Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses
Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses

Author: Rachaël Draaisma

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1351967851

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This practical book helps you interpret and connect the physical signals that horses display in response to their environment. These signals are evident in the everyday actions, gestures and attitudes that horses communicate to each other, but are often so subtle that they can go unnoticed by humans. This book aims to rectify that, offering horse lovers and equine professionals an opportunity to gain a unique insight into their 'horse's world'. Key features: includes detailed description of language signs of domestic horses, with a special emphasis on calming signals includes 275 pictures to visualize various language signs, calming signals, behaviour sequences and facial features presents communication ladders to show how a horse responds to incentives in his environment, and what signals he uses at certain moments contains tips on the use of the communication ladders and calming signals to improve the socialisation, training and wellbeing of your horse considers equine psychological stress from an environmental perspective, providing a valuable alternative to the current common clinical perspective. After reading this book you will be more astute in spotting calming signals, displacement activities, stress signals and distance-increasing signals, and better able to see which stimuli your horse can handle and which he cannot. This means you will know what to do to calm your horse before his stress rises to an unmanageable level. Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses is both fascinating and important reading for any equine veterinary practitioner, student or nurse, as well as horse owners and trainers.

Comforting the Confused
Comforting the Confused

Author: Stephanie B. Hoffman, PhD

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2000-03-28

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0826117163

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ìHow to comfort? How to help?î are questions often asked by persons providing care to individuals suffering from dementia. According to Hoffman and Platt--a warm smile, gentle touch, and soothing voice tone can help toward improving quality of life. The authors believe caregivers should be encouraged to emphasize non-verbal aspects of their communication throughout their daily care of the demented. Hoffman and Platt provide research-based, practical guidelines for communicating with dementia patients and offer strategies for responding to depression, aggression, wandering, and other behavioral problems. New to the Second edition are chapters addressing: Feeding strategies Falls and Use of Mechanical Restraints Special Care Units Dying and Grieving Each chapter features learning objectives, a pretest, a posttest, and learning exercises. The book is a valuable tool for inservice training and a practical resource for professionals.

Dare to Become A Renaissance Leader
Dare to Become A Renaissance Leader

Author: Victor L Vogel

Publisher: Victor L Vogel

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13:

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Research companies like Gallup, Pew Research, and DDI indicate a leadership decline, resulting in less employee engagement impacting business. Before the Pandemic in 2020, there was a noticeable decline in leadership effectiveness. This has been, and is, happening even though we are increasingly spending billions of dollars annually on leadership development. What is causing this inversion of cost with leadership decline? In studying this problem, it jumped out at me that we have spent excessive time and money teaching people leadership skills. We have provided them with in-depth descriptions of the skills. What we haven't done is introduce a leader to developing themselves so they can assimilate the needed skills, internalize them and personalize them to fit an individual leader so they can feel comfortable applying the skills effectively to change others' behaviors, build a trusting relationship which will instill motivation in others to follow that leader. Shirzad Chemine, in his work on Positive Intelligence, showed how we can exercise our brain to minimize the part of our brain that causes us to judge and instills fear, anxiety, criticism, logic, flight, or fight, the side of our brain designed to cause us to hesitate and resist change. Emotional Intelligence, expanded by Daniel Goleman, showed that people respond better to empathy and compassion than judgment and harshness, which fits perfectly with Positive Intelligence research. What we need to do is create a new paradigm of leadership development. One that integrates Interpersonal Communication, Positive Intelligence, and Emotional Intelligence and creates a "Renaissance" Leader. A program focused on developing the leader themselves first so they can then assimilate leadership skills and apply them more effectively to influence employees and build trusting relationships and spur motivation. This book is a start in that direction. Are you ready to take it further?

A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Communication for Health Professionals
A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Communication for Health Professionals

Author: Julie Hosley

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2006-01-20

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1416000003

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This new textbook is designed to provide students with all the necessary tools to effectively communicate with patients and other health care professionals. With its easy-to-read style, it is loaded with useful tips to help students engage into the practice of communication. It presents condensed amounts of content for learning the basic principles and then integrating elements such as case scenarios, questions, or hints and tips to encourage application of those principles into real-life situations. Easy-to-read style provides practical information, hints, and tips. Test Your Communication IQ boxes provide students with a short self-assessment test at the beginning of each chapter. Spotlight on Future Success boxes provide students with useful, practical tips for improving communication. Taking the Chapter to Work boxes integrated within each chapter are actual case examples with useful tips to guide students to practice and apply what they have learned. Beyond the Classroom Activities exercises at the end of each chapter help students use knowledge learned from topics presented in the chapter. Check Your Comprehension exercises at the end of each chapter provide questions and activities to test student knowledge of chapter content. Communication Surfer Exercises focus on helping students utilize Internet resources to improve their knowledge and application of communication skills. Expanding Critical Thinking at the end of each chapter provides students with additional questions or activities designed to apply critical thinking skills. Legal Eagle boxes provide useful tips that focus on honesty, as well as ethical and legal communication between patients and health care workers. Unique, interactive CD-ROM, packaged with the textbook, includes a variety of application exercises, such as voice mail messages, patient/caregiver interviews, chapter key points, and patient charts. Audio segments on the CD-ROM provide communication in action to help students observe verbal communication examples and apply their skills.

Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties and Communication Problems
Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties and Communication Problems

Author: Melanie Cross

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2004-03-25

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1846420075

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Children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) are far more likely to have communication problems than their peers. Exploring the ways in which children's language and emotional development are linked, Melanie Cross considers the reasons why behavioural and communication difficulties often occur together. Identifying the common causes of these problems and the reasons why they often go undetected, she provides practical guidelines for assessing communication skills and the complexities of identifying communication problems in children, including children in public care. She shows how improving children's communication can also improve their behaviour and that speech and language therapy is an important, although often absent, service for children with EBD. With a range of strategies to help children and young people to develop their emotional and communicative skills, this accessible guide is an invaluable resource for speech and language therapists, social workers, teachers and other health professionals working with young people with emotional, behavioural and communication problems.

The Art of Comforting
The Art of Comforting

Author: Val Walker

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-10-28

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 110144469X

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We live in an increasingly "virtual" world in which it can be tempting to skip making that true, human connection with someone in pain. Even though our thoughts might be with them, we lack the confidence to reach out, worrying that we will say or do the "wrong" thing. In this practical, step-by-step guide to what she calls "the art of comforting," Val Walker draws on numerous interviews with "Master Comforters" to guide readers in gently and gracefully breaking through the walls that those who are suffering often erect around themselves. Interviewees include inspiring individuals such as Alicia Rasin, who, as a victim's advocate for the city of Richmond, Virginia, has devoted her life to comforting grieving families devastated by homicide, gang violence, and other traumatic experiences; or Patricia Ellen, who, as a grief counselor and outreach director at the Center for Grieving Children in Portland, Maine, appears on site to support and comfort children, staff, and parents when a school is facing a death, violence, or other crises. All of us will, at one time or the other, be called upon to offer warmth and support to another human being who is suffering-this book will show you how to answer the call with an open heart.

Supporting Young Children with Communication Problems
Supporting Young Children with Communication Problems

Author: Myra Kersner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1317487125

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Now in its fourth edition, formerly published as How to Manage Communication Problems in Young Children, this invaluable guide to understanding and helping children whose speech and/or language is delayed or impaired has been completely revised and updated, and provides readers with: Practical advice on how to recognise communication problems Strategies for supporting children with speech, language and communication needs Best practice guide for parents and professionals working in partnership Contributions from a wide-range of specialist speech and language therapists Reflecting new developments and current practice, this book is of interest to parents, early years’ practitioners, students in education and speech and language therapy, and anyone interested in pursuing a career with young children in the foundation years. Written in an accessible style, it assumes no prior knowledge and includes a range of practical suggestions for dealing with children with all kinds of communication difficulties.

Communicating in a Crisis
Communicating in a Crisis

Author: Robert DeMartino

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009-02

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1437903487

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A resource for public officials on the basic tenets of effective communications generally and on working with the news media specifically. Focuses on providing public officials with a brief orientation and perspective on the media and how they think and work, and on the public as the end-recipient of info.; concise presentations of techniques for responding to and cooperating with the media in conveying info. and delivering messages, before, during, and after a public health crisis; a practical guide to the tools of the trade of media relations and public communications; and strategies and tactics for addressing the probable opportunities and the possible challenges that are likely to arise as a consequence of such communication initiatives. Ill.

On Talking Terms with Dogs
On Talking Terms with Dogs

Author: Turid Rugaas

Publisher: Dogwise Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1929242360

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"Norwegian dog trainer and behaviorist Turid Rugaas has made it her life work to study canine social interaction. She coined the phrase calming signals to describe the social skills, sometimes referred to as body language, that dogs use to avoid conflict, invite play, and communicate a wide range of information to other dogs. Learn to identify situations that are stressful to your dog so that you can resolve or avoid them. Rehabilitate a dog that has lost her ability to read or give calming signals." --Amazon.com.

Therapeutic Communication
Therapeutic Communication

Author: Jurgen Ruesch

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13:

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This volume deals with universal processes of therapeutic communication, a term which covers whatever exchange goes on between people who have a therapeutic intent, with an emphasis upon the empirical observation of the communicative process. -- Preface.