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Distinguishing Psychological from Organic Disorders
A clinical guide for practitioners who are likely to come into contact with psychological masquerade among their clients. It includes chapters on violent behavior, amnesia and dementia, sex obsession, and Munchausen-by-Proxy. It also contains case studies that help clarify diagnostic criteria.
A sequel to ""Stress, Appraisal and Coping"", this volume explores the trends in research and theory, focusing on the rationale for a cognitive-meditation approach to stress and emotions. It makes distinctions between social stress, physiological stress, and psychological stress.
Clinical Guideline for Prevention, Diagnosis and Management
A clinical guide for nursing and other health care professionals, particularly advanced practice nurses. It describes the extent of the problem of osteoporosis, the pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnostic testing, treatments, and current and emerging prevention strategies.
Where does nursing knowledge come from and how does it develop? How do we incorporate nursing knowledge into the practice of nursing? Is it possible for nursing theory to meet the needs of clinical practice? This book answers these key questions in the field of nursing theory.
Nurse Retention and Patient Safety Improvement Strategies
The Smart Nursing 'model,' based on General Systems Theory, promotes the wholeness of the health care system. This book presents a model of nursing excellence that enables nurses to use their professional capacity to deliver safe patient care in a variety of clinical settings. It offers easy-to-read strategies to improve management effectiveness.
Presents a user-friendly model for psychotherapy with depressed women. This book integrates empirically-supported therapies, feminist theories of depression, creative arts therapies, and mindfulness-based techniques. It also addresses relapse prevention, reproductive-related events, special medication issues for women, and more.
Divided into five broad topics, this title includes: health and wellbeing, including the role of religion; personality and cognition; the impact of changes in technology and the work place; issues of socio-cultural change and historical context; and the familial and societal contexts of aging.
Focuses on outcome assessment in advanced practice nursing (APN). This book contains combined insight of nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse anesthetists and nurse midwives. It provides discussions and analyses of changes in the field, the studies and statistics, methods for assessing outcomes, and outcomes that are APN focused.
Examines the thinking, personality, and development processes, as well as clinical concerns of clients who are members of particular religious groups. This book is helpful to therapists who want to understand how religious people ""really think.
