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Professional advocacy as a force for resistance in child welfare (2003)
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Professional Advocacy as a Force for Resistance in Child Welfare (2003)
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The development of child and youth advocacy is a relatively recent phenomenon, increasingly recognized by both practitioners and politicians as a way of establishing communication spaces for young people who are looked after in state care. Literature... Read More about Professional Advocacy as a Force for Resistance in Child Welfare.

User involvement in UK cancer services: Bridging the policy gap (2003)
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Recent UK government initiatives aim to increase user involvement in the National Health Service (NHS) in two ways: by encouraging service users to take an active role in making decisions about their own care; and by establishing opportunities for wi... Read More about User involvement in UK cancer services: Bridging the policy gap.

Sex addiction: A comparison with dependence on psychoactive drugs (2003)
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This paper considers the status of certain types of sexual behaviour as constituting a form of nondrug dependence or 'addiction'. The term 'sex addiction' has gained a degree of acceptance only within recent years. Much of the published discussion of... Read More about Sex addiction: A comparison with dependence on psychoactive drugs.

Sheltered housing and people with dementia (2003)
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Professional pride (2003)
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Group psychotherapy and people with dementia (2003)
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Psychotherapy and counselling approaches are being used increasingly with people with dementia, but there has been little structured research into the effectiveness of such work. This research reports findings from the evaluation of six, ten-week lon... Read More about Group psychotherapy and people with dementia.

Doctoring the spirit: Exploring the use and meaning of mimicry and parody at a healing centre in the North of England (2003)
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The widespread increase of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in western societies has been well documented, yet biomedicine has not been significantly challenged by this resurgence. Even within the more esoteric practices such as spiritual... Read More about Doctoring the spirit: Exploring the use and meaning of mimicry and parody at a healing centre in the North of England.

Public health workforce planning: Why is it important? (2003)
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Environment 2003 conference: How can the NHS promote sustainability? (2003)
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Alcohol and pregnancy (2003)
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Intravenous drug users and broken needles - A hidden risk? (2003)
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Aims: To determine the frequency with which intravenous drug users (IDUs) experience broken needles during their injecting careers. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Participants: Seventy intravenous drug users held in police custody in Bristol between... Read More about Intravenous drug users and broken needles - A hidden risk?.

Exploring the psychosocial concerns of out-patients with disfiguring conditions (2003)
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Objective: This study was undertaken to establish the extent and type of psychosocial need in outpatients attending for treatment for a variety of disfiguring conditions. Method: A total of 220 outpatients receiving treatment for burns, skin condit... Read More about Exploring the psychosocial concerns of out-patients with disfiguring conditions.

Countryside Issues: A Creeping Crisis (2003)
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This article explores the idea of countryside crisis in Britain. Countryside crisis is contrasted with more conventional single-issue crises because of its multi-stranded and complex character. Its main components are the contemporary problems of the... Read More about Countryside Issues: A Creeping Crisis.

A South West regional survey of factors affecting the future development and education of nursing and midwifery educators (2003)
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Using a Qualitative Approach to Gain Insights into the Business Ethics Experiences of Australian Managers in China (2003)
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This study investigated the business ethics experiences of Australian managers in China, using qualitative methodology to identify themes. Thirty-one Australian managers who had spent on average 8.7 years working in business connected to China partic... Read More about Using a Qualitative Approach to Gain Insights into the Business Ethics Experiences of Australian Managers in China.

Not asking and not counting: The problem of DAT needs analysis for drug services for young people (2003)
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Suggestions in training students in using the internet for career counselling (2003)
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The Internet is increasingly important for career counseling; however, thre are few suggestions for trainign graduate counseling students how to use this technology. This project sought to address that lack by having graduate counseling students use... Read More about Suggestions in training students in using the internet for career counselling.

Skin scarring: new insights may make adjustment easier (2003)
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Skin scarring is a clinical problem that can cause many psychological and social difficulties—some as a result of the cause of the scarring (for example, trauma), some related to the effects (for example, itching), and many to the appearance of the s... Read More about Skin scarring: new insights may make adjustment easier.

The uk public sector modernization agenda reconciliation and renewal? (2003)
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The New Labour government came into power in May 1997 with an agenda to reform public services. The key strategy to achieve reform was the concept of modernization. Central to this is the rhetoric of renewal through collaboration, partnership and inc... Read More about The uk public sector modernization agenda reconciliation and renewal?.