Allied Health Services category: 2328 books
Homelessness in America
Perspectives, Characterizations, and Considerations for Occupational Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Learn how to better address the needs of the homeless
The causes of homelessness are complex and varied. Homelessness in America provides an overview of the state of research on the homeless population from an occupation and societal participation perspective. This important resource explores...
Medical Technologies and the Life World
The social construction of normality
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Although the use of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little analysis of the impact of such technologies on people’s lives and understandings of health and illness. This ground-breaking book explores how new technologies not only provide...
Patient Practitioner Interaction
An Experiential Manual for Developing the Art of Health Care, Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
For over 20 years, Patient Practitioner Interaction: An Experiential Manual for Developing the Art of Health Care has been the cornerstone textbook for health care professionals to learn and develop effective interpersonal professional behavior. Building on the foundational knowledge of past editions,...
Confessions of a Trauma Junkie
My Life as a Nurse Paramedic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Lynn Jones
Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Lynn Jones has been an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Room Nurse, prison healthcare practitioner,...
Mental Illness and the Body
Beyond Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Using real life case studies of people experiencing mental illness, this book identifies how bodily presentation of patients may reflect certain aspects of their ‘lived experience’.
With reference to a range of theoretical perspectives including philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and...
Administrative Leadership in the Social Services
The Next Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
What should be the roles and behavior of administrators to meet the challenges facing social service agencies today? Here is a thought-provoking book that provides a great deal of insight into administrative leadership, an essential component in the survival and effectiveness of social service agencies.
In...
Health Occupations Entrance Exams
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
This comprehensive review for the health professions entrance exam can help candidates enter the program of their choice and have their best career opportunities. Offering job security and dozens of specialties (more than 10 million jobs and growing!), a career in the allied health occupations is an...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
National EMS Education Standards and Instructional Guidelines - Completed in 2009, the National EMS Education Standards (the Standards) represents yet another step toward realizing the vision of the 1996 EMS Agenda for the Future, as articulated in the 2000 EMS Education Agenda for the Future: A Systems...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
National EMS Education Standards and Instructional Guidelines - Completed in 2009, the National EMS Education Standards (the Standards) represents yet another step toward realizing the vision of the 1996 EMS Agenda for the Future, as articulated in the 2000 EMS Education Agenda for the Future: A Systems...
How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children
For Better or for Worse?
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Improve services for children and youth with new concepts, different perspectives, and up-to-date information!
How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children: For Better or for Worse? explores the positive and negative impacts of social institutions on child and adolescent well-being....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
National EMS Education Standards and Instructional Guidelines - Completed in 2009, the National EMS Education Standards (the Standards) represents yet another step toward realizing the vision of the 1996 EMS Agenda for the Future, as articulated in the 2000 EMS Education Agenda for the Future: A Systems...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
National EMS Education Standards and Instructional Guidelines - Completed in 2009, the National EMS Education Standards (the Standards) represents yet another step toward realizing the vision of the 1996 EMS Agenda for the Future, as articulated in the 2000 EMS Education Agenda for the Future: A Systems...
Community Mobility
Driving and Transportation Alternatives for Older Persons
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Affordable, easy-to-use, and flexible transportation options are vital to older adults' quality of life. Community Mobility: Driving and Transportation Alternatives for Older Persons provides physical and occupational therapists with recent research findings on older driver assessment, remediation/rehabilitation,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A core text for over 10 years, Best Practice Occupational Therapy for Children and Families in Community Settings, Second Edition by Dr. Winnie Dunn provides a clear insight into how to conceive, design, implement, and evaluate services that reflect core principles. Best Practice Occupational Therapy...