principles and applications of assessment in counseling

Marriage and Family Assessment: A Sourcebook for Family

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Filsinger, Erik E., PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), Family studies scholars describe the use in therapy of techniques for the assessment of family characteristics and problems. Each author was given an outline to follow in order that a wide range of theoretical or therapeutic approaches would be coherently presented. Evidence for the validity of each assessment technique, suggestions for its practical administration and interpretation, illustrations by case example of its function and utility, and the actual questionnaire itself or instructions on how to get it are provided. The use of third party observers, and techniques for getting information from the family itself about marital relations or the full family structure are described.

EMT-Paramedic (P) Pretest Self Assessment and Review

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Westfal, Richard E. J. / Filangeri, John / Santa-Maria, Gregory, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, Effectively tests knowledge of the recently introduced and extensively revised paramedics curriculum. Meets the new and more rigorous standards of paramedic certification, now emphasizing basic science and pathophysiology. Features 500 multiple-choice questions accompanied by explanations and rationales for the correct answers. Covers the roles and responsibilities of paramedics, airway management and ventilation, medical considerations for all body systems, patient assessment, trauma, and special considerations such as neonatology, geriatrics, and abuse. Acquista Ora

Egan's Fundamentals of Respiratory Care

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilkins, Robert Ed. / Stoller / Scanlan, Craig L., PUBLISHER: Mosby Elsevier Health Science, An outstanding revision of the classic EGAN'S FUNDAMENTALS, this comprehensive text provides excellent coverage of the role of respiratory care practitioners, scientific bases for treatment, and clinical applications. It progresses from the foundations of respiratory care to applied anatomy and physiology, assessment, discussion of specific respiratory illnesses, basic therapy, acute and critical care, and preventive and long-term care. Special features have been designed with the student in mind and include outlines, active learning objectives, key terms and glossary, "Mini-Clinis," "Rules of Thumb," and bulleted key-point summaries. To improve students' clinical-skill application, CPGs and TDPs are included in appropriate chapters to familiarize students with the use of patient care guidelines and decision trees.

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Springhouse Publishing / Schull, Patricia, PUBLISHER: Springhouse Corporation, Photos and illustrations bring every technique to life in this friendly, unconventional reference. Nurses will master -- perhaps in just days -- complete assessment skills for all major body systems. Contents include beginning the assessment: health history, fundamental physical assessment techniques, nutritional assessment; assessing body systems: skin, hair, and nails; eyes; ears, nose, and throat; respiratory system; cardiovascular system; breasts and axillae; gastrointestinal system; female genitourinary system; male genitourinary system; musculoskeletal system; and neurologic system.

Polar Rearrangements

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harwood, L. M. / Harwood, Laurence M., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The general principles of polar rearrangements are brought together in this undergraduate chemistry text, which deals with all the major rearrangements involving electron-deficient atoms or charged intermediates. Reactions involving migration to electron-deficient carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur, and sigmatropic rearrangements involving polar species, are thus treated in a coherent and consistent manner. Clear discussions of the reaction mechanisms are followed by examples of synthetic applications providing a concise yet comprehensive account of the nature and importance of these processes.

Bringing Systems Thinking to Life: Expanding the Horizons

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bregman, Ona Cohn / White, Charles M., PUBLISHER: Routledge, In a single volume, Bringing Systems Thinking to Life: Expanding the Horizons for Bowen Family Systems Theory presents the extraordinary diversity and breadth of Bowen theory applications that address human functioning in various relationship systems across a broad spectrum of professions, disciplines, cultures, and nations. Providing three chapters of never-before-published material by Dr. Bowen, the book also demonstrates the transcendent nature and versatility of Bowen theory-based social assessment and its extension into fields of study and practice far beyond the original psychiatric context in which it was first formulated including social work, psychology, nursing, education, literary studies, pastoral care and counseling, sociology, business and management, leadership studies, distance learning, ecological science, and evolutionary biology - and providing ample evidence that Bowen theory has joined that elite class of theories that have enjoyed broad application to social phenomena while lending credibility to the claim that Bowen theory is one of the previous and current centuriesa (TM) most significant social-behavioral theories. More than a a oeresource manuala for Bowen theory enthusiasts, this book helps put a new great theory on the intellectual landscape.

Translation Planes: Foundations and Construction Principles

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Knarr, Norbert, PUBLISHER: Springer, The book discusses various construction principles for translation planes and spreads from a general and unifying point of view and relates them to the theory of kinematic spaces. The book is intended for people working in the field of incidence geometry and can be read by everyone who knows the basic facts about projective and affine planes. The methods developed work especially well for topological spreads of real and complex vector spaces. In particular, a complete classification of all semifield spreads of finite dimensional complex vector spaces is obtained.

Rights and Duties of Neutrals A Discussion of Principles and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Daniel Chaun Brewer, PUBLISHER: Kessinger Publishing LLC, NA

Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications: Third

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pan, Y. / Pan, Yi / Chen, Daoxu, PUBLISHER: Springer, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA , held in Nanjing, China in November . The 90 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with 3 keynote speeches and 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 645 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cluster systems and applications, performance evaluation and measurements, distributed algorithms and systems, fault tolerance and reliability, high-performance computing and architecture, parallel algorithms and systems, network routing and communication algorithms, security algorithms and systems, grid applications and systems, database applications and data mining, distributed processing and architecture, sensor networks and protocols, peer-to-peer algorithms and systems, internet computing and Web technologies, network protocols and switching, and ad hoc and wireless networks.

Portfolios in Teacher Education

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McLaughlin, Maureen / Vogt, MaryEllen, PUBLISHER: International Reading Association, Portfolios in Teacher Education describes teacher education courses in which undergraduate and graduate students are evaluated using portfolio assessment techniques -- the same methods they will one day use in their own classrooms. Authors McLaughlin and Vogt explore how portfolio assessment enables university educator's to move from traditional methods of testing to a more authentic assessment that reflects each student's real progress. In addition, they also address the use of portfolio assessment in other contexts, including admission to teacher education programs, student teaching, job interviews, and inservice teacher evaluations. Teacher educators interested in incorporating the use of portfolios in undergraduate and graduate courses will find the accessible style of this handbook useful and informative.

Fundamental Orthopedic Management for the Physical Therapist

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shankman, Gary A., PUBLISHER: Mosby, This is the first book on orthopedic management specifically for physical therapist assistants. It focuses on fundamental scientific principles, as well a clinical applications. The consistent chapter format that includes descriptions of fractures and pathologies, and signs and symptoms for modification of exercise. Excellent chapters on injury repair, tissue healing, healing restraints relative to therapeutic intervention, and the foundations of therapeutic exercise. Pedagogical features include chapter outlines, chapter objectives firmly grounded in clinical practice, and key terms.

Energy: Its Use and the Environment

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hinrichs, Roger A. / Kleinbach, Merlin H., PUBLISHER: Thomson Brooks/Cole, What is the impact of such energy issues as global warming, radioactive waste, and municipal solid waste on the individual and society? ENERGY: ITS USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT answers these questions, emphasizing the physical principles behind energy and its effects on our environment, and explaining the basic physical principles behind the use of energy, including the study of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, and atomic and nuclear physics. By placing energy issues within the context of everyday examples and asking you to define and support critical arguments, ENERGY: ITS USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT offers a provocative approach to this crucial issue.

ADO 2.6 Programmer's Reference

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sussman, David / Sussman, D., PUBLISHER: Wrox Press, The ADO 2.6 Programmer's Reference provides a concise and comprehensive guide to the ways in which ADO 2.6 can be used in all kinds of applications. It demonstrates the use of ADO both in Web applications written using ASP, and in compiled applications written using Visual Basic and other languages. It also includes a reference section for fast access to detailed lists of the properties, methods and events available in ADO.

Diseases

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Springhouse Publishing / Norris, June, PUBLISHER: Springhouse Corporation, Covers more than 530 diseases, including emerging diseases such as Ebola virus. For each disorder, readers learn the causes, complications, assessment findings, tests, treatments, and interventions. Also included are NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses, DSM-IV criteria, revised classification system for HIV infection, peptic ulcer causes and treatment, the latest findings in immunology, and much more. Chapter introductions cover such topics as disease transmission and prevention, anatomy and physiology, assessment, and diagnostic tests. Critical warnings, assessment tips, and home care information are highlighted. Nurses also find sample plans of care, plus over 500 clear photographs, illustrations, and charts that show the visible effects of diseases, clarify pathophysiology, compare disease types and characteristics, and more.

Fundamentals of Plant Genetics and Breeding

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Welsh, James R., PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, The only introductory text available with a detailed description of Mendelian genetic principles necessary for the understanding and application of plant breeding methods. Organized by principles rather than by crops, allowing the instructor to build the teaching system from simple concepts to complex programs. Covers such topics as: breeding objectives that introduce the student to the concept of program development by objectives rather than by individual crop species; program design and management; and new developments in scientific investigations, including wide genetic transfer and tissue culture. Questions to aid the student in understanding genetic principles are given at the end of several chapters. A glossary of important terms is also included.

AutoCAD Success Windows Version

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ethier, Stephen J. / Ethier, Christine A. / Ethier, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, Ethier and Ethier offer the perfect blend of theory and application in this comprehensive exploration of 2D drawing, 3D modeling" and solids" using AutoCAD. Coverage interweaves theory and hands-on applications, thoroughly explaining all of the principles behind each of the practices. KEY TOPICS: " Integrates "Insight" and "Mystery--Solution" special-interest boxes offering helpful hints, problem-solving suggestions and tricks of the AutoCAD trade. Reflects the growing interest in and use of 3D modeling by including 8 chapters devoted to the subject--4 of which focus exclusively on solid modeling. Develops essential skills--including problem-solving, troubleshooting and software engineering--that reach beyond CAD operation. Supports explanations with numerous illustrations allowing readers to visualize their progression toward a final product. Acquista Ora

Principles of Development

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wolpert, Lewis / Smith, Jim / Lawrence, Peter, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Completely updated and revised in a new edition, Principles of Development presents major principles and concepts in the field for an undergraduate audience. Emphasizing gene control as the key to understanding development, the third edition is written in accessible prose, utilizing an impressive art program - 650 full color figures - as well as summaries and diagrams throughout the text to illuminate conceptually challenging material. In addition, the third edition presents carefully selected articles for further reading that expound on principles covered in the text.

Motor Learning: Concepts and Applications with Powerweb:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Magill, Richard A., PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua, Designed for introductory students, this text provides the reader with a solid research base and defines difficult material by identifying concepts and demonstrating applications for each of those concepts. Motor Learning: Concepts and Applications also includes references for all relevant material to encourage students to examine the research for themselves.

Perioperative Nursing Care Planning

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rothrock, Jane C., PUBLISHER: C.V. Mosby, PERIOPERATIVE NURSING CARE PLANNING, 2ND EDITION focuses on the process f planning and developing nursing care plans. This text highlights the role that assessment and outcome measurement play in developing successful nursing care plans throughout the text. PERIOPERATIVE NURSING CARE PLANNING is divided into three distinct units focusing on the basic principles of perioperative nursing, aspects of care planning, and adapting the planning process to special patient care settings.

Basic Cancer Medicine

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Markman, Maurie / Zorab, Richard, PUBLISHER: W.B. Saunders Company, Guide/reference to the fundamental principles of malignant disease management. For general physicians and residents. Covers issues of biology, epidemiology, and genetics of cancer; management of individual tumor types; and new or alternative approaches to treatment.

Zone VI Workshop: The Fine Print in Black and White

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Picker, Fred, PUBLISHER: Amphoto Books, Simplifies and explains the principles of the Zone System and includes a handy list of equipment.

Ecoop'89: Proceedings of the European Conference on

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cook, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming are presented in this volume, comprised of twenty-one refereed and two invited papers. Each of the papers presents original work describing research in many aspects of object-oriented programming languages, systems and applications. Topics covered include reusability, inheritance, operating systems, concurrency, persistence, design, metalevel programming, applications and experience, semantics and user interface. The main purpose of the conference and of the proceedings is to present a selection of the latest research in the object-oriented paradigm, and to provide a focus for the further development of that research. This book will be useful for academic and industrial researchers in the whole field of computer science.

Thinking Mathematically

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Blitzer, Robert F., PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, Bob Blitzer's books are known for their well-conceived, relevant applications and meticulously annotated examples. This book gives readers the skill-building, practice, applications, and technology needed to foster an appreciation of mathematics. Maintains Blitzer's exceptional writing style that helps readers relate to and grasp the material. Contains new, innovative applications such as “ Mammography Screening, ” “ Political Ideology of U.S. College Freshmen, ” and “ Nature's Life Cycles and Prime Numbers.” Includes new exercises and more Study Tip Boxes throughout. A handy reference for anyone needing to brush up on their mathematics skills.

Handbook of Social Intervention

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Seidman, Edward, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), A definitive resource for anyone involved in the study or practice of social planning and intervention. Invited contributors review the literature on psychological, social, educational, economic, and environmental policies and programmes. Issues of design, method, assessment, and tactics of social intervention are explored. The volume then deals with intervention in criminal justice, education, health, housing, and thirteen other specific areas of policy.

Teach Only Love: Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jampolsky, Gerald G., M.D., PUBLISHER: Council Oak Books, In , Jerry Jampolsky co-founded the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Tiburon, California, where people with life-threatening illnesses practice peace of mind as an instrument of transformation. Based on the healing power of love and forgiveness, the twelve principles developed at the center and explained in this book embrace the idea that total giving and total acceptance are crucial to the healing process and that attitudinal healing can lead to harmony, joy, and life without fear.

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