Author: Ilana Slaff Publisher: Ilana Slaff Medical Pllc ISBN: 9780692790205 Category : Languages : en Pages : 313
Book Description
Dr. Slaff writes about her personal and professional involvement in autism. She discusses her identical twin brothers' and daughter's life-threatening behaviors-one requiring surgery-and how her brothers' different residential placements have made them so different. She discusses the controversy of aversive skin shock, a research-based treatment that saved her brother's life. She describes the dangers of psychotropic medications, particularly for individuals with developmental disabilities, and how her brothers experienced devastating side effects. She examines how medication is frequently substituted for behavioral educational interventions. She talks about termination of services after individuals turn twenty-one. She writes about her own experiences treating individuals with developmental disabilities. She discusses her advocacy with school districts and other government officials and what must be done to improve services. She makes recommendations to parents to identify and obtain the treatments their loved ones need. Excerpts from Don't Medicate-Educate! Many individuals are not receiving the educational therapies they need, including applied behavior analysis, so their behaviors are not under control. Many end up needing residential placements and chemical and physical restraints just so no one gets hurt. The chemical restraints, as shown in my brothers' experiences, do not always work to stop the danger. One of the reasons for the system's reliance on chemical restraints is risk aversion: if a patient displays dangerous aggression or suffers a self-injury when behavioral therapies are not available, the doctor can be sued for malpractice for not prescribing medication or other treatment.The first four chapters discuss my personal experiences with my family members who have autism and the struggles to obtain effective treatment. The book discusses how one brother has been doing well with effective treatment, while his twin has done poorly. It also discusses effective treatment for my daughter.To determine if a treatment is effective or dangerous requires research. In chapter 5, I discuss published research on positive-behavior treatments, aversives, and psychotropic medications used to treat individuals with autism or other developmental disabilities. The discussion includes specific risks to individuals with autism and developmental disabilities in general. I also discuss what is actually being implemented in real-life settings and advocating for evidence-based treatment. Recommendations to improve access to effective interventions are discussed in chapter 6. In the appendix, I have included a history of evidence-based treatments utilized in autism to familiarize readers to topics discussed throughout this book. FROM KIRKUS REVIEWIn Slaff's debut book, a psychiatric chronicle that straddles the genres of memoir, case study, and position paper, readers learn the story of one woman's struggle to care for family members with autism. They also discover what that effort has taught her about medicine, politics, education, risk, and the necessity "to seek my own answers and not blindly follow others." After this affecting opening, in which the doctor and sister whom readers have come to admire sees her "nightmares of having a child with autism" come true, the book becomes a detailed support manual for people undergoing the same trials and a thoroughly researched testimonial to the effectiveness of aversive therapy. The lucid work also delivers a short, useful history of the ways that therapy has been misused (as a treatment for homosexuality) and mischaracterized (in reports by Geraldo Rivera and Connie Chung). "People do not choose to have autism or any other disability, but we can choose to love and take care of them," the author reminds readers. She proves herself a fine exemplar of this care and love in this engrossing and persuasive work.
Author: Aldeen Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISBN: 1451131623 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 433
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"This revision builds on the success of 1e: review questions and answers that mimic the EM in-service residency exam and the EM boards. These questions cover a wide range of topics in emergency medicine, identistry, trauma, obstetrics, pediatrics, toxicology, environmental, radiology, dermatology, EMS, and bioterrorism . Concise rationale for the correct and incorrect answers is discussed. Sources for answer explanations include all currently available authoritative EM textbooks.1) 1000 questions, randomly divided into 10 tests of 100 questions. 2) topics include all areas of Emergency Medicine, including internal medicine and surgery specialty areas, dentistry, trauma, obstetrics, pediatrics, toxicology, environmental, radiology, dermatology, EMS, and bioterrorism. 3) questions are case-based, and 10% involve interpreting an image"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Maria Codina Leik, MSN, ARNP, FNP-C, AGPCNP-BC Publisher: Springer Publishing Company ISBN: 0826163734 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 881
Book Description
If you are studying for the family nurse practitioner certification exam, the highly acclaimed Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Intensive Review is a must-have resource. Lauded for its concise, well-organized format, this fourth edition has been significantly revised and updated to feature key information about the new AANPCB and ANCC certification exams, all new end-of-chapter review questions, and new full-color images. The fourth edition also features four practice tests with hundreds of new questions and rationales—800 questions in total. Extensive test-taking techniques and question dissection and analysis chapters help you identify the best clues during the problem-solving process so that you can strategically master the certification exam. Designed to help FNP candidates boost their confidence through intensive review and high-quality questions, the fourth edition continues to provide succinct, precisely targeted “need-to-know” details of diseases and classic presentations you can expect to see in practice in patients across the life span. Organized by body system, chapters are consistently formatted to include Danger Signals, Normal Findings, Lab Findings, Benign Variants, and Disease Review topics. Each chapter features valuable Exam Tips and Clinical Pearls that highlight key considerations and information likely to be encountered on the exam, ideal for a last-minute refresher before test day. Ensure success by making this essential resource—praised by thousands for helping them pass their certification—a key part of your exam prep study regimen. Key Features: Includes updated information reflecting the new AANPCB and ANCC certification exams Introduces new end-of-chapter review questions to help you assess knowledge application and retention Features four practice tests with hundreds of new questions and rationales Provides a succinct and highly targeted review of diseases commonly seen in primary care, updated clinical information, all new color photos, and Exam Tips and Clinical Pearls to highlight key exam content Outlines Danger Signals, Normal Findings, Lab Findings, and Benign Variants in physical assessment of each body system Delineates strategic question-dissection techniques to simplify the problem-solving process Offers an intensive pharmacology review and review of professional issues—ethical guidelines, professional roles, reimbursement, research, evidence-based medicine and epidemiology, and cultural considerations
Author: Osama Naga Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319101153 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 611
Book Description
Covers the most frequently asked and tested points on the pediatric board exam. Each chapter offers a quick review of specific diseases and conditions clinicians need to know during the patient encounter. Easy-to-use and comprehensive, clinicians will find this guide to be the ideal final resource needed before taking the pediatric board exam.
Author: Caryn Johnson Publisher: F A Davis Company ISBN: 9780803608443 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 265
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"Excellent format and effective rationale for each item answers. Graduates have recommended this textbook strongly as a reliable resource to study for the certification exam. Keep up the good work!" -- Saritza Guzman-Sardina, OTA Program, Polk Community College, Winter Haven, Florida Questions in the 4th exam are grouped by population
Author: Ben White Publisher: ISBN: 9780692634585 Category : Languages : en Pages : 92
Book Description
The most efficient, readable, and reasonable option for preparing for the Texas Medical Jurisprudence Examination, a required test for physician licensure in Texas. The goal of this study guide is to hit the sweet spot between concise and terse, between reasonably inclusive and needlessly thorough. This short book is intended to be something that you can read over a few times for a few hours before your test and easily pass for a reasonable price, with enough context to make it informative and professionally meaningful without being a $200 video course or a 300-page legal treatise. After all, the Texas JP exam isn't Step 1-it's a $58 pass/fail test!
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