Introduces the necessary basic skills needed to effectively support and guide persons who need assistance from social services systems, covering topics such as helping persons living with HIV, working with persons with mental illness, and taking care of oneself.

While exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies, the author takes the media to task for its willingness to throw facts and proof out the window in its quest to sell more copies. He also teaches you how to evaluate placebo effects, double-blind studies, and sample size, so that you can recognize bad science when you see it.

Pt. 1. General concepts -- Introduction -- High-quality CPR -- The chain of survival -- Cardiac arrest or heart attack? -- pt. 2. BLS for adults -- BLS general concepts -- BLS healthcare provider adult cardiac arrest algorithm -- Adult 1-rescuer BLS sequence -- Adult chest compressions -- Adult breaths -- Opening the airway -- Barrier devices -- Bag-mask devices -- Adult 2-rescuer BLS sequence -- Team roles and duties for 2-rescuer CPR

"In this groundbreaking book, two eminent scientists, Gary Lynch and Richard Granger, deliver a fascinating and fast-paced investigation of how our brains got the way they are, and how they might get better - much better. Reconstructing the Boskop brain leads Lynch and Granger to new insights into how our brain functions: how memory gets encoded; how the process fails with age and disease; how we perceive, act, and communicate; and what mechanisms in the brain can potentially be enhanced, improving on the current design. In Big Brain, they reveal how the secrets of human and Boskop brains can teach us to think faster and more clearly, to increase our memory capacities, and to sustain our mental abilities further into old age, even to fight neural disorders and diseases such as Alzheimer's." "Weaving together history, science, and the latest theories of artificial intelligence, memory, language, and neuroscience, Lynch and Granger demystify the complexities of our brains, and give us tantalizing insights into our humanity - its past and its future."

Basic consumer health information about the physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of children, with additional facts about neglect, Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP), shaken baby syndrome, and controversial issues related to child abuse.