Routledge

A Resource for Midwives and Allied Healthcare ProfessionalsBreastfeeding is a major public health issue. Breast milk provides all the nutrients a baby needs for their first six months. Research studies also show that breastfeeding helps to protect infants from infection and mothers from some diseases in later life. Breastfeeding rates are low,...

An International Analysis of Grassroots IntegrationDrawing on comparative fieldwork in the UK, Pakistan and Australia, this book provides the first systematic assessment of pathways and access to CAM and how it is used in health practice and by individuals with cancer.   Giving fresh and invaluable insights into how differing health and societal...

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,...