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Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity A Unified Approach

Breastfeeding for Public Health A Resource for Community Healthcare Professionals

Breastfeeding for Public Health A Resource for Community Healthcare Professionals

Health visitors play a crucial role in supporting mothers who choose to breastfeed and their families. This accessible text enables readers to practise confidently in this vital area focusing on underpinning knowledge and parent-centred counselling skills and understanding cultural contexts. Breastfeeding a child improves the lifelong health of a population and promoting breastfeeding is an important area of public health practice. Breastfeeding for Public Health incorporates the voices of health visitors mothers and fathers to give insight into common practical challenges faced and suggestions for overcoming or working around them. Presenting up-to-date research it explores the practical skills needed by health visitors to support mothers with breastfeeding; how to develop the communication skills and self-awareness necessary to build successful and trusting relationships with women and their families; why breastfeeding is so important for babies' and mothers' health and psychological attachment closeness and long-term mental health; what we know about the content of breastmilk and the positive effect it has on the baby’s gut microbiome which in turn benefits the infant’s long-term health and helps to protect against non-communicable diseases; the role of the father and grandparents in successfully initiating and sustaining breastfeeding; and how cultural awareness and sensitivity can influence practice for the better. Written by an experienced volunteer and practitioner with decades of experience as a health visitor and breastfeeding counsellor this text is ideal for students taking Specialist Community and Public Health Nursing courses. It is also an important reference for practising health visitors. | Breastfeeding for Public Health A Resource for Community Healthcare Professionals

GBP 35.99
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California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

California went through a political earthquake of sorts when the state recalled Governor Gray Davis in 2003. In 2021 the state faced another political turning point with the threatened recall of Governor Gavin Newsom. Less than two years after Newsom’s overwhelming election victory more than two million Californians signed on to the recall effort hoping to expel him from office in a special election. How could such a monumental turnabout be possible? Normally the political headwinds would be much too strong for a movement to oust a governor who had decisively vanquished his opponent. But-with the COVID-19 pandemic dominating every aspect of society including politics-these weren’t normal times. Organizing a recall election is a demanding enterprise: it takes abundant political energy tremendous amounts of anger with the status quo and mounds of money. Yet for the second time in less than two decades such wheels were set in motion. What is it that makes California so dynamic yet so fragile? This book explains that paradox and in the process enlightens readers about the recall process the challenges of federalism and the pitfalls of direct democracy. It examines the underlying conditions that expose a state with poorly linked institutions a bitterly divided society and a governor who had to act under nearly impossible conditions demonstrating his strengths and vulnerabilities along the way. It’s a story that could happen only in California a state with a history of only stories. Designed to be useful in a variety of college courses this book is the first to unveil the Newsom backstory and will appeal to pundits and politicos as well as interested general readers. | California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

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Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

This book reconstructs the history of conception pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the 20th century focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece the impact of Christianity the establishment of the man-midwife in the 18th century the medicalisation of childbirth the emergence of a new representation of the foetus as unborn citizen and finally the revolution of reproductive technologies. The book explores a history that far from being linear progressive or homogeneous is characterised by significant continuities as well as transformations. The ways in which a woman gives birth and lives her pregnancy and the postpartum period are the result of a complex series of factors. The book therefore places these events in their wider cultural social and religious contexts which influenced the forms taken by rituals and therapeutic practices religious and civil prescriptions and the regulation of the female body. The investigation of this complex experience represents a crucial contribution to cultural social and gender history as well as an indispensable tool for understanding today’s reality. It will be of great use to undergraduates studying the history of childbirth the history of medicine the history of the body as well as women's and gender history more broadly. | Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

GBP 36.99
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Psychogastroenterology for Adults A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

Psychogastroenterology for Adults A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

The brain-gut connection has been increasingly implicated in biopsychosocial well-being. While there are numerous factors that directly and indirectly impact on how the gut and the brain interact there is a growing awareness that gastrointestinal conditions need to be viewed and treated as part of a multidisciplinary approach. Psychogastroenterology for Adults: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals is the first book to provide mental health professionals with an evidence-based practical guide for working with patients living with gastrointestinal conditions. Timely and accessibly written this book provides a unique comprehensive introduction to psychogastroenterology offering a step-by-step guide to evidence-based psychological treatment protocols. Broad in scope and expertise the book is divided into four parts. It opens with an overview of the field moving on to outline psychological concerns and conditions in gastroenterological (GI) cohorts. Further it covers various approaches to psychogastroenterology including psychopharmacological and eHealth practices. In closing the book looks to the future providing guidance on supervision in psychogastroenterology and exploring challenges in the field. Written by experts in the field this book will be an indispensable resource for those who wish to enhance their knowledge and practice of psychogastroenterology in the mental health profession including psychologists psychiatrists psychosomatic medicine specialists nurses and social workers. | Psychogastroenterology for Adults A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

GBP 39.99
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State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts via a series of case studies from around the world. With a focus on the Global South the book includes chapters on the experiences of – Angola Zimbabwe South Africa Bolivia Argentina Brazil Jamaica and Indonesia as well as contributions from the Global North – on Sweden Canada Czech Republic and New Zealand. The collection demonstrates that the effects of the pandemic can only be properly revealed by looking at the regional and local contexts in which states and societies experienced it. Contributors examine themes such as the nature of contemporary democracy state capacity the legitimacy of state institutions and trust in government questions of social solidarity and forms and impacts of inequality. Focusing on national (or sub-national) cases each chapter analyses the underlying forces and structures revealed when the authority of the state is brought to bear on the agency of citizens under emergency conditions. In doing so contributors embed analysis of pandemic governance in the historical context of each country or region highlighting how political choices histories of the state’s treatment of citizens and the orientations of a region’s elites shaped the actions taken by the state. The book will be of interest to those looking to understand how the pandemic was interpreted accepted or contested at the local (national or sub-national) level and to those interested in state–society relations more generally. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in questions of pandemic government from a social scientific point of view and especially to those interested in perspectives from the Global South. | State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

GBP 35.99
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Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation

Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

Drug Calculations for Nurses A Step-by-Step Approach

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IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology thoroughly examines the meaning of culture in the context of neuropsychology focusing on the fundamental neuroscience underlying how different aspects of culture influence neuropsychological test performance and how that is related to brain function. It explores in detail the relationship between brain activity and culture and the influence of various cultural educational and linguistic factors on neuropsychological test performances across various cognitive domains. Written by leadings researchers in cross-cultural neuropsychology the book first introduces the basic concepts in the field. It goes on to focus on the influence of cultural variables on specific domains of cognition including perception attention memory language and executive functions. It also explores the implications of cross-cultural neuropsychology in practice including a focus on test adaptation the use of interpreters the influence of acculturation and the practice of neuropsychological rehabilitation in different cultural settings. This book is essential reading for neuropsychologists and related practitioners working with culturally diverse clients who need a good grasp of the cultural impacts on neuropsychological test performance when assessing clients from different cultural linguistic and educational backgrounds. It is also valuable for neuropsychologists in countries around the world who need a means of understanding the ways in which their culture impacts the performances of their clients on tests which have been mostly developed in the U. S. or other Western cultures. | Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

GBP 36.99
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Coping with Crohn’s and Colitis A Patient and Clinician’s Guide to CBT for IBD

Master Lecture Series for the NCE CPCE CECE and State Counseling Exams The Updated and Expanded Vital Information and Review Questions Program

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Deep Green

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Deep Green

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design. It takes on the now pervasive topic of design intelligence extending its definition to encompass both biological and digital realms. As in their first title Systemic Architecture: Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City the authors engage the topic through the specific lens of their innovative design practice ecoLogicStudio and their research at the University of Innsbruck and at the Bartlett UCL. Part One of the book entitled PhotoSynthetica™ illustrates design solutions that engage the urban microbiome and seek to achieve an immediate impact while Part Two entitled Deep Green includes synthetic landscapes and operates within a much larger spatio-temporal frame going beyond human perception and life span to envision design as a geographical and geological force. In the age of catastrophic climate change such perceptual expansion helps to clarify that change cannot simply be stopped or rolled back. We must instead establish more positive dynamics of change within the living world. To this end this book proposes to engage with design and architecture as an extended cognitive interface a sentient being that is co-evolutionary and symbiotic with the living planet contributing to its beauty and to our continued enjoyment of it. | Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Deep Green

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A Study of Innovative Behavior in High Technology Product Development Organizations

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment is the successor to Cooper’s prize-winning book Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice. This expanded and updated volume shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen administered scored interpreted and developed. In providing students researchers test users test developers and practitioners in the social sciences education and health with an evaluative guide to choosing using interpreting and developing tests it provides readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of testing together with the necessary methodological detail. This book has three distinctive features. First it stresses the basic logic of psychological assessment without getting bogged down with mathematics; the spreadsheet simulations and utilities which are integrated into the text allow users to explore how numbers behave rather than reading equations. Readers will learn by doing. Second it covers both the theory behind psychological assessment and the practicalities of locating designing and using tests and interpreting their scores. Finally it is evaluative. Rather than just describing concepts such as test reliability or adaptive testing it stresses the underlying principles merits and drawbacks of each approach to assessment and methods of developing and evaluating questionnaires and tests. Unusually for an introductory text it includes coverage of several cutting-edge techniques and this new edition expands the discussion on measurement invariance methods of detecting/quantifying bias and hierarchical factor models and features added sections on: Best practices for translation of tests into other languages and problems of cultural bias Automatic item generation The advantages drawbacks and practicalities of internet-based testing Generalizability theory Network analysis Dangerous assumptions made when scoring tests The accuracy of tests used for assessing individuals The two-way relationship between psychometrics and psychological theory Aimed at non-mathematicians this friendly and engaging text will help you to understand the fundamental principles of psychometrics that underpin the measurement of any human characteristic using any psychological test. Written by a leading figure in the field and accompanied by additional resources including a set of spreadsheets which use simulated data and other techniques to illustrate important issues this is an essential introduction for all students of psychology and related disciplines. It assumes very little statistical background and is written for students studying psychological assessment or psychometrics and for researchers and practitioners who use questionnaires and tests to measure personality cognitive abilities educational attainment mood or motivation. | An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

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Culture and General Education A Survey

Evidence: Law and Context

Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy and Peak Performance

Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy and Peak Performance

Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR combines two hugely influential and effective therapies EMDR therapy and sensorimotor psychotherapy to provide a new approach. In doing so the book supports the widely held view of psychotherapists that in trauma the primary store of neurological information is somatic rather than cognitive. Many therapists trained in EMDR find that additional resources are needed for patients who present with symptoms of complex trauma and dissociation. This is because EMDR is primarily a top-down approach based on CBT with the addition of bilateral stimulation (BLS) in visual tactile and auditory modalities. By contrast Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR takes a body-based and bottom-up approach that seeks to resolve trauma by reprocessing information at multiple levels – in the gut-brain the heart-brain and the head-brain as well as in the endocrine immune and nervous systems. Fully revised since The Art of BART (2015) the book looks at the latest advances in neuroscience including research into the effectiveness of psychotherapy and the mysteries of consciousness and the development of mind. It also looks at the role of newly discovered organs the mesentery and the interstitium and provides clear anatomical evidence for the communication of biophotons in energy channels known as the primo vascular system. SF-EMDR is the only therapy that fully integrates Western theories of affective neuroscience with Eastern observations on activation of chakras pranas and energies and in doing so it offers strong potential for enhanced outcomes and optimized performance for patients. | Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy and Peak Performance

GBP 35.99
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Measurement and Statistics for Teachers

Technological Change In Japan's Beef Industry

Long Term Results of Infant School Methods

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Sexual Dysfunction