Medical : Allied Health Services

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. Engaging dialogues and vignettes bring to life the core skills of motivational interviewing (MI) and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions. more...

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In this volume, Smith presents instructions for more approaches to relaxation than any other book on the market. The author provides word-for-word scripts for clinicians to teach them to implement all relaxation techniques using his ABC relaxation approach. The volume includes simple assessment questionnaires for determining relaxation needs and evaluating relaxation outcomes; precise instructions for making individualized relaxation tapes; and verbatim instructions for presenting tested "failproof" relaxation and stress management workshops. Techniques include: progressive relaxation, autogenic training, self-hypnosis, breathing exercises, yoga, imagery / visualization, meditation, and prayer. For clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and trainers in the field of relaxation. more...

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This book examines the work of a major employment group within the health and welfare field. It relates to debates on the body and issues associated with disability, personal space and autonomy and the power of dynamics of care. more...

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"If knowledge and preparation are the best defense and offense for [managing AD] challenges this book is an excellent way to obtain those tools". -- Shirley Sahrmann, PT, PhD, FAPTA (from the Forward). Despite the increasing prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD), current research remains limited, and AD is still one of the most mysterious diseases to date, even to health professionals. This up-to-date resource for AD clinicians and caregivers serves to demystify AD and dementia at large. This comprehensive and easy-to-read guidebook contains the latest research on dementia and AD in the elderly population, including the causes and risk factors of AD, diagnosis information, and symptoms and progressions of the disease. Significant emphasis is given to the physical, mental, and verbal rehabilitation challenges of patients with AD. Key Features:.:.; Outlines specific rehabilitation goals for the physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech-language pathologist, and general caregiver.; Includes chapters on prevention and treatment of AD, caring for AD patients within the home, and long-term, institutional care of AD.; Provides guidelines on how to address rehabilitation challenges, including strength-building to prevent falls, swallowing exercises to prevent malnutrition, and speech language skills to promote communication. With this book, Gogia and Rastogi set forth the necessary care-giving and diagnostic tools to address the ongoing challenge of caring for AD patients - tools that have been clinically proven to help arrest this devastating, neurogenerative disease.;chapter more...

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Wie kombiniert man eigentlich die in der osteopathischen Ausbildung gelernten Untersuchungs- und Behandlungstechniken zum für den einzelnen Patienten optimalen Behandlungskonzept? Die Antworten gibt dieses Buch mit Anleitungen - zur systematischen Diagnose (von Anamnese bis strukturierter Untersuchung), die sicher zu den Ursachen der Patientenbeschwerden hinführt, - zur Planung individueller Therapiekonzepte mit den für den Einzelfall richtigen Behandlungstechniken, - zum problemorientierten Testen und Üben der gelernten Kenntnisse an vielen Fallbeispielen (Kasuistiken). Therapeuten in der Ausbildung erarbeiten sich hier Strategien für ein ganzheitliches Vorgehen in der osteopathischen Behandlung. Für ausgebildete Osteopathen ist das Buch ein ideales Nachschlagewerk: Ein Index der Leitsymptome führt sie zu knappen Informationen darüber, welche Strukturen beteiligt sein können und bei der Behandlung zu berücksichtigen sind. more...

Price: $89.95