This paper presents the Parcel Dispatching System as an eeective classroom example for teaching (a) how to nd the proper objects, (b) the diierence between analysis and design objects, (c) advanced concepts like packaging and collaboration, and, nally, to provide the students (d) with a holistic view of object-orientation. The example is introduced as an instance of the Holistic Nutshell Patter...

There is a growing concern that extensive specialization in occupational therapy may so fragment the profession that it may be lost in the changes taking place in the delivery and payment of health care services. The early concepts of occupation and purposeful, developmentally appropriate activities are giving way in some settings to the use of highly specialized technologies. This article exam...

By "holistic approach" (greek "olos" = "all") we mean a clinical approach which is not only confined to the diseased segment of the body, say the inert large bowel or the spastic pelvic floor in case of constipation, but takes under consideration the whole "mind and body complex", which is a unique indivisible entity. According to a prospective study carried out in our Unit and under press in C...

The following progress report, produced originally in 1982, views language acquisition as primarily the attempt to create processes that connect together in a fruitful way linguistic input and other activity. The representations made of linguistic input are those that are optimally eeective in mediating such interconnections. An eeective Language Acquisition Device should contain mechanisms spe...

The promotion and the protection of physical and, recently, mental health is a globally recognized priority. This is not true though with regard for their interrelationship which has received little attention from both medical branches. It is well known that physical healthproblems or disabilities are accompanied by or combined with mental health symptoms or disorders and vice versa. The advant...

background: we aimed to observe the effect of holistic nursing on patients undergoing hematodialysis for uremia who simultaneously were suffering from moderate to severe malnutrition. methods: eighty patients with uremia on maintenance hematodialysis with malnutrition between june 2014 and june 2015 from yantaishan hospital, yantai, shandong, china were included and equally and randomly were di...

The purpose of this family-focused, grounded-theory study was to develop a substantive theory that explains how individual family members heal in the aftermath of youth suicide. Individual healing following youth suicide is conceptualized as a process of "journeying toward wholeness." In response to youth suicide, survivors characteristically tap into their innate strengths and coping capabilit...