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Introduces technical communication from the avenue of humanities with which many are familiar and allied. For scholars and practicing professionals already familiar with technical communication, this book provides a collection of essays on humanistic developments.

The eight articles provided here present a comprehensive overview of the project's rationale, intervention, and evaluation plan. This book is of special interest to health educators because it endeavors to integrate research, community organization, and rigorous evaluation to address a significant world health risk.

Filled with activities to allow individuals, families, and groups in bereavement support groups, at retreats, memorial services, and conferences to acknowledge the death of a loved one or community member in a gentle but effective way.

The grief reaction is often similar for many diverse circumstances and situations. This book focuses heavily on caring for children with disabilities, chronic or terminal illness, dealing with the loss, and the recovery process.

Attempts to understand the impact of terminal illness on the entire family system and seeks to develop a theoretical framework that would guide the assessment of and services to such families.

The complexity and diversity of families and aging has generated the necessity for research, policy, and program agendas that address emerging issues and needs for elderly Americans and their families. This volume is an effort towards that end - an effort towards fostering a different perspective at families and aging.

Says that thousands of older people have been flowing into nursing homes unnecessarily when they can and should remain in their own home or apartment.

The topics of aging and disabilities are multifaceted and therefore may be approached in many ways. This work chooses to focus on four systems and areas of common ground (aging, developmental disabilities, independent living movement, and rehabilitation), to investigate the emerging "intersection" of the two fields.

Familiarizes readers with the theoretical basis and practical applications of the editing process. This book details the arrangement, style, delivery; and the objectives of editing - accuracy, clarity, propriety, and artistry.

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.

Presents findings and theoretical models within a psychosocial framework, which draws upon understanding the physiological, psychological, interpersonal, and social forces that are the causes of youthful drug addiction.

Represents an important collection of writings about technical communications. Focusing on a range of theoretical and practical issues, this title includes essays which reflect the rigor, vitality, and interdisciplinary nature of modern technical communications.

Includes articles which offer a mix of theoretical analysis, case history and empirical research, interspersed with good, practical advice from those who have sat long hours at the bargaining table.

Emphasizes that death occurs to us as unique individuals living within particular sociocultural settings. This title is intended for those who plan projects, programs, courses, and services concerned with death and bereavement, and those who fund, plan, direct, and perform those services.

Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.

A sourcebook devoted to historical archaeology, a significant field of study which blends together the theories and methods of anthropology, history, and archaeology.

Locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad political economy. This title argues that without a deep understanding of the social/political/economic context of particular industries or workplaces, we cannot fully grasp the process of recognition and control of industrial hazards.

A collection of essays that focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. It offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice.

A collection of articles that delves into the world of content management systems.

Explores five areas where technology affects society, and suggests ways in which human communication can facilitate the use of that technology.

Provides the instructors of introductory technical communication courses with a set of resources for their classrooms.

A set of essays on the relationship between discourse and the many institutions within which people act.

Offering an insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job,' this book for clinicians defines and treats what Dan Rudofossi terms Police and Public Safety Complex PTSD. It helps in understanding of how to work with police officers who experience cumulative loss in trauma.

Describes fresh approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology. This book begins with a consideration of ten theories on the evolutionary function of specific arts such as music and literature.

When Diane Sher Lutovich set out to attain closure of her mother's death she simultaneously discovered how other women address their losses. This book tells the big and little stories of women who, having come of age during the feminist revolution, lived very different lives than their mothers.

Provides an overview of the elderly population who have developmental disabilities. This book attempts to assess their needs and their lives as they age. In many ways, this is a pioneer population, one of the first generations of persons with developmental disabilities who have survived into later life.

Contain the author's experiences when her beloved grandson, Alex, died. Through her personal story she touches the universal in all grandparents' grief.

A guide for clinicians to operationally define, understand, and responsibly treat complex post-traumatic stress and grief syndromes in the context of the unique varieties of police personality styles.