Caregiving: Hospice-Proven Techniques for Healing Body and Soul

One of America's leading hospice experts offers practical, easy-to-follow advice for caregivers and a holistic approach to treating the infirm or the terminally ill. Author Douglas C. Smith organizes his material around ""A Bill of Patient's Rights,"" a unique system he has taught to thousands throughout the country. He explains that the caregiver should enable patients to retain these rights: to be in control * to have a sense of purpose * to know the truth to be comfortable * to touch and be touched * to laugh to cry and express anger * to explore the spiritual to have a sense of family Included are easy-to-follow techniques and practical tools for improving care: assessment techniques dialogues meditations life reviews breathing exercises body revitalization methods ways that patients can evaluate and improve their own care and many others. Filled with inspirational stories and effective guidance, Caregiving also addresses how to communicate with difficult patients and those in denial, how to facilitate non-stressful family interaction, and other important topics. It will be invaluable to parents and children caring for their elders; physicians and nurses; social workers and home health aides; members of the clergy; and all facing the challenge of enriching patients' lives and spirits. Visit us online at http://www.mcp.com/mgr/macmillan

Smith, Douglas C.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Howell Book House

This in-depth study of the junior high school years (grades 7-9) in Taiwan, China, compares the Taiwan model with those found in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the urban areas of China. Of particular interest are such topics as curriculum, homework, teaching methods, textbooks, school ecology, teacher training, health and safety, parental influence on children, school spirit, peer pressure and mediations, and the use of teaching-to-examination. Comparisons with the American model are coincidental. The author, who has taught in both Asia and the United States, does, however, make generalizations about the dysfunctional American school paradigm and the vigorous nature of academic life in Asia. Smith asserts that the Asian model for educational excellence cannot be transplanted to the United States. Our highly diverse society could not endure the demands of standardized examination at each juncture of education.The author contends that the key factors in success are only slightly related to the school. Family life, peer pressure, the competitive examination system, desire for family honor, and the challenge of the Darwinian milieu all lead to excellent academic outcomes. Social and cultural life for children, though limited, are always seen as complementary to school life. Family activities focus on the child and his or her education. Parental sacrifices are the norm to assure a child's academic and employment success via the conduit of education.

Middle Education in the Middle Kingdom: The Chinese Junior High School in Modern Taiwan

History

Asia

Praeger

This ready reference provides electrical engineers with practical information on accurate methods for measuring signals and noise in electronic circuits as well as methods for locating and reducing high frequency noise generated by circuits or external interference. Engineers often find that measuring and mitigating high frequency noise signals in electronic circuits can be problematic when utilizing common measurement methods. Demonstrating the innovative solutions he developed as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&amp;T/Bell Laboratories, solutions which earned him numerous U.S. and foreign patents, Douglas Smith has written the most definitive work on this subject. Smith explains design problems related to the new high frequency electronic standards, and then systematically provides laboratory proven methods for making accurate noise measurements, while demonstrating how these results should be interpreted. The technical background needed to conduct these experiments is provided as an aid to the novice, and as a reference for the professional. Smith also discusses theoretical concepts as they relate to practical applications. Many of the techniques Smith details in this book have been previously unpublished, and have been proven to solve problems in hours rather than in the days or weeks of effort it would take conventional techniques to yield results. Comprehensive and informative, this volume provides detailed coverage of such areas as: 
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<li>scope probe impedance, grounding, and effective bandwidth, </li> <li>differential measurement techniques, </li> <li>noise source location and identification, </li> <li>current probe characteristics, operation, and applications, </li> <li>characteristics of sources of interference to measurements and the minimization of their effects, </li> <li>minimizing coupling of external noise into the equipment under test by measurements, </li> <li>estimating the effect of a measurement on equipment operation, </li> <li>using digital scopes for single shot noise measurements, </li> <li>prediction of equipment electromagnetic interference (EMI) emission and susceptibility of performance, </li> <li>null experiments for validating measurement data, </li> <li>the relationship between high frequency noise and final product reliability. </li> </ul> With governmental regulations and MIL standards now governing the emission of high frequency electronic noise and the susceptibility to pulsed EMI, the information presented in this guide is extremely pertinent. Electrical engineers will find High Frequency Measurements and Noise in Electronic Circuits an essential desktop reference for information and solutions, and engineering students will rely on it as a virtual source book for deciphering the "mysteries" unique to high frequency electronic circuits.

High Frequency Measurements and Noise in Electronic Circuits

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Springer

In Elementary Teacher Education in Korea, Asia scholar Douglas C. Smith opens a new door on this Asian nation. (First volume in the International Studies in Education Series.)

Elementary Teacher Education in Korea (Phi Delta Kappa International Studies in Education)

Education & Teaching

Phi Delta Kappa Intl Inc

Real Estate Exam Manual: Especially Designed for Ets Real Estate Exams: Exam Strategies, Mathematics Review, Sample Examinations, Study Outline

Business & Money

Gibbons, John T.

Real Estate

Dearborn Financial Publishing

Being A Wounded Healer presents a "spiritual model of care" to complement the typical "medical model of care." The medical model looks at eliminating wounds. The spiritual model looks at finding meaning in the midst of wounds. The spiritual model presented in this book is based upon the spiritual traditions of all of the major religions. The model is presented to assist physicians, nurses, social workers, clergy, and counselors find meaning in the midst of their own wounds so that they can help patients/clients find meaning in the midst of their wounds.

Being A Wounded Healer

Alternative Medicine

Psycho-Spiritual Publications

Spiritual Healing is a handbook of activities, guided imagery, meditations, and prayers for exploring and enhancing our own spirituality and the spirituality of others. The book can be used by psychologists, nurses, physicians, social workers, clergy, and counselors with people of various religious and spiritual perspectives. The tools and techniques are designed for use with any belief or value system.

Spiritual Healing

Chapin, Theodore J.

Motivational Interviewing with Families (Applications of Motivational Interviewing Series)

Addiction & Recovery

The Guilford Press

One of America's leading hospice experts offers practical, easy-to-follow advice for caregivers and a holistic approach to treating the infirm or the terminally ill. Author Douglas C. Smith organizes his material around ""A Bill of Patient's Rights,"" a unique system he has taught to thousands throughout the country. He explains that the caregiver should enable patients to retain these rights: to be in control * to have a sense of purpose * to know the truth to be comfortable * to touch and be touched * to laugh to cry and express anger * to explore the spiritual to have a sense of family Included are easy-to-follow techniques and practical tools for improving care: assessment techniques dialogues meditations life reviews breathing exercises body revitalization methods ways that patients can evaluate and improve their own care and many others. Filled with inspirational stories and effective guidance, Caregiving also addresses how to communicate with difficult patients and those in denial, how to facilitate non-stressful family interaction, and other important topics. It will be invaluable to parents and children caring for their elders; physicians and nurses; social workers and home health aides; members of the clergy; and all facing the challenge of enriching patients' lives and spirits. Visit us online at http://www.mcp.com/mgr/macmillan

Trade Paper Press

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