Sociocultural Perspectives on Valatile Solvent Use

Politics & Social Sciences

Beauvais, Fred

Sociology

Haworth Pr Inc

Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay And Lesbian Culture

Frontain, Raymond-Jean

Social Sciences

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Advances in Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Basic Science Research

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Advances in Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Basic Science Research highlights the presentations and issues discussed at the Fourth Annual International Conference of the American Association of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). You will explore the strengths and weaknesses of current case definitions of CFS and how these can be improved. Also, you will examine how to distinguish CFS from similiar ailments such as fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivity. This book puts different therapeutic modalities to the test, and addresses the neurological and psychiatric manifestations associated with CFS.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Advances in Epidemiologic, Clinical, And Basic Science Research

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Patarca-Montero, Roberto

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Emerging Trends in Psychological Practice in Long-Term Care

Norris (psychology, Texas A&M University) compiles perspectives on geriatric mental health in long-term care (LTC) settings. Scientist-practitioners look at modifications to traditional psychotherapy techniques that make them more appropriate for LTC patients, then examine systematic therapy approac

Medical Books

Medicine

Distance Learning Library Services: The Tenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference

Book by Off-Campus Library Services Conference 200 Cincinnati, Ohio, Mahoney, Patrick B.

Off-Campus Library Services Conference 200 Cincinnati, Ohio

Discover practical solutions to the challenges facing off-campus librarians! This comprehensive book highlights the problems that face professionals who provide library instruction and information access to off-campus students-and suggests ways to solve them. Geared toward practitioners, this book addresses assessment guidelines for service provision and establishing joint ventures with other institutions to provide more effective services. Each chapter includes a complete bibliography and many contain figures, tables, and graphs that make the information easier to access and understand. Distance Learning Library Services covers a broad spectrum of distance learning issues, including the evaluation of Web resources, changing librarians' perspectives about serving distant learners, and the need for cooperation with faculty to improve information service to distant learners. Each chapter of Distance Learning Library Services was carefully selected by a 24-member board using a juried abstracts process. Here is a small sample of what you'll find in this extraordinary collection: how to develop, implement, and promote library services for distance learners important information on extending library services off-campus an analysis of how academic libraries design and provide content for distance learning Web sites why the distance learning librarian's input is essential to the design of distance learning programs a case study of a partnership between the University of Kansas and XanEdu designed to evaluate their production of course packs and their acceptance by faculty and students a collections development perspective on distance education how Centra Symposium can aid in the delivery of library services considerations, challenges, and concerns when providing distance services to international graduate students an online information literacy tutorial using BlackBoard distance education software quality assurance in distance learn

Lee, Sul H

Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science, and Sociology

Book by Howells, Jan Lynn, Russo, Ethan

Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science, and Sociology (Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics)

What specific therapeutic benefits can marijuana provide for women? This first-of-its-kind book examines the therapeutic role of medical marijuana in women's medicine and its implications for fertility and maternal/child health. It includes treatises on many gender-specific conditions in obstetrics and gynecology as well as female-predominant medical conditions that are popularly treated with cannabis, such as multiple sclerosis. Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science, and Sociology presents a broad, multidisciplinary view of this controversial issue with technical chapters exploring the role of cannabis and endogenous Cannabinoids in fertility and neonatal feeding and sociologically and anthropologically oriented chapters examining the role of cannabis in treating morning sickness and cocaine addiction, the latter based on a study of Jamaican women. It also assesses the effects of cannabis use in pregnancy in relation to the neuropsychological assessment of children whose mothers used marijuana while pregnant. Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science, and Sociology provides you with informed discussions of: the historical uses of cannabis in obstetrics and gynecology the way that the body's endogenous cannabinoid system functions as a trigger for suckling in newborns the effect of clinical cannabis on hyperemesis gravidarum, a debilitating ailment characterized by severe nausea and vomiting, malnutrition, and weight loss during pregnancy the consequences of marijuana use during pregnancyufor women and their unborn children the potential of cannabis to aid in harm reductionufrom a nursing perspective medical hashish production using the Pollinator and Ice-O-Lator devicesuand the benefits of using cannabis in this form using cannabis as part of a combined treatment for Tourette Syndrome and more!

Women's Health

Addiction Treatment Matching: Research Foundations of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (Asam) Criteria

Learn how to implement the ASAM Criteria at your facility! 
Addiction Treatment Matching: Research Foundations of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria focuses on the state-of-the-art in addictions placement matching. This book examines the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria (PPC) which promises a national standard to settle the conflict between treatment programs and managed care. The research in this book has led the majority of U.S. states to endorse the ASAM Criteria. This timely resource will help providers, insurers, and payers work together to provide effective treatment for people with alcohol and drug problems. 
Addiction Treatment Matching is a comprehensive resource on the leading approach to addiction treatment planning. Experts in mental health and addiction services provide research studies that reveal the impact of ASAM Criteria on health plans, substance abuse treatment programs, and the patients themselves. This book provides validation for an innovative model that can revolutionize the addictions field with standardized, empirically based treatment planning. 
In Addiction Treatment Matching, you’ll find answers to such questions as: 
What are the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria and how can they improve treatment? How does a program define its level of care? Can the ASAM Criteria be standardized and validated? How can technology help users achieve consistency in determining patients’ needs? How can the ASAM Criteria improve care for patients with co-occurring disorders? What is needed for further development? 
This book will help: 
programs evaluate and adopt the ASAM Criteria programs and providers prepare for managed care through the science of optimal treatment planning treatment systems plan the implementation of the ASAM Criteria states, insurers, and accreditation and certification entities assist and evaluate programs to achieve more effective, resource-efficient care 
In light of recommendations by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment that states proceed with the implementation of placement criteria, Addiction Treatment Matching is an essential resource for substance abuse counselors, program directors, nurses, social workers, physicians and psychiatrists, managed care organizations, health insurers, and policymakers.

Addiction & Recovery

Learn how to implement the ASAM Criteria at your facility! Choosing Addiction Treatments: Validation of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria focuses on the state-of-the-art in the addictions placement matching. This book examines the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria (PPC) which promises a national standard to settle the conflict between treatment programs and managed care. The research in this book has led 30 states to endorse the ASAM Criteria. This timely resource will help providers, insurers, and payers work together to provide effective treatment for people with alcohol and drug problems. Choosing Addiction Treatments is a comprehensive resource on the leading approach to addiction treatment planning. Experts in mental health and addiction services provide case studies that reveal the impact of ASAM Criteria on health plans, substance abuse treatment programs, and the patients themselves. This book provides validation for an innovative model that can revolutionize the addictions field with standardized, empirically based treatment planning. In Choosing Addiction Treatments, you'll find the answers to such questions as: What are the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria and how do they work? How does a program define its level of care? Can the ASAM Criteria be standardized and validated? How can technology help users achieve consistency in determining patients' needs? What happens when a state introduces the ASAM Criteria? What is needed for further development? This book will help: programs evaluate and adopt the ASAM Criteria programs and providers negotiate with managed care for optimal treatment service authorizations treatment systems plan the implementation of the ASAM Criteria states, insurers, and accreditation and certification entities assist and evaluate programs to achieve more effective, resource-efficient care In light of new recommendations by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment that st

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Sociocultural Perspectives on Valatile Solvent Use

Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay And Lesbian Culture

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Advances in Epidemiologic, Clinical, And Basic Science Research

Emerging Trends in Psychological Practice in Long-Term Care

Distance Learning Library Services: The Tenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference

Distance Learning Library Services: The Tenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference

Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science, and Sociology (Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics)

Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science, and Sociology

Addiction Treatment Matching: Research Foundations of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (Asam) Criteria

Addiction Treatment Matching: Research Foundations of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (Asam) Criteria