Reviews information about how older adults successfully experience the aging process and how they feel about and live with chronic illnesses. Questions considered include: How do older adults approach and deal with everyday-life when affected by multiple health problems? And more.
You may be among the tens of millions of Americans who provide care for your parent - or you may be among the ten of millions who will.
So many children are caught unprepared when physical and mental health declines in aging parents. Life cannot readily prepare you to furnish excellent eldercare while balancing the ......
Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals
Following in the tradition of its previous editions, the fully revised fifth edition of this classic guide to grant writing is written for health and human service professionals. It provides a systematic, and easy-to-follow guide to writing competitive grant proposals for research, education, innovative practices and demonstration projects.
A Training and Resource Pack for Healthcare Professionals
This resource is designed to help people with learning disabilities to access health screening, by desensitising them to fears and anxieties they may have.
Prepares readers how to react when clients reveal suicidal thoughts and behaviours. The components of suicide assessments, empirically-supported treatments, and ethical and legal issues that may arise are reviewed. Vignettes, role play exercises, quizzes, and case studies engage readers to enhance learning.
Guides readers through the full process of treating suicidal patients, from screening to relapse prevention, using effective, research-informed interventions. Sam Knapp explains suicidal behaviour through ideation to action theories of suicide, and argues for the application of principle based ethics when making treatment decisions.
An unprecedented insight into the approach used by the innovative Suicide Crisis charity, a crisis centre that has so far achieved a zero suicide rate amongst their clients. This book explains their ethos, how they work and the ways in which their services operate. The idea for the service grew out of the author's own lived experience of ......
Within late 20th-century industrial societies suicide among the young and elderly has increased. Drawing from psychology, social psychology and sociology, the author looks at the issued surrounding the topic: reasons for suicide and the process of becoming suicidal; reactions to suicidal behaviour; the responses of the medical profession; ......
A Professional Guide with Act and CBT-Based Activities and Worksheets fo
Combining popular culture with evidence-based therapy, this professional guide provides the tools needed to empower and support clients of all ages who are dealing with anxiety and trauma. It encourages clients to reframe their experiences as part of their superhero journey and includes a range of engaging activities and worksheets to download.
