Caregiving category: 223 books
Spiritual Care in Practice
Case Studies in Healthcare Chaplaincy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
These diverse case studies make a compelling case for the importance of effective spiritual care in healthcare and provide unprecedented insight into the essential role of the chaplain within the healthcare team. Presented alongside critical reflections and responses from professionals within chaplaincy,...
Compassion in Nursing
Theory, Evidence and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Is nursing in England experiencing a fundamental moral crisis? A number of recent high-profile reports about the state of nursing care in English hospitals certainly add weight to this argument; however, although the intense media attention on the decline of compassion in nursing has highlighted some...
Providing Compassionate Healthcare
Challenges in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Despite the scope and sophistication of contemporary health care, there is increasing international concern about the perceived lack of compassion in its delivery. Citing evidence that when the basic needs of patients are attended to with kindness and understanding, recovery often takes place at a...
And in Health
A Guide for Couples Facing Cancer Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This book offers engaging and digestible lessons for couples navigating the life change that a cancer diagnosis brings. Dan Shapiro draws on his more than twenty-five years of clinical work as a health psychologist who has researched and worked with couples facing cancer, and on his own experiences...
by National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. Symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe. They are different from the normal ups and downs that everyone oes through...
Dr Ruth's Guide for the Alzheimer's Caregiver
How to Care for Your Loved One without Getting Overwhelmed…and without Doing It All Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Dr. Ruth, a trusted name in relationship therapy, presents effective coping strategies for both the practical problems and emotional stresses of Alzheimer's care. More than 15 million Americans are responsible for the care of a loved one with Alzheimer's disease, a situation that can quickly lead to...
by Gerald L. Halligan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
While unknown to many living in western New York, the Kevin Guest House has served thousands of critically ill individuals and their families for over 40 years. Quietly nestled within the expanding Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus of Buffalo, New York, the demand for the facility continues to increase....
by Anita Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Acts of Kindness from Your Armchair is an exploration of how the 'housebound' (infirm, home workers, carers and so on) can make a meaningful contribution to the world. The book acts as a practical guide to the ways in which thoughts, words and acts of kindness, both inward and towards the wider world, can create real change.
Soul Service
A Hospice Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care for the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Whether you are a hospice professional, relative, or volunteer, this book will be of value to you in servicing the patient or your loved one as they approach their transition.
Raymond Moody, MD, author of Life After Life
Soul Service speaks to the medical professional, lay person, dying...
Substance Use, Concurrent Disorders and Gambling Problems in Ontario
A Guide for Helping Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
This book is a valuable resource for health and social service providers who are not specialists in addiction or mental health issues, but who would like to talk about these issues with clients.
Many people who come to helping professionals are struggling with a substance use, gambling or...
by Jon William Castos
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Don't wait for and emergency to occur and later realized that you do not have the tools to help. Learn more about first Aid CPR, CPR guidelines, know what appropriate steps to take, know how to properly place a CPR mask on a patient and much more.
by Joseph H. McNolty
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Why can it be so difficult to be around someone with a serious illness?
Something lurks deep within us, urging us to avoid someone seriously ill. A Sick Prejudice explores our innermost fears, primal emotions, and biases when we get into illness situations. It reveals the flawed reasoning and...
Ways You Can Help
Creative, Practical Suggestions for Family and Friends of Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Drawing on her own personal experience, Margaret Cooke offers sensitive, sensible advice to anyone who feels awkward or uncomfortable near people in emotional or physical pain.
by Janet Miller, Susan Gibb
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
A new edition of the bestselling core textbook, Care in Practice for Higher!
This book incorporates the most recent thinking in changes to care practice and updates previous editions of Care in Practice for Higher, as well as offering relevance to Nationals 4 and 5 in Care, plus appropriate...