Health Well Being category: 183475 books
Current and Emerging mHealth Technologies
Adoption, Implementation, and Use
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
The promise and prospects for mobile technologies in healthcare service delivery—particularly as experienced by patients and other users—are the focus of this forward-looking volume. Its detailed sociotechnical perspective takes in factors influencing patient and provider adoption of technological...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Whether you are a student, a trainee, or a newly qualified or highly experienced health or social care practitioner, you are always in a state of transition progressing along a career path, coping with organisational change and dealing with the ever-increasing pressures placed on our health and social...
The Courage to Be Happy
A New Approach to Well-Being in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
We live in an age in which unhappiness, depression, stress and anxiety are everywhere. We struggle with things like bad relationships, work pressure, low self-esteem, worry and helplessness. The list is endless, because everyone is unhappy for different reasons.
Whatever the causes of your...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays captures discussion, thinking and research surrounding the recent surge of interest in how technology can help us as we age. A wide range of topics are covered, from investigations in the use of technology to improve health and well-being, to examinations...
by Dr. Peter Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Resources to Counter-Act the GayGB and The Pink InquisitionWhere is South Africa heading?A Tsunami of IntoleranceWith the extraordinary pressures to re-define marriage and accommodate the demands by gay activists for homosexual unions to be accepted as "marriage", many are asking: Well,...
Designing, Implementing, and Managing Treatment Services for Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
Blueprints for Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Your blueprint to develop and manage effective co-occurring treatment programs!
Sequential or parallel treatments for co-occurring disorders are much less effective than a quality co-occurring treatment program. Most mental health and substance abuse professionals know how to provide an effective...
by Linda Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
In this no-hype, fact-filled book, certified personal trainer Linda Burke clearly spells out what it takes to get fit and stay fit. Beginning with explaining what exactly constitutes a good fitness plan, she goes on to spell out exactly what you need to do and why you need to do it.
"The...
The Mind's Own Physician
A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
By inviting the Dalai Lama and leading researchers in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience to join in conversation, the Mind & Life Institute set the stage for a fascinating exploration of the healing potential of the human mind. The Mind’s Own Physician presents in its entirety the thirteenth...
Natural Chi Movement
Accessing the World of the Miraculous
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
The modern world is largely focused on the physical—on the appetites and senses, on doing and having—which can blind us to the spiritual realm. In Natural Chi Movement, Tienko Ting articulates a theory of life that unites the physical and spiritual worlds. He suggests there is nothing to learn...
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 32, 2012
Emerging Perspectives on Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
"This collection is a timely and excellent contribution to the study of resilience and the field of gerontology."--Anthropology and Aging Quarterly
This state-of-the science, multidisciplinary Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics provides a comprehensive examination of critical...
Partners in Healing
Simple Ways to Offer Support, Comfort, and Care to a Loved One Facing Illness
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
This book offers a new sense of empowerment for the intimate partners of people living with serious health problems. Collinge draws on cutting-edge scientific research along with his experience counseling couples facing serious illness to offer a range of insights, strategies, and techniques that...
by James Parkinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
James Parkinson (1755–1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist. He is most famous for his 1817 work, Shaking Palsy Essay in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be renamed Parkinson's disease...
TIME Animals and Your Health
The Power of Pets to Heal our Pain, Help Us Cope, and Improve Our Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Our history with pets goes a long way back. While it may not always be the happiest of tales, one thing is clear— we need one another. In a story that has gone from adversarial to one of function, we now have come to view animals as healers. They do more than feed us and serve us; they help us grow...
The Soul of Wellness
12 Holistic Principles for Achieving a Healthy Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Body, mind, heart, and spirit—these the four dimensions of wellness that Rajiv Parti, M.D. (Dr. Raj) uses as the foundation of his powerful new outlook on integral health. And in his new book, The Soul of Wellness:12 Holistic Principles for Achieving a Healthy Body, Mind, Heart, and Spirit, he teaches...