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Presents an insightful exploration of the years between the entry into older adulthood and death. This text examines the significant changes and major landmarks of older persons between 60 and 90. It is suitable for professionals who work with older adults, including pastors, attorneys, facilities managers, and program directors.

Features 90 stories of survival to create a silver lining of hope for those struggling to heal from childhood trauma. This title documents the endless challenges facing children and adults who have been subjected to physical, emotional, and psychological abuse, and examines the proactive coping strategies that have made their recoveries a success.

Examines the causes and consequences of violence initiated by women against their partners. This book includes epidemiological studies, secondary analyses, personality profiles, and a study of women entering a 16-week, court-mandated, batterer intervention program (BIP). It is useful for psychologists, social workers, and counsellors.

A how-to guide to organizing an interlibrary loan department, providing content on copyright law, ILL management systems, and human resources. Useful for librarians and their staffs, it includes an introduction to ILL operations, governing policies, information on borrowing and lending, and considerations for medicals libraries.

Cardiovascular problems are on the rise in America. This title offers a guide that helps social workers and psychosocial professionals develop and apply cardiac group work in a proactive manner. It explores social group work with patients recovering from a cardiac event heart attack or failure, and the secondary effects of such events.

Presents an overview of EBP theory, research, and practice. This book features individual chapters on depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and alcohol abuse, and includes a section on training in EBP through college counselling centre based practicums and internships. Contributors address common concerns and issues about EBP.

Examines the practice of seclusion of women throughout the Middle East from its beginnings. This work discusses the reasons that seclusion may not be as oppressive as is generally accepted, and, in fact, may be an empowering force for women in both the West and East. It is suitable for those interested in women's history and feminism.

Taking the mystery out of online experience with practical information on using technology to enhance and enrich learning, this book presents creative and interesting methods for incorporating technology that's affordable and user-friendly and for developing online skills that will not become obsolete as computer technology evolves.

A guide through the grieving process for those who have suffered loss and those who suffer with them. Instead of talking people in pain out of their grief to make them feel better, this book talks to people to make them heal better, using counselling conversations with real people to identify what really happens in loss and grief.

A basic but thorough introduction to the impact family dynamics can have on a person's health. Useful as a supplemental training text for healthcare professionals, this book examines the connections between family and health, presenting a concise summary of family systems theory, basic family assessment, and the typical family life cycle.

Ceremonies can be powerful means to help individuals through life transitions to tap into the deepest resources within to help them deal with difficulties and mine the faith needed to heal and grow. This book talks about ceremonies for several types of life events to help patients or parishioners through difficult personal change and loss.

Examines the strategies of Western retailers entering into Asian markets, and provides specific case examples showing why some companies have failed in Asia - as well as factors that helped others succeed. This book is designed for international marketing students, retail researchers, business managers, and policymakers.

Tells the story of a gay couple's decision to have their child through a surrogate mother. With humour and emotion, the author traces their intense experience from the initial decision to have a child through surrogacy on through the entire pregnancy and birth. This is a memoir that reveals the challenges that gay and lesbian couples face.

Introduces students, practitioners, and educators to theoretical and conceptual approaches to professional ethics and to the practice-related aspects of dealing with ethical problems and dilemmas. This book also examines classical ethics, theories, and codes of ethics, virtues and values, etiquette, professional responsibilities, and more.

Provides practitioners an alternative way of thinking about and working with individuals who have been long-term users of the mental health system. This book offers an approach that can be applied to those who have been in the mental health system for years and may remain so. It is suitable for psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists.

Provides mental health professionals the tools to provide group treatment for children scarred by family environments of conflict and abuse. This manual is useful to social workers, psychologists, family and child therapists, school counsellors, and battered women and children's advocates.

Applies business approaches to the process of planning, implementing, and carrying out programs that work for professionals in their first year of recovery. This book provides guidance to impaired executives and professionals seeking recovery through inpatient and outpatient care. It is helpful for employee assistance program (EAP) personnel.

This text aims to present a description of how case-based reasoning can be applied to design problems, including the representation of design cases, indexing and retrieving design cases, and the range of paradigms for adapting design cases.

Examines the complex topics, including explanations of the automated systems libraries have developed or adopted, licensing issues, and the provision of access to electronic journals. This book brings strategies, technologies, and ideas to every library professional grappling with ways to manage the flow of electronic journals in a library.