Routledge

An Evidence-Based ApproachIt is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with long-term chronic conditions. Exercise and Chronic Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach offers the most up-to-date survey currently...

The move to multidisciplinary teams in primary care and the emphasis on joined-up working across the human services make it increasingly necessary for health and social care professionals to take on a variety of leadership roles in teams made up of people from different professional backgrounds. This sort of leadership requires different skills...

Clinical Issues and InterventionsExamine the unique emotional challenges and issues that face couples of mixed HIV status today!Previous books on this subjectmostly written in the days when HIV/AIDS was considered a fatal rather than a chronic diseasefocused on end-of-life issues. However, Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical Issues and...

A Psychologist's Proactive Guide to Managed Mental Health Care offers a concise overview of the evolution of managed mental health care and its impact on the working lives of clinical and counseling psychologists. Although many books explore the ramifications of managed care for psychotherapy, this is the first to take a broad perspective and...

Music in Nursing HomesAn enlightening book, You Bring Out the Music in Me, explores how music motivates, enriches, touches, relaxes, and energizes the elderly in nursing homes. Practicing music therapists explain how music speaks to all of us, regardless of our language, culture, or abilities and how it can be used with groups and individuals in...

A Framework for PracticeThis completely updated and revised new edition is specially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care nursing units. Fully comprehensive and developed to be as accessible as possible it contains four new chapters with valuable new and updated clinical scenarios to aid learning.   Intensive Care Nursing is...