Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, 4e

Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, 4e Review

A practical approach helps you learn and apply core concepts of community and public health nursing. This text emphasizes both community and family as client, so you'll gain a solid understanding of these important specialties. Numerous real-life examples demonstrate your roles and responsibilities as a community health nurse. Not only is this text your leading source for need-to-know information, it is the only community/public health book to devote a full chapter to screening and referral!

• A unique chapter on screening and referral details the process of early detection of disease, a significant responsibility of community/public health nursing.
• Coverage of the community as client includes each step of the nursing process as applied to the community.
• Family coverage emphasizes the importance of viewing the family as a singular client.
• A chapter on community assessment provides a complete assessment tool, with application to two different types of communities.
• Healthy People 2010 boxes, including the Midcourse Review, reinforce the primary prevention aspect of community/public health nursing.
• A unique discussion describes the difference between geopolitical and social communities.
• Student-friendly features include Focus Questions, Chapter Outlines, Key Ideas, Learning by Experience and Reflection, and Suggested Readings.
• Practical application features include Case Studies, Ethics in Practice, and The Nursing Process in Practice.
• The companion Evolve website includes critical thinking questions, scenarios, and exercises challenging you to apply concepts to clinical situations.

• The new ANA Standards for Public Health Nursing are addressed in detail, helping you prepare for population-focused practice.
• The Minnesota Wheel of public health nursing interventions, a widely accepted framework for practice, offers a model for improving population health.
• Expanded information about managed care, health care reforms, and universal health care initiatives addresses the current issues in health care delivery.
• New content about Medicare Part D addresses prescription drug coverage and how it affects health care financing for elderly people.
• Recent national disasters and lessons learned from them are highlighted in a Disaster Management chapter.
• New coverage of human exposure to environmental chemicals and the impact of global warming on health explain important risks to public health.
• Expanded coverage of health literacy helps you provide needed patient education.
• A Study Aids section in each chapter lists the resources available on the companion Evolve website.

The Health & Wellness Program: A Parenting Curriculum for Families at Risk [With CD-ROM]

The Health & Wellness Program: A Parenting Curriculum for Families at Risk [With CD-ROM] Review

Ideal for psychologists, nurses, social workers, home visitors, parent educators, and others who work with families at risk, this complete program gives professionals everything they need to support parents with a wide range of disabilities or learning challenges as they learn about child health and safety. The only validated program developed for use with this often overlooked population, this well-established curriculum from a respected expert offers effective, proven strategies tested for more than 30 years with over 800 families. Professionals will get a program manual with background information on parents with disabilities, guidance on establishing a program and assessing parents' skills, overviews of what to teach in parent education programs, and assessment tools with clear instructions and illustrations. To ensure learning, the program includes 15 printable workbook-style handouts to give to parents, each using clear, simple language and realistic colored illustrations to teach critical skills.

NURSES AND FAMILIES: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention

NURSES AND FAMILIES: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention Review

The ideal "how-to" book! Innovative ideas to increase critical thinking Practical guidelines for family interviewing Clinical tools, skills and examples Harness the power of the nurse-family relationship! Use the thoroughly revised Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models to assess families effectively and know when and how to intervene to reduce suffering and promote health. From theory to practice...polish the skills you need to... Use questions in family interviewing more effectively New Chapter - How to Use Questions in Family Interviewing Consider issues of diversity, such as: Ethnicity, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, and socioeconomic class Assist families to manage complex health, social, and emotional problems such as genetics, terrorism, obesity, unemployment, etc. Conduct a fifteen minute (or shorter) family interview Avoid the three most common errors in family nursing Create genograms for families with multiple unions, parents and siblings Prepare, conduct, terminate and document family interviews

Dinosaurs Alive and Well!: A Guide to Good Health (Dino Life Guides for Families)

Dinosaurs Alive and Well!: A Guide to Good Health (Dino Life Guides for Families) Review

A humorous look at dinosaurs presents advice on nutrition, hygiene, first aid, and exercise for kids.

Medical Family Therapy: A Biopsychosocial Approach To Families With Health Problems

Medical Family Therapy: A Biopsychosocial Approach To Families With Health Problems Review

The authors demonstrate how therapists can coordinate care with other health professionals dealing with medical problems ranging from infertility to terminal and chronic illness.

Emotion Regulation in Couples and Families: Pathways to Dysfunction and Health

Emotion Regulation in Couples and Families: Pathways to Dysfunction and Health Review

The burgeoning literature on managing one's emotional reactions underscores the importance both Western society and psychology place on emotion regulation. Notably, the ability to effectively control and manage emotions during social interactions plays a pivotal role in health and interpersonal functioning. Are certain ways of handling emotions better than others? If so, can individuals successfully apply these methods to self-regulate their emotions? How do parents help their children learn to regulate their emotions? How do we best research emotion regulation processes in individuals, couples, and families? Emotion Regulation in Couples and Families is an edited book that addresses these and other critical theoretical and methodological issues in the rapidly advancing field of emotion regulation. It presents empirical findings linking emotion regulation to individual and relationship functioning across the life span, while providing implications for clinical intervention, public policy, and future research. Contributors who are nationally and internationally recognized for their expertise in social, developmental, and clinical disciplines offer diverse perspectives on the role of emotion regulation processes in dysfunction and health. In addition to advancing the latest empirical developments, this volume will also be a prime resource for graduate students and practitioners working with children, couples, and families for whom emotion regulation difficulties are targets of clinical intervention.

Families and Health: Volume III in the "Families in the 21st Century Series"

Families and Health: Volume III in the "Families in the 21st Century Series" Review

This interdisciplinary text examines five different components of family health--biology, behavior, social-cultural circumstances, the environment, and health care--and the ways they affect the abilities of family members to perform well in their homes, workplaces, and communities.

 

Counseling Military Families: What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know

Counseling Military Families: What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know Review

According to the United States Department of Defense, by the end of 1993 there were 2,036,646 reservists and family members and 3,343,235 active duty and family members for a total of 5,379,781 people affected by the military. Since then, because of the conflict in Iraq, the numbers have dramatically increased. While we have always had military families in our midst, not since the Vietnam War have their struggles been so vivid, particularly with alarming rates of increase of both suicide and divorce among military personnel. The face of the military has changed; for the first time a volunteer army is serving in a major combat zone, the level of reservists serving is unprecedented, the percentage of women soldiers in virtually all positions is unprecedented and most of the soldiers have left spouses and/or families behind.

The objectives of Counseling Military Families are to help the practicing counselor understand how the military works, what issues are constants for the military family, and what stressors are faced by the military member and the family.  The book will begin with an overview of military life, including demographic information and examples of military family issues, before delving into specific chapters focused on the unique circumstances of reservists, career service personnel, spouses, and children. The final section of the book will present treatment models and targeted interventions tailored for use with military families. This book will help counselors tailor their interventions to work well with families who are in transition, who may have an ingrained resistance to asking for help and who will, more than likely, be available for counseling for a relatively short period of time.

Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Review

Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives presents state-of-the-art summaries of research related to couple, marital, and family influences on health. Editors D. Russell Crane and Elaine S. Marshall, along with a distinguished group of contributors across various disciplines, bring complementary perspectives to a wide range of families and health issues. A major goal of this Handbook is to highlight common issues, concerns, and goals across diverse fields and the benefits of bringing multiple perspectives to these issues. A significant portion of the book is devoted to interventions to improve family health.

Families Where Grace Is in Place

Families Where Grace Is in Place Review

Building a graceful marriage and raising creative, competent, contented children without legalism or manipulation.

Families and Family Therapy

Families and Family Therapy Review

This special edition of the classic text includes a new introduction which explores its influence on, and place in, contemporary thought and practice. Families and Family Therapy combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy. The views and strategies of a master clinician are presented here in such clear and precise form that readers can proceed directly from the book with comparisons and modifications to suit their own styles and working situations. The text presents six chapter-length transcripts of actual family sessions -- two devoted to ordinary families who are meeting their problems with relative success; four concerned with families seeking help. Accompanying each transcript is the author's running interpretation of what is taking place, laying particular stress on the therapist's tactics and manoeuvres. These lively sessions are interpreted in a brilliant theoretical analysis of why families develop problems and what it takes to set them right. The author constructs a model of an effectively functioning family and defines the boundaries around its different subsystems, whether parental, spouse, or sibling. He discusses ways in which families adapt to stress from within and without, as they seek to survive and grow. Dr Minuchin describes methods of diagnosing or "mapping" problems of the troubled family and determining appropriate therapeutic goals and strategies. Different situations, such as the extended family, the family with a parental child, and the family in transition through death or divorce, are examined. Finally, the author explores the dynamics of change, examining the variety of restructuring operations that can be employed to challenge a family and to change its basic patterns.

Macular Degeneration: A Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families

Macular Degeneration: A Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families Review

For people who start losing their vision to macular degeneration, the prospect of impending blindness is frightening and terribly depressing. They often get contradictory advice about surgery, medical treatments, natural supplements, and lifestyle changes that might arrest or reverse the condition, and these conflicting recommendations only compound their anxiety.

Finally, in Macular Degeneration: A Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families, patients and their loved ones can turn to one easy-to-understand and authoritative source for up-to-date information about macular degeneration. Written by renowned ophthalmologist Michael Samuel, M.D., a retinal specialist, this book casts the spotlight on macular degeneration and dispels the myths surrounding this disease.

Macular Degeneration: A Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families offers a wealth of insights into what macular degeneration is, what causes it, and the array of contemporary treatment options. Here you_ll learn:

-Lifestyle and environmental factors that can affect your risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
-Dietary strategies to prevent or slow the progression of macular degeneration
-Nutritional supplements that work
-The difference between dry AMD and wet AMD
-When surgery is the best option
-How to choose an eye care professional (or know that you_ve chosen the right one)
-How to deal with the stress of vision loss to macular degeneration

Written for patients-and those who love and care for them_Macular Degeneration: A Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families presents a clear picture of this illness and how best to address it. It_s the definitive source for information about macular degeneration; the tools, techniques, and strategies contemporary medicine offers people grappling with this frightening illness; and the prospects for stopping, and even reversing, the progression of this disease.

Teaching Strategies For Health Education And Health Promotion: Working With Patients, Families, And Communities

Teaching Strategies For Health Education And Health Promotion: Working With Patients, Families, And Communities Review

Intended For A Multidisciplinary Team Of Providers, Teaching Strategies For Health Care And Health Establishes A Foundation Of How, Why, What, And When People Of All Ages Learn And How Learning Can Positively Affect A Patient, A Family, And A Diverse Community S Ability To Understand, Manage, Prevent And Live Well With Their Illness. Designed To Give Health Professionals The Tools They Need To Provide Total Patient Care, This Unique Resource Presents A Foundation As Well As A Selection Of Tools And Teaching Methodologies To Promote Health And Prevention Of Illness. Unique To This Resource Are Experience Driven Case Studies Demonstrating Both Successful And Unsuccessful Cases, Helping Health Care Professionals Identify Best Practices To Preserve And Repeat, As Well As Analyze Why Unsuccessful Efforts Might Have Failed And How Those Cases Could Be Handled Differently.

Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations

Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations Review

A practical approach helps you learn and apply core concepts of community and public health nursing. This text emphasizes both community and family as client, so you'll gain a solid understanding of these important specialties. Numerous real-life examples demonstrate your roles and responsibilities as a community health nurse. Not only is this text your leading source for need-to-know information, it is the only community/public health book to devote a full chapter to screening and referral!

• A unique chapter on screening and referral details the process of early detection of disease, a significant responsibility of community/public health nursing.
• Coverage of the community as client includes each step of the nursing process as applied to the community.
• Family coverage emphasizes the importance of viewing the family as a singular client.
• A chapter on community assessment provides a complete assessment tool, with application to two different types of communities.
• Healthy People 2010 boxes, including the Midcourse Review, reinforce the primary prevention aspect of community/public health nursing.
• A unique discussion describes the difference between geopolitical and social communities.
• Student-friendly features include Focus Questions, Chapter Outlines, Key Ideas, Learning by Experience and Reflection, and Suggested Readings.
• Practical application features include Case Studies, Ethics in Practice, and The Nursing Process in Practice.
• The companion Evolve website includes critical thinking questions, scenarios, and exercises challenging you to apply concepts to clinical situations.

• The new ANA Standards for Public Health Nursing are addressed in detail, helping you prepare for population-focused practice.
• The Minnesota Wheel of public health nursing interventions, a widely accepted framework for practice, offers a model for improving population health.
• Expanded information about managed care, health care reforms, and universal health care initiatives addresses the current issues in health care delivery.
• New content about Medicare Part D addresses prescription drug coverage and how it affects health care financing for elderly people.
• Recent national disasters and lessons learned from them are highlighted in a Disaster Management chapter.
• New coverage of human exposure to environmental chemicals and the impact of global warming on health explain important risks to public health.
• Expanded coverage of health literacy helps you provide needed patient education.
• A Study Aids section in each chapter lists the resources available on the companion Evolve website.