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Learn & Adapt

ExPD an Adaptive Product Development Process for Rapid Innovation and Risk Reduction

By: Mary Drotar,Kathy Morrissey

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Learn & Adapt

ExPD an Adaptive Product Development Process for Rapid Innovation and Risk Reduction

By: Mary Drotar,Kathy Morrissey

Launch promotion: 25% off through 10/3/2022. In this user guide, we present Exploratory Product Development (ExPD), a strategy-to-launch product development approach that is adaptable and can respond nimbly to environments that are increasingly complex and uncertain. Using the ExPD approach, you can discover how to accelerate your product development process by removing bureaucracy and rework, learning through experimentation, and shifting your focus to the most critical product priorities. We examine the constraints imposed by a traditional phased-and-gated product development process and demonstrate the transformational role of the ExPD approach in adapting to individual product needs. This user guide is for product developers in established enterprises looking to install a new or improved product development process. Product developers in start-ups will also benefit from many of the ideas, tools, and techniques covered in this guide. We provide case studies and examples that transition these concepts from theory into practice. Implementing the ExPD approach will result in a product development function that is stronger, more focused, and more resilient to change. You will better understand the role strategy and business models play in product development and how to build a productive idea pipeline. Also, you will gain a new appreciation for the need to identify, assess and resolve uncertainty and risk before investing in a product, giving you greater confidence in your ability to win savings in resources and time to market and ultimately achieve greater product success.

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Product Innovation Publishing

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1732749213

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Exploratory Product Development: Executive Version

Adaptable Product Development in a Changing World (Product Development Process)

By: Mary Drotar,Kathy Morrissey

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Exploratory Product Development: Executive Version

Adaptable Product Development in a Changing World (Product Development Process)

By: Mary Drotar,Kathy Morrissey

This executive version of Exploratory PD® (ExPD) examines the organizational constraints imposed by a standard phased-and-gated product development process. ExPD differs from the traditional phased-and-gated process in its fundamental redesign of the development process to reduce uncertainties and risks. It is an adaptive approach that responds quickly to changes in uncertain, fast-changing and increasingly complex environments. When companies try to maintain a traditional phased-and-gated process in a changing environment, the product development team is unable to manage the scope, timeline, and budget approved at the outset. The result usually includes changing product requirements, unexpected problems, rework, schedule delays, breaking the budget and commercial failure. The product development team needs an approach that allows them to adapt to change in customer needs, markets, competition, technology and more. ExPD helps project teams identify, evaluate, and prioritize uncertainties and risks throughout a project. It then helps the team determine how and when to resolve the uncertainty or when it is appropriate to kill a project. Out of this process, the authors developed the Business Fit Framework® (BFF) software tool that helps project teams to identify, evaluate and prioritize the most impactful product uncertainties and risks. As well as, tracking and resolving these risks. The authors received an NSF STEM, I-Corp Grant through the University of Chicago for the BFF. This grant enabled the authors to conduct further research on the topic of uncertainty and risk in product development, and how mid to large-cap companies currently cope with it. Within this ExPD executive version, we look at the lessons of the Manhattan Project, a highly successful historical project. We discuss the three major components of the ExPD process: 1. Strategy, 2. Ideas & Selection, 3. Explore & Create. We then provide a case study to illustrate the ExPD process in practice.

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1732749205

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Soundtrack Pro

By: Mary Plummer

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Soundtrack Pro

By: Mary Plummer

Soundtrack Pro, Apple's exciting sound design software, is the newest member of the Final Cut Pro Studio digital video suite-And whether you're musically impaired or musically gifted, the Soundtrack Pro guide will help you get up to speed quickly. In this Apple-certified book/DVD combo, readers will find a complete, self-paced course in all aspects of Soundtrack Pro. Author Mary Plummer guides you through the secrets of editing, repairing, mixing, and arranging multi-track audio files, as well as how to create original soundtracks, score to video, add effects, and more. Step-by-step exercises and lesson files will have readers taking advantage of Soundtrack's thousands of audio loops to create perfectly synched scores in no time. Also included are dozens of advanced sound editing tips for professional users who want to take their video, DVD, and Web projects to the next level.

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Peachpit Press

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0321357574

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Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents

By: Diane T. Marsh,Mary A. Fristad

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Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents

By: Diane T. Marsh,Mary A. Fristad

The only comprehensive work on SED, with practical information on diagnosing and treating children with SED. Features contributions by leading experts of SED research and practice. Includes a foreword by Kay Jamison, a nationally recognized author on mental illness.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471331392

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A Survival Guide for New Special Educators

By: Bonnie S. Billingsley,Mary T. Brownell,Maya Israel,Margaret L. Kamman

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A Survival Guide for New Special Educators

By: Bonnie S. Billingsley,Mary T. Brownell,Maya Israel,Margaret L. Kamman

What every special education teacher needs to know to survive and thrive A Survival Guide for New Special Educators provides relevant, practical information for new special education teachers across a broad range of topic areas. Drawing on the latest research on special educator effectiveness and retention, this comprehensive, go-to resource addresses the most pressing needs of novice instructors, resource teachers, and inclusion specialists. Offers research-based, classroom-tested strategies for working with a variety of special needs students Covers everything from preparing for the new school year to behavior management, customizing curriculum, creating effective IEPs, and more Billingsley and Brownell are noted experts in special educator training and support This highly practical book is filled with checklists, forms, and tools that special educators can use every day to help ensure that all special needs students get the rich, rewarding education they deserve.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118095685

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New Thought

A Practical Spirituality

By: Mary Manin Morrissey

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New Thought

A Practical Spirituality

By: Mary Manin Morrissey

Rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, New Thought, like Science of Mind, is captured by the idea that our thoughts create our lives, not the other way around. New Thought: A Practical Spirituality is the perfect introduction to this exciting, living faith. The book’s editor, Mary Manin Morrissey, is a leading New Thought minister of the Living Enrichment Center, and the author of the popular Building Your Field of Dreams. In this volume, Morrissey collects brief, powerful essays from today’s most popular New Thought clergy. Each piece addresses issues you can use right now to improve your life.

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Penguin

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1585421421

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New Thought PA

A Practial Spirituality [A New Consciousness Reader]

By: Mary Manin Morrissey

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New Thought PA

A Practial Spirituality [A New Consciousness Reader]

By: Mary Manin Morrissey

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Principles of Research in Behavioral Science

Fourth Edition

By: Mary Kite,Bernard E Whitley

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Principles of Research in Behavioral Science

Fourth Edition

By: Mary Kite,Bernard E Whitley

This book provides a comprehensive overview of research methods in the behavioral sciences, focusing primarily on the conceptual issues inherent in conducting research. It covers topics that are often omitted from other texts, including measurement issues, correlational research, qualitative research, and integrative literature reviews. The book also includes discussions of diversity issues as they related to behavioral science research. New to this edition are chapter boxes that focus on applied issues related to each chapter topic. Throughout the book, readable examples and informative tables and figures are provided. The authors also take a contemporary approach to topics such as research ethics, replication research, and data collection (including internet research).

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Routledge

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1315450062

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Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care - E-Book

By: Sandra Lee Gardner,Brian S. Carter,Mary I Enzman-Hines,Susan Niermeyer

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Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care - E-Book

By: Sandra Lee Gardner,Brian S. Carter,Mary I Enzman-Hines,Susan Niermeyer

Co-authored by an interprofessional collaborative team of physicians and nurses, Merenstein & Gardner's Handbook of Neonatal Intensive Care, 9th Edition is the leading resource for interprofessional, collaborative care of critically ill newborns. It offers comprehensive coverage with a unique interprofessional collaborative approach and a real-world perspective that make it a practical guide for both nurses and physicians. The new ninth edition features a wealth of expanded content on delivery-room care; new evidence-based care "bundles"; palliative care in the NICU; interprofessional collaborative care of parents with depression, grief, and complicated grief; and new pain assessment tools. Updated high-quality references have also been reintegrated into the book, making it easier for clinicians to locate research evidence and standards of care with minimal effort. These additions, along with updates throughout, ensure that clinicians are equipped with the very latest clinical care guidelines and practice recommendations — all in a practical quick-reference format for easy retrieval and review. - UNIQUE! Core author team of two physicians and two nurses gives this internationally recognized reference a true interprofessional collaborative approach that is unmatched by any other resource. - Consistent organization within clinical chapters include Physiology/Pathophysiology, Etiology, Prevention, Data Collection (History, Signs and Symptoms, and Laboratory Data), Treatment/Intervention, Complications, and Parent Teaching sections. - UNIQUE! Color-highlighted point-of-care clinical content makes high-priority clinical content quick and easy to find. - UNIQUE! Parent Teaching boxes outline the relevant information to be shared with a patient's caregivers. - Critical Findings boxes outline symptoms and diagnostic findings that require immediate attention to help the provider prioritize assessment data and steps in initial care. - Case studies demonstrate how to apply essential content to realistic clinical scenarios for application-based learning. - NEW! Updated content throughout reflects the latest evidence-based practice, national and international guidelines, and current protocols for interprofessional collaborative practice in the NICU. - NEW! Up-to-date, high-quality references are now reintegrated into the text for quick retrieval, making it easier for clinicians to locate research evidence and standards of care with minimal effort. - NEW! Expanded content on delivery-room care includes the impact of staffing on quality of care, delayed cord clamping, resuscitation, and more. - NEW! Coverage of the new evidence-based care "bundles" keeps clinicians up to date on new guidelines that have demonstrated improved outcomes of very preterm infants. - NEW! Coverage of new pain assessment tools equips NICU providers with essential resources for maintaining patient comfort. - NEW! Expanded coverage of palliative care in the NICU provides the tools needed to ensure patient comfort. - NEW! Expanded coverage of interprofessional collaborative care of parents with depression, grief, and complicated grief prepares clinicians for this essential area of practice.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323570917

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Measuring Childcare Practices

Approaches, Indicators, and Implications for Programs

By: Marie T. Ruel,Mary Arimond

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Measuring Childcare Practices

Approaches, Indicators, and Implications for Programs

By: Marie T. Ruel,Mary Arimond

To thrive, young children need more than food. It is now widely recognized that they also require a healthy and sanitary environment and adequate care and feeding practices. As governments and NGOs initiate programs to ensure child survival, health, and development, the need for simple methods and indicators to measure the effectiveness of these programs grows. With a strong focus on methodology, this food policy review describes measurement approaches, problems, and solutions and offers practical suggestions for monitoring and evaluating child nutrition programs.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896295052

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Nursing Diagnosis Manual

Planning, Individualizing, and Documenting Client Care

By: Marilynn E. Doenges,Mary Frances Moorhouse,Alice C. Murr

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Nursing Diagnosis Manual

Planning, Individualizing, and Documenting Client Care

By: Marilynn E. Doenges,Mary Frances Moorhouse,Alice C. Murr

Identify interventions to plan, individualize, and document care. Updated with the latest diagnoses and interventions from NANDA-I 2021-2023, here’s the resource you’ll turn to again and again to select the appropriate diagnosis and to plan, individualize, and document care for more than 800 diseases and disorders. Only in the Nursing Diagnosis Manual will you find for each diagnosis…defining characteristics presented subjectively and objectively - sample clinical applications to ensure you have selected the appropriate diagnoses - prioritized action/interventions with rationales - a documentation section, and much more!

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F.A. Davis

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1719647704

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9781719647700

Rethinking Experiences Of Childhood Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Chronic Childhood Illness

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Chronic Childhood Illness

By: Dixon-Woods, Mary,Young, Bridget,Heney, David

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Rethinking Experiences Of Childhood Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Chronic Childhood Illness

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Chronic Childhood Illness

By: Dixon-Woods, Mary,Young, Bridget,Heney, David

Written by a sociologist, psychologist and practising paediatric oncologist, this book offers a fresh theoretical approach to the experience of childhood cancer. The book also discusses the impact on parents and other family members when a child is diagnosed with cancer.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335212557

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9780335212552

A Clinical Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders

By: Patricia Evans,Mary Ann Morris

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A Clinical Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders

By: Patricia Evans,Mary Ann Morris

A Clinical Guide to Autistic Spectrum Disorders provides primary care health care providers and pediatricians the inclusive, yet succinct, material they need to immediately evaluate and support their patients. Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have a wide and sometimes confusing presentation, and this text covers the recognition, evaluation, and multi-disciplinary approach to the management of ASD. Readers will benefit not only from the brief review of the biology and demographics of autism, but also from its common sense approach and practical suggestions for clinical settings. A companion website features the fully searchable text and printable patient handouts.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451153678

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9781451153675

Avery's Neonatology

Pathophysiology and Management of the Newborn

By: Mhairi G. MacDonald,Mary M. Seshia

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Avery's Neonatology

Pathophysiology and Management of the Newborn

By: Mhairi G. MacDonald,Mary M. Seshia

The practice of neonatology requires a careful balance between modern technology and the prevention of unintended damage to a newborn. Early therapeutics were based on adult medicine, with often catastrophic results to the baby. As research and understanding of physiology and therapeutics have expanded, care of the preterm and sick infant has improved drastically. Avery’s Neonatology is a practical guide to understanding the pathophysiology of the newborn so that appropriate treatment decisions can be made.

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1496318684

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Principles of Research in Behavioral Science

By: Bernard E. Whitley,Mary E. Kite,Heather L. Adams

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Principles of Research in Behavioral Science

By: Bernard E. Whitley,Mary E. Kite,Heather L. Adams

Intended for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students, this book provides a comprehensive review of research methods used in psychology and related disciplines. It covers topics that are often omitted in other texts including correlational and qualitative research and integrative literature reviews. Basic principles are reviewed for those who need a refresher. The focus is on conceptual issues ¿ statistics are kept to a minimum. Featuring examples from all fields of psychology, the book addresses laboratory and field research. Chapters are written to be used independently, so instructors can pick and choose those that fit their course needs. Reorganized to parallel the steps of the research process, tips on writing reports are also provided. Each chapter features an outline, key terms, a summary, and questions and exercises that integrate chapter topics and put theory into practice. A glossary and an annotated list of readings are now included. Extensively updated throughout, the new edition features a new co-author, Mary Kite, and: ¿ New chapters on qualitative research and content analysis and another on integrative literature reviews including meta-analysis, critical techniques for today¿s research environment. ¿ A new chapter on exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis that addresses the use of path analysis and structural equation modeling. ¿ A new chapter on how to write a research report using APA style. ¿ Examples from cross-cultural and multi-cultural research, neuroscience, cognitive, and developmental psychology along with ones from social, industrial, and clinical psychology. ¿ More on Internet research and studies. ¿ Greatly expanded Part 3 on research designs with chapters on true experiments, field research, correlational and single-case designs, content analysis, and survey and qualitative research. ¿ A website with PowerPoint slides for each chapter, a test bank with short answer and multiple choice questions, additional teaching resources, and the tables and figures from the book for Instructor¿s and chapter outlines, suggested readings, and links to related web sites for students. Intended as a text for beginning graduate and/or advanced undergraduate courses in research methods or experimental methods or design taught in psychology, human development, family studies, education, or other social and behavioral sciences, a prerequisite of undergraduate statistics and a beginning research methods course is assumed.

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Routledge

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0415879280

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Health and Well-Being Across the Life Course

By: Mary Larkin

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Health and Well-Being Across the Life Course

By: Mary Larkin

Using a life course approach, the main chapters in this truly original and enlightening text focus on health and well-being during each of our life stages. A wide range of contemporary literature from disciplines such as public health, sociology, epidemiology and social policy are drawn upon to examine key health and well-being issues in these stages, and to illustrate how health effects can accumulate across the life course. Interactive activities based on the text and on extracts from primary sources are used to encourage critical reflection and debate. Mary Larkin′s book will be essential reading for students on the many courses that need an understanding of health and well-being across all age groups. It will also be an invaluable resource for those in the health and social care sector as well as practitioners working in the field.

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SAGE

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1446274764

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Measuring Occupational Performance

Supporting Best Practice in Occupational Therapy

By: Mary Law,Carolyn M. Baum,Winnie Dunn

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Measuring Occupational Performance

Supporting Best Practice in Occupational Therapy

By: Mary Law,Carolyn M. Baum,Winnie Dunn

As the profession of occupational therapy continues to mature and expand its practice, the measurement of occupational performance is one of the key avenues that all practicing clinicians will need to explore and master. Measuring Occupational Performance: Supporting Best Practice in Occupational Therapy, Third Edition summarizes the measurement tools needed to assess client occupational performance, to provide the best intervention, and to document the effectiveness of that intervention. These measurement tools are not just a compilation of all that are available for measurement relevant to occupational therapy; they are an elite group of tools carefully selected by the editors through a process of rigorous theoretical, clinical, and scientific reasoning. In this Third Edition, Drs. Mary Law, Carolyn Baum, and Winnie Dunn have updated current chapters and added new topics that have not been covered in past editions, such as a chapter on measuring school performance, a key area of practice. Also included is a chapter on measurement principles and development to highlight the concepts common to all the measures included in the text. The Third Edition also has a focus on the best measures and measures that are used most frequently. Features of the Third Edition: Offers insight into the importance of measuring functional performance, methodologies, measurement issues, and best approach for outcome measurement Conveys a broad focus on occupational performance and offers examples from a wide range of practice settings and from multiple spots throughout the lifespan Explains the technical aspects of measurement development and methodologies and which components of functioning are to be measured and how Develops an understanding of the theoretical aspects and evidence for both standardized tests and non-standardized tests Instructors in educational settings can visit www.efacultylounge.com for additional material to be used for teaching in the classroom. New in the Third Edition: Focus on strengths-based approaches Measures health and disability at both individual and population levels using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) An emphasis on evidence-based practice and using evidence from other disciplines, not just from occupational therapy New chapter focused on school-based practice New content on reliability, validity, and responsiveness New content on goal attainment Additional material on decision making in practice In this changing health care environment, Measuring Occupational Performance: Supporting Best Practice in Occupational Therapy, Third Edition explains how core values and beliefs can be put into everyday practice and is the essential reference manual for the evidence-based occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant student and practitioner.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040143024

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9781040143025

Young Men and Domestic Abuse

By: David Gadd,Claire L. Fox,Mary-Louise Corr,Steph Alger,Ian Butler

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Young Men and Domestic Abuse

By: David Gadd,Claire L. Fox,Mary-Louise Corr,Steph Alger,Ian Butler

Surveys reveal that domestic abuse is more commonplace among teenagers and young adults than older populations, yet surprisingly little is written about young men’s involvement in it. Reporting on a three-year study based in the UK, this book explores young men’s involvement in domestic abuse, whether as victims, perpetrators or witnesses to violent behaviors between adults. Original survey data, focus group material and in-depth biographical interviews are used to make the case for a more thoroughgoing engagement with the meanings young men come to attribute to violent behavior, include the tendency among many to configure violence within families as "fights" that call for acts of male heroism. The book also highlights the dearth of services interventions for young men prone to domestic abuse, and the challenges of developing responsive practice in this area. Each section of the book highlights further online resources that those looking to conduct research in this area or apply its insights in practice can draw upon.

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1317936779

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Caring for the Vulnerable

Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice and Research

By: Mary de Chesnay,Barbara Anderson

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Caring for the Vulnerable

Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice and Research

By: Mary de Chesnay,Barbara Anderson

Caring for the Vulnerable Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice, and Research Fourth Edition explores vulnerability from the perspective of individuals, groups, communities, and populations and specifically addresses how vulnerability affects the field of nursing and its care givers.

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