HANDBOOK OF PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS FOR ADULTS Book

EBook Description: Individuals are living longer, but in many cases, their quality of life is impeded due to preventable emotional, physical, and/or social problems. Adults continue to be diagnosed with physical and mental illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, anxiety, and obesity, at a time when social problems such as partner violence and economic instability are escalating. In many cases, these illnesses and social problems have serious personal and societal costs. Some of these problems can be prevented.

How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter offers a fascinating tour of the central themes raised by these questions.
Representing Reality provides a unique and accessible overview of the different traditions in constructionist thought. Potter provides an integrated account that both shows how descriptions are made factual by the use of specific procedures, and offers a helpful guide for future research on these issues. The points are illustrated throughout with varied and engaging examples taken from newspaper stories, relationship counselling sessions, accounts of the paranormal, social workers' assessments of violent parents, informal talk between programme makers, political arguments and everyday conversations.

The Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma Book

Every major healthcare, social and behavioral science, education, and human services discipline and sub-specialty now includes trauma/posttraumatic stress disorder as a focal topic for researchers, educators, and practitioners. The Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma is the only authoritative reference on the scientific evidence, clinical practice guidelines, and social issues addressed within the field of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. Edited by the leading experts in the field, mental health practitioners will turn to this resource for complete coverage of evidence-based and standard treatments and topics as well as controversial topics including EMDR, virtual reality therapy, and much more.
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Values, Education and the Adult Book

In this study of the main conceptual and normative issues to which the education of the adult gives rise, the author demonstrates that these issues can be understood and resolved only by coming to grips with some of the central and most contentious questions in epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and social philosophy. A salient feature of the book is its searching examination of the different types of value judgement by which all educational discourse is permeated. The analysis of the nature and justification of educational judgements forms the basis of an overall philosophy of adult education which should provide a much needed axiological framework for the guidance of practitioners in this growing area of educational concern.

Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business PDF Book

Marketers must look on the web for new ways to find customers and communicate with them instead of them. YouTube and Facebook, blogs and Twitter-ing, social media on the Internet is the most promising way to reach new customers. Marketing to the Social Web, Second Edition, will help marketers understand their businesses and how enthusiastic, customers, build customer communities and maximize their profits in a time of marketing confusion. Author and social media guru Larry Weber describes newly available tools and platforms, and shows you how to apply them to see immediate results and the economy. Rather than broadcast messages to the public should be savvy marketers to participate in social networks, belong to the people, where the dialogue will grow with the customers and can vary between customers. In networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and even the ideal forum for this dialogue, this book shows you how to tap into this new media.

The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success Book

The Social Media Bible will show you how to build or transform your business into a social media�enabled enterprise where customers, employees, and prospects connect, collaborate, and champion your products, your services, and your way of doing business.
Using the systematic approach presented in this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to:
�Increase your company and brand value by engaging people in new forms of communication, collaboration, education, and entertainment
�Determine which social media tactics you should be using with your customers and employees
�Evaluate and categorize the tools and applications that constitute the rapidly evolving social media ecosystem
�Make social media tools like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, blogging, podcasting, and hundreds of others a part of your business strategy
�Do a social media analysis inside your company to improve internal operations and outside your company to create and monetize relationships with customers and prospects.

Effective Communication: A Workbook for Social Care Workers (re-post) Book

Social care workers in residential or domiciliary settings need to be able to communicate effectively in order to carry out their work.Supporting people with a variety of challenges including hearing loss, impaired speech, visual impairment, dementia and physical and learning disabilities requires a range of communication skills, such as listening, sign language, writing notes, and using body language, touch and stimulation. This workbook will provide workers with the ability to enable adults with limited or no verbal communication skills to express their views."Effective Communication" includes practical guidance on using communication tools, such as computers, staff photo rota boards and pictorial menu boards, and use of photographs as visual reminders. The workbook meets the requirements of care standards and also refers to the importance of recording and reporting, and dealing with sensitive and complex issues, such as breaking the news of a family bereavement, or communicating with a person who has been abused.Designed to meet the requirements of Health and Social Care (Adults) NVQ Level 3, Unit 31, this workbook is also a valuable source of guidance for any social care worker wanting to improve communication with adults.

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Book

Japan�s welfare state is puzzling. On most measures, Japan�s welfare state is small. Its social spending levels are low; its tax revenue is small; and its benefit levels are meager (Figure 0.1).1 Japan�s social spending programs are among the least redistributive in the advanced industrial world (Table 0.1). At first glance, Japan�s small welfare spending appears to confirm the conventional scholarly wisdom that attributes the development of a generous and redistributive welfare state to a strong social democratic party � supported by well-organized and centralized labor unions. Yet despite its meager social spending, Japan has nonetheless managed to achieve a fairly egalitarian income distribution.

The Linked Photographers' Guide to Online Marketing and Social Media Book

"The Linked Photographer's Guide to Online Marketing and Social Networking" is a complete resource for photographers looking to improve their business through social media. This book provides a step-by-step process for getting a photographer's business online, and acts as a reference guide for the variety of online marketing options on the web. This one-of-a-kind guide is the key to making social media work for the photographer to improve their business!

Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience Book

From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and designers today, but it's not that easy to understand the nuances of the social web. Now you have help.
Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone share hard-won insights into what works, what doesn't, and why. You'll learn how to balance opposing factions and grow healthy online communities by co-creating them with your users.

Essays in Sociological Theory Book

Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his.
In this collection of nineteen essays, Dr. Parsons focuses his attention on subjects ranging from the social structure of Japan to propaganda and social control, from sociological aspects of Fascist movements to the place of psychoanalysis in society. Also dealt with are such topics as: The role of ideas in social action, the motivation of economic activities, American social structure, social classes and class conflict, and the prospects for contemporary sociological theory.

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