Assists mental health professionals at various levels of career development in their effective production of forensic reports. This title features full-length report samples with step-by-step guides explaining how each section of the report is done, and extensive reference lists and appendices for further information and research.
"2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Gerontologic Nursing! Designated a Doody's Core Title! ""This is a valuable and timely resource as primary care practitioners are facing a growing aging population. Advanced practice nurses have always been swift to recognize and respond to healthcare challenges, and this resource allows them to be proactive in confronting this evolving healthcare crisis. Nursing faculty can use this resource to design and implement program changes that will help to arm advanced practice nurses with strong gerontological competencies."" Score: 100, 5 stars.?Doody's Medical Reviews ""This small book couldn't be more timely. As directors of advanced practice nursing (APN) programs struggle to find resources to convert their existing adult APN tracks into adult?gerontology programs, this book offers a clear path for integrating critical content throughout an entire program. For graduate clinical nursing directors who are challenged to quickly ramp up their gerontology content?often without having clinical geriatrics specialty experts among their own faculty?this book will definitely provide that expertise."" --AJN This book presents nursing faculty with clear, user-friendly guidelines for incorporating gerontological content into existing non-gerontological Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) programs without requiring major curricular changes. With almost 50 years of combined experience, the authors share a wealth of knowledge and expertise regarding the rationale and strategies for integrating gerontological content into APN curricula. Topics includes health policy, myths of aging, assessment of functional status, normal versus pathological changes in aging, and more. The authors present strategies to integrate blended technology and multiple resources to ensure that students gain gerontological competency. Key Topics: The impact of aging America on advanced practice nursing Gerontologizing"" clinical management courses and shaping the clinical experience Strategies for integrating geriatric e-learning materials into APN curricula Evaluation methods for integrating new content into graduate nursing core, APN core, and specialty courses Complete with detailed lists of print media and Internet resources, this book is a must-have for APN faculty across a number of non-gerontological specialty areas, including family, adult, acute, holistic, palliative, and pediatric care. "
Explores the conceptual and practical aspects of mentorship and what it means in nursing. This book describes the dynamics of both informal mentor relationships and structured mentorship programs, such as those used in schools of nursing to help disadvantaged students.
Reviews information about how older adults successfully experience the aging process and how they feel about and live with chronic illnesses. Questions considered include: How do older adults approach and deal with everyday-life when affected by multiple health problems? And more.
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.
Based on a theory of relaxation, ABC2 Relaxation Theory, this book explains why hundreds of techniques used by professionals can be typically sorted into six groups. It also reveals that while relaxation can go beyond stress management, different families of relaxation have different effects.
Bringing together critical thinking and addiction work, this book offers the tools to think critically and make better decisions. It helps to learn: evaluating critical thinking abilities; the characteristics of a critical thinking professional; how to recognize and avoid fallacies; and the ethics and consequences of using critical thinking.
Provides the practitioner with a way of thinking about both the relationship between one's inner experiences and high-level human performance, and the ways that professionals can influence that relationship. This work includes the theoretical, empirical, and practical tools necessary for using the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment program.
Aims to assist and train social workers in the use of cognitive behavior therapies to treat psychological disorders. This reference provides a critical educational tool and synthesizes the foundations of social work, cognitive behavior therapy, and evidence-based developmental characteristics.
Features a method that includes 5 easy steps, and 5 easy ways - Attitude: Enhancing Your Problem-Solving Capacity; Defining Your Problem and Setting Realistic Goals; Being Creative and Generating Alternative Solutions; Predicting the Consequences and Developing a Solution Plan; and Trying Out Your Solution and Determining if it Works.
Explores the idea of metacognition, the idea that we can think about the way we or other people think, and thus gain a better understanding of ourselves, and the patients we seek to help. Intended for medical educators, this book teaches students and interns how to extrapolate lessons from experience and integrate learning and practice.
A sequel to ""Stress, Appraisal and Coping"", this volume explores the trends in research and theory, focusing on the rationale for a cognitive-meditation approach to stress and emotions. It makes distinctions between social stress, physiological stress, and psychological stress.
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 a theory of comfort for nurses. This book analyzes the concept of comfort; describes its physical, psychospiritual, environmental, and sociocultural components; evaluates its meaning in different contexts in which health care occurs; and describes how it can be measured. It is useful for clinicians, researchers, educators, and students.
Addresses the wide-range of chronic illnesses that nurses encounter in their work. Each chapter presents a careful and systematic review all available research on specific topics. Important issues in chronic issues are reflected throughout, such as a prolonged and uncertain course of illness, lack of easy resolution, rarity of complete cure, frequent unknown etiology, and multiple risk factors.
Includes highly effective creative and expressive interventions. This state-of-the-art collection of 30 real-life cases on counselling children and adolescents emphasizes the developmental, relational, and cultural contexts of working with this population, and incorporates innovative techniques across a wide range of approaches.
This is the first book for mental health professionals working with survivors of mass trauma to focus on the psychosocial and cultural contexts in which these disasters occur. It underscores the importance of understanding these environments in order to provide maximally effective mental health interventions for trauma survivors and their communities. Global in scope, the text addresses the foundations of understanding and responding to the mental health needs of individuals and groups healing from traumas created by a wide range of natural and human-made critical events, including acts of terrorism, armed conflict, genocide, and mass violence by individual perpetrators. Designed for professional training in disaster mental health, and meeting CACREP standards, the text promotes the knowledge and skills needed to work with the psychosocial aspects of individual and group adaptation and adjustment to mass traumatic experience.Reflecting state-of-the-art knowledge, the book offers detailed guidelines in assessment and brief interventions related to survivors' posttraumatic stress symptoms and complex trauma associated with being at the epicenter of extraordinary stressful and traumatic events. In addition, this book also covers critical issues of self-care for the professional. Illustrated with first-person accounts of disaster survivors and case scenarios, this book emphasizes how counselors and other mental health professionals can foster resilience and wellness in individuals and communities affected by all types of disasters.KEY FEATURES:Considers disaster and mass trauma response from a culturally and globally relevant perspective--the first book of its kindAddresses CACREP's clinical standards and content areas related to disaster mental health responseCovers many types of disasters and categories of survivorsIncludes updated information on PTSD, complex trauma, and self-careAddresses cultivating resiliency in individual and group survivors along with social justice issuesOffers an Instructor's Manual and PowerPoint slide packet for qualified adopters
Written by two distinguished leaders in midwifery, this text provides a comprehensive examination of an effective model of prenatal care associated with improved health outcomes and reduced costs. This book describes basic tenets of the Centering Healthcare model, which brings together cohorts of people with similar health care needs in a circle group setting for care.
A unique "how-to" guide to conducting research using case studies. Focusing on leading and newer methodologies, the text describes the philosophical basis and state of the art for using this qualitative method. The peer-reviewed designs are accompanied by an in-depth research plan, a discussion of appropriate methods, and ethical considerations.
Field and university-based practicum supervisors required to mentor school psychology students are often poorly equipped to fulfil this role with expertise and confidence. Brimming with practical information, this book explains how to develop, implement, document, and supervise a range of field experiences. It offers resources to support student growth over the course of the practicum experience.
This is the only resource dedicated specifically to increasing the confidence and professional competence of graduate students and early career professionals who use cognitive behavioural therapy with children and adolescents. With accessible language, engaging humour, and step-by-step guidance on what to do and when to do it, the author walks students through the entire clinical process.
Addresses the key principles of sport, exercise, and performance psychology. It reflects the broadening of sports psychology studies to encompass more widespread human performance research. Emphasizing practical applications of theory, the book helps students to recognize the applicability of sport and exercise psychology principles to their everyday lives and future careers.
Written for nurses of all education and experience levels, 301 Careers in Nursing highlights thearray of diverse opportunities available to those interested in a career in nursing. Each of the carefully selected and researched careers described in this book embraces the core dimensions of nursing: caring, competence, and commitment to excellence in caring for others at all stages of life.
Teaches readers to write cogently and accurately across the spectrum of criminal justice-related disciplines. With an examination of common writing problems that interfere with good reporting and documentation, it underscores the importance of skilled written communication as a cornerstone of competent practice within criminology.
Expanded and revised to reflect a broader understanding of the complementary approach to therapeutic treatment, this text integrates expressive arts counselling techniques with theories of counselling and psychology. This second edition includes new chapters and a greater emphasis on cultural and diversity considerations.
Presents state-of-the-art developments in multiple new technologies for older adult care. Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well being of older adults.
Analyses the current research and best practices for working with children, adolescents, and adults involved in sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). With a unique, research-based focus on practice, the book synthesizes the key areas related to working with victims of sex trafficking / CSE, including prevention, identification, practice techniques, and program design.
Newly expanded and updated with a wealth of practical information, the third edition of this bestselling Fast Facts guide offers pragmatic advice on how to tailor teaching to nurses in different clinical sites, specialties, and student populations; and addresses new requirements regarding online learning and hospital electronic documentation.
Presents top-notch guidance and a host of practical tools for nursing clinicians transitioning into a faculty role. This second edition is updated to address the many significant innovations taking place in nursing education and how they affect the faculty role. Enriching new chapter features include examples of tools, rubrics, and strategies to illustrate concept application.
Grounded in the premise that health care can and should be promoted in partnership with communities to provide quality care for all, this history analyses the resilience and innovation of nurses who provided care for the most underprivileged populations. It takes into account issues of race, class, and gender and the influence of these factors on nurses and patients.
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