1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455391103321

Autore

Collins Suzan

Titolo

Effective communication [[electronic resource] ] : a workbook for social care workers / / Suzan Collins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Jessica Kingsley, 2009

ISBN

1-282-29737-6

9786612297373

1-84642-932-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (111 p.)

Collana

Knowledge and Skills for Social Care Workers

Disciplina

362.4

Soggetti

Communication in services for people with disabilities

Confidential communications

Interpersonal communication

People with disabilities - Care

People with disabilities - Means of communication

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

FRONT COVER; Effective Communication: A Workbook for Social Care Workers; Acknowledgement; Contents; Introduction; Why We Need to be Able to Communicate; Communication within your Team, Families and Outside Agencies; Capacity to Make a Decision; Communicating with an Individual; Communication Profile or Communication Passport; Problems in Communication; The Different Ways We Communicate; Providing Opportunities to Communicate; Communication Cycle; Listening Skills; Factors Affecting Communication; Visual Reminders; Stimulation; Feelings, Emotions and Relationships; Objects of Reference

Using PhotographsAlternative Ways of Communicating; Making Choices; Personal Space; Body Language; Supporting Various Kinds of Service Users; Sensitive and Complex Issues; Human Growth and Development; Recording and Reporting; Confidentiality Within; Data Protection Act 1998; Access of Health Records Act 1990; Self-Assessment Tool; Certificate; Knowledge Specification Chart; Legislation andUseful Websites; References; BACK COVER



Sommario/riassunto

Supporting people with a variety of difficulties including hearing loss, impaired speech, visual impairment, dementia and learning disabilities requires a range of communication skills. This book will provide workers with the ability to enable adults with limited or no verbal communication skills to make decisions, and to express themselves.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458128603321

Autore

Shaheen Aaron

Titolo

Androgynous democracy [[electronic resource] ] : modern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic / / Aaron Shaheen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-09848-2

9786613098481

1-57233-711-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/3538

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Sex in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"The social dusk of that mysterious democracy": race, sexology, and the modern woman in Henry James's postbellum America -- Commercial androgyny: reformulating the modern liberal subject in Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Reactionary and radical androgyny: two southerners assess the depression-era body politic -- Race, gender, and democratic space in W.E.B. Du Bois and Marita Bonner -- Epilogue: androgyny, fascism, and beyond.



Sommario/riassunto

Androgynous Democracy examines how the notions of gender equality propounded by transcendentalists and other nineteenth-century writers were further developed and complicated by the rise of literary modernism. Aaron Shaheen specifically investigates the ways in which intellectual discussions of androgyny, once detached from earlier gonadal-based models, were used by various American authors to formulate their own paradigms of democratic national cohesion. Indeed, Henry James, Frank Norris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Crowe Ransom, Grace Lumpkin, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marita B