mad, bad, drug-infested, cut-throat, back-stabbing world of the Scottish prison system, bringing to light the last fifty years of infamous incidents that have taken place behind bars in some of the highest security prisons. With a frightening in-depth look at the most notorious prisons and institutions and the most daunting and fearsome of inmates, this compulsive guide covers them all from murderers to armed-robbers, a female crime clan with a family feel to it and some of the most notorious cases in Scottish criminal history.

In Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women with Breast Cancer, the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine examines the psychosocial consequences of the cancer experience. The book focuses specifically on breast cancer in women because this group has the largest survivor population (over 2 million) and this disease is the most extensively studied cancer from the standpoint of psychosocial effects. The book characterizes the psychosocial consequences of a diagnosis of breast cancer, describes psychosocial services and how they are delivered, and evaluates their effectiveness. It assesses the status of professional education and training and applied clinical and health services research and proposes policies to improve the quality of care and quality of life for women with breast cancer and their families. Because cancer of the breast is likely a good model for cancer at other sites, recommendations for this cancer should be applicable to the psychosocial care provided generally to individuals with cancer. For breast cancer, and indeed probably for any cancer, the report finds that psychosocial services can provide significant benefits in quality of life and success in coping with serious and life-threatening disease for patients and their families. Table of Contents Front Matter Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Epidemiology of Breast Cancer 3 Psychosocial Needs of Women with Breast Cancer 4 Psychosocial Services and Providers 5 The Effectiveness of Psychosocial Interventions for Women with Breast Cancer 6 Delivering Psychosocial Services 7 Barriers to Appropriate Use of Psychosocial Services 8 Research Appendix A Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women with Breast Cancer Appendix B Tables and Boxes Summarizing Evidence from Clinical Trials

Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care. The beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities and institutions began. Let down and frequently abused, it wasn't long before Jimmy strayed onto the wrong side of the tracks. Before long, the mould for a problem child was set. He quickly turned from substance abuse to drug use and, in turn, to crime - his only means of an escape. An inevitable lifetime of crime faced him and he soon became associated with the ringleaders of an infamous gang responsible for prison riots and hostage taking. A heartfelt, shocking and despairing insight into life as a state-raised boy, "Lost in Care" is the heart-rending tale of a man who has lost his childhood and also lost his way.

Durante ms de veinte aos, Jimmie C. Holland ha sido una pionera en el estudio de los problemas psicolgicos que afectan tanto a pacientes con cncer como a sus allegados -de los que ella dice que los verdaderos expertos en la enfermedad. En La cara humana del cncer, Holland comparte su largo aprendizaje sobre cmo enfrentar la enfermedad y cmo ayudar a sobrellevar los sentimientos de ansiedad e incertidumbre que genera el viaje a travs del cncer. Se trata de una gua teraputica, prctica y realista, que explora el espectro de emociones que experimentan los enfermos -y sus familiares y amigos- desde el momento del diagnstico y el a menudo largo y doloroso tratamiento de la enfermedad, hasta el despus del cncer. El punto de partida del libro es que existen tantas maneras de enfrentarse a la enfermedad y tantas terapias de apoyo como personas que la padecen. Por este motivo, los autores ofrecen un amplio abanico de estrategias fsicas y psicolgicas, tanto tradicionales como alternativas, para luchar contra la depresin, la culpa, el miedo al dolor y a la ciruga, o las secuelas fsicas que sufren tanto los enfermos de cncer como los que les acompaan.