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Overcoming Deficits of Aging

A Behavioral Approach

By: Roger L. Patterson,Larry W. Dupree,David A. Eberly,Gary M. Jackson,Michael J. O’Sullivan,Louis A. Penner,Carla Dee Kelly

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Overcoming Deficits of Aging

A Behavioral Approach

By: Roger L. Patterson,Larry W. Dupree,David A. Eberly,Gary M. Jackson,Michael J. O’Sullivan,Louis A. Penner,Carla Dee Kelly

That older patients can be successfully treated has only recently been recognized by professionals and by older persons themselves. That older persons can also be taught new skills or retaught previously existing skills constitutes even newer knowledge. By focusing on the reversibility 0/ behavioral defidts in the elderly the authors, under the leadership of Dr. Roger Patterson, have made both a scientific and a humanitarian contribution to the well-being of older persons. In this volume they have presented a theoretical basis and a practical how-to method of overcoming behavioral deficits. They have demonstrated that their modular technique of fostering improved functioning in such areas as activities of daily living and sodal skills not only has been successful but also has allowed individuals to return to less restrictive environments or to completely independent living. The approach is an interdisciplinary one, appropriately since older people often experience diffirulties in multiple areas of function ing. The authors have tried to integrate social, medical, and behav ioral approaches, with an emphasis on behavioral methodologies. Although this book deals primarily with behavioral approaches to treatment of the elderly in a single setting, the volume c1early con stitutes achallenge to other scientists and clinicians to apply the techniques described here in other settings. A medical colleague of mine, a geriatrician, recently expressed the opinion that he had never encountered an older patient for whom he could not do something to improve health.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461592631

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Lives of Their Own

Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960

By: John E. Bodnar,Roger D. Simon,Michael P. Weber

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Lives of Their Own

Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960

By: John E. Bodnar,Roger D. Simon,Michael P. Weber

Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood institutions. By blending oral histories with quantitative data, the authors have created a convincing multilayered portrait of working-class life in one of our great industrial cities.

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316

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University of Illinois Press

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0252010639

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9780252010637

Death in Custody

How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It

By: Roger A. Mitchell Jr.,Jay D. Aronson

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Death in Custody

How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It

By: Roger A. Mitchell Jr.,Jay D. Aronson

The United States significantly undercounts the number of people who die in law enforcement custody each year. How can we fix this? Deaths resulting from interactions with the US criminal legal system are a public health emergency, but the scope of this issue is intentionally ignored by the very systems that are supposed to be tracking these fatalities. We don't know how many people die in custody each year, whether in an encounter with police on the street, during transport, or while in jails, prisons, or detention centers. In order to make a real difference and address this human rights problem, researchers and policy makers need reliable data. In Death in Custody, Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD, and Jay D. Aronson, PhD, share the stories of individuals who died in custody and chronicle the efforts of activists and journalists to uncover the true scope of deaths in custody. From Ida B. Wells's enumeration of extrajudicial lynchings more than a century ago to the Washington Post's current effort to count police shootings, the work of journalists and independent groups has always been more reliable than the state's official reports. Through historical analysis, Mitchell and Aronson demonstrate how government at all levels has intentionally avoided reporting death in custody data. Mitchell and Aronson outline a practical, achievable system for accurately recording and investigating these deaths. They argue for a straightforward public health solution: adding a simple checkbox to the US Standard Death Certificate that would create an objective way of recording whether a death occurred in custody. They also propose the development of national standards for investigating deaths in custody and the creation of independent regional and federal custodial death review panels. These tangible solutions would allow us to see the full scope of the problem and give us the chance to truly address it.

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194

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JHU Press

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1421447096

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9781421447094

Success Express for Teens

50 Activities that Will Change Your Life

By: Roger Leslie

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50 Activities that Will Change Your Life

By: Roger Leslie

Contains 50 activites that are easy and fun to help you realize your dreams and how to start making them come true.

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Bayou Publishing

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1886298092

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Getting Through

The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication

By: Roger Kreuz,Richard Roberts

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Getting Through

The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication

By: Roger Kreuz,Richard Roberts

Understanding how culture affects the ways we communicate—how we tell jokes, greet, ask questions, hedge, apologize, compliment, and so much more. We can learn to speak other languages, but do we truly understand what we are saying? How much detail should we offer when someone asks how we are? How close should we stand to our conversational partners? Is an invitation genuine or just pro forma? So much of communication depends on culture and context. In Getting Through, Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts offer a guide to understanding and being understood in different cultures. Drawing on research from psychology, linguistics, sociology, and other fields, as well as personal experience, anecdotes, and popular culture, Kreuz and Roberts describe cross-cultural communication in terms of pragmatics—exploring how language is used and not just what words mean. Sometimes this is easy to figure out. If someone hisses “I'm fine!” though clenched teeth, we can assume that she's not really fine. But sometimes the context, cultural or otherwise, is more nuanced. For example, a visitor from another country might be taken aback when an American offers a complaint (“Cold out today!”) as a greeting. And should you apologize the same way in Tokyo as you would in Toledo? Kreuz and Roberts help us navigate such subtleties. It's a fascinating way to think about human interaction, but it's not purely academic: The more we understand one another, the better we can communicate, and the better we can communicate, the more we can avoid conflict.

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MIT Press

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0262536099

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Book's by Roger L. Patterson

Overcoming Deficits of Aging

Overcoming Deficits of Aging

Lives of Their Own

Lives of Their Own

Death in Custody

Death in Custody

Success Express for Teens

Success Express for Teens

Getting Through

Getting Through

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