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Sociology and Medicine Selected Essays by P.M. Strong

Sociology and Medicine Selected Essays by P.M. Strong

Doctors and patients inter-professional rivalries how sociologists might tackle the study of vital topics in health - all these are enduring themes in sociology and medicine. These are also the long-running intellectual preoccupations of Philip M. Strong's twenty-year contribution to the field - one which he did much to shape. Posthumously gathered together for the first time in this volume are twelve of his major essays many of which are difficult to find or have been out of print for some years. Grouped by theme this important reference allows the reader to trace the development of Strong's thought over his career as well as the more general development of medical sociology as a whole. | Sociology and Medicine Selected Essays by P. M. Strong

GBP 11.99
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Compassion for Couples Building the Skills of Loving Connection

Compassion for Couples Building the Skills of Loving Connection

How resilient is your relationship? Do you and your partner go into "reactivity mode" when a conflict arises? Do you wish you were closer and more connected? We all need healthy secure relationships in order to thrive/m-/but they can be hard to build and maintain. Where do you start? According to marriage and family therapist Michelle Becker the answer is with yourself. By learning to practice self-compassion you are better able to respond to your partner with love and acceptance/m-/even when they inevitably cannot meet your every need. This caring and insightful guide shows you how to stop defaulting to feelings of annoyance disappointment or detachment. Instead using techniques from Becker’s renowned Compassion for Couples program (plus guided meditation practices with accompanying audio downloads) you will learn mindfulness compassion and other skills that bring you closer to your partner and enrich your lives together. For happy couples looking to strengthen their relationship or those facing obstacles Becker leads the way to greater trust mutual understanding and a renewed sense of warmth. | Compassion for Couples Building the Skills of Loving Connection

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Beck's Cognitive Therapy Distinctive Features 2nd Edition

Beck's Cognitive Therapy Distinctive Features 2nd Edition

Beck's Cognitive Therapy explores the key contributions made by Aaron T. Beck to the development of cognitive behaviour therapy. The book describes the development of the unique model of therapy developed by Professor Aaron. T. Beck and his daughter Dr. Judith. S. Beck. The first part on theory explains how the Becks understand psychological problems. The second part on practice describes the main methods and skills that have evolved in cognitive therapy. Updated throughout to include recent developments this revised edition of Beck's Cognitive Therapy will be ideal for both newcomers and experienced practitioners. | Beck's Cognitive Therapy Distinctive Features 2nd Edition

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Letting Go of Perfect Empower Children to Overcome Perfectionism

Letting Go of Perfect Empower Children to Overcome Perfectionism

Letting Go of Perfect gives parents and teachers the guidance and support they need to help children break free of the anxieties and behaviors related to perfectionism. This second edition:Explores a state of mind that manifests in unhealthy ways among kids and teens today—the need to be perfect. Features updated research on perfectionism new strategies and resources. Delineates the major types of perfectionism and provides practical tips. Explains how students can use their perfectionistic behaviors in a healthy way. Shares advice and stories from real parents educators and students. For children who believe their best is never good enough perfectionism can lead to excessive guilt lack of motivation low self-esteem depression pessimism obsessive or compulsive behavior and a sense of rigidity. This engaging practical book is a must-have for parents and teachers wanting to help children overcome perfectionism raise self-confidence lessen guilt increase motivation and offer a future free of rigidity. | Letting Go of Perfect Empower Children to Overcome Perfectionism

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Coping with Cancer DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions-and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

Coping with Cancer DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions-and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life-and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time. *How can you face the fear sadness and anger without being paralyzed by them? *Is it possible to hold on to hope without being in denial? *How can you nurture supportive relationships when you have barely enough energy to take care of yourself? Learn powerful DBT skills that can help you make difficult treatment decisions manage overwhelming emotions speak up for your needs and tolerate distress. The stories and collective wisdom of other cancer patients and survivors illustrate the coping skills and show how you can live meaningfully even during the darkest days. | Coping with Cancer DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions-and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

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Self-Compassion for Parents Nurture Your Child by Caring for Yourself

Self-Compassion for Parents Nurture Your Child by Caring for Yourself

I yelled at the kids again-and feel so ashamed. I barely have time to shower let alone exercise; no wonder I’m so out of shape. I'm just not the dad I hoped I would be. Parenting is hard. That's why self-compassion is so important. In this empathic resource mindfulness expert and psychologist Susan M. Pollak helps you let go of constant self-judgment and treat yourself with the same kindness and caring you strive to offer your kids. Simple yet powerful guided meditation techniques (most under three minutes long) are easy to practice while doing the dishes driving to work or soothing a fussy baby. Learn to respond to your own imperfections like a supportive friend not a harsh critic. You will find yourself happier and more energized-and will discover new reserves of patience and appreciation for your kids. | Self-Compassion for Parents Nurture Your Child by Caring for Yourself

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Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for American Democracy

Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for American Democracy

This collection brings together essays to address the crisis of Higher Education today focusing on its neoliberalization. Higher Education has been under assault for several decades as neoliberalism’s preference for market-based reforms sweeps across the US political economy. The recent push for neoliberalizing the academy comes at a time when it is ripe for change especially as it continues to confront growing financial pressure particularly in the public sector. The resulting cutbacks in public funding especially to state universities led to a variety of debilitating changes: increases in tuition growing student debt more students combining working and schooling declining graduation rates for minorities and low-income students increased reliance on adjuncts and temporary faculty and most recently growing interest in mass processing of students via online instruction. While many serious questions arise once we begin to examine what is happening in higher education today one particularly critical question concerns the implications of these changes on the relationship of education to as yet still unrealized democratic ideals. The 12 essays collected in this volume create important resources for students faculty citizens and policymakers who want to find ways to address contemporary threats to the higher education-democracy connection. This book was originally published as a special issue of New Political Science. | Neoliberalizing the University: Implications for American Democracy

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Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods

Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods

‘The Woods are just Trees. The Trees are just Wood. ’ – All together In 1987 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine combined several classic fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk to create Into the Woods. Funny and heartfelt this musical explores what it might mean to act responsibly in society both as a parent and as a child. Situating the work within Sondheim’s oeuvre and the Broadway canon Olaf Jubin first offers a detailed reading of the show itself before discussing key productions in New York and London and 2014’s Oscar-nominated screen adaptation. The radically different approaches to staging Into the Woods are testament to how open the musical is to re-interpretation for new audiences. A combination of critical explication with performance and film analysis as well as an overview of popular and critical reception this book is meant for anyone who has enjoyed Into the Woods be it as a musical theatre fan an enchanted audience member a student or a dedicated theatre professional. | Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods

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The Good Cat Parent’s Guide to Feline Behavior Modification

The Good Cat Parent’s Guide to Feline Behavior Modification

Cats are cuddly and adorable but they are often misunderstood. Sadly many cats are relinquished to shelters or rehomed due to normal behaviors that are incorrectly treated or mishandled. In this book Elite Fear-Free and Low-Stress Handling Certified author Alana Linsay Stevenson empowers cat parents and teaches them how to address and modify challenging feline behavior. You will begin by learning basic kitten care and feline developmental stages; how cats differ behaviorally from group animals such as dogs and people; feline body language; and how cats handle stress. Alana provides concise instruction on how to gently handle cats: how to pick up and carry them acclimate them to carriers the use of towels alternatives to scruffing and how our body language affects cats. Packed with photographs for visual reference this book offers clear guidelines and easily implementable strategies for resolving feline behavioral problems such as: failure to use the litter box play aggression petting aggression inter-cat aggression furniture scratching jumping on counters obsessing about food night wailing fear of people aggression to strangers The content is organized by topic for easy access to information as you need it. The Good Cat Parent’s Guide to Feline Behavior Modification is for anyone who likes cats and wants to learn more about them. Whether you are a veterinary professional a volunteer or shelter worker who regularly handles stressed cats or a cat parent who simply wants to understand your cat you will find helpful and useful information at your fingertips to give cats a better quality of life. No cat parent should be without this book!

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Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic Sincere Mannerisms

Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic Sincere Mannerisms

In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson J. S. Mill De Quincy Ruskin Arnold Pater and Wilde Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critic's changing ideas about style rhetoric and technologies of communication. In particular Camlot contributes to our understanding of how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self as he elaborates the ways nineteenth-century critics used their own essays on rhetoric and stylistics to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas and the formulation of authorial character. Camlot argues that the early 1830s mark the moment when a previously coherent tradition of pragmatic rhetoric was fragmented and redistributed into the diverse localized sites of an emerging periodicals market. Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism-one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression. | Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic Sincere Mannerisms

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Educational Neuroscience The Basics

Educational Neuroscience The Basics

Educational Neuroscience: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this emerging interdisciplinary field. It explains how the brain works and its priorities for learning and shows how educational neuroscience when combined with existing knowledge of human and social psychology and with teacher expertise can improve outcomes for students. Cathy Rogers and Michael S. C. Thomas reveal how neuroscientific evidence is forcing us to question our assumptions about how our brains learn and what this means for education. The chapters in this vital volume step through the brain’s priorities: processing senses and moving our bodies emotional processing and the difficult job of dealing with other people. It unpacks the tricky tasks of thinking and learning considering how memory works and the many systems involved in learning. It draws this all together to offer guidance for effective classroom practice current and future. Chapter features include key issues for special educational needs and neurodiversity case studies of novel interventions debunking of common neuromyths and guidance for teachers on how to evaluate their own practice. This book is a compact lively introductory text for students of psychology neuroscience and education and courses where these disciplines interconnect. It will also be essential reading for educational professionals including teachers heads educational advisors and the many industry bodies who govern and train them as well as anyone interested in the fascinating story of how we learn. | Educational Neuroscience The Basics

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Crony Capitalism in US Health Care Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System

Crony Capitalism in US Health Care Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System

The US political system has come to depend upon money too much. The US health care industry spends the most on political lobbying among all the 13 industrial sectors in the US economy. The government regulatory agencies at both federal and state levels have been captured by the health industry interest groups meaning that the regulatory agencies respond to the interests of the industry but not those of citizens. This book employs a broad theoretical framework of crony capitalism to understand US health care system dysfunction. This framework has not been applied before in any serious manner to understand the shortcomings in the US health care system. Specifically the book examines the role of seven key players using this framework - politicians/interest groups pharmaceutical companies private health insurers hospitals/hospital networks physicians medical device manufacturers and the American public. Crony capitalism is a destructive force and is rampant in US health care system causing much waste inefficiencies and malaise in the system. Current efforts and initiatives such as patient-centered medical homes and precision medicine for improving/reforming the system are of mere academic interest and tantamount to taking aspirin to treat cancer. They do not even pretend to address the root cause of the problem namely crony capitalism. Offering prescriptions to fix the U. S. health care system based on a comprehensive diagnosis of the dysfunction this book will be of interest to researchers academics policymakers and students in the fields of health care management public and non-profit management health policy administration and economics and political science. | Crony Capitalism in US Health Care Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System

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