UDM Libraries Book of the Week

Edited by Sameera Ahmed and Mona M. Amer

A young female client presents with anorexia nervosa and believes that her problem has its roots in magic; parents are helpless in the face of their son’s substance abuse issues; an interracial couple cannot agree on how to discipline their children.
How would you effectively help these clients while balancing appropriate interventions that are sensitive to religious, cultural, social, and gender differences? This handbook answers these difficult questions and helps behavioral health practitioners provide religio-culturally-competent care to Muslim clients living in territories such as North America, Australia, and Europe.
The issues and interventions discussed in this book, by authoritative contributors, are diverse and multifaceted. Topics that have been ignored in previous literature are introduced, such as sex therapy, substance abuse counseling, university counseling, and community-based prevention. Chapters integrate tables, lists, and suggested phrasing for practitioners, along with case studies that are used by the authors to help illustrate concepts and potential interventions.
Counseling Muslims is also unique in its broad scope, which reflects interventions ranging from the individual to community levels, and includes chapters that discuss persons born in the West, converts to Islam, and those from smaller ethnic minorities. It is the only guide practitioners need for information on effective service delivery for Muslims, who already bypass significant cultural stigma and shame to access mental health services.

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by  Jeffrey W. Anderzhon

With the world’s population aging at a rapid pace, there is a growing need for new ways to provide residential care for older people. Design for Aging explores some of the most successful examples of elderly housing today, focusing on integrating architectural considerations within an unwavering people-driven approach. Written by an international team of experts in aged care design, the book brings together twenty-six case studies from around the world, including Australia, Denmark, England, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. The authors describe how each scheme has succeeded in addressing the needs of its residents regardless of wide variations in design, geography, cultural factors, medical needs, capital cost, and other factors. Clear, well-documented information for each facility includes:

Building descriptions and project data, and how the overall design fits within a geographical location

The type of community, including number of residents, ethnicity, and specific conditions such as dementia

How to apply universal design principles in different political, social, and regulatory contexts

How to create a sense of belonging and well-being for residents while building strong connections with the community at large

What makes a facility able to attract and retain high-quality caregivers

Environmental sustainability issues, plus indoor and outdoor spaces

Architects and interior designers as well as facility owners and caregivers will find Design for Aging an inspiring and practical guide on how to navigate the many factors involved in creating good designs for aged care environments.

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By Adam Hart-Davis

The Book of Time is a complete guide to one of the most important, paradoxical and truly mind-bending subjects there is. It explores every aspect of time, including how it works in the natural world and in our bodies, its significance in religion and philosophy, how we measure it and how it has been essential to our scientific understanding of the universe and everything in it.

Five sections of insightful text, color photographs and sidebars call on social and political history, science, religion, philosophy, psychology, physics, astronomy, commerce and the natural world to explore time from different perspectives, such as:

• How time has been perceived through history, and why a minute can seem like an hour or an hour can seem like a second
• How our experience of time is linked to the natural world — the sun, the moon, the tides, the seasons
• When, why and how humans organized time into calendars, time zones and other arbitrary categories
• How humans have measured time mechanically, from primitive water clocks and sundials to atomic clocks
• How time is central to our quest to understand the universe and everything in it, including time travel and other unsolved mysteries.

Time can be billions of years or billionths of a second, but it is always passing … Or is it? The Book of Time is a fascinating account of a universal mystery.

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By Cynthia R. King and Pamela Hinds

Quality Of Life: From Nursing And Patient Perspectives, Third Edition Is A Comprehensive Text That Offers A Unique Perspective On Quality Of Life By Reflecting The Voices Of Patients And Families Receiving Or Having Received Care For Cancer. It Is An Ideal Reference For Oncology Nursing Students And Oncology Nurses In A Variety Of Settings, Including Inpatient Units, Outpatient Clinics, Ambulatory Care Centers, Cancer Centers, Research Centers, Home Care Agencies, And Hospices. Topics Explore Evolution Of Quality Of Life In Oncology, Theories And Conceptual Models, Life Methodological And Measurement Issues, Clinical Implications, Cancer Survivorship, And Quality Of Life Stories By Patients And Families. Completely Updated And Revised, This New Edition Contains Two New Research Chapters And New Material On Chronic Illness, Measuring Quality Of Life In Different Age Groups, And Patient Perspectives.

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