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Assessment Tools for Recreational Therapy and Related Fields, 4th Edition
joan burlingame and Thomas M. Blaschko
B620
80.00
Hardcover
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2010
ISBN: 9781882883721
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Orders for the Fourth Edition placed before December 31, 2009 receive a 25% discount — $60 instead of $80. Since its first edition in 1990, this has become the standard reference book on assessment in Recreational Therapy. As with the earlier editions, the purpose of this book is to provide both the therapist and the student with specific, critical information about the assessment process, specific tools, and specific standards related ... (read more)
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Rewiring for Family: A Lifeline to New Connections after a Brain Injury
Carolyn Dolen
B604
19.00
Trade Paper, 320 pages
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2006
ISBN: 9781882883714
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Traumatic brain injury causes damage to the connections in many parts of the brain besides the focal point of the injury. It’s not enough to heal medically. Brain Injury Rewiring for Loved Ones has extensive information about what happens in the brain when it is injured, and goes on to describe the medical care required during the initial stages of recovery. After that, the book makes it clear how loved ones can continue to help ... (read more)
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Rewiring for Survivors: A Lifeline to New Connections after a Brain Injury
Carolyn Dolen
B603
19.00
Trade Paper, 320 pages
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2006
ISBN: 9781882883592
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Traumatic brain injury causes damage to the connections in many parts of the brain besides the focal point of the injury. It’s not enough to heal medically. Brain Injury Rewiring for Survivors discusses medical care and goes beyond that to help the survivor heal spiritually, emotionally, cognitively, physically, socially, and vocationally through traditional and complementary medicine and good nutrition. Brain Injury Rewiring for Survivors is one of two well-received books designed to help ... (read more)
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Core Focused Family Therapy
Judye Hess and Ross Cohen
B504
24.00
Trade Paper, 144 pages
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2008
ISBN: 9781882883707
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The Book Core Focused Family Therapy is a unique approach to family therapy in that it is particularly appropriate for students and practitioners who favor a humanistic, experiential approach to working with families but lack the guidance to put this kind of approach into practice. The book guides the student or individual therapy practitioner in making the paradigm shift to working with a systemic model by explaining this shift in a clear and specific ... (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, and adult children ... (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 care that satisfies, ... (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: 9781882883670
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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 eagerly share their ... (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: 9781882883660
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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 he has picked ... (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, 292 pages
Published by Idyll Arbor
Publication date: 2007
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 of arthritis, affecting ... (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: 9781882883530
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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 model matches very ... (read more)
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