Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families
This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety. It explains how to work with anxious children, providing a framework for assessment and therapy that draws on CBT, ACT and narrative therapy approaches.
If you're transgender, non-binary, or any other gender under the wide and wonderful trans umbrella, this book is for you. A creative journal and workbook with a difference, this book combines coloring pages celebrating trans identity, beauty and relationships, with practical advice, journaling prompts and space for reflection to promote ......
Cheers to Childbirth is the must-have handbook for expectant dads and other support people. Discover how to play an active role in the birth of your baby. Learn the secrets to success from others who have been through the gates of childbirth before you and start your role as a parent in the best way possible.
A Reflective Guide for Improving Care and Services
This comprehensive reflective resource explores the values, principles and practical applications of trauma-informed and -infused health care. Trauma-Informed Health Care introduces the different types of trauma - including medical and health trauma - and the impact of adversities, social inequalities and stressors. It explores their effects on ......
the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities
Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this book highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in confronting and healing grief and bereavement. Establishing a link between these two approaches, it widens our understanding of loss and grief.
An accessible text which covers the essentials of anatomy and physiology required by a range of health professions. Anatomy & Physiology is the ideal introduction to the subject for student nurses, midwives,
As relevant today as it was when the first edition was published in 2012--likely even more so after the devastation of COVID 19--Dr. Todaro-Franceschi delves deeper into issues surrounding professional quality of life (PQOL) for nurses and the intricate connection to caliber of care and healthcare outcomes. She offers new insights on compassion ......
Previous edition AJN 2020 Book of the Year! With expert, comprehensive guidance on the assessment and evaluation of student learning in multiple settings, this award-winning text remains the gold standard in this sphere of nursing education. The seventh edition incorporates the latest changes in the field and presents a new chapter on developing ......
In the autumn of 1912, Rudolf Steiner presented the first eurythmy performance. It marked the revival, in modern form, of the sacred art of dance, which had been used in the ancient Mysteries to express the movements of the stars and the planets.
Creative Tools for Therapeutic Practice and Supervision
This practical book for arts therapists and other mental health professionals contains a wide variety of art activities. Each one focuses on a different aspect of positive psychology, such as creativity, flow, character strengths, self-awareness and wellbeing. It also includes background theory, case examples, and post-activity guiding questions.
Numeracy and Clinical Calculations for Nurses is a user-friendly introduction for student nurses that guides you from the basics to the core calculations required in a healthcare setting. It is regularly the bestselling numeracy book for student nurses.
The second edition of Numeracy and Clinical Calculations
Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of expressive arts with poetry and poetics.
Award-winning and highly lauded, Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse is a how-to compendium of evidence-based approaches for both new and experienced advanced practice psychiatric nurses and students
A Caregiver's Guide to Interventions That Make a Difference
The dementia journey for both caregiver and patient can be chaotic and scary, and while there is no cure for dementia, there ARE interventions that can help make the journey a calmer and more comfortable one. Barbara Huelat offers practical strategies to mitigate the turbulence of dementia care.
This unique resource is now in an extensively revised second edition with more than 90% new material and an expanded conceptual framework. Filled with rich case material, the book explores how children's cultural identities--as well as experiences of marginalization--shape the challenges they bring to therapy and the ways they express themselves. ......
A creative CBT workbook that helps adults explore issues around anger, based on prevalent CBT principles, for use as a standalone resource or alongside professional therapy. It explains the theories of CBT in an accessible way, and presents them in easy-to-use activity sheets, which can be written on, drawn on and coloured in
This book shows how art therapists can use found objects - an affordable, imaginative medium - when working with clients. With a wide variety of contributors from around the world, and covering a vast array of topics, this is the ideal resource for any art therapist wishing to enrich their practice.
A Non-Specialist Introduction for nursing and health care
Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand mental health and become rounded practitioners. It will also be useful as a broad introduction for mental health nursing students.
The book is ideal for newly and recently qualified nurses and midwives and will also be suitable for students making the transition to NQN. Guidance, key tips and case examples are organised in seven steps that help provide the key to positive career development.
This book lays out the current legal requirements of manual handling in a non-technical way and includes case studies illustrating the law applied in practice, across health, social care and educational settings. The main part of the book is an A-Z guide, providing quick access to legislation and common law rules applying to personal injury cases.
Essentials for Leadership and Practice Improvement
The first book on emotional intelligence (EI) written for nurses, this comprehensive resource delivers both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to improve patient outcomes.
Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy (OOC) is a method of chaplaincy care that emphasizes achieving, describing, measuring, and improving the outcomes that result from a chaplains work, alongside the parallel framework of evidence-based healthcare.
This how-to resource is brimming with practical strategies and guidance to help nurses advance in all stages of their professional journey. Written for professionals at all levels of education and experience, this book features a wide range of ""Success Stories"" from nurses who have experienced the challenges of role development firsthand.
A Practical Guide to Later Life Planning, Care, and Wellbeing
A toolbox of critical resources that assists families and eldercare professionals with the navigation of aging loved ones based on the author's Six Pillars of Aging Wellbeing.
Celiac disease and gluten intolerance are sensitivities to the gluten in wheat. This title provides medical-based advice with a common sense leaning that people expect from nurses. It explains the differences between celiac disease, gluten intolerance, and gluten allergy. It also includes a 'One Week Simple Healing Meal Plan'.
The Complete Guide to Best Practice in Teaching, Evaluation, and Curriculum Development
This all-inclusive text for Nurse Educators delivers comprehensive, evidence-based guidance on the essential components of teaching, including learning theories, teaching methods, new technologies for teaching, curriculum development, evaluation and testing, and accreditation.
