Translating chronic illness research into practice /

Table of Contents: “…Globalisation of chronic illness research -- Transitional processes and chronic illness -- Translating chronic illness research across the life span -- Assisting people with chronic illness to manage comorbid conditions -- Conceptualisation of self-management -- The relevance of self-management programs for people with chronic disease at risk for disease-related complications -- The potential of technology for providing social support to people and families -- Chronic illness research : translating what we know into what we do -- Future directions.…”
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Living with a long-term illness : the facts / by Campling, Frankie

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Introduction; Section 1 Long-term illness and you; 1 What is long-term (chronic) illness?…”
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Reifying women's experiences with invisible illness : illusions, delusions, reality /

Table of Contents: “…Glenn ; Chapter 8: Duty, Honor, Countrysickness: Finding Strength in my Personal Battle with Gulf War Illness ; Elizabeth Desnoyer-Colas ; Chapter 9: Complicit in Concealing Illness: Black Women, Beauty, Identity, and Breast Cancer ; Annette Matlock Gatison ; Chapter 10: The Enemy at the Door: My Friend's Silent Battle to Breast Cancer ; Wei Sun ; About the Contributors…”
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The art of conversation through serious illness : lessons for caregivers / by McQuellon, Richard P., 1949-

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Drug abuse and addiction in medical illness : causes, consequences and treatment /

Table of Contents: “…Compulsive drug use and brain reward systems -- Animal models in addiction research -- Genetic contributions to individual differences in vulnerability to addiction and abilities to quit -- Pharmacological treatment of drug abuse and addiction in medical illness -- Alcohol -- Nicotine -- Cannabis -- Cocaine -- Ecstasy and LSD -- Inhalants -- Ketamine Prescription drug misuse across the lifespan: A developmental perspective -- Anxiolytics and Sedatives -- Opiates and other pain killers -- Anabolic steroids -- Anxiety Disorders -- Depression and bipolar disorder -- ADHD -- Autism and Alcoholism's Genetic Overlap -- Personality disorders -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Trauma -- .…”
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Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness / by Doka, Kenneth J.

Table of Contents: “…Historical perspectives on dying and illness -- Effective professional caregivers : seven sensitivities -- The skilled counselor -- Responses to life-threatening illness -- Understanding the illness experience -- The prediagnostic phase : understanding the road before -- Counseling clients through crisis of diagnosis -- Counseling clients in the chronic phase of illness -- Counseling clients in recovery -- Counseling clients in the terminal phase -- Counseling families during an life-threatening illness.…”
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Regularization algorithms for ill-posed problems / by Bakushinskiĭ, A. B. (Anatoliĭ Borisovich), Kokurin, M. I︠U︡. (Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich), Kokurin, Mikhail M.

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Regularization Methods For Linear Equations; 3 Regularization of Ill-Posed Cauchy Problems by Finite Difference Methods; 4 Iterative Regularization Methods For Nonlinear Equations; 5 Finite-Dimensional Iterative Processes for Irregular Nonlinear Equations; 6 Regularization of Nonlinear Variational Inequalities and Optimization Problems; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Regularization theory for ill-posed problems : selected topics / by Lu, Shuai, Pereverzev, Sergei V.

Table of Contents: “…1.2.2 Deterministic noise model1.2.3 Stochastic noise model; 1.2.4 Smoothness associated with a basis; 1.2.5 Approximation and stability properties of -methods; 1.2.6 Error bounds; 1.3 The elliptic Cauchy problem and regularization by discretization; 1.3.1 Natural linearization of the elliptic Cauchy problem; 1.3.2 Regularization by discretization; 1.3.3 Application in detecting corrosion; 2 Basics of single parameter regularization schemes; 2.1 Simple example for motivation; 2.2 Essentially ill-posed linear operator equations. Least-squares solution. …”
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Social studies of health, illness and disease : perspectives from the social sciences and humanities /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Part 1: Body, Self and Illness; Shifting Views of Self: Impact of Chronic Illness Diagnosis on Young Emerging Adult Women; Cancer and the Idea of the Self: Philosophy, Memoir, and Medical Trauma; Part 2: Social and Cultural Context(s); Desirability and Its Discontents: Young People's Responses to Media Images of Health, Beauty and Physical Perfection; Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures; Devils, Serpents, Zebras: Metaphors of Illness in Contemporary Swedish Literature on Eating Disorders; Part 3: The Ideal Body…”
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Inverse and ill-posed sources problems / by Anikonov, I︠U︡. E. (I︠U︡riĭ Evgenʹevich)

“…Inverse and ill-posed problems series.…”
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Empowering people with severe mental illness : a practical guide / by Linhorst, Donald M., 1956-

Subjects: “…Mentally ill Services for United States.…”
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CBT for chronic illness and palliative care : a workbook and toolkit /

Table of Contents: “…CBT for Chronic Illness and Palliative Care; Contents; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The Workbook: The Cognitive Behavioural Approach; Part II: The Issues: Some Psychological Problems; Part III: The Toolkit: CBT Methods in Practice; References; Index.…”
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Handbook of the sociology of health, illness, and healing : a blueprint for the 21st Century /

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking connecting sociology's role in health, illness, & healing from the top down -- pt. II. Connectin communities -- pt. …”
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Mastering communication with seriously ill patients balancing honesty with empathy and hope /

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Individual differences and the prediction of illness behavior / by Shubin, Alan J.

Social psychological foundations of health and illness /

Table of Contents: “…Mullens -- Social-cognitive factors in health behavior change / Britta Renner and Ralf Schwarzer -- Common sense models of illness : implications for sympton perception and health-related behaviors / René Martin [and others] -- Contributions of social comparison to physical illness and well-being / Jerry Suls -- Interpersonal emotional processes in adjustment to chronic illness / Robert F. …”
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Family Reaction to Manic-Depressive Illness /

Table of Contents: “…Family Reaction to Manic-Depressive Illness (1:00);…”
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Social and Interpersonal Implications of Psychiatric Illnesses /

Table of Contents: “…Social and Interpersonal Implications of Psychiatric Illnesses (2:00);…”
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Recognizing Mental Illness in Your Patient /

Table of Contents: “…Recognizing Mental Illness in Your Patient: Introduction (0:56);…”
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Healthy Choices for Managing Pulmonary Illness /

Table of Contents: “…Healthy Choices for Managing Pulmonary Illness (14:52);…”
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How Illness and Injury Affect Diabetes /

Table of Contents: “…How Illness and Injury Affect Diabetes (2:38);…”
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Costs of illness among older adults : an analysis of six major health conditions with significant environmental risk factors / by Van Houtven, George

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Critical decisions for critically ill infants : principles, processes, problems / by Birchley, Giles, Huxtable, Richard

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Health care, disability, illness & comics.

To protect the constitutional rights of the mentally ill : hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session on S. 935, a bill to protect the constitutional rights of certain individuals who are mentally ill, to provide for their care, treatment, and hospitalization, and for other purposes, May 2, 3 and 8, 1963.

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The sociology of health, illness, and health care : a critical approach / by Weitz, Rose, 1952-

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Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors / by Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004

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Health, disease, and illness : concepts in medicine /

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The psychological impact of acute and chronic illness : a practical guide for primary care physicians / by Greenberg, Tamara McClintock

“…Psychological impact of acute & chronic illness…”
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Handbook of psychiatry in palliative medicine

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Psychiatric Complications of Terminal Illness -- 1 Hospice: A Psychiatric Perspective -- 2 Care and Management of the Patient at the End of Life -- 3 Diagnosis and Management of Depression in Palliative Care -- 4 Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia in the Terminally Ill -- 5 Anxiety in Palliative Care -- 6 Delirium in the Terminally Ill -- 7 Palliative Care in the Chronically Mentally Ill -- Part II: Symptom Management -- 8 Physical Symptom Management in the Terminally Ill: An Overview for Mental Health Professionals…”
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Melanie Hudson I'LL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU /

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I'll show them who's boss. Series 2, episode 4

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I'll show them who's boss. Series 2, episode 6

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I'll show them who's boss. Series 2, episode 5

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I'll show them who's boss. Series 2, episode 3

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I'll show them who's boss. Series 2, episode 1

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Well-posed, ill-posed, and intermediate problems with applications / by Petrov, Yu. P.

“…Inverse and ill-posed problems series.…”
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Ill-posed problems with a priori information / by Vasin, V. V.

Table of Contents: “…The eigen-subspace determination of a linear operator""; ""Â 2 Ill-posed problems examples and its stability analysis""; ""2.1. …”
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I'll tell you one damn thing, and that's all I know! by Arden, Jann

Table of Contents: “…i'll tell you one damn thing, and that's all i know!…”
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