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  • What Makes a Good Nurse
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    What Makes a Good Nurse

    Derek Sellman qualified first as a mental health and then as a general adult nurse before studying for a BSc (Hons) in Nursing Studies at Manchester Polytechnic and a Master's Degree and PhD at the Institute of Education, University of London. He...
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  • A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life
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    A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life

    An award-winning psychologist and professional photographer join forces in this unique creative guide to exploring and understanding your life: who you are, what you value, and what you wish to achieve.A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life brims with...
    $65.99

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  • Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology for Nursing Practice
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    Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology for Nursing Practice

    The essential guide to anatomy and physiology for nursing students. The new edition of Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology for Nursing Practice brings together text, video, full-colour illustrations, interactive activities, and more, to provide nursing...
    $109.00

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  • Healing the Inner City Child
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    Healing the Inner City Child

    Healing the Inner City Child presents a diverse practical collection of creative arts therapies approaches that meet the ever-increasing mental health needs of inner city children, whose exposure to air and noise pollution, and relatively high instances...
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  • Filling a Need While Making Some Noise
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    Filling a Need While Making Some Noise

    This book teaches, provides painful insight, and creates awareness and empathy for the patients, families, and caregivers who are living and working every day within a framework of tragedy. This book is also great entertainment. You will laugh and cry,...
    $54.99

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  • Art Therapy and Social Action
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    Art Therapy and Social Action

    Frances F. Kaplan is an eminent art therapist and teaches graduate art therapy courses at Marylhurst College and Portland State University, both in Oregon. She has published widely, presented at national conferences, worked for peace organizations.
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  • Empowering Children through Art and Expression
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    Empowering Children through Art and Expression

    Bruce St. Thomas has an Ed.D in Counselling Psychology from the University of Maine at Orono, along with over 30 years of clinical consultation experience with children, families, therapeutic groups, community programs and educational organizations. He...
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  • An Introduction to Medical Dance/Movement Therapy
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    An Introduction to Medical Dance/Movement Therapy

    Presenting dance/movement therapy (DMT) as a viable and valuable psychosocial support service for those with a medical illness, Sharon W. Goodill shows how working creatively with the mind/body connection can encourage and enhance the healing process...
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  • Amy Elizabeth Goes to Play Therapy
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    Amy Elizabeth Goes to Play Therapy

    Reassuring and encouraging, Amy Elizabeth Goes to Play Therapy suggests that therapy will be a fun and beneficial experience. With attractive illustrations capturing a child's perspective, the book is ideally suited for children aged between 2 and 12...
    $34.99

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  • The Music Effect
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    The Music Effect

    The Music Effect is a comprehensive guide to music as an effective therapeutic tool in behaviour modification and control, stress and pain management, and rehabilitation. The authors explain what ‘music' is, how it is processed by and affects the body,...
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  • Storytelling with Children in Crisis: Take Just One Star
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    Storytelling with Children in Crisis: Take Just One Star

    Molly Salans has been a storyteller for many years, visiting children in deprived areas who have depression, AD/HD and behavioral problems caused by poverty, absent fathers, depressed mothers, run-down schools and violence. Describing her therapy...
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  • Art Therapy and AD/HD
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    Art Therapy and AD/HD

    Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is increasingly being diagnosed in people of all ages, and this book demonstrates how art therapy can not only assist with diagnosis, but also provides a valuable means of helping to improve skills.
    $71.99

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  • Printmaking as Therapy
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    Printmaking as Therapy

    This combination of technical information, clinical applications and practical instructions for using the printmaking processes will make this book a valuable tool for art therapists, occupational therapists, physio-therapists and others working with...
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  • Complementary Therapies in Maternity Care
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    Complementary Therapies in Maternity Care

    A comprehensive and applied textbook on complementary therapies in maternity care. This book addresses how midwives and other birth professionals can use or advise on complementary therapies for pregnant, labouring and new mothers. Midwives and some...
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  • Healing World Trauma with the Therapeutic Spiral Model
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    Healing World Trauma with the Therapeutic Spiral Model

    The Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM) was developed as a clinical method of addressing deep issues of trauma, notably post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relating to physical and emotional abuse and addiction. A modified form of classical psychodrama and...
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  • Exploring the Self through Photography
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    Exploring the Self through Photography

    Photography shows us how to look at things from different perspectives, to reflect, to communicate and to express ourselves in a way that goes beyond words. The creative and introspective qualities of this accessible arts medium make it an ideal tool for...
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  • Reflections of Body Image in Art Therapy
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    Reflections of Body Image in Art Therapy

    Margaret R. Hunter is an Art Therapist, as well as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She provides psychological counseling services at California State University, working extensively with body image concerns among the student population...
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  • Nursing within a Faith Community
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    Nursing within a Faith Community

    Authors Margaret Clark and Joanne Nelson provide a unique outlook on the theoretical underpinnings for faith community nursing from the perspectives of both theology and nursing. Divided into seven sections, the book includes topics such as theoretical...
    $438.00

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  • A Manual of Dynamic Play Therapy
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    A Manual of Dynamic Play Therapy

    Dennis McCarthy is a licensed mental health counselor in New York state and is the director of Metamorfos Institute. He is a psychotherapist working with both children and adults and specializing in sandplay and dream work. Initially trained as a dancer,...
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  • Parish Nursing
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    Parish Nursing

    Providing an overview of the practice of par ish nursing, this book covers a variety of perspectives on f aith community nursing roles and practice. It discusses diff erent settings such as urban and rural, and examines practic e and educational issues. '
    $316.00

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  • Bio-Guided Music Therapy
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    Bio-Guided Music Therapy

    Dr. Eric B. Miller is a psychotherapist, music therapist and biofeedback therapist with experience in inpatient, outpatient, corporate and educational settings. He lectures on Music Therapy at Immaculata University and Montclair University and is a...
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  • Creative Expression Activities for Teens
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    Creative Expression Activities for Teens

    Bonnie Thomas LCSW is a school-based clinician, providing individual and family therapy to children aged 3GÇô12. She has also worked in the Juvenile Corrections System and coordinated a mentoring programme for young girls living in public housing.
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  • Poetry and Story Therapy
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    Poetry and Story Therapy

    Geri Chavis is a professor of English at St. Catherine University, Minnesota, a Licensed Psycholgist in private practice, and a Certified Poetry Therapist and poetry therapy mentor/supervisor. She is a former Vice President of the National Association...
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  • Performing New Lives
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    Performing New Lives

    Performing New Lives draws together some of the most original and innovative programs in contemporary prison theatre. Leading prison theatre directors and practitioners discuss the prison theatre experience first-hand, and offer valuable insights into...
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  • Expressive Arts with Elders
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    Expressive Arts with Elders

    This engaging and practical book shows how older people who are disoriented or depressed or socially excluded by the process of aging can experience a renewed sense of connectedness and life-affirmation through the expressive arts and arts therapies...
    $95.99

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  • Total Engagement
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    Total Engagement

    Total Engagement presents activity ideas for encouraging exploration and self-expression in older adults experiencing varying degrees of limitation in mental or physical performance. Its goal is to present engaging activities that respect and celebrate...
    $82.99

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  • The Hospice Team
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    The Hospice Team

    This singular work offers a truly interdisciplinary team perspective on caring, presented by 21 veterans of hospice service representing the array of disciplines in effective teams-physicians, nurses, certified nurse assistants, social workers,...
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  • The Inside Scoop on Informed Choice
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    The Inside Scoop on Informed Choice

    Administrators, nurses, dietary managers, and dietitians can support a person's right to make personal food choices (while also meeting regulatory guidelines and reducing liability) using this guide to creating person-centered meal plans in long-term...
    $141.00

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  • More Than Just a Meal
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    More Than Just a Meal

    Susan R. Makin is currently pursuing her career as a professional artist, writer, and advisor, in Boston and Toronto. She was previously Psychotherapeutic Services Coordinator and Expressive Arts Therapist at The Welcare Center, Toronto, while a lecturer...
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  • Transitions in Dying and Bereavement
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    Transitions in Dying and Bereavement

    In the new edition of this unique professional resource, hospice and palliative care team members-especially social workers and counselors-will find the empirical evidence and compassionate advice they need to provide excellent holistic psychosocial care...
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  • Transitions in Dying and Bereavement
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    Transitions in Dying and Bereavement

    In the new edition of this unique professional resource, hospice and palliative care team members-especially social workers and counselors-will find the empirical evidence and compassionate advice they need to provide excellent holistic psychosocial care...
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  • Cases in Health Services Management
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    Cases in Health Services Management

    Prepare your health services management students for success with these challenging case studies! Cases in Health Services Management, Sixth Edition presents 29 case studies (15 new to this edition) that address contemporary issues students will...
    $217.00

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  • A Long-Term Care Leader's Guide to High Performance
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    A Long-Term Care Leader's Guide to High Performance

    From the authors of the award-winning Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care, this book provides a blueprint for success in today's performance-based healthcare system. It presents a tested approach to delivering optimal care to each resident...
    $113.00

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  • What Living as a Resident Can Teach Long-Term Care Staff
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    What Living as a Resident Can Teach Long-Term Care Staff

    Created by an administrator struggling to jump-start culture change in her care community, Through the Looking Glass is a unique program that changes staff attitudes and teaches the importance of person-centred care practices by placing staff directly in...
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  • Gender Issues in Art Therapy
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    Gender Issues in Art Therapy

    The contributors cover such topics as internalised homophobia in both therapist and client, art and pregnancy, art therapy with single gender groups, feminist art therapy, gay and lesbian issues, and gender stereotypes.
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  • Assessment Scales for Advanced Dementia
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    Assessment Scales for Advanced Dementia

    With the goal of alleviating the paucity of knowledge about advanced dementia, and helping to improve the care and services that are increasingly needed for the growing numbers of people living with dementia-type diseases, this book provides...
    $158.00

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  • Aging in the Right Place
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    Aging in the Right Place

    Aging in the Right Place is the most up-to-date and comprehensive resource covering the impact of residential and care settings in older adults. Providing a complete overview of current living arrangements and residential options for older adults, this...
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  • Access to Nature: Planning Outdoor Space for Aging
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    Access to Nature: Planning Outdoor Space for Aging

    By using the right elements, outdoor spaces that were previously underutilized can become more inviting, functional, and well-used. Case studies, 3D animated examples, diagrams, and sketches in this informative DVD show how to transform existing areas by...
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  • Access to Nature: Planning Outdoor Space for Aging
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    Access to Nature: Planning Outdoor Space for Aging

    The first DVD in this educational video series demonstrates the importance of having people, policies, and programs that support outdoor usage by residents in senior housing settings. Experts in environmental psychology, design, and gerontology explore...
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