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  • Introduction to Validation
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    Introduction to Validation

    Learn the essential principles and techniques of the Validation method through demonstrations by Validation originator Naomi Feil and Master Teacher Vicki de Klerk-Rubin in this short training DVD. The powerful communication techniques can be used by...
    $163.00

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  • Menopause:
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    Menopause:

    Like so many other issues surrounding women's reproductive health, menopause has often been treated as a cultural taboo. On the rare occasions that menopausal and perimenopausal women are depicted in popular culture, they are stereotypically cast as the...
    $68.99

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  • Spirituality and Ageing
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    Spirituality and Ageing

    This volume presents the experience of ageing as an opportunity for spiritual reflection and affirmation of life. The contributors are religious and spiritual leaders and ethical thinkers from a range of backgrounds. They define ''spirituality'' not just...
    $83.99

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  • Helping Children to Manage Loss
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    Helping Children to Manage Loss

    Children experience loss in many ways: in the loss of a parent through death or divorce, through illness or disability, in failure and bullying, and in the host of hurts that are inherent in being alive.Helping Children to Manage Loss: Positive...
    $66.99

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  • Homeless Children
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    Homeless Children

    This text is divided into two: section one defines the specific problems and needs of homeless children, drawing up guidelines for staff and agencies for dealing with those problems. Section two makes recommendations to local and health authorities on...
    $74.99

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  • Strengthen Your Mind Program
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    Strengthen Your Mind Program

    Meet the growing demand for memory-enhancement programs with this ready-to-use course for boosting brain function! If you have thought about creating a memory enhancement course but don't know where to start-or you need to improve your existing...
    $117.00

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  • Speaking Our Minds
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    Speaking Our Minds

    Gain exceptional insight into the world of the person with Alzheimer's through this enlightening collection of first-hand accounts. Speaking Our Minds provides an unparalleled view into the day-to-day experience of Alzheimer's through the reflections of...
    $58.99

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  • Managing Child Sexual Abuse Cases
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    Managing Child Sexual Abuse Cases

    Written for professionals, this text examines the complex nature of child sexual abuse cases and current social work practice, exploring the problems encountered by local authority social workers who are required to intervene in families to protect...
    $62.99

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  • Facing Death
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    Facing Death

    Individuals facing death may not know how to express the range of emotions, questions, and discoveries they experience. At the same time, family members, friends, and even professional caregivers may be uncertain as to whether and how to broach the...
    $64.99

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  • Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings Series
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    Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings Series

    Professional caregiving staff deal regularly with disruptive behaviors in residents with dementia but often do not have adequate tools to decipher the underlying causes of these behaviors. Through this 21-minute DVD, viewers learn to evaluate all aspects...
    $204.00

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  • Los Mejores Amigos en el Cuidado de Alzheimer
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    Los Mejores Amigos en el Cuidado de Alzheimer

    Now available in Spanish, The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care is your guide to the ground-breaking and uplifting method for the care of people with Alzheimer s disease. Discover the power of the essential elements of friendship: respect,...
    $80.99

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  • Children as Citizens: Education for Participation
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    Children as Citizens: Education for Participation

    This text takes a critical look at the debate on education for citizenship. It examines the views of children and practising teachers on the nature of citizenship, global responsibility and social justice and human rights, as well as the system itself...
    $68.99

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  • Children's Homes Revisited
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    Children's Homes Revisited

    David Berridge is Professor of Child and Family Welfare in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. He began his career as a residential social worker and has been a researcher for 25 years. He is the author of several books, chapters...
    $62.99

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  • Validation Techniques for Dementia Care
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    Validation Techniques for Dementia Care

    Written especially for family members and friends caring for people with dementia, this practical guidebook offers a solution to commonly faced communication and relationship difficulties. The Validation approach's caring, empathetic techniques have been...
    $62.99

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  • Guide to Bed Safety
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    Guide to Bed Safety

    Bed safety is a critical component of an effective falls management program - 30 per cent to 50 per cent of all falls occur in the bedroom. This CD-ROM will assist in training staff to understand the fall risks associated with beds and bed transfers and...
    $109.00

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  • Finding Work-Life Balance
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    Finding Work-Life Balance

    At different stages of life, we approach work with varying levels of energy, drive and perspective. Many people feel unfulfilled in their work, or feel their work-life balance is hopelessly wrong. Jos van der Brug's readable and informal book helps the...
    $21.99

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  • Alzheimer's from the Inside Out
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    Alzheimer's from the Inside Out

    Richard Taylor has lived for five years with a diagnosis of dementia probably of the Alzheimer's type. A former psychologist, he is now a champion for individuals with early-stage and early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Richard served on the board of the...
    $58.99

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  • Happy New Year to You!
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    Happy New Year to You!

    This second book in the series of "Two-Lap[trademark]" books provides the same outstanding communication opportunities as the award-winning The Sunshine On My Face. Designed specifically for memory-challenged adults to read aloud with a companion, the...
    $60.99

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  • Navigating the Alzheimer's Journey
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    Navigating the Alzheimer's Journey

    This practical, easy-to-read book is a guide for caregivers of people with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). The author describes common examples of challenges in day-to-day care, provides guidelines for ways to respond to these...
    $75.99

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  • The Social Symbolism of Grief and Mourning
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    The Social Symbolism of Grief and Mourning

    Roger Grainger was a registered Dramatherapist, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and occasional TV actor. He held a PhD in Sociology from Leeds University as well as Doctorates in Theology and Implicit Religion, and worked as a psychiatric chaplain for...
    $74.99

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  • Middle Childhood
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    Middle Childhood

    The period of childhood which falls between the early years and adolescence is one which many parents perceive as crucial and anxiety-provoking, but is a comparatively neglected area of study. As a child reaches middle childhood, relationships within the...
    $62.99

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  • Middle Childhood
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    Middle Childhood

    The period of childhood which falls between the early years and adolescence is one which many parents perceive as crucial and anxiety-provoking, but is a comparatively neglected area of study. As a child reaches middle childhood, relationships within the...
    $124.00

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  • Anorexics on Anorexia
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    Anorexics on Anorexia

    In this work recovering sufferers of anorexia nervosa describe in their own words their personal experiences of this illness, providing not only support for fellow sufferers but also valuable insights for the families of sufferers and for carers and...
    $52.99

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  • Issues in Foster Care
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    Issues in Foster Care

    Drawing on professional experience from a broad range of perspectives, this is a consideration of the central features of the development of a responsive fostering service. The book focuses on the effectiveness and efficiency of existing assessment...
    $62.99

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  • Wholeness in Later Life
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    Wholeness in Later Life

    Ruth Bright is a Consultant Music Therapist who specialises in grief counselling and was Founding President of the Australian Music Therapy Association. She is a long-standing member (and immediate Past-President) of the Board of Directors of the...
    $67.99

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  • Lowering High Blood Pressure
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    Lowering High Blood Pressure

    This book offers a tailored and holistic programme for anyone who suffers from high blood pressure, distinguishing between three core types of hypertension: stress type, abdominal type, and chaos type. Conventional treatments for high blood pressure...
    $27.99

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  • Making the Moments Count
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    Making the Moments Count

    Written by a Therapeutic Recreation Specialist with more than twenty years' experience helping people--from depressed teenagers to people with disabilities to older people with chronic illness--Making the Moments Count provides clear strategies for...
    $60.99

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  • 4WD Treks Close to Brisbane - A4 Spiral Bound
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    4WD Treks Close to Brisbane - A4 Spiral Bound

    This great new title from Boiling Billy features 25 day and weekend 4WD tours on both the beaches and in the forests surrounding Queensland’s capital city. 4WD Treks Close to Brisbane will take readers to the best destinations the region has on offer...
    $44.99

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  • Keeping Foster Children Safe Online
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    Keeping Foster Children Safe Online

    The internet has brought information to our fingertips and made connecting with others easier than ever, but it also brings with it risks - especially for foster families. Backgrounds of neglect and abuse, an absence of supportive adults, lower...
    $40.99

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  • The Foster Parenting Manual
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    The Foster Parenting Manual

    Dr John DeGarmo is a proud foster and adoptive parent who has fostered over 40 children. He regularly speaks on his experiences at conferences and training sessions, and is dedicated to improving and promoting successful foster and adoptive care systems...
    $42.99

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  • How to Create a Successful Adoption Portfolio
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    How to Create a Successful Adoption Portfolio

    Having a strong adoption portfolio increases your chances of building a family through adoption but how do you create an adoption portfolio that will show prospective birth families why you are the perfect adoptive parent for their child? Do you know...
    $54.99

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  • How to Create a Successful Adoption Portfolio
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    How to Create a Successful Adoption Portfolio

    Having a strong adoption portfolio increases your chances of building a family through adoption but how do you create an adoption portfolio that will show prospective birth families why you are the perfect adoptive parent for their child? Do you know...
    $54.99

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  • Can I tell you about Adoption?
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    Can I tell you about Adoption?

    Meet Chelsea - a young girl who was adopted. Chelsea invites you to learn about adoption from her perspective and introduces us to two friends of hers who were also transracially adopted. Chelsea and her friends help children understand what it means to...
    $31.99

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  • Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play
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    Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play

    Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond -- whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences.Attachment...
    $48.99

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  • Foster Parenting Step-by-Step
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    Foster Parenting Step-by-Step

    Dr Kalyani Gopal is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years' experience specialising in working with foster parents. She regularly contributes to Foster Focus magazine offering expert advice. She is on the Lake County Child Protection and...
    $42.99

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  • Cranial Osteopathy: Principles and Practice - Volume 1
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    Cranial Osteopathy: Principles and Practice - Volume 1

    Taking a profound inner approach to help the modern Cranial Osteopathic practitioner understand Cranial Osteopathy from a deeper and broader perspective, this book begins by takes the reader on a journey of understanding about themselves as a...
    $169.00

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  • Cranial Osteopathy: Principles and Practice - Volume 2
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    Cranial Osteopathy: Principles and Practice - Volume 2

    Taking a profound inner approach to help the modern Cranial Osteopathic practitioner understand Cranial Osteopathy from a deeper and broader perspective, this second volume focuses on special sense organs, orofacial pains, headaches and cranial nerves...
    $169.00

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  • Adopted Like Me
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    Adopted Like Me

    Hi – I'm Max, and I'm adopted. You may not know this but many famous and inspirational people were adopted too. Adopted Like Me introduces you to great musicians like Bo Diddley, politicians like Nelson Mandela, and stars like Marilyn Monroe. Meet these...
    $42.99

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  • The Interracial Adoption Option
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    The Interracial Adoption Option

    Marlene G. Fine is a Professor of Communications at Simmons College in Boston. She is also a facilitator for the YW Boston City-wide Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity. Marlene is a parent of two adopted African American sons and lives in Massachusetts, USA.
    $48.99

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  • Surviving Girlhood
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    Surviving Girlhood

    Teenage girls can be mean. Often stemming from poor self-awareness, self-esteem and lack of relationship skills, complex friendship dynamics can be difficult to unravel and bullying can be hard to resolve.Surviving Girlhood provides a unique resource for...
    $59.99

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