Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visits - from Newborn through 21 years. The result: better health care, more efficient visits, stronger partnerships with children and families, and better ......
Provides foundational knowledge on how to provide current, evidence-based, clinical best practices for the specific needs of adoption and kinship families. The material in this book is well researched, sensitively delivered, and essential for any clinician for adoption and kinship families.
Family-focused and easy to follow, this updated edition provides guidance for parents of children aged 4 to 12. Parents will learn practical tips and strategies for improving the eating and activity habits of the whole family. This easy to read handbook shows parents and children how to: Identify and overcome the challenges of family weight ......
Significantly revised and updated, this new seventh edition provides paediatric health care professionals with guidelines for communicating with schools and developing health programmes for school-aged children, with a focus on health and illness management as they relate to a child's educational problems and potential. Specific health issues ......
This one-of-a-kind resource for mental health professionals in multiple settings is a comprehensive guide to treatment issues unique to children and families who have a relationship with the foster care system. The book identifies and addresses mental health and behavioural issues specific to this population and provides proven, effective ......
A Home Visitor's Guide to Supporting Families at Risk
With the effective PAUSE framework (Perceive, Ask, Understand, Strategize, and Evaluate), home visitors will discover how to manage even their most difficult on-the-job challenges-and support and empower vulnerable families of children birth to 3.
The most definitive, authoritative and comprehensive history of Midwifery in the US, authored by two of the profession's most distinguished nurse-leaders. There is no single text or book that spans the totality of the history of midwifery in the United States or is as comprehensive as this definitive text/reference. The book begins with the early ......
Offers different and even competing perspectives on loss, grief and bereavement, which is essential given the complexities of the tragic human experience of perinatal, neonatal, and paediatric death. The Editors have selected an impressive array of contributors who have provided new theoretical approaches and explored extant concepts in new ways.
A Guide to Options for Health Professionals, Midwives, Holistic Practitioners, and Parents
John Wilks is a Bowen and craniosacral instructor and author. He works in a physiotherapy and integrated healthcare practice in the west of England. He is a former chairman of the Bowen Association of the UK and of the Craniosacral Therapy Association of the UK.
