Develop a comprehensive understanding of cardiac disease process Cardiovascular problems are on the rise in America. Care providers need to understand the overall clinical and statistical significance these life-changing events have to patients and families alike. Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients is a pragmatic guide that helps social workers and other psychosocial professionals develop and apply cardiac group work in a proactive and directed manner. This valuable text explores social group work with patients immediately recovering from a cardiac eventheart attack or failure, transplants, and implantable cardiac devicesas well the secondary effects of such events. Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients helps social work and healthcare professionals develop a comprehensive understanding of the psychosocial aspect of cardiac care. In addition to examining the correlation between cardiac disease and depression and anxiety, looking at the emotional aspects of heart disease, and providing an overview of social work group care, this unique text details the four core social groupscognitive-behavioral, psychoeducational, skill development, and interpersonal. Both fundamental and state-of-the-art, this comprehensive approach serves to enhance practice skills for immediate and constructive implementation. Important topics discussed in Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients also include: understanding adherence to cardiac health and psychosocial variables suggestions for using basic social groups and their development adherence issues associated with care stress management management of anger among patients holistic affects of cardiac disease on patients and families compliance, follow-up, and follow through substance abuse human sexuality differences between support groups and social group work models group leadership and co-leadership skills and many more! Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients is an asset as a pragmatic, relevant guide for development and actuation of both general social groups and specialty group treatment. An accessible and practical stand-alone text, Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients is ideal for mental health and substance abuse social workers, counselors, cardiac nurse specialists, cardiac treatment staff, and students of social work.

Develop a comprehensive understanding of cardiac disease process Cardiovascular problems are on the rise in America. Care providers need to understand the overall clinical and statistical significance these life-changing events have to patients and families alike. Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients is a pragmatic guide that helps social workers and other psychosocial professionals develop and apply cardiac group work in a proactive and directed manner. This valuable text explores social group work with patients immediately recovering from a cardiac eventheart attack or failure, transplants, and implantable cardiac devicesas well the secondary effects of such events. Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients helps social work and healthcare professionals develop a comprehensive understanding of the psychosocial aspect of cardiac care. In addition to examining the correlation between cardiac disease and depression and anxiety, looking at the emotional aspects of heart disease, and providing an overview of social work group care, this unique text details the four core social groupscognitive-behavioral, psychoeducational, skill development, and interpersonal. Both fundamental and state-of-the-art, this comprehensive approach serves to enhance practice skills for immediate and constructive implementation. Important topics discussed in Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients also include: understanding adherence to cardiac health and psychosocial variables suggestions for using basic social groups and their development adherence issues associated with care stress management management of anger among patients holistic affects of cardiac disease on patients and families compliance, follow-up, and follow through substance abuse human sexuality differences between support groups and social group work models group leadership and co-leadership skills and many more! Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients is an asset as a pragmatic, relevant guide for development and actuation of both general social groups and specialty group treatment. An accessible and practical stand-alone text, Social Group Work with Cardiac Patients is ideal for mental health and substance abuse social workers, counselors, cardiac nurse specialists, cardiac treatment staff, and students of social work.

Bah, humbug! Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean-spirited, miserly old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghosts of past, present and future, who will show him the error of his ways. Will the bitter Scrooge be able to change for the better?

A machine takes over the human reality and removes love. LOVE and believing in God will be the deciding factor. A story of Biblical understandings and mesages.

An Anthology of three books; A Righteous Story, Return, and End. Travel time and space discovering how God works in Glen's life and the life around his time and dimension. Along the way discovering figures of Biblical proportions taking on monumental roles, we find our characters battling to the end to save and protect to the last what God had commanded.

Dan comes to the conclusion that God needs no technology in his world as he thought God was speaking to him to get rid of all of the traveling and transportation resources. Dan thought the reason for the "Battle of Minds" was that of the technology used and not of the spiritual beings behind it. Dan discovers some very important truths to the end of the series that shows all the importance God has in the lives of man.

Time Travelers battle both themselves and their fellow inner spirits in a warfare that takes place on and over some biblical and spiritual health and well being for them. God exists and influences the characters greatly to find their way. Though many will not lead in God's command in the story only the believers will remain in the end to combat the armies of evil from taking over. New innovations in travel are made in this dimension outside of our own, they no longer rely on modern travel instead they use other means and this halters their progress and in the end destroys them. Technology can be used for and against God and only He will decide how it all will play out. How will the nations of Earth survive in this dimension when they try to rebuild and return to God? Then how will God play apart in their dimension?

After the time machine was invented in a different dimension, Judif the angel decides to go off on an adventure seeing if the time machine works, after testing the machine Glen is ready to try it. As Glen a time traveler, learns about our dimension and decides to take a trip there; his time machine goes haywire and it changes the reality he goes to. Suddenly Glen is in a reality that is not his own, surrounded by names and characters of biblical proportions; all along the Leaders in God show the importance of God and His major role in Glen's life. Each reality is actually a different time in Glen and Sarah's past together, all along looking for and finding God in unexpected places. Glen and Sarah learned how to have a good relationship with God. Although time seems jumbled up for these characters they are actually in order as Glen and Sarah revisit their past so does David their son realize the connection between their dreams and tells them what it was all about.

"Axis of Evil World Tour" goes beyond the superficial coverage found in much of the media to bring a boots-on-the-ground look at three of the most enigmatic, difficult-to-enter countries on the planet-Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

North Korea: Visit the tense yet quiet DMZ that divides North from South, one of the eeriest places on earth. Spend time touring Pyongyang, the showcase capital that houses the regime and its elites. Travel halfway across the country to the beautiful "Heavenly Fragrance" mountain for a visit to the surreal, cult-like "museums" housing gifts to the country's leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.

Iraq: What's it like to live on a U.S. military base during the war in Iraq? Spend two months as part of the Iraqi Survey Group, the international team that was tasked with finding Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

Iran: What do Iranians think of the U.S. and Americans? You might be surprised. Travel around the country and take an inside look at Khomeini's tomb, hear about Iran's own fight against Al Qaeda, and take a look inside the secret world of the mullahs that really run Iran.

Head to AxisofEvilTour.com for photos, book excerpts, and video clips.