Our web site will still help you in three ways. You will be able to purchase resources to help you at work and at home, you will be able to access our three free journals, and you will be able to contact our staff for answers to questions you might have.
Idyll Arbor's primary mission is to improve the quality of health care provided to clients by providing quality information and resources to practitioners. One way in which we provide this information is through our over 200 products. We carry books, games, assessments and video/audio supplies. Access these products through our Topics or Resources pages. You may also access resources directed toward specific Professions.
Our free, on-line journals, collectively called Idyll Arbor’s Journals of Practice (IAJP), cover three different occupational and topic groups: Recreational Therapy, Activity Professionals and Chemical Dependency. Each journal accepts three types of contributions: Articles, Notes on Practice and comments. The material presented in IAJP will be rotated off the web page and saved to be published periodically in a paper format. These discipline specific volumes will be available for purchase through Idyll Arbor, Inc.
A Guide to Published Articles in Recreational and Adjunctive Therapies is also available. The Guide is designed to give the reader easy access to information published in 16 Therapeutic Recreation and Adjunctive Therapy journals from 1967 to 2004. Searches can be made by author, subject, journal and date.
Idyll Arbor, Inc. is both a publishing house and a consulting firm. Our consultants, editors and authors are some of the best in their fields. We are known throughout North America as a company which carries practical products — books, audio, video, testing tools, posters, games and consultation — that the professional can use in his/her everyday practice. We can do this because we are practitioners who still work with patients as well as being product developers. We try out our products before we offer them to you. In addition to providing quality materials, Idyll Arbor also provides consultation services for activities, therapy departments and facility management.
Idyll Arbor, Inc. is unique because our practitioners talk with other practitioners across the country on a regular basis. We hear about trends in Joint Commission, CARF, NCQA and HCFA surveys as they are happening. Professionals know that they can contact our professional staff and ask about programs, products and techniques which have worked for other therapists across the United States and Canada. We hope this web site will help your practice. Please feel free to contact us with suggestions for making our site more useful for you.
Eric Newhouse, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper columns reprinted in this book, is a veteran newspaper reporter. As such, he’s seen what he refers to as the flotsam and jetsam of human life: the divorces, lost jobs, battered wives and children, crime, drunken drivers, car wrecks, and medical bills. And, he’s come to the conclusion that alcohol is behind much of it. Take away the alcohol, in other words, and much of the human tragedy that he chronicles would go away. This book, Alcohol: Cradle to Grave, offers a compelling, day-in-the-life look at how the disease of alcoholism affects Great Falls, Montana, in particular and the state of Montana in general. It’s also what he terms “a microcosm of a national problem.” Here, Newhouse offers us a compelling and comprehensive understanding of the complexity, magnitude, and cost of alcohol abuse. It’s an unflinching look at the largely unnoticed river of booze that flows through our towns, our communities and our daily lives.
Comments: With dramatic anecdotes and data, [Newhouse] offers a penetrating rebuke to insane public policies focused on shoveling up the wreckage of alcohol abuse rather than on preventing and treating it. Joseph A. Califano Jr. Chairman and President, The NationalCenter on Addiction and Substance Abuse at ColumbiaUniversity
I feel enlightened after devouring this powerful book. George McGovern, Former US Senator
