Dietitians need to use advanced communication skills as well as technical expertise in order to assess clients' needs, identify their problems and help them to manage their diet and lifestyle. The ability to develop a helping relationship is fundamental to achieving a mutually satisfactory dietetic interview. Counselling skills, defined as advanced communication skills used intentionally in a helping relationship, are therefore essential for good dietetic practice at all levels of the profession.
Connect to Love: The Keys to Transforming Your Relationship
Neuman, a rabbi and licensed psychotherapist (The Truth about Cheating) offers an enjoyable guide full of helpful tips for couples to get their relationship back on track. Careers, child-rearing, and economic uncertainty take their toll on marital passions, but Neuman wants to guide husband and wife back to the honeymoon period, and with clever ideas like "Turn Back Time Night," where old haunts from their early dates are revisited, he should have some success (critically, these nights call for zero talk of the big trifecta of troubles: work; money; kids).
Written by experts from the UK, the USA and Switzerland, this book focuses on the major issues affecting the welfare of domestic cats. It covers behaviour, the human-cat relationship, and the impact of housing, disease, nutrition and breeding on welfare.
S'Mother - The Story of a Man, His Mom, and the Thousands of Altogether Insane Letters She’s Mailed Him
Adam Chester is the son of a very loving, somewhat crazy Mom who for almost 30 years has peppered his life with unsolicited advice, news updates, opinions and the occasional Tarragon Chicken recipe. In truth, Adam has saved over 800 letters of the thousands of inappropriate, embarrassing and utterly mad directives she's sent - some of which, out of the sheer frustration of their regularity, he has yet to open. S'MOTHER is a memoir based on these letters and postcards and is about the relationship between an only son and his mother and the pathological extremes maternal instincts can take.
The South in World Politics by Chris Aldenby Chris Alden
The demise of the Cold War and the spread of globalization seemed to end the era of solidarity politics pursued by the developing world, or the "South." This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing dynamics of the South and its relationship to the issues, content and structure of the evolving international system.
