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Recent policy initiatives illuminate the need for greater teacher awareness about dyslexia in secondary and tertiary education. Yet the debates about dyslexia are often narrowly based and can exclude some teachers. This book attempts to open up th...

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This book is based on contributions around the idea of the sublime and its presence, avoidance or use in contemporary psychotherapeutic practice. It is a reply to the yearnings of the people of our time for an acknowledgement and an honouring of t...

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Three questions provide the structure of this work: what are the specific learning characteristics of children with language difficulties?; what are the critical points where such characteristics lead to difficulties in the mathematical syllabus?;...

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Mental health nursing has always been susceptible to modification due to, for example, new treatments and changing demands by society. This timely book examines the current status of mental health nursing and the role that this discipline plays in...

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This practical manual, written by therapists with extensive experience in the field, provides a user-friendly reference tool for occupational therapists and others working with children who have problems with learning, coordination, speech and lan...

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This book describes an approach to teaching which is designed to take account not only of the problems encountered by children with dyslexia when learning to read, spell and write, but also of the nature of the task that the dyslexic child is tryi...

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Written by speech and language therapists, psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists, this book demonstrates the process of counselling and the various counselling approaches that may be used with people who have communication disorders.

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Cognitive neuropsychology is already radically influencing the clinical practice of aphasia assessment and therapy. It has made it possible to analyse individualsa language disorders through a psycholinguistic model and to quantify and evaluate th...

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The guidelines in this work represent principles of good practice supported by evidence-based rationales for the Primary Health Care Team in the care of individuals for all ages suffering from urinary and faecal incontinence. The guidelines were d...

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The emphasis of this book is on a positive examination of the care of older people with a dementing illness, and of the key aspects of this care. Each subject is discussed from a practical knowledge-based perspective, and the fundamental belief un...

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As a result of the prevalence of colorectal diseases, coloproctology has developed enormously as a specialist field for nurses and there have been many advances in treatment, surgical techniques, screening programmes and nursing led patient servic...

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Though autism is one of the best documented and validated childhood psychiatric syndromes, there remains an enormous gap between theoretical understanding of autism and understanding of it in the practice of daily life. This book aims to go some w...

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Child abuse takes many forms: neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional abuse. Identification is not always easy, and this is especially the case in an Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department. This book, written by an inter--agency a...

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This book presents a wide range of perspectives on effective responses to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) in Children. It reflects the multi-modal quality of the condition with chapters covering medical, psychological, educational...

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This collection of essays has been compiled as a tribute to the work of psychologist, Peter Lomas. Peter Lomas trained as a Freudian psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London.

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Non--adherence to drug therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis is quite high, and one reason for this may be an absence of understanding as to the purpose of the therapy. This book is a comprehensive exploration of the drug treatments utilis...

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In this moving collaboration between psychotherapist and patient, Sister Mary relates her own story of abuse as a child by a much loved father, and the three years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy she underwent with Nini Herman when she was in her ...

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Asian children in Britain today come from settled communities reflecting a diversity of ethnic and religious backgrounds. This book traces their ethnic origins and patterns of migration that result in the configurations found in Britain today. The...

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This book develops the ideas presented in Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties Book I: A Psycholinguistic Framework by focussing on how the information gathered within a psycholinguistic framework can be used to plan intervention for childr...

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Covering results of research in this field, this work begins with an introduction to the central concepts of current linguistic theory. Further chapters cover the neurolinguistic perspective. Part One examines language perception and speech produc...

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Intended primarily for those people who are responsible for providing support for dyslexic students, but also for research workers in this field. Jean Robertson's book begins with an overview of neuropsychological theory and brain function to help...

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A revised and extensively updated version of a book previously entitled Psychotherapy: An Outline for Trainee Psychiatrists, Medical Students and Practitioners, published in 1991. This work, written by, & designed for, medical & non--medic...

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Research in Nursing Series Formalised telephone triage is a fairly new concept in Accident and Emergency services although it has been an informal method of advising patients and health care professionals for many years. In the A&E service of ...

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Written for students and clinicians who are new to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), this work aims to demystify the illness and its management by offering a detailed exploration of the role of the occupational therapist in facilitating the CFS pati...

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The theories and practices of REBT have been revised, expanded, corrected and updated since its inception in 1995. This volume takes into consideration those REBT therapists who criticise the constant dissection of the therapy, claiming that these...

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PTSD is more usually considered as an adult disorder: this volume concentrates on children and adolescents. The introductory chapters are followed by a chapter on assessment and several chapters on treatment. The issues of clinical management in s...

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Rational--Emotive Psychology (REP) is an approach to psychology which considers the influence that a persona s beliefs (both rational and irrational), emotions and behaviours have on his or her psychological well--being. The second edition of this...

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Cognitive therapy (CT), developed by Aaron Beck in the US in the 1960s, is a structured, time-limited, problem-focused and research-based system of psychotherapy which seeks to identify, examine and modify clients' maladaptive thinking found in ps...

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The Hickey Multisensory Language Course has become a classic. It is widely used throughout the UK by teachers working with dyslexic learners of all ages, and is a core text for university courses directed at specialist teachers. Moreover, it has e...

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This book is written for the beginning student of communication disorders with a basic understanding of phonetics, or the practising speech--language therapist whose phonetic training may need updating. It introduces the reader to the main areas o...

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