Download or read book Children in Foster Care written by David Fanshel and published by . This book was released on with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe written by European Federation for Medical Informatics. International Congress and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-second International Conference on Medical Informatics Europe MIE 2009, that was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 30 August to 2 September 2009. The scientific topics present in this proceedings range from national and trans-national eHealth roadmaps, health information and electronic health record systems, systems interoperability and communication standards, medical terminology and ontology approaches, and social networks to Web, Web 2.0, nd Semantic Web solutions for patients, health personnel, and researchers. Furthermore, they include quality assurance and usability of medical informatics systems, specific disease management and telemedicine systems, including a section on devices and snsors, drug safety, clinical decision support and medical expert systems, clinical practice guidelines and protocols, as well as issues on privacy and security. Moreover, bioinformatics, biomedical modeling and simulation, medical imaging and visualizatio and, last but not least, learning and education through medical informatics systems are parts of the included topics.

Download or read book Disasters Vulnerability and Narratives written by Kasia Mika and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery. The turn to a wide range of literary works enables a composite comparative analysis, which encompasses the social, political and individual dimensions of the earthquake. This book focuses on a vision of an open-ended future, otherwise than as a threat or fear. Mika turns to concepts of hinged chronologies, slow healing and remnant dwelling. Weaving theory with attentive close-readings, the book offers an open-ended framework for conceptualising post-disaster recovery and healing. These processes happen at different times and must entail the elimination of compound vulnerabilities that created the disaster in the first place. Challenging characterisations of the region as a continuous catastrophe this book works towards a bold vision of Haiti’s and the Caribbean’s futures. The study shows how narratives can extend some of the key concepts within discipline-bound approaches to disasters, while making an important contribution to the interface between disaster studies, postcolonial ecocriticism and Haitian Studies.

Download or read book Resilience Imperative written by Magali Reghezza-Zitt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have to adapt to the impacts that, unfortunately, we can no longer avoid", said President Obama at the UN Climate Summit in September 2014. Adaptation and resilience are now a must in both academic research and international bodies. A fashionable concept, resilience's polysemy sparks many debates on its uses and operational relevance. This book bridges the increasing divide between academic research and the latest planning innovations, offering practical and conceptual insights for practitioners, researchers and students. Magali Reghezza-Zitt and Samuel Rufat present a cross-disciplinary, state-of-the-art debate and critical analysis of the social, spatial, practical and political implications of resilience. - Offers a critical approach of resilience, based on a wide range of case studies - Provides insights ranging from the most recent theoretical issues to the most practical engineering innovations - Links the latest cross-disciplinary academic insights with the up-to-date, practical innovations

Download or read book Cycles of Disadvantage written by Michael Rutter and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UK. Monograph on sociological aspects, psychological aspects and cultural factors associated with low incomes among children whose parents have also suffered from disadvantages - undertakes a literature survey of interdisciplinary research on the causes and persistance of disadvantage and the extent to which it is overcome by social mobility, etc. Bibliography pp. 328 to 396.

Download or read book Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction written by Juha I. Uitto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on exploring the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development at the global, regional, and national levels. Disasters and development are closely related, yet the disciplinary silos prevail and there is little communication and cooperation between the disaster management, environment, and development communities. One catastrophic event, such as an earthquake, tsunami, or cyclone, can destroy infrastructure, people’s lives and livelihoods, and set back development. Similarly, slow onset disasters—often associated with global climate change—pose threats to development, livelihoods, food security, and long-term sustainable development. This book is uniquely aimed at bridging the gaps between the environmental, development, and disaster management communities. It traces the evolution of concepts and practice and highlights the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development in key sectors, including food security, health, and water. The book includes case studies from the field highlighting the complex issues that challenge sustainable development and disaster risk management in practice. It draws policy conclusions for the global community based on state-of-the art knowledge from research and practice. The primary target groups for the book are researchers, including graduate students, in the fields of environment and sustainable development, geography, disaster risk reduction, and climate change studies. The second target group comprises practitioners and policymakers working in national and international organizations, the private sector, and civil society.

Download or read book No One Ever Asked Us a Postscript to Foster Care written by Trudy Festinger and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban Water Distribution Networks written by Symeon Christodoulou and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Water Distribution Networks: Assessing Systems Vulnerabilities and Risks provides a methodology for a system-wide assessment of water distribution networks (WDN) based on component analysis, network topology and, most importantly, the effects of a network's past performance on its seismic and/or non-seismic reliability. Water distribution networks engineers and system designers face multiple operational issues in delivering safe and clean potable water to their customers. - Includes vulnerability assessment methods for water distribution pipes - Discusses topological aspects and their effects on network vulnerability - Explores analytical and numerical modeling methods for finding and analyzing systems vulnerabilities in water distribution networks - Features real world case studies of networks under continuous and intermittent water supply operations

Download or read book Down Dangerous Passes Road written by Michel Marc Bouchard and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years after the death of their father, three brothers visit the place where it happened. Cast of 3 men.

Download or read book Body Image and Personality written by Seymour Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1987-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Psychosomatic Medicine written by Giovanni Andrea Fava and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an essential tool for clinicians in every specialty, a comprehensive work on a highly complex subject. In its 32 review papers by leading international researchers in the field, the core of psychosomatic medicine, multicausality is investigated via the vast array of research literature discussed by the authors. The handbook discusses psychosomatic issues in relation to AIDS, cancer, gastrointestinal illness, cardiovascular disease end-state renal failure, endocrine disorders, psychooncology, dermatology, gynecology, otorhinoolaryngology chronic fatigue, temporomandibular joint pain-dysfunction, body image disorders, and psychological relations to medical procedures. In the past decade there has been an upsurge of interest in alternative medicine in North America. Probably its most distinctive feature is the attention to psychosocial aspects of medical practice. This volume provides an evidence-based analysis for such a stance, and clinicians will find it an indispensable tool for the 21st century.

Download or read book Principles of Rorschach Interpretation written by Irving B. Weiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-07-18 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Irving Weiner's classic comprehensive, clinician-friendly guide to utilizing the Rorschach for personality description has been revised to reflect both recent modifications in the Rorschach Comprehensive System and new evidence concerning the soundness and utility of Rorschach assessment. It integrates the basic ingredients of structural, thematic, behavioral, and sequence analysis strategies into systematic guidelines for describing personality functioning. It is divided into three parts. Part I concerns basic considerations in Rorschach testing and deals with conceptual and empirical foundations of the inkblot method and with critical issues in formulating and justifying Rorschach inferences. Part II is concerned with elements of interpretation that contribute to thorough utilization of data in a Rorschach protocol: the Comprehensive System search strategy; the complementary roles of projection and card pull in determining response characteristics; and the interpretive significance of structural variables, content themes, test behaviors, and the sequence in which various response characteristics occur. Each of the chapters presents and illustrates detailed guidelines for translating Rorschach findings into descriptions of structural and dynamic aspects of personality functioning. The discussion throughout emphasizes the implications of Rorschach data for personality assets and liabilities, with specific respect to adaptive and maladaptive features of the manner in which people attend to their experience, use ideation, modulate affect, manage stress, view themselves, and relate to others. Part III presents 10 case illustrations of how the interpretive principles delineated in Part II can be used to identify assets and liabilities in personality functioning and apply this information in clinical practice. These cases represent persons from diverse demographic backgrounds and demonstrate a broad range of personality styles and clinical issues. Discussion of these cases touches on numerous critical concerns in arriving at different diagnoses, formulating treatment plans, and elucidating structural and dynamic determinants of behavior.

Download or read book Scoring the Rorschach written by Robert F. Bornstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exner's Comprehensive System has attracted so much attention in recent years that many clinicians and personality researchers are unaware that alternative Rorschach scoring systems exist. This is unfortunate, because some of these systems have tremendous clinical value. Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems provides detailed reviews of the best-validated alternative approaches, and points to promising new paths towards the continued growth and refinement of Rorschach interpretation. The editors set the stage with an extended introduction to historical controversies and cutting-edge empirical methods for Rorschach validation. Each chapter presents a different Rorschach scoring system. A brief history is followed by detailed information on scoring and interpretation, a comprehensive summary of evidence bearing on construct validity, and discussion of clinical applications, empirical limitations, and future directions. A user-friendly scoring "manual" for each system offers readers practical guidance. The systems tap a broad array of content areas including ego defenses, thought disorder, mental representations of self and others, implicit motives, personality traits, and potential for psychotherapy. All psychologists seriously engaged in the work of personality assessment will find in this book welcome additions to their professional toolkits.

Download or read book Empirical Studies of Psychoanalytic Theories written by Joseph Masling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1990 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few theories have influenced Western thought as much as psychoanalysis has, even in the absence of empirically confirmatory evidence. The raw data of psychoanalysis are the words and actions of the patient and their interpretation by the analyst. The psychoanalytic session has excluded other observers and, until very recently, even a tape recorder. The only evidence of what transpired between patient and therapist was supplied by the memories, accounts, and records each of them might have kept. The degree to which each could be objective and veridical in recording the events in treatment is not known, but given the intense, emotional nature of the clinical interaction, it is likely that systematic distortions, omissions, and inventions occurred. Various writers have called attention to the lack of scientific investigation of psychodynamic propositions. This series is intended to describe the best and most current experimental work inspired by psychoanalytic theories. A scientific theory is expected to generate data that will force it to be revised and ultimately discarded. Most of the experiments reported in this series point to instances where the theory must be modified to fit the data more exactly.

Download or read book The Silent Sin written by Anja Sicking and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century passion and restraint, hidden desires, and the loss of innocence.

Download or read book The Rebels Hour written by Lieve Joris and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling, blood-soaked portrait of a young Tutsi rebel who rose to become one of the leading generals in the Congolese Army.” —Details Lieve Joris has long been considered “one of the best journalists in the world” and in The Rebels’ Hour she illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely, complicated man—a rebel leader named Assani who becomes a high-ranking general in the Congolese army. As we navigate the chaos of his lawless country alongside him, the pathologically evasive Assani stands out in relief as a man who is both monstrous and sympathetic, perpetrator and victim (Libération, France). “Lieve Joris is of the caliber of Naipaul or Ryszard Kapuscinski, 50% traveler, 50% journalist, 100% writer.” —Elle (France)

Download or read book American Aria written by Sherrill Milnes and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What's it Like to grow up on a small farm in Illinois only to find yourself, some twenty years later, performing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House? And then to travel the world, singing in historic theaters from La Scala in Milan to Vienna, Paris, London, and beyond? What does it take to be hailed as one of the great operatic baritones of all times, heir to a tradition of Verdi baritones that stretches back for generations? And how does it feel to face losing your voice and your livelihood and the sometimes mean-spirited nature of the operatic world?...Sherrill Milnes's story is a true American saga. This book tells the entire story in warm, engaging prose. For anyone interested in the mystique of opera - and what really goes on behind and in front of the scenes - it makes fascinating reading. In American Aria Sherrill Milnes opens his artistic and personal life with great candor and considerable heart, revealing himself to everyone." -- Book jacket