"In Really? I Had a Stroke?, the lives of four very different individuals are dramatically changed forever when each experiences a significant and unique stroke event. Each life hangs precariously, as close to recovery and life as to death. Who will recover and why? Is the consequence of one type of stroke more significant than another? What are the effects of timely stroke intervention? And what kind of recovery/rehabilitation should stroke survivors...

"Love First provides clear steps for families, friends, and professionals to create a loving and effective intervention plan for helping those who have an addiction. This revised and expanded twentieth-anniversary edition adds new intervention techniques for alcohol and other drug addictions, plus contemporary insights from the authors' decades of front-line work with those who are addicted and their families. Also new are tools to help families undertake...

An insider's view of America's drug and alcohol rehab industry explores its strengths and weaknesses while revealing a disturbing gap between best practice and reality.

"Recovery offers tools and wisdom for convalescence, and shows how tending to our bodies, environments, and perspectives can help us move through the landscape of illness--and come out the other side whole"--

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Understanding, Assessing, and Rehabilitating Juvenile Sexual Offenders, Second Edition

"The Second Edition of Understanding, Assessing, and Rehabilitating Juvenile Sexual Offenders showcases Phil Rich's experience and mastery of the research and clinical literature. In my view, this is an excellent therapy book and, like its predecessor, will help practitioners to work effectively and ethically with

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This book includes dozens of therapeutic games for kids with autism and sensory spectrum disorders. For children with autism, Asperger's, and sensory processing disorders, therapeutic games that move the body can improve motor, language, and social skills. Delaney shows you how to successfully engage them in play, whether indoors or outdoors, so that your child will be stimulated while having fun.

The goal of rehabilitative nursing is not just care-taking, but teaching and reinforcing so that the resident can live as independently as possible. Learn why optimal wellness is critical regardless of disability or disease. We will also review how to work with patients who have limited mobility including procedures for moving a patient and the importance of promoting self-care with the help of adaptive devices.

Whether it's an unhealthy consumption of junk foods or involvement in toxic relationships, it's undeniable we all struggle with destructive behaviors. Lawford takes a fresh look at addiction, and gives the coping and wellness skills necessary to overcome obstacles.

"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...

Presents concepts and methods to help alcoholics onto the road of recovery. The dynamic plan of intervention and treatment outlined in this book aims at blocking the progress of alcoholism, leading to a richer, more productive life. --