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Effective Writing for Health Professionals: A Practical Guide to Getting Published
By Megan-Jane Johnstone. 2004
Health professionals are increasingly expected to conduct and publish their research, apply for grants, write newsletters, liaise with the media,…
present conference papers and contribute articles to professional journals. Writing well is an essential professional skill and writing to publish is an important aspect of professional development. But how do you get published? Where do you start? How do you know if your writing is good enough and what can you learn to make it better?Effective Writing for Health Professionals is an invaluable insider's guide to publishing within the health profession, providing handy tips on:· Getting started· The writing process· Winning habits of successful authors · Promoting your work · Author rights and responsibilitiesMany would-be writers - students, administrators, clinicians, managers and academics alike - are often intimidated at the thought of writing. This book will help to overcome this writing block and introduce aspiring authors to the world of writing and publishing in a professional capacity.Written by a best-selling academic author, Effective Writing for Health Professionals provides insights and strategies for publishing designed for nurses, midwives and health professionals.Leadership and Organization for Community Prevention and Intervention in Venezuela
By Maritza Montero. 2004
Improve decision-making skills for community organizations and their leadersfrom a participatory perspective! This book will show you how (and why)…
participatory communities come into being and what they can accomplish, regardless of the current political climate. It also examines leadershipand the skills community leaders need to develop to be most effective. You&’ll find ethnographic and psychosocial perspectives on the relationship between families and community organizations, leadership interventions designed to facilitate more effective decision-making, and moreall from organizations making a very real difference in a country that has had a strong community work tradition since the 1960s. This book presents an essential overview of the dynamics of urban low-income communities in Venezuela. With examples drawn from organizations designed to help a population that has been neglected by its government, Leadership and Organization for Community Prevention and Intervention in Venezuela is a unique source of inspiration and practical know-how. The intensive training workshops and restructuring projects documented in this book have proven to be positive and effective tools, strengthening Venezuelan communities despite the political unrest that has plagued the country. In Leadership and Organization for Community Prevention and Intervention in Venezuela, you&’ll learn how community organizations are: providing shelter for people displaced by natural disasters providing essential services when the government can&’tor won&’t establishing community leadership rolesand helping community leaders to work more effectively transforming the perspectives of community leadersfrom narcissistic to altruistic and much more! With this book, you&’ll examine the interaction between community organization and leadershipusing the liberating, dialogic, reflective, and conscientization approach developed by Latin American community psychology. The book&’s approach is grounded and realistic. It highlights the outcomes of the authors&’ participatory research and action in urban Venezuelan communities, focusing on organization, participation, modes of leadership, decision-making and meta-decision-making, the moral developmentand moral dilemmasof community leaders, and the interrelationship between family systems and community in Venezuela.Identity and Health
By David Kelleher, Gerard Leavey. 2004
Experiences of health and illness are fundamental to how we understand ourselves, and the postmodern obsession with body image has…
made health even more significant in identity formation. The study of subjective experiences of health and illness can also provide a challenge to traditional objective medical knowledge and, given current healthcare interest in user involvement, can highlight the need for change in health service provision.This book explores the interplay between identity and health, private and public, mind and body. Drawing on new material, and using and exploring innovative biographical and narrative methods, it covers a broad range of identities in relation to health and illness, including race, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, body image, sexuality and gender.Identity and Health will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students of sociology, medical anthropology, health and psychology.Project Management in Health and Community Services: Getting Good Ideas To Work
By Judith Dwyer, Pauline Stanton, Valerie Thiessen. 2004
In the health and community service industries, projects are increasingly used for the development of new services, and to achieve…
change in existing services, work practices and delivery models.Until now, project workers in these fields have had to rely on books designed for architects, builders and IT administrators. This is the first textbook to take the principles of project management and place them into a context relevant for people working in health and community services. This book provides a critical guide to both the strategic and operational aspects of using projects and making them work.Covering topics such as the lifecycle of a project, planning, execution and evaluation, risk management, change and effective teams, Project Management for Health and Community Services uses extensive international case studies and examples from the field. Written by authors with years of practical experience, this is a valuable resource for anyone studying or working on health and community services.Project Management for Health and Community Services offers students and professionals practical problem solving strategies and provides a comprehensive guide to managing projects as well as tips on managing a team and the stakeholders.Handbook of School Violence
By Edwin R Gerler Jr. 2004
Your school must be prepared to face problems that range from name calling and bullying to extortion, rape, and homicide.…
Decrease the chances of tragedy and learn how to respond most effectively! This essential handbook explores the causes of school violence, presents state-of-the-art information on preventing school violence, and arms you with practical interventions to use when violent incidents occur. You&’ll also learn about the best Internet sites on school violence issues. This bookprepared by the editor of the Journal of School Violencecan help you decrease the chances of tragedy. It will also show you how to respond effectively when violence does occur. Part I: Causes of School Violence focuses on the ways that connectedness and identification with academics influence school violence. This section presents a framework for creating developmental interventions as well as a chapter examining the concept of bonding to school, with two interesting scenarios to consider. Part II: Prevention of School Violence examines the effectiveness of interventions in use today and brings you important information on threat assessment, peer mediation, and weapons reduction. You&’ll also find an insightful chapter on the value of developing empathy and good communication with youth who are gang members. Part III: Interventions in Cases of School Violence provides you with effective strategies to address the consequences of crisis events and takes an incisive look at crisis events themselves, what they are, how they progress, and what you may encounter in their aftermath. In addition, you get an invaluable inside look at crisis intervention and support services in the aftermath of the 2001 Santana High School shootings in San Diego, California. With your purchase of this essential handbook, you&’ll also be kept up to date by the author&’s new Internet foruma space where scholars and practitioners from around the world come together to create new strategies for school violence prevention and intervention and develop new online and print publications that address school violence. When I was like 11, I was hanging out. I used to go to a middle school. It was for bad people, only bad people go there. It's a school just for bad people that had gotten kicked out of school. And I had got kicked out of my school cause they found me with a gun. The Handbook of School Violence brings together many voicesthose of violent youngsters and the helpers who provide the care they needthose of students who feel no connection with their families or with their work at schoolthose of the professionals who strive to prevent these students from acting on their feelings of alienation in violent waysand those of scholars who create theory and research, laying the foundation for prevention and intervention. Add this book to your collection, and you&’ll benefit from the contributions of this rich chorus of voices. And through the Internet forum, the chorus can add a new voiceyours.Visit the Handbook of School Violence Web site at http://genesislight.com/hsv%20files/about.htmlFrom Menarche to Menopause: The Female Body in Feminist Therapy
By Joan Chrisler. 2004
From Menarche to Menopause: The Female Body in Feminist Therapy examines the latest research on the menstrual cycle and women&’s…
reproductive health. This timely volume focuses on women in therapy who are disconnected fromor even repelled bytheir own bodies due to cultural attitudes, abuse, trauma, or the natural aging process. Experts in the fields of psychology and women&’s health unite to celebrate the physical life stages of women and girls and to offer practical advice for therapists to use when addressing negativity caused by appearance, age, menstrual symptoms, or reproductive concerns. In this book, you will gain new understanding about the effects on a woman&’s mental health that transitional life stages can cause, from preadolescence through the childbearing years to menopause. The suggestions in From Menarche to Menopause can help women resist the bombardment of negative messages and misleading information they receive about their bodies and their reproductive concerns. This helpful resource can also assist you in opening new lines of communication between mothers and daughter, women and men, and women and other women. From Menarche to Menopause discusses how to handle topics such as: self-loathing caused by media and cultural messages that affect women&’s acceptance of their bodies overcoming a daughter&’s reluctance to discuss sensitive topics of bodily maturation, menstruation, and emerging sexual development helping women, men, and couples cope with infertility assisting women in overcoming a disappointing birth experience providing therapeutic care to women and couples who experience perinatal loss addressing perimenopause in midlife women and the concerns, negative attitudes, and uncertainty of this transition This unique book fills the gap in feminist therapy literature with practical advice concerning the functions of women&’s bodies that can be used within the therapy context. From Menarche to Menopause includes extensive references and several book reviews to further your research and provide reading and other resources you can recommend to your clients. This practical resource on women&’s reproductive healthas it relates to mental healthis an important addition to the bookshelves of feminist psychologists, clinical practitioners, social workers, and health practitioners as well as faculty and students of these disciplines.Holding Fast: The Struggle to Create Resilient Caregiving Organizations
By William A. Kahn. 2004
How can caregivers remain both caring and strong enough to withstand the stress of their work?How can caregiving organizations effectively…
improve their management and practice?Increasing pressure on caregiving organizations to serve more people with fewer resources means that epidemics of burnout, high staff turnover, dissatisfaction and internal conflict often appear inevitable. Holding Fast focuses on the particular stress of caregiving work, its influences on the people and organizations who do that work, and what they can do about it. Illustrated by case studies based on extensive research in schools, hospitals, social work agencies, health care centres and religious institutions, Holding Fast identifies the problems faced by caregiving organizations, and outlines appropriate strategies for tackling these to create a resilient, effective organization. The book is divided into clear sections covering: * an introduction to the nature of caregiving organizations* the disturbances that can occur within them*the skills required to effectively lead them.Holding Fast offers a portrait of how organizations become, or are prevented from becoming, systems of caregiving. It will help leaders of caregiving organizations and their staff gain a better understanding of the difficulties encountered by their organizations, leading to improved management and practice.Child Welfare in the Legal Setting: A Critical and Interpretive Perspective
By Thomas M O'Brien. 2004
Explore legal issues that often hinder the work of child welfare practitioners! Child Welfare in the Legal Setting: A Critical…
and Interpretive Perspective is a revolutionary study of the child welfare system that is essential for practitioners, educators, and students interested in public child welfare work. It examines the legal system surrounding child welfare workers and highlights their need for agency-specific training. This insightful book challenges the traditional rules of child welfare and paves the way for alternate methods of conceptualizing and organizing child protection. It explores why many family interventions fail and others never even occur. By identifying incongruities between the philosophy of child welfare and its function, this book advocates a more individualistic and efficient technique for assisting clients. Addressing issues and challenges from the initial identification of problems to navigating the legal system, this book is also thorough enough for public child welfare workers who want to take their skills to the next level. The large-system perspective in this book uses the concentric circle model, the rational legal model of legal and court action, and the ritualized process model to examine child welfare practice. Learn why terms such as child abuse and neglect have become social constructions that vary depending on the values of social workers, judges, attorneys, agencies, and communities. Child Welfare in the Legal Setting: A Critical and Interpretive Perspective examines the standardization of the organizational activities of child welfare systems and how this limits professionals&’ ability to accurately recognize unique problems and intervene in the most beneficial manner. Child Welfare in the Legal Setting also provides controversial opinions on emerging issues including: family investigations sanction for Child Protective Services intervention the legal setting as a host environment the function of the child welfare system rationalization of child welfare intervention trained incapacity of social workers Title IVE programs the court system Child Welfare in the Legal Setting: A Critical and Interpretive Perspective identifies vital issues by analyzing the ethical and moral foundations of the child welfare system. This insightful book also takes a close look at how practitioners inadvertently devalue their clients by using language that creates stigmatized social categories such as victim and convicted felon. Supervisors, managers, social workers and child welfare practitioners will benefit from this information. The vignettes that supplement the narrative also make the book an important resource in any child welfare course.A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics
By Milo Keynes, A.W.F. Edwards, Robert Peel. 2004
In 1901 William Bateson, Professor of Biology at Cambridge, published a renewed version of a lecture which he had delivered…
the year before to the Royal Horticultural Society in London (reprinted in the book as an appendix). In this lecture he recognized the importance of the work completed by Gregor Mendel in 1865, and brought it to the notice ofComplications in Laser Cutaneous Surgery
By David J. Goldberg. 2004
The concept of selective photothermolysis revolutionized cutaneous therapy and continues to be the basis of low-risk laser treatment of photoaged…
skin, benign pigmented lesions and tattoos, unwanted hair, and cutaneous vascular lesions. However, all practitioners are aware that problems can arise, and with the increasing availability of more powerfCarotid Interventions
By Peter Schneider, Todd Bohannon, Michael Silva. 2004
From patient selection and monitoring to follow-up care, Carotid Interventions is the first source to offer a practical how-to approach…
to carotid angioplasty and stenting-providing maneuvers and strategies for difficult situations, as well as step-by-step guidance on specific surgical procedures, equipment selection and instrumentation, protectionNutritional Concerns of Women
By Ira Wolinsky, Dorothy Klimis-Zacas. 2004
Women's health and nutrition concerns have moved to the forefront of research with the mandate by the National Institutes of…
Health to include women in formerly male-only studies assessing responses to diet and disease. This second edition of a popular and highly praised resource provides new research results that detail the prevalence of and diffePatients, Power and Responsibility: The First Principles of Consumer-Driven Reform
By John Spiers. 2004
Care pathways are being developed throughout the health service to improve the quality and effectiveness of care. Are they being…
developed efficiently and making the most of the latest clinical computing systems? This is the first practical guide on how Information Technology and systems methods can support the development implementation and maintenance of "e-Pathways". Case studies throughout highlight team approaches to facilitation clinical knowledge management process analysis and redesign and computerisation - providing insights into how e-Pathways can be used to support high quality patient care. The information is presented in an easy-to-read style and requires no prior knowledge of IT systems. Doctors nurses and managers throughout primary and secondary care as well as healthcare information technology specialists and suppliers will find this to be essential reading. An accompanying CD-ROM includes supplementary information providing useful website links and additional material on specific topic areas.Music and Meaning: Opening Minds in the Caring and Healing Professions
By Mary Butterton. 2004
This fascinating and illuminating study brings together a wealth of information gained from individuals who reveal how music has had…
an effect on their lives. It unveils how music plays an important part in counselling and therapy and links the disciplines of the philosophy of music to neuroscience, developmental psychology and psychoanalysis. Psychotherapists, counsellors and therapists will find this book thought-provoking and invaluable reading; as well as doctors, nurses and those working with the elderly and people with developmental difficulties. All those with an interest in music and how it can affect their lives will also find this book interesting reading.Broodmare Reproduction for the Equine Practitioner (Equine Made Easy Series)
By William Ley. 2004
A concise and liberally illustrated working guide on Broodmare health and breeding management for veterinarians, veterinary students and breeders. The…
presentation includes all of the clinical procedures and assessments necessary for maintaining the health and breeding soundness of the Broodmare. This handy reference covers the use of ultrasonograpGraft vs. Host Disease
By H. Joachim Deeg, James L. M. Ferrara, Kenneth R. Cooke. 2004
With detailed contributions from more than 40 leading authorities on the topic, this Third Edition comprehensively explores the immunobiology, pathophysiology,…
and clinical manifestations of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)-offering sections revealing the most up-to-date research on immune activation and dysregulation, the pathophysiology of targetA Practical Manual of Hysteroscopy and Endometrial Ablation Techniques: A Clinical Cookbook
By Resad P. Pasic, Ronald Leon Levine. 2004
Keeping up with the rapid growth in this field, A Practical Manual of Hysteroscopy and Endometrial Ablation: A Clinical Cookbook…
covers current and emerging endometrial ablation procedures. It provides practical, step-by-step illustrated descriptions of basic and advanced techniques and new methods. The editors, Resad Pasic and Ronald L. Levine, haBNVR: The Butt Non-Verbal Reasoning Test
By Pamela Butt, Romola Bucks. 2004
The BNVR Test is a unique non-linguistic approach for identifying whether a cognitive (problem-solving) deficit as well as a linguistic…
deficit exists in individuals with acquired aphasia. Recognising cognitive deficits in terms of problem-solving may be a key factor in understanding why some individuals overcome their communication difficulties better than others. Failure to recognise problem-solving difficulties may lead to unrealistic expectations of therapeutic intervention and thus inappropriate management and goal setting. The BNVR requires the client to solve 10 everyday problems, presented in full-colour photographic format. It is short, requires minimal linguistic input, contains real-life situations and is likely to be suitable for non-English speaking individuals. It will be useful to speech language therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists who need to ascertain whether problem-solving skills are affected and to assist in multi-disciplinary team decision-making in acute and rehabilitation settings.Carotenoids in Health and Disease (Oxidative Stress And Disease Ser. #Vol. 15)
By Helmut Sies, Norman I. Krinsky, Susan T. Mayne. 2004
The first source to collect the latest evidence linking carotenoids to human health and disease, this stimulating reference studies the…
role of carotenoids in the prevention of chronic disease and reviews breakthrough studies from more than 40 field authorities on the latest research. The book reveals the most recent findings regarding the use of cMother-Daughter Incest: A Guide for Helping Professionals
By Beverly Ogilvie. 2004
Provide more effective services for the victims of this underreported, rarely investigated form of sexual abuse! Until recently, mother-child incest…
was considered to be virtually nonexistent. The majority of the sexual abuse literature focused on male-perpetrated abuse or father-daughter incest. Mother-Daughter Incest: A Guide for Helping