Books in the Hands-on Guides series

Recognising special education needs in young children can be difficult. This book is ideal for busy practitioners, who want good, clear advice on what to look for and how to set up the necessary provision.

This book asks you to reflect on how the ethos, practice and general approach in your setting impacts on the behaviour of both children and adults, and it suggests sensible ways to achieve an exciting and stimulating environment for all.

Offers step-by-step instruction on how to make your pre-school setting inclusive, and provides helpful photocopiable resources, checklists and practical activities. This title provides advice on inclusive environments, play and planning to meet individual needs in 0-3 and Foundation stage settings.

This resource demonstrates how to support young children's language development, including those with special needs, and discusses appropriate expectations for youngsters from birth to age five.

This resource offers strategies for cultivating successful relationships with parents to ensure strong support for children with special needs. Includes a CD-ROM with checklists and reproducibles.

The Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine The Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine is the perfect companion to your time on clinical placements, providing an easy-to-read, highly visual guide to help develop your clinical decision-making skills, and transfer your knowledge into practice. It's packed full of useful tips, key boxes, exercises and summaries that are designed to help you apply the knowledge gained in clinical practice. Divided into the common clinical placements that you would find yourself in--Respiratory, Cardiovascular, Neurology, Geriatrics, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Endocrinology and Rheumatology--each chapter covers the diagnosis of common clinical conditions, as well as decision-making in their investigation and management. Written for medical students in their clinical years, as well as new doctors and advanced nurse practitioners, The Hands-on Guide to Clinical Reasoning in Medicine provides students with an accessible resource for honing their clinical reasoning skills. Take the stress out of clinical reasoning with The Hands-on Guide! A companion website is available at www.wiley.com/go/irfan/clinicalreasoning featuring a downloadable reflective action guide. For more information on the complete range of Wiley medical student and junior doctor publishing, please visit: www.wiley.com To receive automatic updates on Wiley books and journals, join our email list. Sign up today at www.wiley.com/email All content reviewed by students for students

About to start the Foundation Programme? Making the transition from medical school to professional life? The Hands-on Guide to the Foundation Programme, Fifth Edition is a practical guide for medical students and foundation doctors, dealing with the many challenges of the programme.

Thinking about a surgical career? About to start surgical training? Do you know what to expect and how to thrive? The Hands-on Guide to Surgical Training is the ultimate, practical guide for medical students and junior doctors thinking about taking the plunge into surgery, and also for surgical trainees already in training.

The ultimate real-life guide for your first year on the wards, the Hands-on Guide for Junior Doctors, helps tackle the emotional, intellectual and physical demands of being a new doctor and allays common insecurities, such as identifying potentially serious conditions, and avoiding clumsiness when peforming practical procedures.

This new edition of one of the best-selling titles in the Hands-on Guide series now includes a new chapter on Chemotherapy agents, expanded information on infection, and restructured content on the central nervous system (CNS).

This one-stop guide to data interpretation is ideal for exam preparation or use in the clinic. It covers the material students and trainees need most - normal physiological values, ECGs, X-rays, and CT scans. Taking a system-based approach to differential diagnosis, the book helps the user make sense of common medical data.

Suitable for junior doctors and medical students making the transition from medical school to life on the wards, this practical guide gives: pointers on how to evaluate the appropriate Radiology required; reference on patient care and preparation; guidance on analysing results and patient feedback; and, advice on following the correct procedures.