Barbara A Wilson: 14 books
The Assessment, Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Everyday Memory Problems
Selected papers of Barbara A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest work—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings and their major theoretical and practical contributions.
This volume of self-selected...
Memory Rehabilitation
Integrating Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
From a well-known authority, this comprehensive yet accessible book shows how state-of-the-art research can be applied to help people with nonprogressive memory disorders improve their functioning and quality of life. Barbara Wilson describes a broad range of interventions, including compensatory...
Identity Unknown
How acute brain disease can destroy knowledge of oneself and others
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Imagine being unable to recognise your spouse, your children, or even yourself when you look in the mirror, despite having good eyesight and being able to read well and name objects. This is a condition which, in rare cases, some brain injury survivors experience every day.
Identity Unknown...
by Nick Moffat, Barbara A. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Behavioural Approaches in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Optimising Rehabilitation Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The potential of behavioural approaches for improving the lives of people with acquired brain injury is immense. Here that potential is laid out and explored with a thoroughgoing regard for clinical practice and the theoretical frameworks that underpin that practice. This book will prove an invaluable...
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Theory, Models, Therapy and Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
The aim of neuropsychological rehabilitation is to enable people with cognitive, emotional, or behavioural deficits to achieve their maximum potential in the domains of psychological, social, leisure, vocational or everyday functioning. Describing the holistic programme devised and adopted at the...
Surviving Brain Damage After Assault
From Vegetative State to Meaningful Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
At the age of twenty eight Gary was assaulted by a gang with baseball bats and a hammer, resulting in several skull fractures and severe brain damage. For nineteen months he had little awareness of his surroundings before he started to show some recovery. This inspirational book documents his exceptional...
Approaches to Conflict
Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Approaches to Conflict: Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics aims to investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts. In addition to the fundamental importance of communication in various aspects of conflict, this volume offers a prominent position to the inherent...
Questioning Architectural Judgment
The Problem of Codes in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge architecture through such lenses, is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of...
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today
Insights, Considerations, and Perspectives for the Classroom Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Teaching Young Adult Literature Today introduces the reader to what is current and relevant in the plethora of good books available for adolescents. More importantly, literary experts illustrate how teachers everywhere can help their students become lifelong readers by simply introducing them to great...
by Susan Hunt, Mary A. Kassian, Carolyn Mahaney
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
A charge to women to recover what the feminist revolution has robbed them of: the God-given beauty, wonder, and treasure of their distinctive calling and mission.
The feminist revolution was supposed to bring women greater fulfillment and freedom. Yet women today feel anything but fulfilled...
by Lawrence A. Shapiro, Shannon Spaulding, Daniel D. Hutto
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2
Sorghum utilization around the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...