Diagnostic Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Childhood

Diagnostic Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Childhood-1

Amber E. Brueggemann Taylor 2014 Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice When the possibility of writing this text was first introduced I was somewhat hesitant because of my uncertainty of others’ interest in the topic. After consideration, the reason for my hesitancy became my motivation to complete the book. I first encountered the ambivalence and indifference surrounding […]

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Vulnerable Children

Vulnerable Children-1

Deborah J. Johnson • DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga Robert K. Hitchcock Editors 2013 Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights In the summer of 2006, we attended an administrative retreat commensurate with our roles in the college at the time, while also being active scholars with global interests in children. Our collective and interdisciplinary interests somehow […]

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Understanding Sleep and Dreaming

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William H. Moorcroft 2013 As I am writing this, the 60th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the field of sleep is approaching. For it was in 1953 that Aserinsky and Kleitman discovered REMS in a lab at the University of Chicago. They were surprised to notice that eye movements occurred periodically even when their subject was, by […]

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Solution-Focused Supervision

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Frank N. Thomas 2013 A Resource-Oriented Approach to Developing Clinical Expertise I would be the first to ask this question in a conversation about supervision among my peers. At the same time, a tacit understanding seems to exist in the psychotherapy world: good supervision is something experienced therapists can provide to students, novice therapists, and peers and requires little […]

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Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health

Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health-1

Angele McGrady ● Donald Moss 2013 It is becoming increasingly clear that optimal therapeutic approaches for people with chronic emotional and physical problems must be comprehensive, integrative, and carefully individualized. Sometimes with acute conditions, particularly ones that have obvious physical causes, a single clinician-administered intervention is sufficient: the appropriate antibiotic for a bacterial infection, adrenaline or a steroid to break […]

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Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care

Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care-1

Mary R. Talen • Aimee Burke Valeras Editors 2013 Evaluating the Evidence, Identifying the Essentials Five decades ago, orthodoxy reigned in the canons of medical science: medical breakthroughs, scientific discoveries, and lifesaving procedures were occurring at an ever-increasing pace, and new specialties and subspecialties were brought into existence to accommodate these new discoveries and incorporate them into clinical care.

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