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Provides therapists with detailed information on how to treat sexual abuse survivors more effectively. This work offers an integrated theory of postabuse symptom development and suggests certain core phenomena that account for many of the psychosocial difficulties associated with childhood sexual abuse.
Guides healthcare professionals, particularly ED personnel, and ED and hospital administrators, about ED Violence to emphasize that this kind of violence poses a serious and real threat to personnel and facilities. This title provides authoritative guidance, assessment tools, and a direction for creating a violence-free ED Environment.
Anxiety disorders are costly, common, and debilitating. This volume compares and contrasts various models of and treatment approaches to anxiety disorders. It includes descriptions of therapists' skills and attributes, assessment plans, treatment goals, intervention strategies, common pitfalls and mechanisms of change.
Offers information, tips, and techniques for delivering quality home health care services and positive experiences for both provider and client, with primary focus on the elderly. This book provides information and instruction for non-medical support service providers through text, charts, and tables.
A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Disease and Common Conditions
A 'how to' guide for treating a wide variety of common diseases and conditions specific to women. It outlines complementary and alternative approaches to female patients with functional complaints and disorders. It also describes treatment and effects, methods of use, precautions, and long term versus short term use.
Presents the issues and dilemmas facing nurse practitioners and health care managers in identifying and sustaining ethical practice and management. This handbook outlines both personal and organizational strategies to develop moral courage when facing such dilemmas. It combines discussions of ethical contexts with practical case studies.
Healing the Mind, Body, and Spirit of Professional Counselors
The level and intensity of stressful events that mental health professionals deal with appears to have increased dramatically. This book provides a repertory of self-care strategies designed to increase personal resiliency and decrease counselor burnout and fatigue.
Pain is the most common complaint amongst patients seeking care from different types of health practitioners. This book discusses cultural, historical and social factors in pain and pain management. It offers information on remedies and treatment modalities, such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy and massage, and manipulative therapies.
IQ supporters see IQ measures as valid predictors of academic success. IQ critics believe that IQ is a limited measure of intelligence. This book tracks both sides of this debate. It provides a historical overview of IQ testing, and approaches both sides of the debate.
