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Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents

Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents

Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth highlights the paradigm shift to treating children and adolescents as at-promise rather than at-risk. By utilizing a strength-based model that moves in opposition to pathology this volume presents a client-allied modality wherein youth are given the opportunity to express emotions that can be difficult to convey using words. Working internationally with diverse groups of young people grappling with various forms of trauma 30 contributing therapists share their processes informed by current understandings of neurobiology attachment theory and developmental psychology. In addition to guiding principles and real-world examples also included are practical directives strategies and applications. Together this compilation highlights the promise of healing through the creative arts in the face of oppression. | Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents

GBP 46.99
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Quality and Regulation in Health Care International Experiences

Quality and Regulation in Health Care International Experiences

First published in 1992 Quality and Regulation in Health Care employs socio-legal ideas concerning regulation to examine the methods used to influence the quality of health care in the US UK and Western Europe. Throughout the Western world health care systems both public and private are grappling with the problems of assuring quality while containing costs. On the one hand governments and insurers argue that there must be some limit to the apparently endless growth of health care expenditures. On the other patient groups and consumer advocates already dissatisfied by the problems in holding doctors accountable for their actions protest that such limits must not result in sick people getting inferior treatment. This book examines in detail the debate surrounding the question: How can the professional expertise of the clinicians be reconciled with the preferences of their patients and the economic concerns of taxpayers or insurers? It will be essential reading for graduate and undergraduate courses in health policy medical sociology and health law. | Quality and Regulation in Health Care International Experiences

GBP 85.00
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Critical Animal Geographies Politics intersections and hierarchies in a multispecies world

Critical Animal Geographies Politics intersections and hierarchies in a multispecies world

Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies exploring the spatial political and ethical dimensions of animals’ lived experience and human-animal encounters. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist political-economic post-humanist anarchist postcolonial and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life – human and not – violate constrain and impinge upon others. Central to all chapters is a commitment to grappling with the stakes – violence death life autonomy – of human-animal encounters. Equally the work in the collection addresses head-on the dominant forces shaping and dependent on these encounters: capitalism racism colonialism and so on. In doing so the book pushes readers to confront how human-animal relations are mixed up with overlapping axes of power and exploitation including gender race class and species. | Critical Animal Geographies Politics intersections and hierarchies in a multispecies world

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The Italian Diaspora in South Africa Nostalgia Identity and Belonging in the Second and Third Generations

The Italian Diaspora in South Africa Nostalgia Identity and Belonging in the Second and Third Generations

This book investigates the experiences of second- and third-generation Italians living in South Africa exploring how nostalgia for Italy influences their sense of identity and belonging. The Italian community in South Africa is a unique diaspora with a complex history including roots in Italian colonial activities in Africa and in World War II. This book looks at how the descendants of these early migrants take pride in being Italian and value the Italian language. They also ascribe much importance to their family roots and have often created a romanticized image of Italy mostly based on childhood vacation visits. The longing for an imaginary idealized version of Italy is closely linked to their wider search for a sense of identity and belonging against the backdrop of South African society currently still grappling with its own multicultural identity. Interdisciplinary by design this book draws on insights from both cultural studies and psychology in order to shine a light on an important and under-studied diasporic community. The book will be of interest to scholars from across migration studies and the Humanities in general. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The Italian Diaspora in South Africa Nostalgia Identity and Belonging in the Second and Third Generations

GBP 48.99
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Statistical Reasoning for Surgeons

Statistical Reasoning for Surgeons

Trying to read up on statistics can be like trying to decide where you want to start eating the elephant and what’s the most digestible way to get it down. This book is written to give bite-size nuggets of insight based on our experiences grappling with datasets large and small. It is intended to bridge the gap between the formal equations and the practicalities of generating a research manuscript. We won’t pretend reading it will answer all your questions but it will help explain what questions need to be asked for your study and how you can address them with both accuracy and clarity. The size detail and (ostensible) organization of this book allow for easy reading and can give a leg (or at least a half-step) up for those seeking more detailed study later. Features include: Excel sheets to allow exploration of topics raised Emphasis on intuitive explanations over formulas. Consideration of issues specific to clinical and surgical studies Our audience is someone who may or may not have enjoyed formal statistics education (that is you may have had it and not enjoyed it!) who may like seeing a more dressed-down presentation of the topics. Actual statisticians may pick this up at risk of a chuckle (with us or at us) and may find some useful ways to present topics to non-statisticians. | Statistical Reasoning for Surgeons

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The Practice of Family Therapy Key Elements Across Models

The Practice of Family Therapy Key Elements Across Models

Now in its fifth edition The Practice of Family Therapy comes at a time when traditional approaches to psychotherapy have given way to multidimensional strategies that best serve the needs of diverse groups who are grappling with the many challenges unique to family therapy practice. With expanded coverage of different models along with new developments in evidence-based and postmodern practices this integrative textbook bridges the gap between science and systemic/relational approaches as it guides the reader through each stage of family therapy. Part I lays the groundwork by introducing the first- second- and third-generation models of family therapy teaching the reader to integrate different elements from these models into a systemic structure of practice. Part II explores the practical application of these models including scripts for specific interventions and rich case examples that highlight how to effectively work with diverse client populations. Students will learn how to make connections between individual symptoms and cutting-edge family practices to respond successfully to cases of substance abuse trauma grief depression suicide risk violence LGBTQ families and severely mentally ill clients and their families. Also included are study guides for each model and a glossary to review main concepts. Aligned with the Association of Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Boards’ (AMFTRB) knowledge and content statements this textbook will be key reading for graduate students who are preparing for the national licensing exam in marriage and family therapy. | The Practice of Family Therapy Key Elements Across Models

GBP 69.99
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Restorative and Responsive Human Services

Restorative and Responsive Human Services

In Restorative and Responsive Human Services Gale Burford John Braithwaite and Valerie Braithwaite bring together a distinguished collection providing rich lessons on how regulation in human services can proceed in empowering ways that heal and are respectful of human relationships and legal obligations. The human services are in trouble: combining restorative justice with responsive regulation might redeem them renewing their well-intended principles. Families provide glue that connects complex systems. What are the challenges in scaling up relational practices that put families and primary groups at the core of health education and other social services? This collection has a distinctive focus on the relational complexity of restorative practices. How do they enable more responsive ways of grappling with complexity than hierarchical and prescriptive human services? Lessons from responsive business regulation inform a re-imagining of the human services to advance wellbeing and reduce domination. Readers are challenged to re-examine the perverse incentives and contradictions buried in policies and practices. How do they undermine the capacities of families and communities to solve problems on their own terms? This book will interest those who harbor concerns about the creep of domination into the lives of vulnerable citizens. It will help policymakers and researchers to re-focus human services to fundamental outcomes at the foundation of sustainable democracies. This book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

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Sustainability Science and Technology An Introduction

Sustainability Science and Technology An Introduction

Sustainability Science and Technology: An Introduction explains the root causes of global failures in natural and human systems as well as the most readily available technological solutions. The book dispels risky scientific and technological ideas that further complicate the current environmental and socioeconomic predicaments. It also bridges gaps among scientific and technological fields and systematically translates current findings for a wide technical and public audience. Written at a level accessible to all the story is told one bite-sized chapter at a time about the size of a scientific journal article. The chapters are self-contained each grappling with a large topic. This provides more in-depth coverage of a topic than a standard encyclopedia article and promotes the widest possible dialog around sustainability issues and their solutions. Case studies from all continents and all technological development levels expound viable solutions for each of the planetary systems: water soils and atmosphere. In turn the wider socioeconomic context of sustainable science and technology is examined. One of the first books to address the full scope of sustainability it sets the stage for discussion and sustainability re(training) across professional divides. The editor and contributors take a balanced approach that is neither too technical nor too focused on any particular field. They highlight global and regional perspectives and the linkages between different planetary and human systems. The book helps you understand the thorny essence of sustainability issues—often fraught with ethical dilemmas obsolete technologies and lifestyle implications—and how to develop solutions to them. | Sustainability Science and Technology An Introduction

GBP 56.99
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Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces

Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces

Through two previous editions the third edition of this popular and intriguing text takes both an analytical/theoretical approach and a visual/intuitive approach to the local and global properties of curves and surfaces. Requiring only multivariable calculus and linear algebra it develops students’ geometric intuition through interactive graphics applets. Applets are presented in Maple workbook format which readers can access using the free Maple Player. The book explains the reasons for various definitions while the interactive applets offer motivation for definitions allowing students to explore examples further and give a visual explanation of complicated theorems. The ability to change parametric curves and parametrized surfaces in an applet lets students probe the concepts far beyond what static text permits. Investigative project ideas promote student research. At users of the previous editions' request this third edition offers a broader list of exercises. More elementary exercises are added and some challenging problems are moved later in exercise sets to assure more graduated progress. The authors also add hints to motivate students grappling with the more difficult exercises. This student-friendly and readable approach offers additional examples well-placed to assist student comprehension. In the presentation of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem the authors provide more intuition and stepping-stones to help students grasp phenomena behind it. Also the concept of a homeomorphism is new to students even though it is a key theoretical component of the definition of a regular surface. Providing more examples show students how to prove certain functions are homeomorphisms. | Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces

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Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Knowledge Change and Neuroscience

Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Knowledge Change and Neuroscience

There have been two critical leadership approaches. First Generation Leadership (command and control) was the dominant model until the 1940s. Second Generation Leadership (compliance coupled with rewards and punishments) is still dominant today. This approach is being rejected by 'Generation Y ' threatening the longevity of traditional organisations. In Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Douglas Long acknowledges the need for a leadership approach that elicits engagement commitment and enhanced personal group and organisational accountability. This is Third Generation Leadership. At its core lies the issue of where we centre our brain's locus of control and how this impacts on our understanding of and approach to leadership. With examples from everyday situations underpinned by research this book is about understanding and applying aspects of neuroscience critical for tomorrow's world. It provides a framework for addressing problems through insights into how the way we use our brains affects values worldviews and behaviours. The author introduces the concept of 'red zone - blue zone' to explain the differences between a brain controlled by its stem-limbic areas (red zone) and the limbic-cortical cortex areas (blue zone). This becomes a short hand for describing and applying knowledge from neuroscience to encourage practitioners in leadership and management roles to achieve desired outcomes through becoming acquainted with different areas of their brain. Anyone grappling with what is required to deal with Generation Y people in a networked and mobile age will welcome this introduction to the world of third generation leadership. | Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Knowledge Change and Neuroscience

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