Working in the human services has always been stressful & the current massive changes in the organization of these services together with dwindling resources & ever greater demands for cost effectiveness add to the stresses inherent in the work. Even in the best run & best resourced organizations there are pockets of irrationality where unconscious institutional processes undermine both effectiveness & morale. The contributors to this book use ideas drawn from psychoanalysis open systems theory Bions work with groups & group relations training to explore the difficulties experienced by managers & staff in a wide range of care settings. Each concept is illustrated with examples from practice to make it recognizable & useful to the reader. Each chapter develops a theme relating to work with a particular client group or setting (including hospitals schools day centres residential units community services & many others) or explores aspects of work organization (for example the supervisory relationship facing cuts & closure or intergroup collaboration). By describing both the difficulties & their own feelings & thoughts while consulting to these institutions the authors offer the reader new ways of looking at their own experiences at work which will be both enlightening & helpful. ...

We are getting early reports of a train crash on the Brighton to London line... Emergency Services are on their way to the scene. Holly knew that by staying with her he was putting himself at risk. But as he held her in the darkness she didnt want to let him go. Hollys a mother with children a husband she loves & a time-consuming job up in London. She copes & life is good. So when she is in a train accident on the London to Brighton line Holly knows that its just a small chapter in her life & nothing has changed. But Holly cant forget the younger man who comforted her in the chaos of the crash & when she seems him again on her daily commute up to town theres a flash of recognition between them. Is it embarrassment? Curiosity? Or is there something more? & what of Anne-Marie another passenger who has survived. Just what is her story? ...

Im uncovered...I try to hide my nakedness with my h&. But it doesnt work. Everyone can see. Also on show... Bad rabbit habits. Rapt
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Out of sight out of their minds: Its a school-trip splatter fest & completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby. The day of the ski trip when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant everyone gets off & heads in for lunch. Everyone that is except Bobby the new girl who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty. Then hours pass. Snow piles up. Sun goes down. Bobby & Smitty start to flirt. Start to stress. Till finally they see the other kids stumbling back. But theyve changed. & not in a good way. Straight up theyre zombies. So the wheels on the bus better go round & round freakin fast because thats the only thing keeping Bobby & Smitty from becoming their classmates next meal. Its kill or be killed in these hunger games heads are gonna roll & homework is most definitely gonna be late. Combining the chill of THE SHINING the thrill ride of SPEED the humor of SHAUN OF THE DEAD & the angst of THE BREAKFAST CLUB Kirsty Mc Kays UNDEAD is a bloody mad mash-up a school-trip splatter-fest a funny gory frighteningly good debut! ...

Undead shopaholic Betsy Taylor has found that being vampire queen has more problems than perks. It may be easy to find blood in the dark of night but try finding a strawberry smoothie. & employees at her nightclub Scratch have been giving her nothing but grief since she killed their former boss. Some people... But Betsys life" takes an interesting turn at a baby shower for her wicked stepmother who lets it slip that Betsy has a long-lost half sister. Now twenty years old this girl just so happens to be the devils daughter & destined to rule the world." ...

Betsy Taylor Vampire Queen already has plenty on her plate. For one thing next week is her birthday-the big 3-1 in human years & one in undead years. (Yes she bit the dust on her birthday last year.) On top of that she still has wedding plans to finalize-and its not helping that the prospective groom is avoiding anything to do with it. & then theres her decision to stop drinking blood-something she has yet to share with Eric Sinclair her fianc-who also happens to be the vampire king... So the last thing she wants to deal with is uninvited guests even if they happen to be the powerful European vampires who have finally come to pay their respects the week before her birthday. Some of them dont want Betsy as their Queen & will do anything to get rid of her. As if turning thirty last year (not to mention dying) hadnt been traumatic enough. & trying to give up blood is making her really cranky... ...

Just when Betsy Taylor thinks she's adjusted to her after-life as a vampire queen fate intervenes. It's bad enough having to view your own gravestone but now Betsy's even started seeing dead people
- an assortment of demanding ghosts who are determined to make her do their bidding. Betsy also has some personal stuff to deal with
- not least of which is planning her Spring
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- wedding to Sinclair. Meanwhile her half-sister is starting to display signs of inheriting her real mother's temper. & when your mother's the devil that's cause for concern



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Betsy Taylor has problems that only a vampire queen/suburban wife could possibly underst&...such as fifty thousand angry werewolves. Thats what Betsy is facing when she takes her werewolf friend Antonias body to Cape Cod where the Pack resides at Wyndham Mansion. Because Antonia died in her service Betsy is alive & well
- & wracked with guilt. She has no idea if the Wyndham werewolves will welcome her with fangs or friendship. While Betsy & her husband Sinclair try to make nice their legal ward Baby Jon is freaking out every werewolf he comes in contact with. Meanwhile Betsys posse back at the St Paul mansion are not happy. Increasingly frantic emails alert Betsy to her half-sisters increasingly erratic behavior. Looks like the devils daughter is coming into her own
- & raising hell. All in the name of making Betsys life easier of course.

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Forget everything youve ever seen or heard about werewolves zombies & vampires because Ed Bagleys going to tell you the single most important fact youll ever learn: BEING UNDEAD SUCKS.. .especially if youre a kid. On his 13th birthday Ed Bagley is hit by a truck & killed. But things go from tragic to freaky when Ed wakes in the sewers beneath the town of Mortlake with only a note from his missing left arm to explain that hes undead: a zombie a walking corpse whose skin rots & oozes. & as if all this misfortune wasnt enough theres a lunatic killer on the loose in Mortlake.. .and only Ed can stop him. ...

Clare Peake daughter of the celebrated writer & artist Mervyn Peake tells the story of her parents romance & her own happy & bohemian childhood. Mervyn Peake was born in China the son of medical missionaries & the juxtaposition of his exotic surroundings & the very English manners at home had a lasting effect on him. Reading Treasure Island until he could recite it by heart & waiting for comics to arrive from England had him living a childhood bursting with imagery. He returned to England to study at the Royal Academy School & was then offered a teaching post at Westminster School of Art. There his charismatic & un-worldly presence made a huge impact: none more so than on Maeve Gilmore a seventeen-year-old sculpture student. The couple fell passionately in love but Maeves parents were determined their daughter would not marry a penniless artist & sent her away to forget him. She didnt & refusing to be parted ever again they married when Maeve was nineteen & Mervyn twenty-six. Mervyn Peake developed Parkinsons disease aged forty-five. His decline was rapid & he spent time in & out of mental hospitals until his death at fifty-seven the diagnosis never fully understood. Clare Peake writes movingly of the impact on the family & her mothers determination to continue giving her children the happiness she felt all children deserved. ...