Helps you make decisions about your healthcare in respect to quality of care and affordability. This book offers knowledge on 10 areas: evaluating physicians, finding good dental care, traditional private health insurance, managed care, Medicaid and Medicare, surgery, hospital stays, nursing homes, home and hospice care, and prescription drugs.
Develop Your Knowledge of Yoga Principles and Practice
An accessible guide on the history, anatomy and philosophy behind yoga, showing how yoga students can develop and grow their personal practice. By offering students and teacher trainees guidance on how to move on to the next stage in their learning, this practical companion helps to deepen their understanding of holistic yoga ......
Noted for its multisystemic-ecological perspective, this accessible text and practitioner resource has now been revised. The book provides a comprehensive view of adolescent development and explores effective ways to support teens who are having difficulties.
Whether you are a busy mum, wife, single woman, working in or outside of the home, studying, or just managing your day to day life right now, this journal is for you. I have designed it based on the many ideas I have personally found helpful in my own life, and the young people I teach. I hope they help you too. Sometimes, it can be helpful to ......
What does a dementia diagnosis mean for an individual's sense of self? Christine Bryden shares her insider view on living with dementia and explains how a continuing sense of self is possible after diagnosis and as the condition develops.
Encouraging a deeper understanding of how individuals live meaningfully with ......
Natural Relief from Heartburn, Indigestion, Reflux and GERD
This groundbreaking book unleashes a brilliant new plan for permanently curing heartburn by relieving the root cause of the problem: low stomach acid. The fact is that heartburn is caused by too little stomach acid -- not too much, as many doctors profess. As explained in this book, the current practice of reducing stomach acid may be a temporary ......
A guide to living the seasons in harmony, the Chinese wisdom tradition way, the book deeply explores the connections between the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual levels of human experience.
Here is a comprehensive and practical guide to using the Five Element model in your daily life in ways that can ......
With its practical and immensely readable introduction to the nature and self-help uses of a key acupoint for each week of the year, this book is a gateway to the mysterious world of Chinese medical thought.
The author journeys through the seasons of the year, and the five elements that make up the Chinese ......
Resilience has never been more important in helping us navigate the stresses and adversity of modern life. Resilience acts as a protective armour that helps us deal with the toughest challenges that life throws at us. The best thing about resilience? It is a skill that you can develop at any age.
Unemployment can be an isolating experience. In this much-needed book, Michael John Carley reassures readers who are unemployed and have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) that they are not alone. Offering guidance on how you can cope with unemployment in a constructive and emotionally healthy manner, Michael John Carley writes with a ......
Anxiety is a prevalent and often debilitating condition for individuals on the autism spectrum. This book promotes a multidisciplinary approach to intervention and treatment of the condition, providing professional understanding of the underlying causes and available treatments.
After modern NSW was established in 1788, the health modalities of the British settlers were quickly organised into two rival camps. On the one hand there was the formal health system, on the other there was an informal system practiced by anyone who chose to call themselves a healer. This work sets out to trace the course of the rivalries.
Solidly grounded in contemporary research, yet appealing to therapists who prioritize the patient-therapist relationship, Trusting in Psychotherapy presents psychotherapy as a craft, and embraces the developmental perspective that mastery is the work of a lifetime.
Grounded in 40 years of clinical practice and research, this book provides a systematic yet flexible evidence-informed framework for treating adult survivors of complex trauma, particularly those exposed to chronic emotional abuse or neglect.
This book presents ground-breaking ideas based on current research on how stigma cancause bodily felt trauma in stigmatised or marginalised people, particularly those on theautism spectrum. Gordon Gates draws on his academic research, professional knowledgeas a counsellor, and lived experience with Asperger's syndrome to provide a uniqueframework ......
Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process
From pioneering therapist Cathy A. Malchiodi, this book synthesizes the breadth of research on trauma and the brain and presents an innovative framework for treating trauma through the expressive arts. The volume describes powerful ways to tap into deeply felt bodily and sensory experiences as a foundation for safely exploring emotions, memories, ......
Our remedies are only largely as good as the way in which we dispense them. Thats the central premise of Thinking About Prescribing, a new volume that encourages psychopharmacotherapists to view the prescribing of a medication to young patients not as the beginning of the end of a therapeutic conversation
This new and fully updated edition of the best-selling theories text for social workers introduces social work students and practitioners to a wide variety of theories for direct social work practice.
