With the advent of managed care, and a greater emphasis there really needs to be more of a focus on treatment planning in graduate schools to ensure that our clients-to-be receive the best and most appropriate care possible.

The authors of this book have developed a methodology designed to streamline the treatment planning process and provide for greater accountability. Using this book will help the practioner answer the questions:

(1) How can you tell if a client is improving?
(2) What is working?
(3) What is not working?
(4) How can we provide concrete evidence of treatment efficacy?

This book belongs on the shelf of every practioner.

This is an easy, easy-to-read book about mice delivering valentines. Only one sentence on each page makes it a pleasant reading experience for the child. It's a great Valentine's gift for children.

On Christmas Eve, little bunnies are tucked into bed, while Papa Rabbit reads them seven tiny holiday tales. The stories, about the joy of Christmas preparations, include such fun characters as a tree-top star that wants a present, a talking mailbox, and a grumbling package. The final story is a sweet story about homemade, heartfelt giving. When the bunnies wake up- it's Christmas! The adorable bunny illustrations in bright, festive, holiday colors depict a warm, lively, loving bunny family.

This is a fun, cozy, holiday read-aloud, just right to read to your own little bunnies, and simple enough for beginning readers to read on their own. A great gift idea, or add to your own holiday collection!

A young girl plants a garden in the spring, waters it, and weeds it. Meanwhile, the wind blows seeds, the rain waters them, the sun shines down, and both gardens flourish. Bees buzz, butterflies flit, and the girl and her dog embrace the beauty of both worlds, domestic and natural. Melanie Hope Greenberg's joyful illustrations are a perfect complement to the text. An enchanting book to introduce children to both the joys of gardening and to the beauty of wildflowers, whether found in a meadow or in the crack of a sidewalk.

I am a teenager with arthritis and found this book to be very informative.

i'm taking ASL in school and i was looking on my books shelf and found this book and i decided to re-read it. its really good. the only thing that bugs me is that on the cover jessie is using see sign when the book said it was ASL. it doesn't matter to much though. it is a really good book and shows how people who may seem diffrent at first glance can have a lot ion common with you. i hope you enjoy it.

This book was great! Jessi gets the baby sitting job of watching a little deaf boy, Matt. She learns sign language (his "secret language) and gets to know him better. She even explains to the neighborhood kids that he's not weird, he's cool, because he's got his own language. Pretty soon , all the kids learn something in sign language, and he has plently of friends. I really enjoyed this book, and I'm sure anyone else would too. :]

A very touching and realistic story. It features a young boy named Matt who was born deaf and this family, the Braddocks, move into Stoneybrook. Putting Jessi as the main character in this Babysitter Club book is very interesting because the deaf cannot hear music and therefore, none of them had exactly went to watch a musical or a ballet concert. Jessi's a ballerina and she feels especially sympathetic towards the deaf in that very aspect.
This story touches on the sensitive areas of a deaf person's life, about being ridiculed by others, looked down and thought of as weird. However, the babysitters were intrigued by Sign Language and the other kids int he neighbourhood begin to slowly accept Matt and were fascinated with sign language.
We also find out more about the deaf in this book, we learn some sign language, we learn that it is crucial that the deaf are kept well away from busy roads as they cannot hear cars approaching. We also find out how some families are being inconsiderate in not bothering to take up sign language to communicate with their deaf family member and instead, expect him/her to lip-read instead. Lip reading is extremely difficult.
The story has a happy ending and reveals what Jessi does to make the children in the school for the deaf happy. A must-read.

Redneck Heaven was a disappointing hodge-podge on the sector of the American population that consider themselves "rednecks." Though it promises to deliver the goods, it consistently falls short, and the blame for this is as much the editor's as the author's.

Bultman's chief theme here is that American rednecks are a continuation of ancient Celtic tribes. While it's an interesting theory, Bultman doesn't seem to have the scholarship to back it up. Nevertheless, she frequently returns to it.By the end of the book, the reader is sorely tired of this deathless refrain.

Credibility is further strained by numerous fact errors (Boadicea, the warrior queen of the British tribe, the Iceni, is not spelled Boudicae and not pronounced Boodika, as the author instructs, "I'm a W-O-M-A-N" was popularized by Peggy Lee in the fifties and not Maria Muldaur in the seventies, calves do have hooves when they are born . . .) The problem with these sorts of errors is that they cast a pall on the authority Redneck Heaven purports to have. The much vaunted "interviews with famous rednecks" appear only in the first few chapters and come across as name dropping.

Finally, the production values of Redneck Heaven are decidedly substandard. Pages are bound out of order, photographs lack cutlines and sidebars are inserted in such a way that the reader has to stop and search to keep his place in the text.

This is a fascinating subject and Ms. Bultman has a wealth of wonderful material here. It's a real letdown that it wasn't a better-organized, better-produced and thoroughly fact-checked book. What a worthy title it would have been.

"Redneck Heaven" is a wonderful, enlightening look at an often misunderstood major segment of our culture. Ms. Bultman does us a great deed in separating Rednecks from "trailer trash" and helping us see that more of us are rednecks than we might want to admit. After reading this book, I was quick to realize how many people could be defined by the information provided (one of the first people I recognized as a true redneck was Charlton Heston). Congratulations to Bultman for elevating this segment of our society from the stigma it undeservingly suffered for so long.

redneck heaven looks at our national celt vs anglo saxon cultural contradictions. why are we obsessed with paula jones instead of looking hard at how the dow jones is screwing small town america? are the rednecks who fight our wars, make our jeans and harleys this society's villians or corporate america's victims? read this book and find out.

I liked the main character, and the book in general. I did not find it to be super scary, but you could definately see how it would apply to real life.

I had a hard time understanding all of the people into "cyber" sex. I was surprised by the amount of it. I guess I am not that computer literate, I don't even know how to find these sites. It was a pretty different reality. I also had the impression that this book was written several years ago.

Had 2 different story lines going on, and what you thought was happening wasn't. It was not quite that predictable.

Good way to pass the time. I would recommend buying it used unless you are in love w/the author. If you like this book, you would also like books by Kay Hooper, Helen Myers and Erica Spindler. Also Lisa Jackson and Iris Johanson.

Good luck!

Excellent psychological thriller about a serial killer who stalks women on the Internet. Bethany Campbell does an excellent job of story telling and character portrayal of some of the "lonely hearts" who use the Internet chat rooms to seek less-than fulfilling sexual and personal relationships.

It is evident that Ms. Campbell has spent many hours on the Internet, so I hope she reads my review so she will know how much I loved this book! I started reading it and could not put it down until the very last word had been read! I especially liked the evolution of the reluctant realtionship between Hayden and Carrie IRL, while the whole Cyber thing was going on... and (so as not to ruin this part for anyone else) the sudden twist involving Brooke! Most Internet related books that I have had the opportunity to read thus far paint a fairly unrealistic picture of what the Internet is, how it works, and it's capabilities. This book is so true to life that it is scary! (Speaking as someone who has spent a great deal of time chatting on-line)The characters are easy to relat to, and each of them remind me of someone that I know on the Internet (except for the killer thankfully!) This book should be read by anyone who spends a great deal of time on-line, or anyone who is curious about being a part of a virtual community such as Omega MOOn. I will also suggest this book to a few of my Cyber-pals whom I think take too many chances with some of the folks they meet on-line... maybe they'll take a little caution from reading this as things similar things happen IRL. :)

This book should come with a warning lable. Highly addictive, proceed at your own risk. You run the danger of buying endless yards of fabric for future stack 'n whack projects.

Every once in a while a book comes a long with an idea so simple and clever, that you think why didn't I think of that? Buy enough yardage of fabric to have the desired number of repeats, stack each of the repeats of fabric precisely on top of each other and whack the pieces to form groups of identical repeats. The beauty of this method is you can quickly make blocks with as little as 12 pieces that are stunning. The instructions are clear and precise with a number of quilts to get you started. The technique adapts easily to other things. The only negative comment I have is that almost all of the quilts pictured were on the loud side and some might assume that it all the method produces. That is not the case. You can make anything from muted, to classy, to wild, depending on your fabric selection.

Magic Stack 'n' Whack features one of the most exciting quilt-piecing techniques I've seen recently and Bethany Reynolds does an excellent job of taking the reader through the process step by step. The photographs and diagrams are clear and helpful and there is a good range of projects for relative beginners or more advanced quilters who are looking for something a bit more challenging. Every quilter I've talked to who has read this book is running to the quilt shop for new fabric to stack 'n' whack.

Bethany Reynolds has brought to the qulting word the greatest new quilting technique in a very long time. It is an exciting new concept in making kaleidoscope quilts: faster, more beautiful, and so much fun it is addictive. The book is excellent, clearly written, with many suggestions on fabric choices, as well as understandable diagrams with the directions.

I love what this book has to say. If you have been uncomfortable about contraception but can't find anyone else out there who seems to think the same way, read this book! It may not sway anyone who is adamantly pro-contraception, but for those stepping out in faith to seek God's will in their marriages on this issue, this book may be the support you need. They include helpful references for more study. This book is well-written, concise, and argued from the heart.

Since they are a young couple, I think with just one baby so far, they haven't had to address the issue of the inevitable eventual result of forgoing contraception and seeing children as a gift: a house full of kids! Trusting God in this area of your marriage looks somewhat different when you've already got 4 kids and that's about all your budget and home can presently handle than it does when you are newlyweds and your whole life together is still a blank book. Not that they try to evade this issue, they just haven't had to face it yet and so of course the book doesn't touch on it. I would be very interested to read, in 6 years and 2 or 3 more kids or so, what their journey of faith in this matter will have been like as their family grows.

I wish that more Protestant leaders and couples would read this book and seriously examine the issue of contraception. When my husband and I were in our pre-marital class, we tried to address contraception and the abortive aspects of the Pill and our views were completely dismissed. I am so glad that a Protestant couple has finally written a book about this. Natural Family Planning is all to often pushed aside without any consideration. This issue was a small step in my beginning to look into Church history and eventually being received into the Catholic Church. The things I have learned about contraception and NFP are often dismissed because I am not taken seriously by my Protestant friends. I hope that this book greatly impacts the Protestant community and that Christians begin to seriously examine this important issue. The only reason I give this book 4 stars is that I wish it were longer. But it is an excellent introduction to the moral controversy that contraceptive use presents to Christians of all denominations.

The preface says: "the previous generation pioneered in forgetting the oldest things. Perhaps this generation will pioneer in remembering them."

If you are looking for an alternative to Birth Control in your Christian marriage, this is the primer for you: a first-person account by a husband and wife team, Sam & Bethany Torode, on the merits of Natural Family Planning (NFP) in their marriage and a short survey on the fall from grace of contemporary Evangelical leadership in the realm of sexual intimacy and attitudes towards the procreation of children. This is a very well and personably written marriage account with grounding in the historical and doctrinal position of the Church through the ages, transcending any particular denominational affiliation. An exhilirating, joyful marriage primer to be recommended for engaged couples, newlyweds, and a sobering side-hand indictment of popular attitudes inside the Evangelical community.

This young couple articulately reflects a growing conscience across Christian denominations on the physical dangers of the birth control pill and on the spiritual benefits of listening to the wisdom of Christians who have gone before us. A hard hitting book that is destined to help rally a coalescing movement in the Protestant Evangelical world . The writers write with a comfort level that comes from growing up in the Evangelical church, but also from first-hand experience in rubbing shoulders with other living and genuine believers in the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic community. "We are not alone!" is the refreshing rallying spirit of this marriage primer.

This book has a "rage de vivre" that is refreshing, unequivocally prolife, and completely in sync with other Christians who have embraced and experienced the notion that in Christian marriage can be found joy and contentment as God intended it to be. Instead of a gradual dissapearance into oblivion, the Christian life is meant to be one of perpetual and exciting growth, and in the area of sexuality and the procreation of children, the Torodes leave no room for exception. This is the antidote to your average pre-marriage counseling book. It will make you believe in love all over again.