This best practice guide provides a blueprint for managing seamless transitions between services for young people aged 16-25 with additional needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, complex health needs and sensory impairments. The authors cover a wide range of transitions, including moving from children's to adult's services, from school to college, leaving education and gaining work experience and employment and supporting young people to live independently. They include key information on policy and legislation, the statutory duty of local authorities and health, housing and education agencies, and describe the impact of the new Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans. With a wealth of practical, common sense guidance for navigating this complex area of work in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner, the book will guide practitioners and students step-by-step through the process of managing transitions, highlighting best practice and providing evidence-based models to ensure the best possible outcomes for service users and their families. An essential resource for all those involved in supporting young people with additional needs through transitions, including social workers and social work students, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, health professionals and special education teachers.
From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, this Lenten devotional journal is packed with real-life short stories, poetry, and ways to pray the rosary. Whether you are a cradle Catholic or a curious convert, each day contains a message to help keep you faithful to your seasonal fasting. Not a Catholic but want to observe this beloved tradition? You too can partake in the festivities because Christianity is a free gift to all that request it. Peace be with you and with your spirit!
With fun and appealing party ideas, commonsense cooking tips, and selective menus for special occasions, The Best of Relish Cookbook is sure to make any get together or everyday family dinner a success.
PERSON-CENTRED CARE IN RADIOGRAPHY A helpful guide to patient and person-centered care in radiography, with a particular focus on interpersonal and communication skills Person-centred Care in Radiography: Skills for Providing Effective Patient Care explores the complex interpersonal skills that are required of practitioners and medical imaging professionals which ensure high-quality service is given to person-centred care in radiography. The textbook is also written by a team of expert authors, and grounded in the team’s own research, as well as their involvement with the Heads of Radiography Group, the Association of Radiography Educators, the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care, and the College of Radiographers. The textbook contains a broad range of additional learning features, including case studies, student exercises, annotated further readings, and chapter summaries. Diagrams and illustrations are used throughout the book to provide visual representation of the concepts presented. Learning activities are also included throughout the book to encourage readers to self-discover and reflect and then apply their learning to their own role. Person-centred Care in Radiography includes detailed information on and discussion of: Values, developing resilience, defining compassion, pain and suffering, and professional behaviors and culture Scenarios developed by service users based on real-life practice, to demonstrate the impact of the professional’s behavior on the care received Diversity of service users, the role of carers, conceptual frameworks, interpersonal communication skills and communicating with patients beyond introductions Values-based practice, compassionate practice, theoretical models for patient-centered care in radiography and reflections to help readers move forward Targeted at all staff working within diagnostic and therapeutic radiography clinical departments and educational institutions, Person-centred Care in Radiography, can be used in both radiography education by students and educators and by qualified staff who wish to reflect on their own patient care and develop their skills.
SEQUEL TO TEMPLAND. It's the beginning of 2003, a few months after the end of TEMPLAND. Melanie Evers is back as she struggles under the insane demands of her long-sought Permanent Job. Now a human resources executive at Marquette Bank, what started out as a cushy well-paid job turns into a nightmare when her company is bought out by a Dutch conglomerate. Melanie gets sent on a new series of wacky adventures as she tries to keep her head above water while her crazy new boss Pietra controls her every move, the Iraq War begins, and her boyfriend Dave is called up by the Army reserves to fight overseas. Is permanent employment really all it's cracked up to be?
The heroine, Melanie Evers, is a plucky young working-class woman from Akron, Ohio struggling to support herself in Chicago in the post-9-11 economy. TEMPLAND follows Melanie's journey through the temporary employment world from a college student on "just a summer job" to a 28-year-old woman with a lot of intelligence (and a heap of student loan debt to match) through multiple layoffs and a series of ever-more-wacky temp assignments, as she struggles not only to survive, but also to find romance and always remain true to the honest, working-class values instilled in her by her beloved grandfather. In her long, solitary journey through Templand, Melanie encounters adventure and romance on her search for that always-elusive Permanent Job---which she finally gets, along with her man. TEMPLAND is a highly entertaining, wickedly funny social satire, contemporary romance, and mystery novel all rolled into one.
When things are great, life is easy. We're happy. When things are tough, it can feel like we're going through never-ending sludge. We can feel miserable, beaten up, and powerless. It's not fun. But the thing is, in the long run, tough times are often some of our most fortunate. Breakdowns make room for breakthroughs. There's a lot to be learned through adversity. In this book, you're going to see how other people went through some unimaginably horrific times - and got through them better off. The intention of Getting Through The Muck is for you to feel inspired, motivated, and find a deep knowingness that you can get through anything.
“This page-turning memoir of decadence and faith will resonate with seekers everywhere." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) In this courageous and inspiring memoir about personal freedom and spiritual empowerment, Jill Dodd “writes earnestly and refreshingly about learning many of life’s more difficult lessons the hard way” (Kirkus Reviews) through her journey from Paris model to Saudi billionaire’s harem wife to multi-million dollar business entrepreneur. In the 1980s, Jill Dodd determined that her ticket out of an abusive home was to make it as a top model in Paris. Armed with only her desire for freedom and independence, she embarks on an epic journey that takes her to uncharted territory—the Parisian fashion industry with all its beautiful glamour and its ugly underbelly of sex, drugs, and excess. From there, Jill begins an eye-opening adventure that includes trips to Monte Carlo, sexual exploitation, and falling in love with one of the richest men in the world, agreeing to become one of his wives—until she finds the courage to walk away from it all and rebuild her dreams. The Currency of Love is a raw, honest, and inspiring portrait of a young woman’s struggles and triumphs from fashion model to Saudi billionaire’s pleasure wife to founder and creator of global fashion line, ROXY. This modern memoir with a feminist fairy tale twist reveals how one woman chose to live her life without forfeiting her independence, ambition, creative expression, and free spirit, all while learning one invaluable lesson: nothing is worth the sacrifice of her integrity, inner peace, and spirit.
What would you do if you discovered that your fiance is a murderous psychopath about to go serial? What lengths would you go to in order to keep the past from overshadowing the present and destroying the future? Find out in this highly original, cutting edge, crime mystery with a breathtaking paranormal and Sci-fi twist.
One of the coolest things about being alive is that there are so many ways we can express ourselves. We have our choice of clothing to wear, friends to have, books to read, and movies to watch. All of them help us express who we are to the world. In Inside Greatness, you're going to learn how different people express themselves through their profession. Not only will you get to see how people spend their lives on an everyday basis, but you'll also get to see HOW they do it. The contributors to this book have spent hours upon hours honing in their crafts. Their crafts are their LIFE. This book helps you peer into their souls, see what gets them out of bed in the morning, and learn straight from them. In the coming chapters, you'll learn about all kinds of things. There's a heavy emphasis on marketing, and there are also all kinds of unique skills. You're about to learn how to speed-write a song. How to de-stress, create a space that helps you feel great, and come up with new ideas. You'll learn how to help reduce math anxiety for your child, triple your productivity, get through eating disorders, and a LOT more. Whether or not you're interested in EVERY topic, it doesn't matter. If you can read just one thing that sparks something in you, it'll have been worth the paltry $.99. And maybe you'll learn about something you never thought you were interested in before. Go ahead and buy this book now - you'll be happy you did.
Heroine Miranda Johansson has had a very bad day. The strait-laced, ultraconservative stock-market analyst in Chicago's LaSalle Street financial district just lost eighty-seven million dollars of her clients' money in a massive stock-market implosion. And if that weren't bad enough, she just had wild, no-holds-barred sex with a complete stranger on her coffee break----and that complete stranger turns out to be her new boss! Can Miranda get control of herself without losing her job, and her mind? Or will her sexy new boss completely derail her self-discipline, her stock portfolio, and her career? (Not to mention the sudden intrusion of his manipulative ex-girlfriend---a scheming, ruthless woman who controls half of Wall Street.) Will Miranda survive the ups and downs of her new love life, which is just as volatile and unpredictable as the market? Or will her new romance go down the tubes along with the economy? Only time will tell. Readers who are down and out about their trashed investment portfolios can pick up a copy of MARKET FOR LOVE and forget all about the economic downturn. Read the book, and have a little fun peeking inside the unseen world of the sexy young investment bankers who've been pushed to the edge along with everyone else.
The Great Recession. Reality TV. Luxury cosmetics. Explicit sex tapes. And a basset hound named Botox. What do all these things have in common?They're all essential story components in BEAUTY SECRETS, a sexy romantic comedy novel, written in a style best described as “Jennifer Weiner meets E. L. James.” Amanda Brown is a high-flying cosmetics executive for Revina Corporation, the oldest and most venerable cosmetics company in America. She comes from a good "old money" family, she went to Swarthmore, and she lives in a beautiful penthouse apartment in NYC's Meatpacking District. But she's only successful on the surface----like many New Yorkers, she's also financially overextended. Her parents are dead, her trust fund is gone, and when the Great Recession hammers her company, like millions of people across America she suddenly finds her job hanging by a thread.Enter George Watson, a hedge-fund manager and self-made man from the Midwest who swoops in from Indiana to rebuild Revina Corporation from the ground up. Even if he fired everyone else at the company, he decides to keep Amanda on for her expertise. The two of them are from different worlds, and they can't stand each other. But that doesn't stop them from having wild no-holds-barred sex on their first meeting----for reasons neither of them fully understand.But this is no ordinary corporate takeover, and the unlikely romance between George and Amanda is no ordinary love story. It involves corporate greed, undercover investigative reporters, a sleazy reality TV producer who puts George and Amanda's sexual relationship on national television, dark family secrets----and a dog named Botox.
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