the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities
Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this book highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in confronting and healing grief and bereavement. Establishing a link between these two approaches, it widens our understanding of loss and grief.
Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Childrenand Their Families
This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety. It explains how to work with anxious children, providing a framework for assessment and therapy that draws on CBT, ACT and narrative therapy approaches.
Cheers to Childbirth is the must-have handbook for expectant dads and other support people. Discover how to play an active role in the birth of your baby. Learn the secrets to success from others who have been through the gates of childbirth before you and start your role as a parent in the best way possible.
An accessible text which covers the essentials of anatomy and physiology required by a range of health professions. Anatomy & Physiology is the ideal introduction to the subject for student nurses, midwives,
The Complete Guide to Best Practice in Teaching, Evaluation, andCurriculum Development
This all-inclusive text for Nurse Educators delivers comprehensive, evidence-based guidance on the essential components of teaching, including learning theories, teaching methods, new technologies for teaching, curriculum development, evaluation and testing, and accreditation.
The dental needs of people living with dementia are often overlooked, particularly in the care home and hospital community. It is challenging to maintain good standards of oral care with people living with dementia, and poor care can increase the fear and anxiety levels of those living with dementia. Very few dentists have the training that equips ......
In the autumn of 1912, Rudolf Steiner presented the first eurythmy performance. It marked the revival, in modern form, of the sacred art of dance, which had been used in the ancient Mysteries to express the movements of the stars and the planets.
This unique resource is now in an extensively revised second edition with more than 90% new material and an expanded conceptual framework. Filled with rich case material, the book explores how children's cultural identities--as well as experiences of marginalization--shape the challenges they bring to therapy and the ways they express themselves. ......
A creative CBT workbook that helps adults explore issues around anger, based on prevalent CBT principles, for use as a standalone resource or alongside professional therapy. It explains the theories of CBT in an accessible way, and presents them in easy-to-use activity sheets, which can be written on, drawn on and coloured in
This book shows how art therapists can use found objects - an affordable, imaginative medium - when working with clients. With a wide variety of contributors from around the world, and covering a vast array of topics, this is the ideal resource for any art therapist wishing to enrich their practice.
A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.
Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative ......
The book is ideal for newly and recently qualified nurses and midwives and will also be suitable for students making the transition to NQN. Guidance, key tips and case examples are organised in seven steps that help provide the key to positive career development.
Study Skills is an accessible textbook for nursing, health and social care students seeking to improve their study skills, develop their resilience, enhance their employability and cultivate a love of lifelong learning.
A Non-Specialist Introduction for nursing and health care
Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand mental health and become rounded practitioners. It will also be useful as a broad introduction for mental health nursing students.
Creative Tools for Therapeutic Practice and Supervision
This practical book for arts therapists and other mental health professionals contains a wide variety of art activities. Each one focuses on a different aspect of positive psychology, such as creativity, flow, character strengths, self-awareness and wellbeing. It also includes background theory, case examples, and post-activity guiding questions.
Numeracy and Clinical Calculations for Nurses is a user-friendly introduction for student nurses that guides you from the basics to the core calculations required in a healthcare setting. It is regularly the bestselling numeracy book for student nurses.
The second edition of Numeracy and Clinical Calculations
Presents step-by-step strategies for applying project management skills in varied settings and identifying concepts critical to project success The third edition of this acclaimed resource continues to deliver highly practical skills, strategies, and wisdom to graduate-level nursing students as they prepare to confront real-life management ......
