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This authoritative text shows nurse educators and students how to teach in the online environment, using best practices and the latest technology. The fourth edition discusses the importance of lifelong learning and the relationship to flexible online learning environments, which are changing the dynamics of education.
This is the first resource to provide graduate nursing students, other students in the health sciences, and novice researchers with the tools and perspective to develop their own programme of research. Grounded in the author's 30 years of experience as a highly esteemed nurse researcher, the book guides nurses step-by-step through all aspects of ......
How Parents Cope With the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs
This book fills a critical gap in our scientific understanding of the grief response of parents who have lost a child to traumatic death and the psychotherapeutic strategies that best facilitate healing. It is based on the results of the largest study ever conducted of parents surviving a child's traumatic death or suicide. The book was conceived ......
Offers practical information on every aspect of teaching an online course. Foundational educational theories and concepts including new insights from cognitive psychology are explained and linked. The core sections of the text focus on online course design that includes drafting course objectives and a syllabus and crafting discussion questions or ......
This is the first primary care dermatology reference written by and for nurses. It is unique in its focus on approximately 60 skin conditions that are commonly seen in primary care settings and its use of decision trees to assist in accurate diagnosis. Organized for quick access, it presents conditions alphabetically and includes evidence-based ......
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.
Provides a reader-friendly overview of unipolar and bilpolar depression and provides the most current and intriguing scientific knowledge on this topic. Unique in its transdisciplinary and lifespan approaches to depression, the text explicitly integrates models of depression across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
Compares and contrasts alternative models of and treatment approaches to clinical depression. This book analyzes a case and provides: an overview of the treatment model; empirical evidence for both the model and treatment derived from it; and, treatment strategies and interventions, including termination issues and relapse prevention.
Presents guidelines to help enable aging and social service programs to establish a mental health education and screening program focused on late-life depression. It offers a practical and culturally sensitive approach to mental health education which can be adapted by service programs seeking to identify clinical depression among their older ......
