How does healthcare in the Netherlands work?

This Atlas shows how the Dutch healthcare system operates, using visualisations and brief sections of text. In a clear and compelling way the book explains the workings of the healthcare system, the laws relevant to healthcare, and how healthcare in the Netherlands is funded.

This book seeks to help the 1.5 million people employed in the Dutch healthcare sector and other people who are interested in this unique healthcare system to better understan...

The ABC of CBT introduces you to the basics of CBT, guiding practitioners through how to apply the key principles, techniques and strategies across a range of disorders.

We all know what daydreaming is and how pleasant it can be. But when daydreaming takes over your life, it can become complex if you can no longer control it. You may start living in another or multiple worlds alongside the ‘normal’ life.

There are various ways one can fall into MD. For example, out of loneliness, after trauma(s), or due to adoration. In such cases, one consciously or unconsciously chooses an escape route to cope with the situation, to handle reality in that way.

It is a c...

The definitive visual history of the world under Covid-19, documented by the photographers of Agence France Presse.

A practical and accessible guide to the gestalt approach, now with updated content on trauma, mindfulness and awareness and new case examples and exercises.

A straightforward and practical guidance on how to understand and practice energy healing. Avatar Adi Da Samraj offers simple practices that support well-being by feeling and breathing and circulating etheric energy, in your case and also for others, through forms of healing touch.

This book is however not a "cure" for a "problem", or a prescription for self-improvement. Rather, it is Avatar Adi Da's invitation to wake up from the unconscious presumption that our bodies and this world are mer...

As cutting-edge technologies continue to reshape the landscape of health care, we are faced with profound ethical and legal dilemmas on our journey towards a brighter future. This book invites you to develop your critical thinking skills in relation to a number of themes in bioethics and law, including our duties to care for each other, for nonhuman animals, and for the nonhuman world.

Topics include embryo research, abortion, end of life care, research ethics, cloning, and genetic engineerin...

Originating in the healthcare sector, the Mangomoment has since become a wellknown concept and is rapidly conquering the world.

Mangomoment: a moment of great value brought about by small, unexpected gestures that require little or no time, money or effort.

Everyone needs respect, cooperation and compassion. But in our busy world, these things can’t be taken for granted. All too often, we lapse into procedures, protocols and guidelines, with the result that warm, empathic and caring humanit...

Western health care is being praised as one of the best in the world. Specialists continue to develop themselves on a constant basis to ensure that this remains to be so. However, diseases have continued to rise over the past several decades. Anxiety disorders, depression, obesity and cardiovascular disease are just a few examples. The number of people who have more than one chronic disease is rising faster than ever. What is causing this worrisome increase?

This book provides an answer to t...