The book provides civilian medical and nonmedical care providers with practical information to effectively understand, support, and address this population's needs. Promoting family resilience is a theme emphasized throughout chapters on traumatic brain injury, substance use disorders, and more.
Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster is designed to provide professional and volunteer disaster responders, including community members, who routinely interact with children with the tools they need to support, intervene, and identify children who need additional help overcoming the traumatic effects of extreme events.
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.
Concepts, Practice and Research in Health and Social Care
The contributors to this volume examine the meaning of care, considering how "good" care can be defined and evaluated. The authors identify common ground in the diversity of those giving and receiving care, particularly concerns about personal empowerment, choice, self esteem and the balance between independence, interdependence and dependency. ......
What role do critical making, critical pedagogy and experiential inquiry play in supporting equity and justice? In considering the role of care in reimaging power, who is responsible for the care, labor, and power of ancestral and community stories, histories, and affect? Moreover, how does gender intersect with care? As seen with the capacities ......
Between Body and Spirit - Psychotherapy Founded on Anthroposophy
We must draw the slumbering soul away from the darkness of sleep so that it no longer vanishes from its own scrutiny but stands before itself as a being of pure spirit which, in volition, is creatively active through yet also beyond the body.' Rudolf Steiner
According to Rudolf Steiner's independent research, ......
In this collection of short meditations on various topics, Hans Blumenberg eschews academic ponderousness and writes in a genre evocative of Montaigne's Essais, Walter Benjamin's Denkbilder, or Adorno's Minima Moralia. Drawing upon an intellectual tradition that ranges from Aesop to Wittgenstein and from medieval theology to astrophysics, he works ......
Implementing Family-Centered Nursing Care for Optimal Outcomes
Focuses on nurturing the emotional health of patients and families to ensure improved outcomes. This innovative resource for neonatal nurses embodies family-centred care strategies for optimal outcomes through every phase of the NICU experience. It provides the education, inspiration, and resources so NICU health professionals can be emotionally ......
Care Coordination: Person-Centered Care Across the Continuum focuses on the integrative aspect of care coordination within nursing practice. The text builds upon the foundation of care coordination in the discipline, linking it back to nursing pioneers and then progressing to modern applications within healthcare systems. Readers explore diverse ......
