Although many aspects of sleep remain a mystery to neuroscientists, in recent years, great headway has been made toward developing a solid understanding of how and why the brain causes us to sleep and to dream.
This intriguing book explores love in all its forms and from many perspectives. The biological underpinnings of feelings are explored, including the interaction of brain, nervous system, hormones, and body chemistry. Love is considered as an evolutionary phenomenon with origins in animal behavior. According to Shakespeare, The course of true love never did run smooth, and The Brain and Love indeed looks at love as a give-and-take process involving costs and benefits. The author describes attempts to classify, categorize, and measure the various components of love (as distinguished from passion).
If you’re in the market for a detailed, pragmatic knowledge base for dealing with discipline, relationships with regulatory and funding agencies, and staff training, you’ll find all you need and more in Treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements. This unique and insightful volume gives you the information you need to successfully manage quality assessment and improvement in out-of-home placements, especially in a managed care environment.Treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements reviews for you the field of residential treatment of adolescents in the child welfare system. With this crucial knowledge base, you’ll be equipped to face and surmount the challenges that accompany the provision of services to behaviorally disturbed youngsters. Some of the areas you’ll become fluent in are: approaches to child welfare for children at risk models of treatment family counseling diagnostic criteria for conduct and behavior disorders psychotropic medication training staff to become agents of changeFor over 150 years, we’ve seen the aftershocks of a problematic system for treating children placed in the custody of child welfare. Through treating Children in Out-of-Home Placements, you can understand the problems of implementing and administering such a program. You will want to open this book and place yourself and your staff members on the road to a more ideal plan of care for children placed in custody.
Welcome to Junior's! is a nostalgic tour of Brooklyn from the 1930s to the 1990s with reminiscences and recipes from the legendary restaurant renowned for its rich and creamy cheesecake. Junior's holds a special place in Brooklyn, also home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge. As well as a decade-by-decade history of the golden age of Brooklyn with wonderful photographs from the past fifty years, scattered throughout are memories and stories of how Junior's grew from its modest beginnings to its success today. From the very first day Junior's opened its doors in 1950 on the corner of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenue Extension in downtown Brooklyn, three generations of the Rosen family have worked hand in hand to build their restaurant into one of the most popular eateries in the borough today. First Harry Rosen, then his sons, Marvin and Walter, and now his grandsons, Kevin and Alan, have worked tirelessly to create and continue a famous Brooklyn neighborhood tradition -- a family restaurant that commands loyalty from its customers, and one to which they return day after day. Going to junior's is an event. It is a place that has become a home-away-from-home for Brooklynites over the years and is a popular destination for people from the entire New York metropolitan area. Today, just as on the day it opened, Junior's remains a quintessential Brooklyn phenomenon. It even looks remarkably like it did in the fifties -- bright orange booths that seat nearly four hundred, a glistening counter surrounded with diners, a busy soda fountain, and, of course, the bakery, brimming with all kinds of cheesecakes, homemade pies, towering layer cakes, and buttery pastries. Not only does Junior's stand for the best of ethnic, down-home fare but it also serves the best cheesecake in New York -- at the last count over four million slices each year. Welcome to Junior's! is not only a memory book to treasure but a cookbook with over one hundred favorite recipes. From Junior's signature cornbread, matzoh ball soup, crisp fried chicken, cheese blintzes, and baked stuffed shrimp to its legendary desserts -- Junior's famous #1 pure cream cheesecake, lemon meringue pie, strawberry shortcake, chocolate fudge layer cake, and ice-cream sundaes -- these recipes allow you to re-create a small slice of Junior's right in your own home kitchen.
Discusses the common causes of stress and anxiety within family life, how to identify signs of stress, ways of coping and resources available, and how anxiety can help to make a family stronger.
Explains the common causes of a parent's job loss, the financial and emotional effects of unemployment on the family, expected changes in lifestyle, ways of coping and resources available, and the process of getting a new job.
Discusses various traumas inflicted on children and teenagers, particularly rape and incest, the psychological impact of these traumatic events, and how to deal with them.
A clinical psychologist is called out of retirement to treat a man suffering intractable pain in his arm with no discernable organic basis. In treatment the man reveals he is the reincarnated Confederate Civil War hero Stonewall Jackson. Under hypnosis the therapist conducts a strategic intervention re-enacting Picketts charge at Gettysburg. This fictional account of psychotherapy draws interesting parallels between military and treatment strategy.
A psychological thriller (novel) in four parts consisting of over 1,000 words. Clinical psycholgist Morrie Schwartz has four separate adventures: Shrink-therapy with a psychopathic killer; Soul Search-spiritual encouters with seminal philsophers and psychologists; Finding Jackson-therapy with a man claiming to be Stomewall Jackson reincarnated; and Nobody--Morrie must solve his identity theft.
A discussion of the psychological disorder known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, how it affects young people, and what can be done to treat this condition.
The unique, self-directing approach of Introduction to photography, Third edition, allows students to master basic photographic processes by following the illustrated step-by-step procedures that appear throughout the book. Students can use these procedures in the darkroom or while setting up a shot, referring to the illustrations and instruction as they go." -- Back cover.
Examine both the major aspects of the physiology and anatomy of the brain and central nervous system, as well as some of the processes the brain is responsible for--such as sleep and addiction, laughter and dreaming. Written with a combination of curriculum-based information about the brain and how it works, and high-interest topics experienced in everyday life, GRAY MATTER: EXPLORING THE BRAIN, features the kind of books that readers will pick up for research, and read for pleasure. This series meets national science standards.
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