This comprehensive cookbook tells home and outdoor cooks everything they need to know to make irresistible Louisiana dishes in cast iron Dutch ovens.As the president of the Louisiana Dutch Oven Society, Bill Ryan has perfected the traditional, rustic methods of preparing classic Louisiana cuisine. In Dutch Oven Cajun and Creole, Bill serves up everything from breakfast to dinner as well as breads, sides, and desserts. He shares some of his prize-winning re...

"How did a girl raised in a town with no sports for girls get to stand on the medal box at the Olympic Games and receive a Silver Medal from the Prince of Denmark? Not on her own." - Joan Rosazza. This book takes you back to Melbourne, Australia to the Olympic Games of 1956. 19-year-old Joan Rosazza, a swimmer for the USA, wrote 19 letters home during her Olympic experience. Her fresh eyes and joyful spirit shine through as she describes living in the Olympic Village, competing against the...

Social Work and HIV: The Canadian Experience brings together essays by front-line workers and researchers from across the country. The essayists describe their own successes and failures in dealing with the effects of HIV in rural communities, urban Aboriginal street youth, upon haemophiliacs, the gay male community, women, injection drug users, and families with children. The book is divided into three sections: prevention, care, and practice. The first section on prevention looks at the rol...

EDUCATING PHYSICIANSThe current blueprint for medical education in North America was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The basic features outlined by Flexner remain in place today. Yet with the past century's enormous societal changes, the practice of medicine and its scientific, pharmacological, and technological foundations have been transformed. Now medical education in the United States...

"Here is a 'must-read' for all health promotion researchers and practitioners eager to stay one step ahead of the pack. A panoply of insightful and promising new approaches is presented for consideration and exploration in our contemporary behavioral science arsenal."— M. Elaine Auld, MPH, CHES, Chief Executive Officer, Society for Public Health Education"This book is an essential addition to the health practice and research literature, concentrating on theories that have no...

Almost twenty years ago, conceptual work began in the United Kingdom on what was to become the international Looking After Children initiative. Looking After Children has had a profound influence on child welfare in Canada and some fifteen other countries, including the UK, Australia, Sweden, and Hungary. It has sharpened the developmental focus and improved the quality of services for children and adolescents who, because of abuse, neglect, extreme poverty, or other circumstances, live in...

The Second Edition of this best selling textbook continues to offer a simple, systematic, step-by-step guide to doing applied psychology.Using the authors′ own PATH model, the text presents a new methodology for applying primarily social psychological theory to a wide range of social problems.With real-world case studies, end-of-chapter exercises and interviews with leading social psychologists, Applying Social Psychology guides students to define a problem, conduct a theor...

This book is a valuable resource for health and social service providers who are not specialists in addiction or mental health issues, but who would like to talk about these issues with clients.Many people who come to helping professionals are struggling with a substance use, gambling or mental health problem – or more than one of these problems concurrently. This guide provides information about how to empathically and non-judgmentally raise these issues with clients, and how and ...

At the clinical, management, and policy levels, the use of knowledge and evidence in health care has become a worldwide priority. The contributors to Using Knowledge and Evidence in Health Care seek to broaden our understanding of the complexity involved in health care decision-making by integrating social science knowledge and exploring some of the challenges and limits of evidence in different health care contexts.Louise Lemieux-Charles and François Champagne have brough...

Using Environments to Enable Occupational Performance is a unique new text that specifically focuses on how environments (physical, social, cultural, institutional) can be used by occupational therapists to enable occupational performance with all types of clients. This informative text provides a framework to think about how environments fit into occupational therapy theory and practice. Examples of different approaches to occupational therapy intervention involving environments are demon...

This volume in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series is a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary conflict research which aims to place conflict research and theory squarely within the realm of industrial and organizational psychology. This volume brings together and integrates classic and contemporary insight in conflict origins, conflict

Praise for Handbook of HIV and Social Work"Cynthia Cannon Poindexter has given us a remarkable edited volume that contains much information on HIV that every professional social worker needs to know in order to practice competently in today's complex world."—From the Foreword by Vincent J. Lynch, MSW, PhD, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work"This comprehensive handbook assembles a group of social work scholars and practitioners to participate in, ...