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Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic ResistanceOur ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sustaining a supply of effective and affordable antibiotics cannot be without changes to the incentives facing patients, physicians,...

An Outline of Psychodynamic Principles and PracticeWhat is psychotherapy about?What are the similarities and differences of its many forms?What are the most recent developments in the field?Introduction to Psychotherapy has been an essential reference book since its publication in 1979, and is regularly included in reading lists for trainee...

A Trauma-Informed ApproachThe book is designed as a user-friendly textbook/manual for mental health professionals. It teaches a trauma-informed treatment approach as an organizing framework for a series of empirically supported interventions including motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral skills training, trauma resolution, and relapse...

This volume brings together behavioral, medical, and public health approaches and provides the knowledge necessary for a wide range of practitioners to effectively address the current obesity epidemic among children and adolescents. The book addresses several themes in pediatric and adolescent obesity. Experts in the field discuss the prevalence,...

Clinical supervision has been available to nurses for over a decade. This book, edited by leading practitioners in the field, looks at how clinical supervision has developed during this period and what the issues are for the future, including:* education and training in clinical supervision* the introduction of clinical supervision into policy and...

The Role of Nurses in the Hospital Division of LabourBringing together sociological theories and nursing practice this text develops a dynamic conceptualisation of the nursing role which is rooted in the work setting. It looks at the factors which have shaped nursing work in the past and those which are likely to shape it in the future.Nurses' work...