Nursing specialties

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide.

Reichel''s formative text is designed as a practical guide for health specialists confronted with the unique problems of geriatric patients.

This second edition, published in 2007, examines the studies of risk factors and prevention strategies for falls in older people.

This revised edition of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Healthcare Assistants is an accessible and comprehensive text designed to equip you with the necessary skills for your practice.

This book covers everything a prospective field physician needs to prepare for when beginning a wilderness expedition.

This book covers everything a prospective field physician needs to prepare for when beginning a wilderness expedition.

International Disaster Nursing is the first truly comprehensive and internationally focused resource in its field.

Combines evidence-based practice and expert opinion to create a multidisciplinary resource for any healthcare professional managing patients with tracheotomies.

Combines evidence-based practice and expert opinion to create a multidisciplinary resource for any healthcare professional managing patients with tracheotomies.

Trauma: A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach is a comprehensive, fully illustrated, interdisciplinary overview of trauma written by expert contributors.

Traditionally, dementia has been defined primarily in terms of loss: loss of cognitive and communicative competencies, loss of identity, loss of personal relationships.

In this thought-provoking text, a collection of respected authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience come together to challenge some of the prevailing ideas serving as the foundation for the current child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) structure.

This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

Suicide and self-harm are world-wide public health issues that can have devastating effects on families, friends and communities.

Nurses in all areas of clinical practice must be able to recognise, assess and manage changes to a patient's condition.

This practical guide focuses on the reduced expression and activity often described as constituting negative symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia.

This ground-breaking text book introduces the theoretical underpinnings and practical considerations of the growing area reablement.

Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives.

The findings of key reports highlight the need to raise awareness of the failures in health and social care systems to safeguard vulnerable older people.

In the UK it is estimated that a third of patients in mental health services have a substance abuse problem, and that half of patients in drug and alcohol services have a mental health problem.

At a time when service users' perspectives are increasingly recognized in healthcare, this seminal book highlights the importance of clients' perceptions of all aspects of mental illness.

The definitive book on family centred care for health professionals, this popular text has been thoroughly revised in line with contemporary health policy.

This ground-breaking and accessible book is the ideal resource for trainee and qualified mental health nurses looking for a guide to the main psychological therapies and interventions available in practice.

Every year thousands of children and young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm.

Every year thousands of children and young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm.

The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing.

The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing.

Respectful and effective solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for suicidal clients Few tasks are more important-and daunting-than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope.

Respectful and effective solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for suicidal clients Few tasks are more important-and daunting-than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope.

This book considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment planning.

This book considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment planning.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

Psychiatric and Mental Health Essentials in Primary Care addresses key mental health concepts and strategies for time-pressured practitioners in various healthcare settings serving diverse populations.

Psychiatric and Mental Health Essentials in Primary Care addresses key mental health concepts and strategies for time-pressured practitioners in various healthcare settings serving diverse populations.

This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions.

This book challenges the evidence-based practice movement to re-think its assumptions.

In spite of improved access to psychosocial interventions, many people with psychosis continue to experience persistent problems which act as significant barriers to their recovery.

In spite of improved access to psychosocial interventions, many people with psychosis continue to experience persistent problems which act as significant barriers to their recovery.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been extensively researched and shown to be solidly underpinned by evidence.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been extensively researched and shown to be solidly underpinned by evidence.

The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century.

The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century.

Learn how to ensure quality and safety for vulnerable older adults Transitional care is crucial to older adults with complex care needs who are moving between different locations or different levels of care.

Learn how to ensure quality and safety for vulnerable older adults Transitional care is crucial to older adults with complex care needs who are moving between different locations or different levels of care.

Explore a new way of pastoral care that enables caregivers to develop relationships and provide meaningful pastoral care to the children and youth they encounter!

Explore a new way of pastoral care that enables caregivers to develop relationships and provide meaningful pastoral care to the children and youth they encounter!

Diagnose and treat shaken baby syndrome with advice from experts in the field!

Diagnose and treat shaken baby syndrome with advice from experts in the field!