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Faces of Combat, PTSD & TBI: One Journalist's Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans
Eric Newhouse
B605
18.00
Trade Paper
Published by Issues Press
Publication date: 2008
ISBN: 9781930461062
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Newhouse issues a call to help America’s returning warriors in his latest book, Faces of Combat, PTSD and TBI: One Journalist’s Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans. His concern is that one-third to one-half of the 1.6 million men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan can be expected to return home with one or all three emotional disorders – post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain ... (read more)
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Video Games & Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control
Hilarie Cash and Kim McDaniel
B503
18.00
Trade Paper, 191 pages
Published by Issues Press
Publication date: 2008
ISBN: 9781930461055
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Video Games & Your Kids is for parents who are worried that their children may be spending too much time playing video games. Based on research and the authors’ clinical experience, the book explains what gaming addiction is, how much gaming is too much, and the affects gaming has on the body and brain. The authors give gaming advice on each stage of life; birth-2 years, ages 2-6, elementary school years, adolescence, ... (read more)
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Long Term Care for Activity Professionals and Recreational Therapists, Fifth Edition
Elizabeth Best Martini, Mary Anne Weeks, and Priscilla Wirth
B500
42.00
Paperback, Reproducible Forms, 401 pages
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2008
ISBN: 9781882883691
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This book is down to earth, easy to understand and comprehensive enough to answer your difficult questions about working with different resident groups, meeting standards, working with team and family members, and managing your department. It lets you see how all the parts of long term care facilities, assisted living facilities, and adult day programs can fit together to make an empowering, healthful environment for everyone. It shows you how to provide ... (read more)
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Writing for Wellness: A Prescription for Healing
Julie Davey
B497
18.00
Trade Paper, 6 x 9, 302 pages
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2007
ISBN: 9781-882883-67-0
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Writing for Wellness provides a new and focused writing program for cancer patients, their family members, caregivers, and medical staff. It includes information about the author’s own battle with cancer, Healing Words from more than 60 contributors, and instructions for the reader to write his or her own healing words in the It's Your Turn section. For six years participants in Writing for Wellness classes have come to write and to ... (read more)
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Reflections Along the Way
Barry Bocchieri
B481
16.00
Trade Paper, 142 pages
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2007
ISBN: 1-882883-66-7
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Bocchieri is an expert in the field of substance abuse and addiction. In this book he uses his unique ability of explaining complex psychological, philosophical, and spiritual concepts in clear, concise, and easy-to-understand language to describe how a person can succeed in his or her recovery. This is a more personal follow-up to his first book, Things That Work: A No-Nonsense Guide to Recovery from One Who Knows. This book provides lessons ... (read more)
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Water Exercises for Osteoarthritis: The Effective Way to Reduce Pain and Stiffness, While Increasing Endurance and Strength
Ann Rosenstein
B462
18.00
Trade paper
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2004
ISBN: 9781882883622
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Water Exercises for Osteoarthritis contains over 100 individual exercises and examples of exercise routines. It is richly illustrated so the reader can see all of the elements that go into an exercise program: equipment, warm-ups, stretching, aerobic exercises, strength exercises, balance exercises, exercises focusing on the abdominals, neck exercises, and cool downs. Included, also, is information on medications, vitamins and minerals, herbs, diet, and nutrition. Osteoarthritis is the most common form ... (read more)
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The Safe Approach:Controlling Risk for Workers in the Helping Professions
Charles Ennis and Janet Douglas
B459
24.00
Trade paper, 184 pages
Published by Issues Press
Publication date: 2007
ISBN: 9781930461031
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Violence against those who provide in-home care continues to be a risk for therapists, nurses, and social workers who visit their clients in the client’s homes. Ennis and Douglas use their almost fifty years of combined experience in the fields of policing and child protection to show you how to be safer in your practice. They are not trying to convince you that violence toward workers in the helping professions is a ... (read more)
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Recreational Therapy Handbook of Practice: ICF-Based Diagnosis and Treatment
Heather R. Porter and joan burlingame
B420
90.00
Hardcover, 784 pages
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2006
ISBN: 1-882883-53-5
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The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) from the World Health Organization is a major shift in health care. It looks at health, not from the traditional medical model of disease, disorder, or injury, but from a universal, integrative, and interactive model, which includes the social and environmental aspects of disability and health. This Handbook shows recreational therapists how to use the new model. Recreational therapists will find that the ... (read more)
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Conferences and Seminars
The following authors are dynamic presenters who are exceptionally knowledgeable
in their fields. Please contact Idyll Arbor for
more information about scheduling them to speak to your group or facility.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Newhouse, author of
Alcohol: Cradle to Grave, is available to speak on
addictions and mental disorders. He has written extensively on alcoholism, methamphetamine
addictions, troubled teens, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among returning
combat vets. Call him at 406-791-1485 or email him at enewhous@greatfal.gannett.com
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