Haiku on Understand/ Victory/ Wishes & Your

Understand

I stood in your shoes

Tried so hard to understand

Just felt really cramped

Words I understand

Subtext can leave me so cold

A smile can get through

Psychodynamics

Internal web of the mind

Hard to understand

Victory

Keeping my weight down

Avoiding soft drinks and crap

Victory of sorts

A small victory

Means very little really

Losing nags at you

Mind over matter

Greatest victory of all

I win, and I win

Wishes & Your

Wishes are fishes

Swimming Koi-ly in the pond

Of your sleeping mind

Cutting birthday cake

You hope to not touch bottom

Your wishes come true

I make them come true

Even the unspoken ones

Your wishes are mine

A matter of time

Wishes flow in here and now

Hope for your future

Haiku on Reset/ Several/ Trend

Reset

Sit down in one place

Breathe quietly in and out

Reset the mind's eye

Rematch, a new game

Reset the expectations

Referee your thoughts

Melitonin fix

International travel

Reset body clock

Several

The hint of wood smoke

Several types of tree burn

Bushfire on the wind

Family meeting

Several opinions aired

Difference on show

Several warnings

For the most part unheeded

Then the earth lashed out

Trend

Following a trend

US continues to spend

Less able to lend

The trend continues

More people, less food produced

Where will it all end?

We notice each day

Tiny new deficiencies

It's an ageing trend

The Free Download: Family Therapeutic Alliance

This paper discusses whether family therapeutic alliance can be observed, described and measured, and gives an account of the development of the Family Therapeutic Alliance Scale (FTAS) by a brief strategic family therapy team. Our focus is on the use of statistical technique as a means of clarifying the team's construct of therapeutic alliance, informing the team process without being the final arbiter in development of the scale.

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Download here: *Therapeutic Alliance ANZFT pp 205-214

Martin, G. & Allison, S., 1993.  Family Therapeutic Alliance: a view constructed by a family therapy team.  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 14, 4:205-214.

Haiku on Orphan/Priceless/Quickly

Orphan

Orphan cake on plate

Well, yes, just to help you out

Love another one

A story of hope

Red haired pickle of a child

That orphan Annie

Orphan cloud in sky

Soon to be joined by many

Then we shall have rain

Priceless

Tiny child's laughter

Hospital clown trips down steps

Small priceless moment

Image of your smile

No real intrinsic value

Priceless memory

Those first drops of rain

After a long summer drought

Priceless on my face

Quickly

Hyperventilate

Breathing more and more quickly

Faint and fall over

Your heart racing mine

Temperature rising quickly

We could both explode

I wrote those quickly

Three haiku in 10 minutes

Time poor, haiku worse

Friday Haiku on Lose/Mere/Native

Lose

She has flown away

To visit the grandchildren

They win and I lose

You can lose so much

Mobility.. confidence..

Yet gain in insight

On World News nightly

Hear about all those we lose

Each one personal

Mere

Lake marked the border

Guarding us like a mother

Merely symbolic

Childhood rice pudding

The merest hint of nutmeg

And loads of sugar

Merest breath of wind

Fleeting patterns on the mere

Merely surface deep

Native

Tropical Island

Entices to go native

She still wore her hat

Native tongue English

Includes Greek, German, Latin

Such a polyglot

Aboriginal

Two hundred native word groups

Never one nation

Swallowing problems (Dysphagia); Developing Safe and Attractive Meals

A KITCHEN MANUAL FOR PREPARATION OF MODIFIED TEXTURE DIETS (2ND EDITION).

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Janet Martin, BSc., BND, APD, is an accredited practising dietitian with over 20 years experience of creating standards and recipes for texture modified diets for swallowing disorders, and has been a dysphagia management specialist with the Dietitians Association of Australia.

In 1993 Jan developed the recipe book “Good Looking, Easy Swallowing” (1993), with Jane Backhouse, a speech pathologist, funded by the Julia Farr Foundation in South Australia. This has become a core text internationally for health professionals, chefs and families seeking to improve the presentation of puréed foods. Copies of GLES have become extremely rare (and expensive) since the book went out of print - suggesting just how useful it is to have a practical, simple and soundly based guide to assist families and others to provide the special meals needed to avoid choking episodes in those with Dysphagia from whatever cause. 

Jan was also part of the program “Goop to Gourmet” - a quality improvement program run at the Julia Farr Centre in Adelaide, South Australia, to experiment with, and promote, high quality modified texture diets. Janet would like to thank the many chefs who contributed to the ideas and recipes presented in this kitchen manual.

This second edition of a 'Kitchen Manual' is based on current national guidelines for dysphagia management, and provides an updated and practical guide to enable kitchens to use the guidelines. The overall objective is to improve presentation of texture modified meals in nursing homes and hospitals.

97 pages     Full colour illustrations     Price: $8.99

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Seeking Solutions to Self-injury: a guide for emergency staff

Are you working in the Emergency Room (ER) at  a hospital.  Does your service struggle to help people who self-injure. Perhaps they are not sure they want help, seem difficult to reach and manage, avoiding you and your colleagues, and feeling somewhat hopeless. Perhaps they make you really angry, inflicting this on themselves and apparently wasting your time, when there are so many serious cases to manage... This Seeking Solutions guide will help you to help them. Simple, clear, and straightforward. Highly informative for nurses, doctors,ambulance staff and police.

This is a brand new guide (2014) specifically designed to help you work with people who self-injure.

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