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This book explores the realities of leadership in the early years, examining the challenges and opportunities of the profession.

Suitable for allied health professionals, nurses and students involved in health promotion practice and will help you to build confidence in your health promotion skills. This book uses case scenarios to explore how health promotion activities can empower individuals to make decisions that change their health related behaviour.

The complexity of caring for patients who become acutely ill or have deteriorated can be a daunting challenge for nurses. This book contains 17 in-depth case studies relating to care of the acutely ill adult. It includes cases that combine pathophysiology, pharmacology and nursing care in realistic clinical settings.

This book provides critical insights and practical approaches to help you support babies and young children with special educational needs and disability (SEND) in the early years.

This positive psychology textbook focuses on the importance of the body within optimal functioning and highlights new research in this area.

Presents a detailed and comprehensive guide to undertaking quantitative health research at postgraduate and professional level. This title takes you through the entire research process, from designing the project to presenting the results and can help you execute high quality quantitative research that improves and informs clinical practice.

A definitive textbook on adult services, bringing the topic alive for students with a perspective and depth of understanding.

The portfolio is an essential part of the summative assessment within qualifying social work programmes. This book shows how students can use the portfolio to demonstrate their learning in terms of developing core knowledge, values and skills.

Contains more than 300 test questions and 50 glossary terms including: labelling test questions; true or false questions; multiple choice questions; and fill in the blank questions. This book covers skills such as: Infection control Respiratory skills Cardiovascular skills; Neuro assessment skills; Elimination skills; and more.

"e;On every page the work of the community nurse shines through. Exercises, a reflective commentary and case studies provide an integral link between the 'real world' of practice and the underpinning knowledge and critical thinking necessary to become an effective and evidence-based community nurse. This is an excellent, practical and informative book that is already poised to become the leading resource in its field."e; John Keady, Professor of Older People's Mental Health Nursing, The University of Manchester/Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK This new textbook is perfect for understanding how community nursing works, and how to work effectively in community settings. The skills required to work with the challenges of community nurse activities are clearly introduced, from working in people's homes, working with carers, developing assessment skills to working with other professionals. By drawing on vivid case studies set in the fictional town of Chettlesbridge, the authors skilfully bring to life the world of community nursing practice enabling you to apply new learning to real situations. Key features: Includes patient case studies, practical tips, bullet lists, sample worksheets, examples and simple visual aids Provides chapters with a series of guided exercises to stimulate a deeper level of reflection and discussion Covers areas such as working with vulnerable groups and working with carers and their families Introduction to Community Nursing Practice is key reading for pre-registration nurses undertaking modules that cover community nursing, community care, and undertaking community based placements. It will also help student nurses from the mental health, child and learning disabilities pathways where health care in the community setting is part of the curriculum.

The book introduces readers to the subject of hypnosis before looking at its use in practice for those with psychological or physical problems.

Suitable for pre-registration nursing students looking for an accessible guide to drug groups that goes beyond the essentials, this title is simple and accessible and examines the next logical set of drug groups that nurses need to know.

A volume of mentoring principles to integrate minorities, improve community relations and harness the creative potential of different perspectives.

Suitable for student midwives, medical students and paramedics, this title contains 14 common pregnancy and childbirth emergency scenarios to help prepare student midwives for life in practice. It covers the principles, pathology and skills involved in a range of birthing scenarios.

This book explores how interpretation is practised and how to conduct qualitative research in psychology that is self-consciously interpretative.

Creating a Coaching Culture will help coaches and coaching companies to be more effective in the market place, by using an approach that works to create a coaching culture and integrates coaching well into organisations

Describes day-to-day difficulties and challenges associated with assessing adults. This book focuses on the 'person to person' relationship in assessment and considers important areas such as: being well prepared; asking difficult questions; dealing with assessment problems; and, the importance of you in communication and relationship building.

Social workers are often faced with issues of substance misuse, whether they work in children's services, adult services or mental health. This title offers a practical guide for social workers to refer to on a day-to-day basis. It assist students and social workers in: understanding drug and alcohol misuse; and, assessing the risks.

Takes you through the main methods, tools and approaches used by health researchers and uses examples and case studies to highlight good and bad practice in research. This title provides guidance on critical thinking and writing, to assist you in interpreting research articles and judging their worth.

This book makes the case for reflective practice in post-compulsory teaching, showing how reflective practice might support teachers, as well as being compulsory.

This book introduces students and practitioners to psychological knowledge and understanding for clinical contexts, with emphasis on enhancing care.

To help education professionals make sense of the varied approaches, policies and concepts currently applied in practice with children and young people with SEN.

This book focuses on clarifying the adult role in early childhood education & care amongst new initiatives in the current context.

This A-Z guide is a concise, readable and critical review of the main concepts in the four dominant approaches to counselling and psychotherapy.

This book looks at The Wroxham School in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, which has embraced the' Learning without Limits' approach across the whole school.

Providing an integrative family-based approach to addressing psychological and relational needs of distressed children and their parents.

Offers those working in mental health settings a practical guide to writing great care plans. Featuring chapters on care planning in primary care, community care and acute care, this title highlights the challenges of care planning, evidence available in each area, the knowledge needed by practitioner and the skills needed to work with clients.

Skills in advocacy are essential for every social work student and practitioner. This book provides an introduction to advocacy, examining the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to undertake advocacy roles and work constructively with the growing number of independent advocates.

Framed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (2010) standards for pre-registration nursing education and written by experts in the field, this book explains which interventions are most effective for each of the most common mental health disorders. It also shows you how these interventions work in practice and illustrates the skills required.

A workbook that is written for social work students and includes both theory and a range of exercises. It also looks at working in teams and with other professions, how to use supervision effectively to enhance professional development, keeping safe, and strategies for managing risk to self.