A chance encounter... A deadly game of cat-and-mouse... Detective Ray Schiller's relaxing three-day getaway turns into a desperate struggle for survival. While his family faces an unexpected crisis at home, for Ray and his friends, the situation at their secluded campsite makes them the prey in a deadly chase through the surrounding untamed, backwoods terrain. The odds are stacked against their escaping the deadly, misfit couple and getting out alive.
Here's the very first text to address this evolving new area of OT practice! It teaches students about health promotion and prevention theory and practice from a wellness rather than an illness perspective. Using "cutting edge" examples, the authors explore how to incorporate this new paradigm into clinical practice and how to develop wellness interventions across the lifespan.
Presents the theories and practice of occupational therapy in community and population healthProvides detailed guidance in program planning and needs assessment, program design and implementation, program evaluation, and program support.Features case studies describing the development of actual programs in the practice areas identified by AOTA.Describes a variety of settings where community-based practice occurs, including community-based work programs, adult day care, independent living programs, hospice, and home health care.Provides specific information regarding the role of personnel, referrals, evaluation, intervention, documentation, and reimbursement in these practice settings.Offers tools to make learning easier, including learning outcomes, key terms, case studies, learning activities, study questions, and a summary that is directly linked to learning outcomes in each chapter.Evaluates future directions and implications for professional education, research, and practice roles.
This timely book will help policymakers and practitioners convert their visions of high-quality early education into on-the-ground reality by examining how states, local districts, and independent providers can design, fund, and manage exemplary programs. The authors describe and analyze how four states—Michigan, West Virginia, Washington, and North Carolina—have built early education systems that positively affect student outcomes with key takeaways from each state.
It all happened so fast Her son's wedding, her diagnosis of invasive, breast cancer, and subsequent surgery, followed swiftly by 9/11, after which, her only child enlists and goes off to war in the Persian Gulf. A true story, Nothing Is Promised is fast paced and detailed, Marjorie has chronicled it all. She compels the reader to experience her efforts to make sense of a world forever changed.Taking inspiration from the courage of her fellow New Yorkers, and the bravery of her son, cancer becomes secondary to the survival of her child, and the healing of her city. To be sure, there are dark and depressing moments in her recovery, how could there be not?] but ultimately, it is her humor and new found tenacity, which propels her into the light and the renewal of her soul.
This is a historical memoir that follows two separate but parallel stories of the author and her brother taking direct action with Quaker groups in Vietnam in the late 1960's. One story is the experiences of author Dr. Marjorie Nelson working in South Vietnam at the Quang Ngai Rehabilitation Center, which provided healthcare and therapy to amputees and children affected by the war. It also covers her journey from POW to "guest" of the North Vietnamese following the Tet Offensive in 1968. The other story follows her brother Beryl Nelson who crewed on The Phoenix with AQAG (A Quaker Action Group) and their experiences sailing the South China Sea to deliver medical supplies to the Vietnamese people. A historical memoir, a family story, a war story, and a historical document, with excerpts from letters, journals, interviews and personal accounts of Quaker action in Vietnam during the late 1960's.
Powerful Scritures, beautiful pictures which reflect the beauty of our creator are front and center in this book. Our Creator can be seen in every picture where His voice comes through loud and clear if you just be still long enough to hear His words. The reader is afforded the opportunity to reflect on his words and the picture as journaling space is provided for the purpose of engagement.
