Lilian never thought a single secret could take over her life. What started in silence, late nights, hidden screens, and quiet curiosity slowly grew into something she could no longer control. Shame followed her everywhere. Guilt stayed with her. And no matter how hard she tried to stop, she kept falling deeper. Behind her smile was a battle no one could see, a battle for her mind, a battle for her heart, and she was losing.Heartgarden brings you into her real and painful ...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in a single line or paragraph: a Quote.To feel the impact a Quote can have, here ...

In this eleventh volume in The World Over series, Simon and Brooks examine and compare the rights and responsibilities of citizenship across twenty-one countries. The countries included are Canada, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, South Africa, India, China, Japan, and Australia. In addition to reporting on the rights that citizens enjoy in these countries, as for example the right to...

This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action.Hepburn and Simon recount the lives of victims during and after their e...

Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn what it was like for them to raise children across racial and cultural lines.T...

Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young adults who were adopted by white parents, the authors present the personal stories of two dozen individuals who hail from a wide range of religious, economic, political, and professional backgrounds...

In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories and In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees, these siblings offer their perspectives on the multiracial adoption experience, whic...

Für medizinische oder pflegerische Entscheidungen stehen meistens mehrere Optionen mit unterschiedlichen Vor- und Nachteilen zur Verfügung. Menschen sind häufig unsicher, welche Option für sie die richtige ist. Um den daraus resultierenden Entscheidungskonflikten zu begegnen und informierte Entscheidungen zu ermöglichen, kann der Entscheidungsprozess durch ein Decision Coaching unterstützt werden. Dieses kann durch Pflegefachpersonen oder Angehörige anderer Gesundheitsfachberufe erfolgen. ...

Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural identity formation.The participants of the study represent a range of positive and negative experiences of transracial adoption. Regardless of their personal experiences, however, all twenty respondents indicate that t...

Der sichere Umgang mit Quellen ist das Fundament für die eigenständige Erforschung und ein tieferes Verständnis jeder historischen Epoche. Der dritten Band der "Werkzeuge der Historiker:innen" stellt das Handwerkszeug für die Arbeit mit Quellen der Frühen Neuzeit und des 19. Jahrhunderts bereit und bietet eine systematische Einführung in die zugehörigen historischen "Grundwissenschaften". Beispielorientiert stellen Jan Simon Karstens und sein Team ausgewiesener Expert:innen Disziplinen wie...

This book focuses on military conscription in 22 countries that represent the world's regions. The purpose is to shed light on the history, politics, and main events that led to the choice of conscription or professional military forces in the countries under study. While we acknowledge that practical and technological developments played major roles in this choice, we also understand that racial and gender relations, social group and political regime dynamics, regional influences, and int...

"Kooperative Prozessgestaltung" hat sich als tragfähiges und anschlussfähiges Konzept in der Sozialen Arbeit bewährt. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch zeigen, wie es wirksam für verschiedenste psychosoziale Handlungsfelder konkretisiert werden kann & von der Sozialberatung über die gesundheitsbezogene Soziale Arbeit bis hin zu stationärer Jugendhilfe, Kitas und Gemeinwesenarbeit. Engagierte PraktikerInnen berichten aus ihrem Berufsalltag und zeigen, wie sie das Konzept im jeweiligen organisatio...