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Useful for health care and human service professionals, this book discusses the real and perceived legal liability context within which human service delivery to older persons takes place. It also evaluates the benefits and costs of litigious, legislative, and regulatory interventions on the quality of life for recipients of geriatric services.

Presents grounded theory as the research method of choice for nurses seeking to find out how people cope with existing or potential health challenges. This book offers broad coverage of method, background, philosophical roots, and directions for grounded theory in nursing.

Provides materials to detect, prevent, and intervene with older adults who are at-risk and problem drinkers. Including guides to alcohol screening and protocols for managing withdrawal care, this book is designed as a text for use in primary and mental health care settings. It is useful for professionals such as psychologists and case managers.

Written by noted nurse historians and educators, this book presents nursing history in the context of problems and issues that persist in modern times. It traces issues, such as professional autonomy, working conditions, relationships with other health professionals, appropriate knowledge for education and licensure, gender, class, and race.

Aims to encourage nurses to become involved in the political process - by running for office, seeking appointments, or becoming active on some level in local government. This title helps nurses realize their leadership potential.

A 14-session workshop designed to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren alone. Designed to complement ""To Grandmother's House We Go And Stay"", it is reader-friendly and easy to understand, and can be read by anyone who has assumed a parenting role of any sort and is interested in raising a happy and healthy child.

Using real life case examples, this book encourages therapists to focus on clients' inner strengths rather than on pathologies that need to be ""fixed,"" to help clients cope. It contains several exercises to develop techniques for building verbal and non-verbal skills, awareness of individual and cultural differences, and more.

This volume addresses the importance of measuring psychological abuse and shows that psychological aggression can be reliably measured. Part I identifies measurement issues and contains several scales and inventories for measuring psychological maltreatment. Part II discusses the interpersonal dynamics with specific populations, including battered women, low-income women, and African American women. This remains an important resource in the field of domestic violence.

Takes the reader on a how-to tour of the benefits of using pop-culture and fantasy in psychotherapy and play therapy. Presenting case studies, this work shows how it is possible to uncover children's secret identities, and assist treatment of adolescents with sexual behavior problems.

The authors provides a comprehensive analysis of intervention approaches to dementia caregiving. He reviews the existing knowledge and provides a conceptual framework for organizing caregiver interventions of all types. Of special interest is the design of an intervention study for a culturally diverse community. The volume concludes with a discussion of how to translate intervention research into public policy, with an assessment of the future of caregiving and caregiving intervention research.

Caring for elders outside of institutions is the fastest growing sector of US health care. Building on their research study at the Park Ridge Center, editors Holstein and Mitzen, together with a team of experts, examine the complexities involved in developing an ethics for community-based long-term care. They also challenge policymakers to make home care a more viable option for older people in need. Chapters address many of the ethical and practical problems that arise in the care of older people with physical and mental disabilities--including how to allocate scarce funds, how to keep good caregivers, how to balance concerns of autonomy, risk and safety, and worker stress. The volume is an excellent resource for practitioners, policymakers, and students.

Moving beyond simply describing the differences between custodial and noncustodial grandparents, this volume places helping efforts with grandparents in theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic contexts.

A clinical guide for practitioners who are likely to come into contact with psychological masquerade among their clients. It includes chapters on violent behavior, amnesia and dementia, sex obsession, and Munchausen-by-Proxy. It also contains case studies that help clarify diagnostic criteria.

Focuses on the historical roles and contributions men have made to nursing over the centuries as well as the challenges that men face in nursing today. This work discusses how gender serves as a foundation for many of the obstacles, discrimination, and barriers experienced by men in nursing.

Wandering behavior is among the most frequent, problematic, and dangerous phenomena associated with dementia and in the health care community. This book is designed to address the range of wandering behaviors of patients with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

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.