Health Care Delivery category: 1556 books
Community- Based Health Research
Issues and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2003
This book identifies key concepts of successful community-based research beyond the aspect of location, including prevention focus, population-centered partnerships, multidisciplinary cooperation, and cultural competency. Lessons from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and case studies on HIV/AIDS prevention...
Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools
The Next Generation of Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Bullying and harassment threaten academic achievement and mental health in our schools. Look beyond your work with individual students to address these problems in their larger context!
This book presents enlightening empirical studies and reviews of the literature on peer harassment, bullying,...
Mental Health in the Service of the Community
Volume three of a report of an international and interprofessional study group convened by the World Federation for Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
Sex, Drugs and Young People
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Sexual practices and drug use among the young are examined in this book, calling into question mainstream assumptions about ‘adolescence’.
Bringing together a range of cross-cultural and cross-national contributions, the book reveals both similarities and important differences that mark sexuality...
by Alison Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
A pocket-sized reference tool for quick access to crucial information in any community or antenatal setting.
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The Nutritionist
Food, Nutrition, and Optimal Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Use this valuable book to make better food/diet/nutrition supplement choices for your clients (and yourself)!
The Nutritionist provides an overview of the basic concepts involved in nourishing the human body in an organized and progressive first-person question-and-answer format. Its eminently...
by Alan Blum
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one’s feelings of well-being and experience in a range of areas; coming out often as malaise, depression, and anger in much conduct....
Specialist Mental Healthcare for Children and Adolescents
Hospital, Intensive Community and Home Based Services
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A need for comprehensive services for young people requiring more intensive mental health services has been identified and this book explores what works in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) at this level.
Specialist Mental Healthcare for Children and Adolescents looks at intensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
This book explores the challenging issues associated with complementary and alternative medicine in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people's health.
Divided clearly into three sections, this book:
sets out the general context of social change, consumption...
Evidence-Based Healthcare in Context
Critical Social Science Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
With new methods of treatment standardisation resulting in various benefits for patient outcomes, evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice have emerged as defining features of western healthcare provision in recent years. Most health professions are now adopting some form of 'evidence-based'...
Agency, Health And Social Survival
The Ecopolitics Of Rival Psychologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This text addresses the interface of sociology and psychology which, it argues, is the key to political change. Offering a comparison of a range of psychotherapeutic theories of human nature, including those of Freud and Anna Freud, Klein and Kleininans and Lacan, humanisticpsychology, and feminist,...
Summary of The Checklist Manifesto
by Atul Gawande | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande | Includes & Analysis Preview: The Checklist Manifesto is a non-fiction investigation of human fallibility in high-stakes environments, such as medical surgeries, airline flights, and skyscraper construction. It explains how the introduction...
Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice
A Guide to Bibliotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Guide to Bibliotherapy introduces clinical social workers and other helping professionals to bibliotherapy, an innovative approach to helping individuals deal with psychological, social, and developmental problems. Literally meaning “treatment through...
Treatment Kind and Fair
Letters to a Young Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
If you’ve ever sat on an examination table and wondered what is really going on in your doctor’s head, then this book is for you. New York Times contributor and beloved author Perri Klass addresses the primary issues in the life of any doctor and, by extension, the lives of those for whom they...