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Specific Groups: Library manuals

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The following relevant books are available for download from this site:

 

caring elderlyCaring for the Elderly: Best Practice in Person-centred Care
39 page manual including exercises

Caring for People with Physical Disabilities: Best Practice in Person-centred Care
31 page manual

FGM Facts about Female Genital Mutilation
Concise and objective information

Facts about Homosexuality

Health Education for Behaviour Change
29 pages of discussions and exercises

Interviewing & Counselling at the Grass Roots
A manual for small groups

AIDS – Awareness Game
For small groups led by a facilitator

so you want to be a fatherSo you want to be a father…?
A leaflet designed to aid behaviour change

ImageSimple Devices to Assist the Physically Disabled has dozens of self-explanatory drawings for making devices from scrap materials.


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