In this inspirational guidebook, Nicole A. Walker shares her life experiences, personal thoughts and tips to getting your life on track. Follow a journey of a supermom of four battling Lyme Disease. See her courage, strength and motivation to change despite the odds against her. As she provides you with the tips, tools and resources to make changes in your life. Nicole will inspire and motivate you to seek, analyze and reinvent the woman you desire to be. So whether you are a woman looking for change. A mom searching for some parenting tips. A teen girl expecting her first child. Or woman trying to conceive another baby. Woman First Mother Second will educate and empower you to believe. To love yourself as a woman first, mother second.
With wit and wisdom, Nicole Johnson leads readers in a journey of awakenings—first, to God as they respond to His tender, passionate love for them; second to readers as they embrace their identities as women, their gifts, and their dreams; and finally to others as readers learn to love and communicate in ways that bring joy and closeness.
This valuable compendium advances the understanding of mental health case law, making it highly accessible to practicing forensic professionals. Divided into two parts, the first section focuses on explaining important topics related to forensic psychological and forensic neuropsychological assessment, while the second section stands on its own as a collection of fascinating legal cases with high relevance to mental health and legal professionals interested in how mental health disorders impact criminal behavior among juveniles and adults. The book begins with an accessible primer on abnormal behavior, exploring the links between criminal behavior and mental health disorders. It goes on to thoroughly describe what goes into forensic psychological and forensic neuropsychological evaluations, including discussion about the Federal Rules of Evidence, as they pertain to evidence-generation during the mental health evaluation process. The book also focuses on psychometric concepts, including reliability, validity, sensitivity, and specificity, as well as an exploration of ‘science’ and ‘the law’ which includes a discussion about the difference between science and pseudoscience, the different sources of law (constitutions, statutes, and case law), and how the intellectually competitive practice of law is similar to the enterprise of science. Ethical issues faced by the forensic mental health worker are also addressed. The second section of the book, Legal Cases for the Forensic Mental Health Professional, is an alphabetical summary of important and interesting legal cases with relevance for mental health professionals. These cases offer real-world significance while summarizing complex legal decisions through a neuropsychological sieve, to allow both legal and psychological communities to better understand each other’s professions. This book will be an invaluable resource for forensic psychologists, forensic neuropsychologists, forensic psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals whose work brings them into contact with the juvenile justice and adult criminal justice system. It will also be of interest to legal professionals, criminal justice departments, and law schools.
How to apply digital writing skills effectively in the classroom, from the prestigious National Writing Project As many teachers know, students may be adept at text messaging and communicating online but do not know how to craft a basic essay. In the classroom, students are increasingly required to create web-based or multi-media productions that also include writing. Since writing in and for the online realm often defies standard writing conventions, this book defines digital writing and examines how best to integrate new technologies into writing instruction. Shows how to integrate new technologies into classroom lessons Addresses the proliferation of writing in the digital age Offers a guide for improving students' online writing skills The book is an important manual for understanding this new frontier of writing for teachers, school leaders, university faculty, and teacher educators.
Grandma. Nana. Gammy. Mimi. Grammy. Busia. Gigi. Yaya. There are so many names to call a grandma, but Construction Cousins call their grandma Gaga. Meet the Construction Cousins, five little diggers who have a very special relationship with their grandparents. When they try to throw a birthday party for their Papa and things do not go exactly as planned, they must find a way to work together to save the party and learn some valuable lessons along the way.
There's old business in Midmun, For royalty and common folks, For ghosts and living legends. There's new business, too. New magic, New characters, New adventures. Lots of old friends, And an old enemy or two. Who will find redemption? Who can find love? Who can help? Who will hinder? Who will bring hope? Which magic is strongest? There are surprises around every corner, no crystal ball could show them all, through the fog and smoke. How much does the past affect the future? Time will tell.
As a child, Elizabeth Nicole suffered much turbulence in all her relationships including her parents, beginning at a young age. After her parents divorced, she began to become more lonely and depressed. She did not have many friends, because she could never find a crowd that she fit in with. As she began to grow up into her grade-school years, she was betrayed and sexually abused by people she trusted. Her once soft heart, now tainted with darkness would be the start of a downward spiral. A battle began to rage inside of this once innocent little girl. While the demons began filling her voids, she was also being sought after by a God she did not know. No matter how far she went, He fought for her by sending people into her life who knew Him to testify of who he was. As she began growing up, she continued down her rebellious road, not wanting to anything to do with this God, who sought after her. As she progressed into adolescence, she fought harder to find her place and became willing to do what she had to do to fit in. Her parents, at their wit's end, no longer could handle her and allowed her to bounce between the two of them, hoping that the other one would be able to handle her better than the other. It never worked. It only made her runaway heart colder that contained thicker walls. Her anger became worse, but instead of pointing it outward toward those who had hurt her as she did when she was a child, it became her inward demon. As she left middle school and entered high school, her inner demons began to show outwardly, the oppression she was under. She was lost, alone, and now labeled a manic depressive by the psychologist she looked to for help. The only one who could help her now would be the God that people continually talk about, and one day, she would realize that He was there the whole time and was only waiting for her surrender.
Almighty Dolla Anthology How far would you go? What would you do? Would you steal, lie, kill or cheat just to get ahold of that Almighty Dolla? Four short stories told by four of the greatest storytellers. These stories are short and sweet, but are also very JUICY! They will have you sitting on the edge of your seats as you read about how far people would go to get that Almighty Dolla. In each story, drama unfolds, lies are told, money is stolen, and much more, all because of that Almighty Dolla. Sit back and enjoy "A Gold-diggin' Hustler," "Money Hungry," "For the Love Of Money" and "Deceived," the Almighty Dolla tales.
A bright tale of friendship, told in rhyming verse. Full of colorful pictures, and a rainbow of pretty backgrounds. Fun to read aloud, especially together!
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