BOOK REVIEW: Yasemin Yildiz, Beyond the Mother Tongue

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Implementing Mother-tongue

Hong Kong is a homogeneous community both in terms of race (98% Chinese) and language (over 80% speak Cantonese as their mother tongue). However, the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics there are such that English is the dominant medium of instruction at secondary level and above, while Modern Mandarin, a non-indigenous Chinese (standard) dialect, provides the norms for both the use of Chin...

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Book Review: The CDA Book

they have additional information on their patients’ health and clinical statuses. The information could be acquired directly from patients or electronically from other providers through healthcare information exchanges (HIE). In the latter case, a common language or standard is necessary for sending and receiving digital forms of clinical data among healthcare organizations. On February 12, 200...

Book review: beyond a shadow of a diet

Background Beyond a Shadow of a Diet is an easy-to-read 338 page guidebook on how to apply the Health at Every Size ® (HAES ®) to treat binge eating in a psychoanalysis setting, and divided into three parts, 1. ‘The Problem’, 2. ‘The Treatment’ and 3. ‘The Solution’. Part one is an excellent introduction to diet culture and its impact on binge eating, as well as on how the therapist may be comp...