Download or read book From Isolation to Conversation written by Dwight L. Rogers and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a model to help new teachers adjust to challenges faced as they begin their classroom careers.

Download or read book Four Minutes to Save a Life written by Anna Stuart and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone would spare a moment of kindness for a stranger when they were in trouble... wouldn't they? Supermarket delivery driver Charlie enjoys his new job, because he doesn't have to spend too long with people, who, he's found, are nothing but trouble. But when he's assigned the Hope Row street, he realises there are a lot of lonely people out there - and for some, he's their only interaction. The supermarket boss tells Charlie he's a driver, not a social worker - but Charlie's tough exterior begins to soften, and he can't help show a little kindness to the Hope Row residents, helping them find their place in the world once more. But will his helping hand make everything worse? 'I adored this feel good book' Netgalley reviewer 'A book about hope, forgiveness, love and friendship that will touch your heart' Netgalley reviewer 'I couldn't love this book anymore if I tried!' Netgalley reviewer An uplifting novel about community, friends and finding your way. Perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Ruth Hogan and Carole Matthews.

Download or read book Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that affect a significant portion of the older adult population. Approximately one-quarter of community-dwelling Americans aged 65 and older are considered to be socially isolated, and a significant proportion of adults in the United States report feeling lonely. People who are 50 years of age or older are more likely to experience many of the risk factors that can cause or exacerbate social isolation or loneliness, such as living alone, the loss of family or friends, chronic illness, and sensory impairments. Over a life course, social isolation and loneliness may be episodic or chronic, depending upon an individual's circumstances and perceptions. A substantial body of evidence demonstrates that social isolation presents a major risk for premature mortality, comparable to other risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, or obesity. As older adults are particularly high-volume and high-frequency users of the health care system, there is an opportunity for health care professionals to identify, prevent, and mitigate the adverse health impacts of social isolation and loneliness in older adults. Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults summarizes the evidence base and explores how social isolation and loneliness affect health and quality of life in adults aged 50 and older, particularly among low income, underserved, and vulnerable populations. This report makes recommendations specifically for clinical settings of health care to identify those who suffer the resultant negative health impacts of social isolation and loneliness and target interventions to improve their social conditions. Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults considers clinical tools and methodologies, better education and training for the health care workforce, and dissemination and implementation that will be important for translating research into practice, especially as the evidence base for effective interventions continues to flourish.

Download or read book Engaging Isolated Communities in Disaster Preparation and Communication in the Philippines written by Dennis John Sumaylo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an account of how local government units in the Philippines engage marginalized and geographically isolated communities in taking part in pre-disaster communication efforts. The book focuses on communities classified by the government as Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDA) on the culturally rich island of Mindanao, Philippines. The focus is centered on GIDA communities because they are assumed to receive less information and help in relation to their circumstances. This book accounts for the disaster preparedness communicative conditions of people living in GIDAS and identifies synergies and tensions in the engagement process. As such, specific branches of enquiry focus on how information-seeking and sharing experiences of GIDA communities inform the current practice of community engagement. In taking this research approach, this book deliberately gives voice to these marginalized and often silenced communities. In general, the study examines other possibilities (or variables) in the pre-disaster risk communication process that truly engage geographically isolated and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM). Considering the existing methodologies used to engage local communities in DRRM, this book looks at ways in which bottom-up and top-down approaches could be melded together for a transformational level of engagement in these communities. The novelty of addressing issues concerning geographically isolated communities in a developing country is a research track worthy of being investigated by academics. The book is of interest to students and in development communication and disaster risk communication as well as community engagement practitioners specializing in DRRM. The framework proposed in this book for engaging isolated communities is helpful to practitioners in designing, planning, and implementing pre-disaster communication and community engagement programs.

Download or read book From Isolation to Intimacy written by Phoebe Caldwell and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caldwell shows that Intensive Interaction is a straightforward way, through attending to body language and other non-verbal means of communication, of establishing contact and building a relationship with people who are non-verbal. This simple method is accessible to anyone who lives or works with such people.

Download or read book Waiting A Project in Conversation written by Shahram Khosravi and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean to wait for a long period of time? How do people narrate their waiting? Waiting is about the senses. If you do not sense it, there is no waiting. We sense waiting in the form of boredom, despair, anxiety and restlessness, but also anticipation and hope. Prolonged waiting is like insomnia - a state of wakefulness, a kind of mood, an emotional state. But it is also about politics; affecting and affected by gender, citizenship, class, and race. Blending ethnography, philosophy, poetry, art, and fiction, this book is a collection of works by scholars, visual artists, writers, architects and curators, exploring different forms of waiting in diverse geographical contexts, and the enduring effects of history, power, class, and coloniality.

Download or read book Mass Communication and American Social Thought written by John Durham Peters and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to preserve the historical flavor and texture of the original works. Topics include popular theater, yellow journalism, cinema, books, public relations, political and military propaganda, advertising, opinion polling, photography, the avant-garde, popular magazines, comics, the urban press, radio drama, soap opera, popular music, and television drama and news. This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects, and mass media history.

Download or read book The Six Conversations written by Heather Holleman and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s time for a conversation revival! Conversation is getting harder. We’re feeling more isolated. Loneliness is becoming an epidemic. The Six Conversations: Pathways to Connecting Again in an Age of Isolation and Incivility reflects one of the deepest passions of Dr. Heather Holleman’s heart: to connect people in loving community. Professor Holleman often fields questions like: How can I foster meaningful connection with others? Why doesn’t anyone ever ask meaningful questions? If my personal happiness depends upon having warm relationships—like all the research shows—how can I become a better conversationalist and create connection? Can you relate? Are you longing for loving, meaningful, and joyful conversations? For practical skills to connect with others? Heather invites us to reimagine better conversations. Her work demonstrates how we can develop authentic community by changing our relational mindsets to become more curious, to believe the best about others, to express concern about their lives, and to share our own. Heather shows us how to embrace the Four Mindsets of a Loving Conversation and the Three Fresh Goals for Conversation. Using the latest research, she shares the foundational training necessary for engaging in truly loving conversations. Readers will be equipped with effective questions, self-assessments, and action steps to immediately implement in any situation—both personally and professionally. If you desire deeper relationships with your spouse, dating partner, children, friends, in-laws, grandchildren, coworkers, clients, students, people in your neighborhood—or all the above—then read this book and grow in the art of The Six Conversations!

Download or read book Re Authoring the World written by Chene Swart and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reauthoring the World invites readers to a transformational way of being in the world. It translates the Narrative Therapy approach and practices for people outside the therapeutic context that are interested in shifting the stories of their own lives as well as the communities and organisations that they work in.

Download or read book Communication in a Civil Society written by Shelley D. Lane and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the concept of “civility” as the major theme, this fully updated second edition offers a unique and alternative way to teach and learn about communication. The book brings together discrete areas that explore the fundamentals of communication and intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, small group communication, and public speaking. Every chapter includes theories, concepts, and examples that allow students to use civil and ethical communication skills in their personal relationships, in collaboration with colleagues, and in giving public speeches and professional presentations. This new edition highlights advances in and concepts related to mediated and technology-based communication, such as chatbots, technostress, and dating apps, and shows how students can engage in civil face-to-face and mediated interaction. Additionally, each chapter includes a real-world incident that students are asked to analyze in terms of specific chapter information and skills related to civility. Communication in a Civil Society is an ideal textbook for Introduction to Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and Public Speaking courses. Materials for instructors including PowerPoint slides, a test bank, and an instructor’s manual, are available at www.routledge.com/9781032513263.

Download or read book Treating Articulation and Phonological Disorders in Children written by Dennis M. Ruscello and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It also discussed treatment for disorders caused by residual problems from early childhood. Step-by-step instructions summarize the implementation of treatment strategies, providing a quick and easy reference tool."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Deaf and Hearing Siblings in Conversation written by Marla C. Berkowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to consider both deaf and hearing perspectives on the dynamics of adult sibling relationships. Deaf and hearing authors Berkowitz and Jonas conducted interviews with 22 adult siblings, using ASL and spoken English, to access their intimate thoughts. A major feature of the book is its analysis of how isolation impacts deaf-hearing sibling relationships. The book documents the 150 year history of societal attitudes embedded in sibling bonds and identifies how the siblings' lives were affected by the communication choices their parents made. The authors weave information throughout the text to reveal attitudes toward American Sign Language and the various roles deaf and hearing siblings take on as monitors, facilitators, signing-siblings and sibling-interpreters, all of which impact lifelong bonds.

Download or read book Living Proof written by Jim Petersen and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Petersen shares what he’s learned from over 25 years of working with the unchurched. He shows that, although many people don’t want to hear about our faith, they will talk about their own felt needs—needs that can only be met in Christ. Learn how to develop relationships with the unreached, model the Christian message, and eventually present the Bible’s claims in a non-threatening manner.

Download or read book Ten Conversations You Must Have With Your Son written by Tim Hawkes and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empowering parents to mentor and prepare their sons for life. Every parent of a teenage boy knows there are certain conversations they must have with their son. But too often they put them off - or don't have them at all - because they simply don't know where to start. Internationally recognised in the field of raising and educating boys, Dr Tim Hawkes provides practical, accessible and invaluable advice about how to get these discussions started. Helping parents to negotiate their way through what can be difficult territory, Dr Hawkes explores the why, what and how of ten key topics: love, identity, values, leadership, achievement, sex, money, health, living together and resilience. For each topic, Dr Hawkes offers ideas about how parents can share their own experiences, values and knowledge with their sons. This book will help you prepare your son for adulthood. 'this book is a starting point - of starting conversations that should be had in a fast-paced world' - Martina Simos, Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, Adelaide Advertiser '[Hawkes] reassure[s] parents they actually hold the answers to unleashing well adjusted men into the world' - Armadale Examiner (10/07/2014) 'Parents of boys should grab a copy Dr Tim Hawkes' book' - Sunday Canberra Times

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health written by Jessica Nina Lester and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark publication in the field, this state of the art reference work includes contributions from leading thinkers across a range of disciplines on topics including ADHD, autism, depression, eating disorders and trauma. It is an essential resource for all those involved or interested in child mental health.

Download or read book Conversation with One Another and with God written by Lucas Come and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual maturity should manifest (Translate, reflect) in ones day-to-day Social life. This opening line by Lucas Come sets the tone for the pages ahead. It sets the tone for the journey you are about to embark on. It may sound as if the book is about an inward journey in which we are to absorb and yet the book is about sharing and giving as we receive. The life of the disciples is exactly about this. Jesus took time to have conversations with his disciples and with the people he encountered. In this book Lucas seeks to take us to the basics and the basis of life. We are people who are created to be in community and to be a community. This is a concept that has been lost in the 21st Century. Even though our faith calls us to be a people, we have instead chosen to be influenced by the world. The virtue today is to be the best at the expense of others. It is an isolating and lonely way of doing life. Conversations with one another and with God is carefully designed to call us out of our shell to share our stories and maybe only then will we have meaningful connections. This is the first thing that I want to bring forth as you begin to read this enriching bookbeing called out. The book itself is realistic as it tackles some of the issues that we deal with in life as ordinary believers who seek to be faithful disciples. Have you ever pondered the question of focusing on God? Is this not something we struggle to do most of the time? Richard J. Foster knows this truth as he reminds us that the world is always screaming trying to draw our attention. He says, In a culture where the landscape is dotted with shrines to the Golden Arches and an assortment of Pizza Temples, fasting seems out of place, out of step with the times. (Foster R.J.: 1978: Celebration of Discipline: The path to spiritual growth: 41) And yet on the other hand Jesus is this gentle voice that does not nag; this voice that is often drowned by consumerism, selfish promises, momentary success and many other things that offer us false hope. 14 Foreword Lucas invites us to focus on positive things. Those things that enable life not just for us, but others as well. This is another profound lesson for us especially in the Southern Africa today. For us to grow deeper in love with God we need to grow deeper in love for others as well. This way of doing life helps us to wipe our tear off and begin to see other peoples tears. We often focus on ourselves and end up drowning in our own sorrow and misery without any sense of being aware of what we can still do; not only for ourselves, but equally motivated to see our potential in journeying with others. The life of Jesus is marked by a journey that takes him to the people to be with the people. It is marked with people being drawn to Jesus. Jesus is receptive, embracing and loving. I enjoy Lucas perspective of Jesus as a better place. Do we ever get to a place of taking Jesus seriously such that our lives are founded on him? What would our lives look like if we were to put Jesus at the centre of how we do life? Could it be that we would begin to treat one another graciously? Could it mean that we would allow justice to flourish and inhumane habits shrink to almost non-existent? We often say, We are made in the image of God. Do we really understand the depth and the breadth of this phrase? It means God first and God last. It means living within the presence of God. It means living not as we please, but as God would be honoured. It means taking God seriously than wanting to see how much God takes us seriously. We live in a culture that seeks recognition as if God sometimes forgets about us. And yet the reality of Gods holiness comes from God not thinking God, but you and I. Therefore God will not promise to love us and then the next minute hurt us. God never plays games with us. God takes us seriously all the time. God takes us seriously even at times when we ta

Download or read book Family Communication written by Chris Segrin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting contemporary cutting-edge research, it also includes extensive presentation and application of classic theories and findings in family science that have informed current day understandings of essential family processes. With over 2,500 references, 800 of which are new to this edition, Family Communication represents a current and comprehensive presentation of principled research conducted throughout the world for both students and teachers of family communication. Professionals who work with families and seek an evidence-based understanding of functional and dysfunctional family processes will also find this text useful. The third edition provides instructors and students with a rich set of resources including: Chapter Specific Resource Guides (chapter outlines, guiding questions, multiple choice, essay, and discussion questions, as well as numerous media resources and links) Chapter Specific PowerPoint Slides Sample Syllabus This edition addresses long-standing questions (e.g., how to maintain a marriage, how to build resiliency in remarriages and stepfamilies) and prioritizes research on a variety of family relationships beyond the couple and parent–child relationship, while also exploring new research on romantic relationship pathways, same-sex marriage and divorce, parenting trends, as well as military families, adoptive families, and families with a transgender member. It also examines the complex relationship between family communication and mental health as well as powerful and potentially surprising findings on the connections between family interaction and physical health.