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Dreams at the threshold : guidance, comfort, and healing at the end of life / by Van Bronkhorst, Jeanne,1962-;
Includes bibliographical references.Explores the important role that dreams can play for those who are in an end-of-life process, those providing support, and loved ones whose lives are touched by the transition.
Subjects: Death; Dreams; Terminally ill; Attitude to Death.; Dreams; Terminal Care.;
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Clearing the path : on death, loss, and grief / by Halamish, Lynne Dale,author.; Cassell, Eric J.,1928-2021,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Clearing the Path is a collection of clinical stories that illustrate practical, applicable communication tools for professionals in work with end-of-life patients and families. These vignettes from practice demonstrate how impending death, death itself, and the loss of a relationship affect the lives and grief of both patients and survivors" - From Amazon.
Subjects: Death; Grief.; Bereavement; Terminal care.; Hospice care.; Adaptability (Psychology); Attitude to Death; Grief; Terminal Care; Family Relations; Terminally Ill; Adaptation, Psychological; Hospice Care;
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Fish! : a remarkable way to boost morale and improve results / by Lundin, Stephen C.,1941-; Paul, Harry,1950-; Christensen, John,1959-;
A guide to improving the atmosphere at work, given in the format of a novel: a fictional manager learns how to improve her co-workers' morale and production by following the lead of the remarkably energetic Pike Place Fish market in Seattle.
Subjects: Employee motivation.; Customer services.; Personnel; Service à la clientèle.; Motivation.; Morale.; Attitude.; Workplace; Organizational Innovation.; Leadership.; Consumer Satisfaction.;
© c2000., Hyperion,
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The good death : a guide for supporting your loved one through the end of life / by O'Brien, Suzanne B.,author.;
Introduction -- Part 1: Facilitating a good death. We become less fearful of the unknown when we embrace what is known -- Preparing for longer lifespans : the elder care crisis -- How to care for someone who is dying : the three phases of end of life -- Dealing with common diseases at end of life -- How caregivers can avoid burnout -- The rebirth of death -- Keeping death green : how our funeral and burial choices impact the planet -- Part 2: The peace of mind planner. A physical good death -- A mental good death -- An emotional good death -- A financial good death -- A spiritual good death -- Epilogue: Death as a sacred experience -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Appendix A: Prolonged grief disorder -- Appendix B: What to say to someone who's grieving -- Appendix C: Your loving reminder checklist to heal from grief -- Appendix D: How to talk to kids about death -- Resources -- Notes -- Index.The Good Death by Suzanne B. O'Brien, RN, draws on her 20+ years as a hospice and palliative care nurse to offer compassionate guidance for supporting loved ones at the end of life. Combining practical care tips, emotional support strategies, and a workbook-style Peace of Mind Planner, the book empowers readers to create a peaceful, meaningful dying process. Through expert advice and planning tools, O'Brien helps reduce fear, prevent caregiver burnout, and ensure a dignified, comforting experience for all involved.Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index.
Subjects: Hospice care.; Death; Death; Caregivers; Terminal care.; Holistic nursing.; Advance Care Planning; Holistic Nursing; Attitude to Death;
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The helping professional's guide to end-of-life care : practical tools for emotional, social, & spiritual support for the dying / by Strada, E. Alessandra.;
"Clinical psychologist E. Alessandra Strada presents The Helping Professional's Guide to End-of-Life Care, a complete manual designed to help chaplains, nurses, physicians, hospice workers, psychotherapists, palliative care specialists, and psychologists address the psychological needs of terminally ill and dying patients and their families"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.The journey through illness -- Developing a healing presence -- Working effectively with the medical team -- Meeting with the patient and the family -- The experience of grief in patients who are approaching death -- The multidimensional nature of pain -- Anxiety -- Depression -- Exploring the spiritual domain -- When death is imminent: supporting patients and caregivers -- After the death: supporting the mourning process -- Maintaining personal and professional well-being: the meaning of self-care.
Subjects: Terminal care; Terminally ill; Terminal Care; Attitude to Death.; Family Relations.; Terminally Ill;
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The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership : follow them and people will follow you / by Maxwell, John C.,1947-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-313).HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell's New York Times bestselling book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with the publication of a new revised and updated 25th Anniversary Edition. Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders. He has added new insights to these timeless laws and included lessons learned since he originally wrote the book. He removed dated stories and replaced them with fresh ones that apply to today's world of business. What Maxwell didn't change are the powerful leadership truths that have been helping people become better leaders for the last quarter century. This is still the best book on leadership people can buy, whether they want to learn leadership on their own, develop as leaders in a group, or teach leadership to others as a mentor" --
Subjects: Leadership.; Leadership; Industrial management.; Influence (Psychology); Success in business.; Civic leaders;
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Approaching the end of life : a practical and spiritual guide / by Schaper, Donna.;
The best funeral ever -- What to do when you get sick and death first knocks on your door -- The importance of the afterlife -- Early dotage, mid dotage, and late dotage: facing facts with freedom -- Spiritual preparation for death -- Spiritual and practical combined -- Really bad funerals do happen -- Finding a spiritual home before death -- My Lord, what a morning.In her more than forty years as a minister, Rev. Donna Schaper has been approached hundreds of times by people wanting to know how to prepare for the end of life in both practical and spiritual matters. From making a will and planning a memorial service to finding peace in the toughest circumstances, Approaching the End of Life offers practical and spiritual guidance to anyone wrestling with the end of a life. The book also includes practical resources such as a service planning checklist and a template for a funeral or memorial service.
Subjects: Funeral service; Terminally ill; Terminally ill; Death; Spiritual life.; Attitude to Death.; Funeral Rites.; Pastoral Care.; Spirituality.; Terminally Ill;
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Against technoableism : rethinking who needs improvement / by Shew, Ashley,1983-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.Disabled everything: a quick guide to the upcoming chapters -- Disorientation -- Scritps and crips -- New legs, old tricks -- The neurodivergent resistance -- Accessible futures.
Subjects: Technology and people with disabilities.; People with disabilities; People with disabilities; Assistive computer technology; Disabled Persons; Self-Help Devices; Social Discrimination;
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Tell my sons : a father's last letters / by Weber, Mark M.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction ... To be strong enough to know when you are weak, brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid -- Chapter One ... Not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge -- Chapter Two ... Not to substitute words for actions -- Chapter Three ... To be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success -- Chapter Four ... To seek out and experience a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of lift, an appetite for adventure over love of ease -- Chapter Five ... To seek a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, and to exercise a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity -- Chapter SIx ... To be modest so that you will appreciate the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength -- Chapter Seven ... To be serious, yet never to take yourself too seriously; to cry, but also to laugh -- Chapter Eight ... To discover the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what is next, and the joy and inspiration of life -- Epilogue: "How are you doing?""At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three ... When [he] realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without him, they would know what his life-and-death story had taught him--about courage and fear, challenge and comfort, words and actions, pride and humility, seriousness and humor, and a never-ending search for new ideas and inspiration"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Weber, Mark M.; Conduct of life.; United States. Army; Minnesota. Army National Guard; Afghan War, 2001-; Cancer; Death; Afghan Campaign 2001-; Attitude to Death; Intestinal Neoplasms.;
© [2012], Ballantine Books,
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Strikingly similar : plagiarism and appropriation from Chaucer to chatbots / by Kreuz, Roger J.,author.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/authttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjGHKDCTVj9kB7GbqJprRqhttp://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n85294203;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-233) and index.Setting the stage -- The plagiarism hunters -- Unconscious plagiarism -- Plagiarism in politics -- Consequences -- Copyrights and contexts -- Plagiarism past, present, and future."In Strikingly Similar, discover the history and psychology of famous and lesser-known incidents of appropriation, as well as the changes in cultural attitudes and the under-explored topic of unconscious plagiarism"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Plagiarism; Plagiarism;
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