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The Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier

The Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier

Despite the existence of two barrier systems in the brain research over the last century has mostly focused on the blood-brain barrier rather than on the blood-CSF barrier. Today there is a greater understanding of the function of the blood-CSF barrier and of the choroid plexus a tissue that is the primary site of this barrier. With the growing number of studies that focus on the role of the blood-CSF barrier in CNS homeostasis and neurological disorders a modern overview of the blood-CSF barrier is long overdue. The Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier is exclusively devoted to the blood-CSF barrier. Internationally renowned experts discuss the most recent progress in the field of choroid plexus physiology and update our knowledge of the function of the blood-CSF barrier. The book begins with an overview of the development and morphology of the choroid plexus and then covers various aspects of its function such as the regulation of choroidal blood flow ion transport and the production and transport of polypeptides. Following an extensive section on the role of the choroid plexus in CNS disorders the final section discusses in vitro in vivo and in situ models of the blood-CSF barrier. This unique book analyzes a wealth of new research on the proven and potential roles of the choroid plexus/blood-CSF barrier in the brain. It is a valuable resource that will foster future studies in neuroscience pharmacology and toxicology.

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Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop Execute and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance

Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop Execute and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance

Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop Execute and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance offers methods and techniques for delivering this special effect on the stage. The world of live theatre presents its own set of unique challenges when creating special effects particularly blood. There are no cropped-view frames multiple angles or reshoots – everything is live and in view of the audience. This book provides helpful insight information techniques and tricks for producing reliable and repeatable blood effects covering everything from design and budgeting to safety and clean-up. Filled with easy-to-follow descriptions and full-color artwork this text includes: Practical examples of blood effect budgets outlining not just money but also labor needs. A breakdown of the components for making an original blood recipe as well as reliable industry-tested recipes. Options for dispensing blood to create realistic effects for any budget size. A comprehensive wash-testing database of over 500 examples of fabrics and blood combinations. Prop managers and builders in professional educational and regional theatre are sure to benefit from the tips outlined in this book.

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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor India Report 2020/21 A National Study on Entrepreneurship

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor India Report 2020/21 A National Study on Entrepreneurship

The GEM India 2020-21 report explains the key aspects of entrepreneurship among Indians by measuring their attitudes activities and aspirations. The findings of the report provide the policy-makers a foundation for reviewing the current and prospective policies. The major findings and appropriate recommendations for policy-making are highlighted under the conclusion section of this report. The report uses a sample survey of 3 317 adults and national level experts. . | Global Entrepreneurship Monitor India Report 2020/21 A National Study on Entrepreneurship

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Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women Israel's Blood Money

Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women Israel's Blood Money

This book critically analyzes the sex industry in Israel using feminist concepts and scholarship to elaborate on the power of prostitution to shape a world in which women are objects for fulfilling men's desires. A comprehensive collection of research-based articles that examine prostitution trafficking in women and pornography from divergent disciplinary angles it reveals the interconnectedness of these three aspects of the sex trade which objectifies commercializes and exploits human – and in particular women’s – sexuality. Showing these practices to be embedded in a capitalist and patriarchal oppressive context that is accommodated by state institutions this volume rejects the argument that it is possible to choose prostitution and that feminist pornography is possible. With case studies including the conspicuous context of migration that attracts sex traffickers the liberal discourse introduced by cinema the media and the arts that serve to legitimate prostitution and pornography the chauvinist-macho culture that perceives and treats women as sex objects and the issues of male prostitution and men as clients Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women: Israel’s Blood Money constitutes a study of Israel as a unique context in which the sex trade can prosper in spite of geographical religious and institutional constraints. As such it will be of interest to scholars of sociology anthropology history cultural studies and gender and women’s studies. | Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women Israel's Blood Money

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Historicising Heritage and Emotions The Affective Histories of Blood Stone and Land

Historicising Heritage and Emotions The Affective Histories of Blood Stone and Land

Historicising Heritage and Emotions examines how heritage is connected to and between people and places through emotion both in the past and today. Discussion is focused on the overlapping categories of blood (families and bloodlines) stone (monuments and memorials) and land (landscape and places imbued with memories) with the contributing authors exploring the ways in which emotions invest heritage with affective power and the transformative effects of this power in individual community and cultural contexts. The 13 chapters that make up the volume take examples from the premodern and modern eras and from two connected geographical regions the United Kingdom and Australia and the Pacific. Each chapter seeks to identify historicise and contextualise the processes of heritage and the emotional regimes at play locating the processes within longer historical and transnational genealogies and critically appraising them as part of broader cultural currents. Theoretically grounded in new approaches to the history of emotions and critical heritage studies the analysis challenges the traditional scholarly focus on heritage in its modern forms offering multifaceted premodern and modern case studies that demonstrate heritage and emotion to have complex and vibrant histories. Offering transhistorical and multidisciplinary discussion around the ways in which we can talk about discuss categorise and theorise heritage and emotion in different historical contexts Historicising Heritage and Emotions is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in heritage emotions and history. | Historicising Heritage and Emotions The Affective Histories of Blood Stone and Land

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Costume Craftwork on a Budget Clothing 3-D Makeup Wigs Millinery & Accessories

Costume Craftwork on a Budget Clothing 3-D Makeup Wigs Millinery & Accessories

Costume Craftwork on a Budget demonstrates how to use inexpensive materials to create durable costumes and props in a short amount of time. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions teach readers how to use 3-D makeup and create teeth wigs masks hats nonhuman costumes leather products and other accessories. This new edition features updated introductions for each chapter and project expanded chapters on 3-D Makeup Wigs Masks Headdresses and Animal Costumes and projects from shows such as Shrek the Musical (latex ears) Orphie & the Book of Heroes (headdresses) and Side Show (a lizard costume). From creating armor out of laundry baskets to detailed tricks for creating a witch’s prosthetic nose this book equips aspiring costume designers with the techniques needed to produce costumes and props that are beautiful economical and safe. | Costume Craftwork on a Budget Clothing 3-D Makeup Wigs Millinery & Accessories

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Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods Clans Incest Totems Phratries Hordes Mana Taboos Corroborees Sodalities Menstrual Blood A

Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods Clans Incest Totems Phratries Hordes Mana Taboos Corroborees Sodalities Menstrual Blood A

The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim's effort to understand the basis of social integration. Unlike most social scientists then and now Durkheim concluded that humans are naturally more individualistic than collectivistic that the primal social unit for humans is the macro-level unit ('the horde') rather than the family and that social cohesion is easily disrupted by human self-interest. Hence for Durkheim one of the gravest problems facing sociology is how to mold these human proclivities to serve the collective good. The analysis of elementary religions Durkheim believed would allow social scientists to see the fundamental basis of solidarity in human societies built around collective representations totems marking sacred forces and emotion-arousing rituals directed at these totems. The first half of the book traces the key influences and events that led Durkheim to embrace such novel generalizations. The second part makes a significant contribution to sociological theory with an analysis that essentially tests Durkheim's core assumptions using cladistic analysis social network tools and theory and data on humans closest living relatives—the great apes. Maryanski marshals hard data from primatology paleontology archaeology genetics and neuroscience that enlightens and surprisingly confirms many of Durkheim’s speculations. These data show that integration among both humans and great apes is not so much group or kin oriented per se but orientation to a community standing outside each individual that includes a sense of self but also encompassing a cognitive awareness of a sense of community or a connectedness that transcends sensory reality and concrete social relations. This community complex as Maryanski terms it is what Durkheim was beginning to see although he did not have the data to buttress his arguments as Maryanski is able to do. | Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods Clans Incest Totems Phratries Hordes Mana Taboos Corroborees Sodalities Menstrual Blood A

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Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

This book examines secessionist terrorism in a comparative context across Europe and Eurasia. The volume seeks to uncover comparative linkages between terrorism and secessionism; specifically examining terrorist organizations that also have a political goal of independence. It examines a wide range of case studies including the IRA in Northern Ireland ETA in the Basque Country FLNC in Corsica and ARD in Brittany KLA in Kosovo PKK and TAK in Turkish Kurdistan and IK in Chechnya. In doing so the book shows the linkages in terrorist tactics and demands as well as when and how ceasefires come into place. Ultimately none of the terrorist organizations studied here has obtained their maximalist goal of gaining independence but each has caused significant bloodshed and has contributed to the debate on the future of governance in Europe and Eurasia. The major strength of this format is to glean wider lessons on ethno-nationalism as well as the causes and outcomes of terrorist actions. Each case study also updates the literature on the individual cases to provide the most recent account of events in these countries. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence ethnic conflict nationalism European politics and International Relations in general. | Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

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The Psychology of Golf Performance under Pressure

The Psychology of Golf Performance under Pressure

The Psychology of Golf Performance under Pressure offers contemporary research-informed information regarding the key psychological factors affecting golf development and performance under pressure. Through the authors’ substantive expertise – all of whom are notable scholars and/or practitioners in the field of golf psychology – the text provides a highly accessible “real world” application of theory to practice through the provision of evidence-based guidance regarding how to maximise golf performance under pressure. Golf is a sport that has embraced sport psychology with many of the highest ranked players in the world (male and female) openly working with a sport psychologist and advocating their importance. As a result an increasing number of high-profile practitioners are working full-time within the sport around the world encouraging trainee sport psychology practitioners to pursue their career within golf. Accordingly there is an ever-increasing demand for high-quality information pertaining to the psychological demands of golf; the key psychological variables that affect golfing development and performance; and evidence-based strategies which enable effective golf performance under pressure. This novel text provides a comprehensive portrayal of the psychological factors which enable effective golfing development and optimal performance under pressure. A theoretical review of the pertinent psychological factors followed by the practical application of theory for the provision of “take home messages” will ensure that this book is of value interest and benefit for golfers coaches golf organisations and even the parents of golfers alongside sport psychology scholars students practitioners and researchers alike.

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The Politics of Trade Pressure American-Soviet Relations 1980-88

The Politics of Trade Pressure American-Soviet Relations 1980-88

First published in 1999 this volume examines Soviet-American relations with a specific emphasis on the American use of trade pressure in comparison with Soviet involvement in regional conflicts in contrast to a broader East-West dichotomous analysis. Mohammed Ishaq addresses the history of the political and economic partnership followed by the questions of non-strategic trade strategic trade Soviet policy on human rights and Soviet involvement in the Third World and regional conflicts. In doing so Ishaq recognises the use of trade pressure as economic statecraft in foreign policy in a reassessment of its effectiveness. | The Politics of Trade Pressure American-Soviet Relations 1980-88

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Under Pressure Essays on Urban Housing

Under Pressure Essays on Urban Housing

Under Pressure is about instigation and design in urban housing. Urban housing is a bellwether for economic social and political change. It varies widely in quality typology and audience and lies between the formal systems of urban infrastructure and the informal systems of daily life. Housing’s complexity offers unique and exciting opportunities to architects. Its entwinement with private equity and public agencies presents important challenges amplified by urbanization. This book gathers and contextualizes relevant conversations in urban housing unfolding today across architecture through four topics: Learning from History Changing Domesticities Housing Finance and Policy and Design and Material Innovation. The result is a multi-disciplinary amalgam of research and design intelligence from thought leaders in the fields of architecture real estate economics policy material design and finance. | Under Pressure Essays on Urban Housing

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Performing Under Pressure Psychological Strategies for Sporting Success

Performing Under Pressure Psychological Strategies for Sporting Success

Performing Under Pressure is an essential resource on improving sporting performance in high-pressure situations. Perry’s work guides coaches and athletes through nine key elements of the sporting mindset to help athletes to perform at the highest standards even under the most pressurized of situations. This valuable read includes empirically-based advice on areas such as embracing competition; building confidence concentration and focus; maintaining emotional control; learning from and coping with failure or injury; being braver; and being able to push harder. Perry also provides 64 strategies to support each sporting mindset offering not just the evidence as to why they work but exactly how to implement them. This book uniquely offers those supporting athletes a toolkit of sport psychology strategies and interventions in a way that is evidence-based accessible and engaging whether you are starting out studying sport psychology on a sports science course or are a coach of many years' standing for both elite and amateur athletes. | Performing Under Pressure Psychological Strategies for Sporting Success

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Mask Making Techniques Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre Cosplay Film and TV

Mask Making Techniques Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre Cosplay Film and TV

Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre Cosplay Film and TV introduces and demonstrates a variety of mask making materials techniques and styles to bring extraordinary characters to life. A foundation reference for mask making and design the book features over 700 color photos and illustrations of different masks as well as diagrams of construction and finishing techniques. It provides a wealth of practical information about material options safety how to build large- and small-scale masks how to build armatures for appendages options for coverings and finishing techniques. Readers will learn how to use a wide range of materials including latex paper and fabric mché cold foam thermoplastics urethane ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) foam resin found objects and organic materials. The book also provides tips on topics such as how to create rigid polyfoam head forms and three different ways to create eyes as well as step-by-step instructions to construct 13 different masks. Mask Making Techniques is written for intermediate mask makers students of theatrical mask making costume crafts and prop making courses as well as prop builders costume designers and artists who create Halloween and cosplay costumes. | Mask Making Techniques Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre Cosplay Film and TV

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D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis

D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis

This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed – yet eminently readable – historical investigation of a kind never yet undertaken of the impact of psychoanalysis (at a crucial moment of its history) on the thinking and writing of D. H. Lawrence. It considers the impact on his writing through his relationship with Frieda Weekley of the maverick Austrian analyst Otto Gross; it situates the great works of 1911-20 in relation to the controversial issues at stake in the Freud-Jung quarrel about which his good friend the English psychoanalyst David Eder kept him informed; and it explores his sympathy with the maverick American analyst Trigant Burrow. It is a study to interest a literary audience by its close reading of Lawrence’s texts and a psychoanalytic audience by its detailed consideration of the contribution made to contemporary debate by three comparatively neglected analytic thinkers. | D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis

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The Sisters d' Aranyi

The Sisters d' Aranyi

First published in 1969 The Sisters d' Aranyi traces the careers personalities and musical development of Jelly d’ Aranyi and Adila Fachiri outstanding violinists in Britain and Hungarian great nieces of Josef Joachim with insight and a wealth of anecdote and description. The book contains fresh lights on figures such as Joachim himself Elgar Ravel and Vaughan Williams Casals Suggia and Myra Hess Aldous Huxley Einstein and Schweitzer Balfour Asquith and Neville Chamberlain. There are illuminating comments on music from Bach to the present day and also a chapter on the mysterious affair of the Imprisoned Schumann Violin Concerto and how it was found and liberated. These two consummate musicians were however part of a movement towards greater sincerity in music- a tendency not yet sufficiently recorded by musicologists. To set them in their time this biography contains a most readable history of music in Britain with some original observations on the nature of music itself in performance. This book is an essential read for students of music music history literature performance studies for violin players and also for general music lovers.

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Global Leadership and Coaching Flourishing under intense pressure at work

Global Leadership and Coaching Flourishing under intense pressure at work

Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work is a unique and personal look at coaching leading and working internationally bringing together inspiring original and dramatic stories of leadership from around the world. From war zones to refugee camps prisons to hospitals elite sport to supermarkets each case study draws on psychoanalytic below the surface thinking to analyse interpret and understand a leader’s decisions motivations and fears. Rachel Ellison’s inter-cultural approach takes us to Afghanistan Syria and Iraq Sudan Somalia and the Central African Republic to Honduras the Czech Republic the USA and the UK. Global Leadership & Coaching presents a series of individual case studies from Ellison’s own experiences working with senior commercial public and third sector leaders across 35 different countries cultures and organisational contexts. Compellingly written this book explores the a diverse range of themes to consider when managing risk danger and extreme emotional stress in some of the most hazardous and challenging work environments. Throughout the text leaders share their stories of learning how to lead and develop others. Accessible engaging and original research Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work is essential reading for today’s leaders and aspiring leaders looking to develop themselves personally and professionally. This book is also a resource for coaches and coach supervisors. Global Leadership & Coaching provides contemporary practical and applicable examples of excellence in leadership for individuals and organisations seeking to develop a high performance reflective and reflexive corporate learning culture which enables employees to successfully navigate challenge increase productivity and find joy in coming to work. | Global Leadership and Coaching Flourishing under intense pressure at work

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Opinions Publics and Pressure Groups An Essay on 'Vox Populi' and Representative Government

Opinions Publics and Pressure Groups An Essay on 'Vox Populi' and Representative Government

In the late 1960s representative democracy was under fire from various directions even in countries like Britain and America where it had appeared to be most secure and successful. Must democracy be a sham either because of the power of pressure groups and other established decision-makers or because ‘the people’ are too ignorant and irrational? What in any case does or can representative government mean in a complex industrial society – and what does it mean to be rational in politics? It is to these and other vital issues that this book originally published in 1970 directs itself. In the course of their argument the authors who feel no contradiction between their academic and their ‘radical democratic’ commitments draw extensively upon recent empirical studies of voting pressure groups and of the sociological and social psychological aspects of political behaviour in Britain and the USA at the time. Problems of the nature of such evidence the conduct of attitude surveys and opinion polls and the relationship between modern research and the traditional themes of political theory are also analysed. | Opinions Publics and Pressure Groups An Essay on 'Vox Populi' and Representative Government

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A Clinician’s Guide to Functional Neurological Disorder A Practical Neuropsychological Approach

A Clinician’s Guide to Functional Neurological Disorder A Practical Neuropsychological Approach

This manual for clinicians presents a ground-breaking accessible and unifying new model for understanding functional neurological disorder (FND) that bridges the gap between theoretical FND-specific models and the more practical but non-FND-specific Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) models. Grounded in psychology the Pressure Cooker Model provides a clear metaphor for FND focusing on intra-individual and inter-individual cognitive emotional and behavioural processes. Developed based on years of clinical experience in the field it is applicable to the assessment and treatment of every type of FND. Viewed as a systemic condition with unique psychosocial features the book will describe the rationale for radically transforming FND recovery by providing a treatment model that aims to resolve emotion dysregulation processes and repair relationships between the person and the system. It uses a unifying framework to guide the steps of intervention and can be adapted for work in a multidisciplinary team context to facilitate communication between disciplines. Enriched with case studies and research data the book also highlights a plethora of clinical tools and strategies based on the Pressure Cooker Model as well as contextualising its position alongside CBT models. This manual is instrumental in educating and treating people with FND. It offers essential guidance for neuropsychologists neuropsychiatrists and other health professionals as well as students in these fields. | A Clinician’s Guide to Functional Neurological Disorder A Practical Neuropsychological Approach

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Tragic Plots A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca

Tragic Plots A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca

This title was first published in 2000. This book offers a wide-ranging account of tragic drama from the Greeks to Arthur Miller. It puts forward a bold and vigorously developed argument about the recurrent concerns of tragedy and proposes to uncover the archetypal tragic plot that emerges at key points of historical transition. It traces this plot through fascinatingly diverse formations on Athens Renaissance England and the modern world and offers detailed analysis of over twenty plays. The needs of the first-time reader are not forgotten while challenging new light is thrown on each period. There is substantial discussion of Aeschylus Sophocles Euripedes Marlowe Shakespeare Ibsen Strindberg Chekhov Lorca and Miller along with briefer consideration of the Senecan tradition Yeats Synge O’Neill and T. S. Eliot. Felicity Rosslyn asks why tragic plays get written when they do and why they so often dramatise the struggle to break the ties of blood for the bonds of law. | Tragic Plots A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca

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Reducing Crime A Companion for Police Leaders

Reducing Crime A Companion for Police Leaders

How do I reduce crime in my police command? How do I tackle chronic crime problems? How do I address the long-term issues that have plagued my community? How do I analyze crime and criminal behaviour? How do I show evidence of success in crime reduction? What works what doesn’t and how do we know? Providing answers to these questions and more this engaging and accessible book offers a foundation for leadership in modern policing. Blending concepts from crime science environmental criminology and the latest research in evidence-based policing the book draws on examples from around the world to cover a range of issues such as: how to analyze crime problems and what questions to ask why the PANDA model is your key to crime reduction key features of criminal behavior relevant to police commanders the current research on what works in police crime prevention why to set up systems to avoid surprises and monitor crime patterns how to develop evidence of your effectiveness forming a crime reduction plan tracking progress and finally how to make a wider contribution to the policing field. Crammed with useful tips checklists and advice including first-person perspectives from police practitioners case studies and chapter summaries this book is essential reading both for police professionals taking leadership courses and promotion exams and for students engaged with police administration and community safety. | Reducing Crime A Companion for Police Leaders

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Policy Networks Under Pressure Pollution Control Policy Reform and the Power of Farmers

Policy Networks Under Pressure Pollution Control Policy Reform and the Power of Farmers

First published in 1998 this book examines how established policy networks and the broader context within which they are embedded influence the choice of policy when change has been put on the agenda. It criticises the existing network literature for being predominantly descriptive for having little to say on the choice of policy and for omitting the analysis of the broader political structures which have consequences for meso-level policy making. In order to reinforce the explanatory power of policy network analysis the book develops both a meso and a macro-level theoretical model. They help to explain why policy change is more radical in some settings than in others. The theoretical arguments are tested by the use of detailed comparisons of agri-environmental policy making in Denmark and Sweden and of agricultural policy reforms in the European Union and Sweden. | Policy Networks Under Pressure Pollution Control Policy Reform and the Power of Farmers

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Treating Individuals with Addictive Disorders A Strengths-Based Workbook for Patients and Clinicians

Treating Individuals with Addictive Disorders A Strengths-Based Workbook for Patients and Clinicians

Integrating client stories research and evidence-based strategies this Workbook offers educational information clinical tools and coping techniques to assist addiction patients on the journey toward recovery. Chapters include psycho-educational information on the science behind addiction and examine how patients engaging in resilience behaviors can alter brain functions. A set of three appendices then evaluates what works for the treatment of individuals with addictive disorders including ways to engage patients in the treatment process and ways to assess residential treatment programs. Lastly a glossary of the language of recovery terms provides patients and their family members with the guidelines to monitor treatment gains support their journey of recovery and bolster their resilience. Healthcare providers and those suffering from addictive disorders alike will benefit from the approachable discussion of the science and history behind addiction the personal case-studies and the patient-friendly set of coping toolbox-activities designed to develop lasting behavioral changes. | Treating Individuals with Addictive Disorders A Strengths-Based Workbook for Patients and Clinicians

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Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure

Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure

Mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Mindfulness Acceptance Commitment (MAC) are gaining momentum with sport psychology practitioners who work to support elite athletes. These acceptance-based or third wave cognitive behavioral approaches in sport psychology highlight that thought suppression and control techniques can trigger a metacognitive scanning process and that excessive cognitive activity and task-irrelevant focus (self-focused attention such as trying to change thoughts) disrupts performance. Using this perspective the aim of sport psychology interventions is not to help the athletes engage in the futile task of managing and controlling internal life. Rather it suggests that sport psychology practitioners should work to increase athletes’ willingness to accept negative thoughts and emotions in pursuit of valued ends. Key aspects of such interventions include: teaching athletes to open up and accept teaching athletes to mindfully engage in the present moment and helping athletes formulate the values and engage in committed actions towards these values. The goal of Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport: How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure then is to provide students researchers practitioners and coaches of sport psychology with practical guidance for implementing mindfulness and acceptance approaches in their work with athletes. This book brings together highly experienced practitioners and shares their working methods exercises and cases to inspire the sport psychology profession. | Mindfulness and Acceptance in Sport How to Help Athletes Perform and Thrive under Pressure

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Mary D. Sheridan's Play in Early Childhood From Birth to Six Years

Mary D. Sheridan's Play in Early Childhood From Birth to Six Years

Mary D. Sheridan’s Play in Early Childhood is a classic introductory text to play and development – key topics for all those who work with young children. Drawing on the most up-to-date evidence it explains how children’s play develops and how they develop as they play. With over 100 illustrations and observations of play from birth to six years this new edition presents classical and contemporary literature making clear links between play and all areas of children’s development. It includes updated activities to consolidate thinking and suggestions for further reading throughout. This text considers: the development value and characteristics of play issues relating to culture adversity gender attachment and brain development play from recreational therapeutic and educational perspectives the role of parents/caregivers and professionals in supporting play how to develop observation and reflection skills for use in your own practice Suitable both for those new to the area and for more experienced workers wanting a quick reference guide this easy-to-follow book meets the needs of students and professionals from a wide range of health education and social care backgrounds including early years professionals playworkers children’s nurses play therapists and social workers. | Mary D. Sheridan's Play in Early Childhood From Birth to Six Years

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