Springer Publishing is an award-winning publisher of healthcare and behavioural sciences content. With an acute understanding of how educators teach, how practitioners work, and how students learn, our digital and print products are designed with optimal outcomes in mind: for the learner, the patient, and the client. We’ve been proudly helping to educate the healthcare and helping professions for over 70 years.
Our product portfolio includes the fields of nursing, public health, healthcare administration, social work, counselling, gerontology, psychology, and, under our Demos Medical imprint, the specialities of neurology, oncology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. In all of our publishing disciplines, we are passionate about providing the best educational, professional reference, and clinical content to current and future generations of healthcare and helping professionals.
This concise guide provides nurses with the tools to help older adults with arthritis achieve the highest possible quality of life. Practical tips on nursing management, self-care and the importance of exercise are a focus throughout.
A Comprehensive Handbook of Techniques and Strategies
A comprehensive clinical manual focused on stress management and relaxation. It contains detailed descriptions of tactics for training the user in the methods of relaxation, positive thinking, time management, and more. It is suitable for practitioners, students, practitioners-in-training, and clinicians.
Presents the Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM), a systematic modification of Psychodrama, for therapists working with people who are suffering from severe trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. This step-by-step guide includes several clinical action structures and advanced intervention modules for using experiential methods.
Intended for clinicians, educators, students, and researchers, this is a synthesis of nursing research relating to important topics, including pain, pressure ulcers, dementia, home health, and hearing impairment. It also addresses future-oriented topics like the implication of genetics and telehealth for geriatric care.
Tracing the history and derivation of cognitive psychotherapy, this book discusses various developments as an integrative therapy. Chapters illustrate the applications of cognitive psychotherapy to treat disorders, such as anxiety, depression, and social phobia. Other chapters discuss integration with therapy models, such as constructivism.
Developed by clinical nurse experts, this book provides information on the care of men with prostate cancer. It offers an understanding of symptoms, diagnostic methods, treatment options, and psycho-social effects of this disease. It focuses on quality of life, and the nurses' role in improving this through teaching patients and their families.
Designed for students of social work, this text integrates evidence-based practice with human behaviour and social development theories. The selected readings are designed to provide a brief overview of each theoretical model; and discuss how empiricism can be applied to the modes.
This state-of-the-art compendium of information and referral systems emphasizes technology and also addresses operational issues, staffing, training, standards and new challenges in an expanding ageing society.
Based on the authors' qualitative study of a diverse group of 51 widowers, this book sets widowhood within the context of life experience. It identifies characteristics and patterns of behavior that contribute to widower's success, as well as lack of success, in adjusting satisfactorily to their circumstances.
