Published August, 2012
By Mary Gottwald and Jane Goodman-Brown
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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.

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Published August, 2012
By Michael Jacobs
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This classic textbook examines the key psychodynamic themes of trust and dependency, authority and autonomy, and cooperation and competition.

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Published July, 2012
By Michael Heap
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The book introduces readers to the subject of hypnosis before looking at its use in practice for those with psychological or physical problems.

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Published July, 2012
By Jane Arnott, Siobhan Atherley, Joanne Kelly and Sarah Pye
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This book will introduce the skills required to work with the challenges of community nurse activities, from working in people's homes, organizing yourself, working with carers, assessment skills and working with other professions.

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Published July, 2012
By Marjorie Lloyd
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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.

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Published July, 2012
By Kent Buse, Nicholas Mays and Gill Walt
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Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy.

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Published July, 2012
By Jane Arnott
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Offers an understanding of how community nursing works, and how to work effectively in community settings. This title introduces the skills required to work with the challenges of community nurse activities, from working in people's homes, working with carers, developing assessment skills to working with other professionals.

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Published June, 2012
By Maureen Raynor, Jayne Marshall, Karen Jackson, Jayne E. Marshall and Maureen D. Raynor
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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.

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Published May, 2012
By Sheila Payne, Jan Walker, Nikki Jarrett and Tim Ley
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This book introduces students and practitioners to psychological knowledge and understanding for clinical contexts, with emphasis on enhancing care.

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Published May, 2012
By Vicki Smith, Patrizia Collard, Paula Nicolson and Rowan Bayne
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This A-Z guide is a concise, readable and critical review of the main concepts in the four dominant approaches to counselling and psychotherapy.

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