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What Do I Say?
Templeton Press 2009; US$ 9.99Health care professionals, clergy, chaplains, social workers, and others who counsel people in medical crisis often find themselves faced with deeply painful questions: Why is this happening to me? Am I dying? Why should I live? I'm just a burden to others. Here is a workbook that suggests healing verbal responses to such expressions of spiritual... more...
Childhood Leukemia
Childhood Cancer Guides 2012; US$ 19.95This most complete parent guide covers not only detailed and precise medical information about leukemia and the various treatment options, but also day-to-day practical advice on how to cope with procedures, hospitalization, family and friends, school, social and financial issues, communication, feelings, and, if therapy is not successful, the difficult... more...
Decision Assessment and Counseling in Abortion Care
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 58.99This book teaches an approach and framework for decision assessment and counseling for abortion and family planning care. Case examples, individual and group exercises, guided self-reflection, and values clarification build the reader?s skills for working within a wide range of scenarios. The book is a complete manual for physicians, nurses, counselors,... more...
Walking on Eggshells
New Horizon Press 2012; US$ 14.95Dealing with a loved one's terminal illness brings difficult and daunting tasks for caregivers. Knowing when and how to say things and what to do becomes frightening. Caregivers often feel they are "walking on eggshells". This valuable, practical guide offers comfort, support and advice for managing economic, emotional and daily stressors from day... more...
Kooperationsmanagement in der Altenhilfe
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 21.73Hauptbeschreibung Marketingstrategien propagieren als eines der wesentlichen Ziele für Unternehmen, sich abzugrenzen von Konkurrenten oder Mitbewerbern der jeweiligen Branche - "anders zu sein als andere". Dies scheint für Einrichtungen im Segment der stationären Altenhilfe auf den ersten Blick schwierig realisierbar. Sind doch Dienstleistungsqualität... more...
It's Enough to Make You Sick
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 26.99It's Enough to Make You Sick explains how the American health care system developed and how it has deteriorated into a national disgrace. Lobosky indicts the special interests who have played a role in the demise of American health care, examines the current attempts at reform, and offers a practical, compassionate blueprint for effective change.... more...
The Heart of Care
Souvenir Press 2012; US$ 19.99Aimed at transforming how people care for others and themselves, this life-changing handbook examines how caregivers and caring professionals can reconnect to an actively compassionate nature, enriching the lives of those they look after as well as their own. The guide contends that person-centered care should be at the heart of the care industry,... more...
Caring and Well-being
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient?s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise health and social care and keep the person at the centre... more...
Death in Slow Motion
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 12.99When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink... more...
Close to the Bone
Red Wheel Weiser 2007; US$ 14.95This is a book for any person who is living with a life-threatening illness and for anyone who is caring for and/or loves a person who is ill. Bolen affirms that the price of going into the scary places, of feeling like a piece of green meat on a hook, is high, but worth it. We have no choice. We will all face health crises--our own and others. We... more...









