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Draws together and critically reviews the research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.

Draws together and critically reviews the research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.

Pence and Paymar are right on target again. Their analysis of battering is excellent and their approach...is straightforward, useful and clear. [The book] tells you what to do with abusive men and how to do it well. [The authors] challenge practitioners to do their work in a manner that is compassionate yet never colluding. Accountability and safety to battered women and creating a process of change for abusive men are central to its success.--Susan Schechter, author of Women and Male Violence "Drawing upon years of experience...Pence and Paymar have written a practical and conceptually sound curriculum for batterers' groups. This book offers an effective guide to both the beginning facilitator and the experienced clinician for engaging batterers in the lifelong process of changing their intimate relationships, from those based on coercive control to those based on equality. [They] accomplish this task without compromising their commitment to advocacy with battered women." --Anne L. Ganley, PhD, Domestic Violence Program Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center Presents the most comprehensive and successful methods for working with men who batter. Mixing discussion, self-analysis and opportunities for learning new behaviors, this well-mapped-out intervention strategy helps counselors hold men accountable while teaching non-abusive behaviors." --Fernando Merderos, Executive Director of Common Purpose, Boston, MA Education Groups for Men Who Batter is a curriculum and a methodology which unequivocally identifies the exercise of violent and coercive tactics against women in intimate relationships as intentional, strategic behavior....[It] is an essential training tool for all actors in the justice and human services systems. Only when tactics of control are seen as intentional intimate terrorism can these systems construct responses effectively to end the violence." --Barbara J. Hart, Esq., Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence Presents the leading approach to undoing men's abuse of women...The Duluth Model has pioneered an approach based on the experiences of abused women and consequently tailored to their circumstances. It tackles the social dimensions of woman abuse more directly and decisively than any of the psychological or skill-building approaches circulating in the field." -- Edward W. Gondolf, author of Men Who Batter, Battered Women as Survivors, and Psychiatric Response to Family Violence "The Duluth Model has inspired activists all over the world, and its principles are being followed in programs in several countries. We predict that this book will become the standard text for those who work with men who batter." --Rebecca Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash authors of Violence Against Wives; Women, Violence and Social Change; and Women Viewing Violence

Provide an overview of each component of the acute and long-term care service continuum, including managed health care, subacute care, and nursing homes. This volume addresses the practices in long-term care financing and assisted living. It is useful for professionals involved in long-term care, including administration, and community nursing.

Incorporates the knowledge from general psychology into a comprehensive view of emotion in adult development and aging. This work provides an overview of emotion across the life-span. It is useful for general psychologists, gerontologists, researchers, and geriatric practitioners desiring to better their understanding of their older patients.

Presents the Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM), a systematic modification of Psychodrama, for therapists working with people who are suffering from severe trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. This step-by-step guide includes several clinical action structures and advanced intervention modules for using experiential methods.

Provides an introduction to law and legal processes and their relation to social work practice. Using Clinton's Welfare Reform Act of 1996, this title offers a conceptual framework to illustrate how sociolegal problems emerge in the welfare state. It also presents the skills base necessary for effective social work response.

Anxiety disorders are costly, common and debilitating and present challenging problems to practising clinicians. This book compares and contrasts various models and treatment approaches, covering 11 therapies including: contextual family therapy, supportive/expressive and psychodynamic.

Health researchers, practitioners, and policy makers provide strategies for assisting distressed caregivers and improving quality of life for both caregivers and dementia patients. The volume's 14 chapters outline current problems in the area of caregiving, and then develop several solution approach

A first-person account of a moving human experience, in which some deeply-caring people search for ways to provide a humane, effective learning experience for students who are seen as preparing to be practitioners of a humane, changing profession.

Based on the acclaimed professional certificate program, Advanced Institute on Victim Studies: Critical Analysis of Victim Assistance, this book identifies core content areas essential for practitioners working with crime victims. Each chapter concludes with an analysis and application section.

Draws together and critically reviews all the existing research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing

This early volume in the long-running series focuses primarily on community issues. As in all volumes in the series, leading nurse practitioners provide students, researchers, and clinicians with the foundations for evidence-based practice and further research.

Suitable for graduate students in nursing education, this volume contains narratives based on interviews with 21 distinguished teachers of nursing. It provides multiple role models for career development and also offers wisdom, including: deciding on a career in teaching nursing; preparing and mentoring in teaching; and more.

This volume of the ARGG is devoted to the behavioral sciences, with particular attention given to topics in experimental and applied psychology. With the rapid rate of research in this field of aging, the contributors address a number of important basic and applied topics that are underrepresented in other literature..

Part of a series that presents innovations in nursing education. Focusing on the practice of teaching across settings, this review is written for nurse educators in associate, baccalaureate, and graduate nursing programs, staff development, and education.

Examines the effects of the aging baby boomers in America on health care, migration and immigration and how it can support the tax health care networks, cultural issues regarding access to health care, and changing cultural attitudes towards marriage and family that are affecting the relationships between the elderly and their communities.

This concise guide provides nurses with the tools to help older adults with arthritis achieve the highest possible quality of life. Practical tips on nursing management, self-care and the importance of exercise are a focus throughout.

This state-of-the-art compendium of information and referral systems emphasizes technology and also addresses operational issues, staffing, training, standards and new challenges in an expanding ageing society.

Emphasizing on nurse-managed centers, this book provides a step-by-step guide to starting and sustaining a community health center. It includes information on developing a mission statement, pulling together an advisory board, writing a business plan, and getting funding. The Appendix includes sample bylaws and a full policy and procedure manual.

This volume brings together practitioners and researchers in the field who use a cognitive model as the basis of their work. Cognitive techniques for common clinical problems are described in detail, such as depression, biopolar disorder, phobias, panic disorder and eating disorders.

Reviews, summarizes, and integrates a diverse literature on the topic of retirement. Organized around three phases of the retirement process - pre-retirement, retirement decision-making, and post-retirement - the chapters examine economic, sociological, gerontological, and psychological theory and research.

Presents a fresh view of the development of Orem's theory of self care deficit over a forty-year period, along with its ramifications for nursing education and practice.

Product of a collaboration among members of the Behavioral Cooperative Oncology Group of the Mary Margaret Walther Program for Cancer Care Research. Each chapter of this book includes summaries of research on cancer-related behavioral interventions, discussions of the studies summarized, and suggestions for future research.

Presents a multitude of variables that potentially affect the results of neuropsychological tests. Following a general discussion of neuropsychological constructs known to impact performance on neuropsychological tests, this title presents an empirical approach to assessment.

Exercise in later life is important for health, yet motivating older adults to exercise can be difficult. This book addresses that need by tailoring ""The Transtheoretical Model"" of behavior change to the client's level of readiness for change. It is useful for health care professionals, including nurses, exercise specialists, and others.

Based on the authors' qualitative study of a diverse group of 51 widowers, this book sets widowhood within the context of life experience. It identifies characteristics and patterns of behavior that contribute to widower's success, as well as lack of success, in adjusting satisfactorily to their circumstances.

Useful for health care and human service professionals, this book discusses the real and perceived legal liability context within which human service delivery to older persons takes place. It also evaluates the benefits and costs of litigious, legislative, and regulatory interventions on the quality of life for recipients of geriatric services.