Here, you will find real-life experiences as witnessed by the author as a social worker and as a probation and parole officer. You will read first-hand what you may deal with if you decide to enter one of these professions. Book knowledge is fine; however, actually doing the jobs is a whole different ballgame. Be prepared to be shocked when you read about some of the cases. The author selected the worst cases so that students, who are thinking about entering one of these fields, can see what they may be facing. The reader will find these as very disturbing situations involving abused and neglected children. The reader will also learn about some very interesting cases involving probation and parole. If you decide to become a social worker or a probation and parole officer, let me give you a word of advice. While you are in school working on your degree, go do an internship so that you can be certain this is what you really want to do. During the time that the author worked as a social worker and as a probation and parole officer, he had good days and bad days and fun days and not so fun days. What you experience will stick with you for the rest of your life. It has for the author. There are times when the author looks back and wonders whatever happened to some of these families. By the way, the names and characters of the people in the book have been fictionalized to protect the privacy of those individuals. This book is told in the unique voice of Harald R. Duncan.
Related to the key areas of Pauli's and Jung's joint interests, the book covers overlapping issues from the perspectives of physics, philosophy, and psychology. Of primary significance are epistemological questions connected to issues such as realism, measurement, observation, consciousness, and the unconscious. The contributions assess the extensive material that we have about Pauli's and Jung's ideas today, with particular respect to concrete research questions and projects based on and related to current knowledge.
This graduate-level text offers a comprehensive account of the general theory of stationary processes, with special emphasis on the properties of sample functions. The text develops the foundations of the general theory of stochastic processes, examines processes with a continuous-time parameter, and applies the general theory to procedures key to the study of stationary processes. 1967 edition.
The measurement of the cerebral circulation in children, particularly in newborns and young infants, has for a long time been high on the list of needs in clinical and scientific pediatrics. The methods available to date have either been too unreliable or unsuitable for use on children. In the course of a research project at the Department of Pediatrics of the Uni versity of Freiburg, Dr. Harald Bode has made the first systematic ex amination of the cerebral circulation of children using transcranial Doppler sonography. Over 500 children with ages between 0 and 18 years were included in this exhaustive study, documenting Doppler measurements in about 3,000 basal cerebral arteries. Basic reference values were obtained which involved adapting the methodology and available equipment to the special re quirements of the pediatrician. Moreover, the influence of biological and physiological factors on these Doppler values has also been considered in addition to those of disease and therapy. The result is an impressive record of the many applications of trans cranial Doppler sonography during childhood. It is not difficult to predict that this methodology will be of lasting value and capable of further de velopment. I hope this book receives the attention it undoubtedly deserves and that the author is able to continue in realizing his fruitful scientific ideas in clinical pediatric practice.
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