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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Arguing that contemporary maternity services provide a toxic environment both in which to practise and to give birth, this book looks at how we can change this. Its aim is promoting the best possible experiences of childbearing, and confident, strengthening and loving contexts for new parenthood.
Designed...
Caring for the Dying
The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas...
The Sociology and Politics of Health
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Health care systems, the role of health professionals and the experience of health and illness are all undergoing change and development as we enter the twenty-first century. The Sociology and Politics of Health is a collection of key readings through which to explore the sociological and political...
Play in Healthcare for Adults
Using play to promote health and wellbeing across the adult lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
PLAY. We all do it: wordplay, love play, role-play; we play cards, play sport, play the fool, and play around. And that’s just the grown-ups! It features in every aspect of our lives, whether we call it by that or another name. We all do it, but why do we do it? What does it mean to play and what,...
by Joanna Mellor, Patricia Brownell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Provide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problem
Elder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect. Experts in the field provide insight into elder...
Quality Assurance in Healthcare Service Delivery, Nursing and Personalized Medicine
Technologies and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Quality of life is difficult to define and even more difficult to measure; as such, outcomes from nursing in continuing care are not easily articulated. Quality Assurance in Healthcare Service Delivery, Nursing and Personalized Medicine: Technologies and Processes offers a framework for measuring quality...
European Social Policy and Social Work
Citizenship-Based Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
European Social Policy and Social Work explores shifts in international social policies and how they affect national trends and thus the context for social work practice.
The book discusses international and national social work strategies and practice and investigates the responsibilities...
Mental Health and Later Life
Delivering an Holistic Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing. This textbook will make it much easier for health, social care and third sector workers to identify, treat and support the needs of this population.
The book takes an interdisciplinary...
Parting
A Handbook for Spiritual Care Near the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
At times we may be called to be companions on a journey we would rather not take--the journey of a loved one toward the end of life. For those who choose to serve as close companions of terminally ill relatives or friends, Parting offers the collective wisdom of people from many cultures and faith...
by Vicki Coppock, John Hopton
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what...
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...
by Lenard W Kaye, Sandra Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Learn the skills you need to work with geriatric populations in rural areas!
Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the...
U.S. Public Health Policy
A Current Briefing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This publication Examines health policy in the United States, which reflects authoritative decisions and the process of decision-making, carried out at the federal, state, and local levels, which affect personal health and access to and delivery of health services. The publication provides an analysis...
Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations
Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
"Health Disparities Among Under-served Populations: Implications for Research, Policy and Praxis", focuses on a topic of national concern. Both disparities in health status and in health care reflect the continuing power of race, social class, and gender as forces that define the social...