Nursing & Health: Nursing

Edited by Mary Chambers

This new edition of a bestselling, evidence-based textbook provides a comprehensive overview of psychiatric and mental health nursing. Keeping service users and their recovery at the centre of care, the holistic approach will help nurses to gain the tools and understanding required to work in this…

Paperback – 2017-02-14 
CRC Press

By Elizabeth Marks, Myra Hunter, John Chambers

CBT for Managing Non-cardiac Chest Pain is an evidence-based guide and workbook for clinicians working with people with non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP). NCCP affects around 25–30% of people in the UK, USA, and Europe and is associated with high levels of health care use and compromised quality of…

Paperback – 2017-01-31 
Routledge

By Gary Seay, Susana Nuccetelli

Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies draws students into this rapidly changing field, helping them actively untangle the many issues at the intersection of medicine and moral concern. Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, it offers balanced, philosophically…

Paperback – 2017-01-30 
Routledge

By Amelie Perron, Trudy Rudge

Ignorance is mostly framed as a void, a gap to be filled with appropriate knowledge. In nursing and health care, concerns about ignorance fuel searches for knowledge expected to bring certainty to care provision, preventing risk, accidents, or mistakes. This unique volume turns the focus on…

Paperback – 2017-01-30 
Routledge
Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society

By Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey

In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanistic psychology and social work to provide an in-depth exploration of the deep structure of the suffering experience. She draws upon the notion of maternal holding to develop an…

Paperback – 2017-01-30 
Routledge
Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities

By Kelly L. Wester, Heather C. Trepal

Grounded in a wellness, strengths-based, and developmental perspective, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury is the ideal guide for counselors and other clinicians seeking to understand self-injurious behaviors without pathologizing them. The book covers topics not previously discussed in other works,…

Paperback – 2017-01-26 
Routledge

By Hilary McClafferty

Pediatric integrative medicine is a rapidly evolving field with great potential to improve the quality of preventive health in children and expand treatment options for children living with chronic disease. Many families actively use integrative therapies making familiarity with the field essential…

Paperback – 2017-01-14 
CRC Press

By Joseph Palombo

The Neuropsychodynamic Treatment of Self-Deficits examines how to work psychoanalytically with patients to address the problems that result from neuropsychological impairments, exploring the latest advances in understanding and treatment, while also addressing the concerns that clinicians may have…

Paperback – 2017-01-10 
Routledge
Relational Perspectives Book Series

By Helen Baston, Heather Durward

Newborn babies are examined within the first　6 to 72 hours after their birth to rule out major congenital abnormalities and reassure the parents that their baby is healthy. This step-by-step guide provides midwives and other practitioners with a comprehensive guide to the holistic examination of…

Paperback – 2016-12-21 
Routledge

Edited by Paula N. Kagan, Marlaine C. Smith, Peggy L. Chinn

*** Awarded First Place in the 2015 AJN Book of the Year Award in two categories - "History and Public Policy" and "Professional Issues" *** This anthology presents the philosophical and practice perspectives of nurse scholars whose works center on promoting nursing research, practice, and…

Paperback – 2016-12-21 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

By Terrence Leahy

Recent critiques treat humanism as a mistaken value framework. Indeed, the concept of human nature is in fact essential for sociology, but is often being denied at the same time as it appears without acknowledgement. While classic authors can show us how to connect an ethics with a concept of human…

Hardback – 2016-12-20 
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Sociology

Edited by Martin Lipscomb

What is the value of social theory to nursing? What are the implications of overlooking or excluding the social for nursing knowledge and practice? These are some of the critical questions debated in this timely and provocative new book, which aims to tease out the tensions, contradictions and…

Hardback – 2016-12-13 
Routledge
Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society