Published December, 2008
By Daniel P. Greenfield and Jack A. Gottschalk
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Assists mental health professionals at various levels of career development in their effective production of forensic reports. This title features full-length report samples with step-by-step guides explaining how each section of the report is done, and extensive reference lists and appendices for further information and research.

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Published December, 2008
By Carolyn Chambers Clark and Carolyn Chambers
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Presents nurses and health professionals with a foundation for using group concepts, theory, and research with a wide-variety of groups and group settings. This book teaches group process skills, including theories, differentiating content from process, working with tension and anxiety, conflict, apathy, and enhancing cohensiveness.

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Published October, 2008
By Joanne L. Davis
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Suitable for trauma therapists, this guidebook discusses the mental, physical, social, interpersonal, and occupational impact of trauma and sleep disorder literature. It offers a practical, empirically-based approach to guide clinicians dealing with trauma victims. It also offers case examples to illustrate various aspects of the treatment.

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Published October, 2008
By Janice M. Morse and Janice Morse
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Presents a discussion of the process of implementing a fall prevention program in an institution using the Morse Fall Scale. This title offers information for understanding how the scale works, and for evaluating the incidence, frequency, and severity of falls with rates of prevention. It also features an appendix and a research section.

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Published October, 2008
By Esther Thorson and Jerry C. Parker
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Demonstrates the extent to which digital technology can serve as an efficient form of distributing health-related information. This book addresses: the role technology can and will play in health communication; how new media can be used to improve health literacy; and, how patients can learn about health-related issues and health care.

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Published September, 2008
By Margaret Dexheimer Pharris, Susan Dandridge Bosher, Susan Bosher and Margaret Pharris
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Helps nurse educators, administrators and graduate students recruit, educate and graduate culturally diverse nurses for a diverse population. This book addresses barriers to success for nursing students from culturally diverse backgrounds in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It analyzes institutionalized racism in nursing education.

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Published August, 2008
By Patricia D'Antonio
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Offers a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing and the health care history. Contributors represent many different disciplinary backgrounds. Regular sections include scholarly articles, reviews of the best books on nursing and health care history, invited commentaries, and abstracts of new doctoral dissertations.

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Published August, 2008
By Geri L. Dickson and Linda Flynn
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Describes key issues related to the dwindling nurse supply, most of the causes of which are well known, and outlines research and strategies to enhance the recruitment, education, and retention of the nursing workforce. This book emphasizes the role of doctoral prepared nurses in health care policy development.

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Published June, 2008
By Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
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Focuses on how nursing science can better serve the particular and special needs of rural populations. This volume provides students, other researchers, and clinicians with the foundations for evidence-based practice and further research.

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Published May, 2008
By Susan Dowd Stone and Alexis E. Menken
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Pregnancy related mood disorders have become the focus of healthcare advocates and legislators alike with subsequent reflection in nationwide media. This book is suitable for healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, and medical, nursing, psychology, and social work students who confront this problem in their practices.

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