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Society and Health
An Introduction to Social Science for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
A concise introduction to the central issues concerning health and health care in contemporary society, Society and Health is written for all health professionals undergoing basic training. It explains social science concepts and theories and shows their relevance to work in health settings.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
All over the world, families and communities are key providers of care and support. This is particularly true in relation to serious illnesses such as HIV and AIDS. Yet families and communities can also stigmatize their members, leaving people to die in the most appalling conditions. This book looks...
The Selfish Pig's Guide To Caring
How to Cope With the Emotional and Practical Aspects of Caring for Someone
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Six million people in the UK, often unnoticed by the rest of us, provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly relatives, friends or neighbours. Their job is long, lonely and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to physical and mental...
Ants in the Fridge
Journey of a Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Extended care and assistance for the elderly is now classified as caregiving. In this world of caregiving there exists the good, the bad and the ugly. Who knew?
Prescribing Mental Health Medication
The Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a text for practitioners who treat mental disorders with medication. It explains the entire process of medication assessment, management and follow up for general medical practitioners, mental health practitioners, students, residents, prescribing nurses and...
Mental Illness in the Community
The pathway to psychiatric care
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
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...
Substance Abusing Latinos
Current Research on Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Discover the role culture, family, and environment have in the prevention of Latino substance abuse
Information about the substance abuse behaviors among Latino populations has been limited. Substance Abusing Latinos: Current Research on Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment fills this void...
by Jordan I. Kosberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Learn the causes of-and consequences from-elder abuse of men
For the most part, often only women are considered the victims of elder abuse. However, men are also subject to this disturbing social problem. Abuse of Older Men examines the diverse aspects of this surprisingly widespread issue...
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...
Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World
Cases and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Ethics is an increasingly important theme in social work practice. Worldwide, social workers experience common ethical challenges (how to be fair, whether to break a rule, how to act in politically tense situations) in very different contexts – from disaster relief in China to child protection work...
Life to be lived
Challenges and choices for patients and carers in life-threatening illnesses
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
How do people face life-limiting illness and death? This challenging question is discussed in-depth in Life to be Lived by looking at the feelings, hopes, fears and stresses associated with life-threatening illnesses, often experienced by patients and their carers. Drawn from research, clinical, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
As a discipline, social work needs an inclusive metatheory for both research and practice that goes beyond positivism and constructivism. This is the first book to present and discuss how critical realism can contribute to a more useful and realistic approach to both research and practice in social...
Disability
The Basics
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in contemporary society. The book explores key introductory...
by Liam Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Challenging Practice in Mental Health Nursing questions theories and practices which have become central in mental health care today.
The book is inspired by the growing concerns of both the public and professionals about accepted methods of practice and their effects on patients and clients. Liam...