Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
by Paul Michael Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Remaking Social Work with Children and Families provides a sustained examination of the 'modernisation' of this area of social care. It analyses some of the key themes introduced by the administrations of John Major and Tony Blair and provides a critical exploration of contemporary policy initiatives...
Navigating the Healthcare Maze
What You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
The primary purpose of this book is to empower readers and encourage them to become proactive consumer-patients. This book isn't an attempt to be politically correct, but is dedicated to providing tools that readers can put to use when they encounter challenges when making their best efforts to navigate...
The Essence of Play
A Practice Companion for Professionals Working with Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A unique companion to professional play practice!
All play professionals are united in their belief that play is important for children’s development – and there are inherent characteristics of play that underpin professional play practice across contexts. Providing an overarching concept...
Working in Mental Health
Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening—both for service users and for professional mental healthcare workers. The landscape is being changed by a more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered...
by Richard E Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Combine a working knowledge of epidemiology to your health and medical skills!
Every day, health promotion and disease prevention professionals interact with epidemiologists during the course of their practices. Investigations into the causes, distribution, and control of disease provide practitioners...
Best Care, Best Future:
A Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
**ACHE’s 2015 JAMES A. HAMILTON BOOK OF THE YEAR.** Finally there is a book for healthcare leaders that only comes along once in a generation. Dr. David Lawrence shares with the readers his vast experience in leading the largest non-profit health system in the country. He describes what a...
Mental Health Work In The Community
Theory And Practice In Social Work And Community Psychiatric Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
A presentation of a comparative analysis of the work of mental health social workers and community psychiatric nurses, an issue of importance because of "community care" and also important as much of their work territory overlaps. The findings are more favourable to social workers.
by Frederick L Ahearn Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Gain a new perspective on the international implications of our aging population!
This comprehensive book examines a broad array of international concerns in gerontology. Issues in Global Aging addresses the implications of the rapid growth in elderly populations in both the Third World and...
Turning Troubles into Problems
Clientization in Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Human service professionals deal with a wide range of problems, from child abuse, parenting issues, and elderly care, to addictions, mental illness, sexual assault, unemployment, and criminality. These must be constructed as problems for professionals to appropriately respond to them. Human service...
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Minds
A Thinking Heart and a Feeling Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Thoughts, reflections and experiences voiced by ancient sages appear in this book as 'coaching conversations'. Their wisdom creates a vibrant landscape populated with insights which help us to reflect upon and discuss emotions encountered in personal transformation and constant workplace change. They...
Bioethics Mediation
A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Expanded by two-thirds from the 2004 edition, the new edition features two new role plays, a new chapter on how to write chart notes, and a discussion of new understandings of the role of the clinical ethics consultant. **** Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care...
by John Harris, Denise Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
Working with older people has become an increasingly important part of social work education and practice. Whether studying community care, adult services, human growth and development, or social work processes and interventions, this book will be a vital source of information and help.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Growing Old in the Twentieth Century investigates many aspects of the current debates raging regarding care and provision for the elderly and the very elderly. It will be invaluable to gerontologists, social policy makers, official and unofficial carers, and anyone involved in health care.
Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services
Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Improve quality of life for patients with HIV/AIDS!
Practice Issues in HIV/AIDS Services: Empowerment-Based Models and Program Applications provides a sound framework of intervention practices for case managers and care coordinators to help HIV/AIDS patients live longer and healthier lives. This book focuses on client-based care that addre