Psychiatric category: 131 books
Intellectual Disability and Social Inclusion E-Book
A Critical Review
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
This book provides a unique insight into the challenges faced by people with learning disabilities trying to access mainstream health and social services and by the professionals who are trying to provide them. The combination of professional perspectives and viewpoints of people with learning disabilities...
Care Planning in Mental Health
Promoting Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Care planning and delivery are essential parts of everyday practice for all mental health practitioners. This new edition of Care Planning in Mental Health: Promoting Recovery moves away from a professionally-oriented model of care planning towards the active promotion of the personal narrative as...
Spiritual Care in Common Terms
How Chaplains Can Effectively Describe the Spiritual Needs of Patients in Medical Records
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Encouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.
This book describes the art of charting patients' spiritual perspectives in an...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Emergencies in Mental Health Nursing is a practical and accessible guide for mental health nurses confronted with emergencies. It enables them to manage these emergencies in a therapeutic, safe, and legally proper manner. As with all emergencies, the immediate care of patients with mental health problems...
It's Not All in Your Head
How Worrying about Your Health Could Be Making You Sick--and What You Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2005
Where do you go for help when no one believes you're really sick? The doctors can’t explain your symptoms, but you know there’s something wrong because you can sense it in your body. Living with the specter of an unresolved health issue isn't just painful, it's isolating. The preoccupation and...
by Patricia Barkway, RN, MHN
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
This book provides an introduction to psychology for allied health students and it encourages an understanding of the complex and interactive nature of the factors which influence an individual’s health behaviours and health outcomes. Through the use of real life examples, contemporary research...
by Catharine Jenkins, Laura Ginesi, Bernie Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Dementia Care at a Glance is the perfect companion for health and social care professionals, nurses, students as well as family members and voluntary workers needing information and guidance about dementia care. Taking a person-centred and interpersonal approach, each chapter outlines an aspect of...
by Philippa Sully, MSc CertEd FPACert RN RM RHV RNT CCRelate, Joan Dallas
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Effective communication skills are crucial in all aspects of nursing and midwifery practice - this book will enable readers to communicate effectively and with confidence in their professional practice. It focuses on the communication skills needed for the development of effective professional and...
Fast Facts for Dementia Care
What Nurses Need to Know in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
This newest addition to the Fast Facts series is a succinct guide for nurses in adult health clinical settings on how to provide person-centered care for patients who have dementia as a concurrent condition. With an easy-access format, it offers the most up-to-date information on dementia and provides...
by Patricia Barkway, RN, MHN
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This fully updated second edition is written specifically for health science and nursing students in Australia and New Zealand.
Authored by the highly regarded Patricia Barkway, with a diverse range of expert contributors, this Elsevier e-book interprets psychology for nurses, as well as for...
Handbook of PTSD, Second Edition
Science and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this handbook brings together foremost authorities on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Diagnostic, conceptual, and treatment issues are reviewed in depth. The volume examines the causes and mechanisms of PTSD on multiple levels, from psychological...
Therapy in the Real World
Effective Treatments for Challenging Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Helping beginning and experienced therapists cope with the myriad challenges of working in agencies, clinics, hospitals, and private practice, this book distills the leading theories and best practices in the field. The authors provide a clear approach to engaging diverse clients and building rapport;...
Learning Disabilities - E-Book
Towards Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Learning Disabilities: Toward Inclusion (formerly edited by Bob Gates) is one of the leading textbooks in this field. It offers real ways to improve quality of experience for people with learning disabilities in all areas of life.
This new edition brings together a comprehensive and coherent...
The Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology, Revised Edition
Working with Patients, Families, and Physicians to Optimize Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
This indispensable book provides therapists and counselors with crucial knowledge about psychotropic medications: when and how to make medication referrals, how to answer patients' questions and help them handle problems that arise, and how to combine medication and psychotherapy effectively. Ideal...