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Global Research Ethics - Case Studies from International Research Contexts (Hardcover): Caren J. Frost, Lisa H. Gren, L. Scott... Global Research Ethics - Case Studies from International Research Contexts (Hardcover)
Caren J. Frost, Lisa H. Gren, L. Scott Benson, Margaret Carlson
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Global Research Ethics is a guide for students and their instructors as well as practitioners and researchers to understand topics linked to research ethics from a more global perspective. Research plays a key role in identifying health disparity trends and evaluating interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of the populations at the individual, local, national, and global levels. Conducting ethically sound research is imperative in these contexts. This book (a) uses case studies to offer examples of current research ethical dilemmas and (b) considers regulatory and cultural frameworks in a number of country contexts that highlight diverse methods of identifying and managing these ethical dilemmas. Chapters cover different types (groups) of participants, issues in research, and ways of doing research; then each chapter looks at least three exemplar case studies with at least two analytical commentaries. Case studies include health and social care research, and originate from countries such as Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Botswana, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the US and UK. The different viewpoints showcased will allow for dialogue to ensue about the ways in which populations and topics in research need to be conceptualized. Global Research Ethics is suitable for all undergraduates and postgraduates on research methods courses in the social and health sciences. It provides academic researchers, students, and community partners with guidelines to reflect on as they develop their own research studies.

Souvenirs of Suffering - A Child's Memoir of Surviving Cancer (Hardcover): Dazhoni Green Souvenirs of Suffering - A Child's Memoir of Surviving Cancer (Hardcover)
Dazhoni Green
R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Developmental Trauma - Theory, Research and Practice (Hardcover): Daniel Cruz Developmental Trauma - Theory, Research and Practice (Hardcover)
Daniel Cruz
R4,199 Discovery Miles 41 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Developmental Trauma offers a comprehensive introduction to the research findings that help us understand the effects on human development of early childhood trauma and adaptation to stress. It explains how DTD differs from PTSD and emerges from a toxic seed planted at the beginning of an individual's lifespan development. This important volume examines relational traumas and adverse childhood experiences, such as exposure to family and community violence, polyvictimization (multiple repeated childhood traumas), and disruptions to parent-child bonds, which lay the foundation for future relationships. The volume considers how DTD affects self-regulation capacities, identity development, self-esteem, and faith in oneself and others andincreases the likelihood of comorbidities including ADHD and autism spectrum disorders. Individuals with indications of developmental trauma face lifelong challenges in their ability to develop and maintain trusting relationships, to build and utilize healthy coping strategies, and to adjust to school and, eventually, the workplaceUniquely, Daniel Cruz goes beyond individual levels of analysis that focus almost exclusively on patients and explores toxic stress embedded in social systems and institutional policies and procedures that cause individuals to suffer, experience psychiatric and medical problems, and that lead to social and economic adversities such as poverty, homelessness, and involvement in criminal activity. Key topics explored include institutional betrayal, such as sexual assaults and workplace bullying, and judicial betrayal when failures from the legal system do not adequately protect victims of trauma, for example in cases of domestic violence. Developmental Trauma is for students of child and adolescent psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, primary care and health psychology, education, social work, and urban studies. It is relevant for graduate students in applied fields such as clinical and counseling psychology, and those working with diverse children, and public health and policy.

The Book of My Son Reuben - A Psychologist on the Loss of His Child (Hardcover): David Cohen The Book of My Son Reuben - A Psychologist on the Loss of His Child (Hardcover)
David Cohen
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'I wish I had had not had to write this book because then my lovely son Reuben would still be alive,' says David Cohen. 'He was adorable, formidably intelligent, a loving son, a loving brother. He died far too young. He had the bad luck to have two grandparents who had addictive personalities. His efforts to resist the lure of drugs failed. And so did I.' The Book of My Son Reuben is a personal account of how psychologist David Cohen coped - and did not cope - with the death of his son, Reuben. Offering a unique perspective on the experience of parental loss, it offers a personal and analytical exploration of sorrow and guilt, and of what research tells us about trauma and grief. Illustrated throughout with David Cohen's personal insight into how he continues to navigate his loss, this honest book provides deeper understanding of loss for parents who have experienced it, as well as those who support them. The book remembers the many parents who have lost children throughout history and chapters weave personal perspectives with the latest research. It examines the experience of sudden deaths, the failures of society in preventing children from dying, the role of social media, how the loss of a child impacts fathers, siblings and relationships, and the usefulness - and not - of bereavement therapies. A tribute to Reuben's life, this sensitive volume is for those who have experienced loss and want to gain better understanding of their experience, as well as psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors working with families.

Health and Care in Neoliberal Times (Hardcover): Neil Small Health and Care in Neoliberal Times (Hardcover)
Neil Small
R3,642 Discovery Miles 36 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that neoliberal changes in health and social care go beyond resource allocations, priority setting, and privatisation, and manifest in an invidious erosion of the quality of our social relationships, including relationships between care provider and care recipient. Critically examining the concept of culture and why shifts in what is considered 'acceptable practice' happen, the book explores the conduct of conduct. It draws together what we know about neoliberalism's impact on the economy and public services with research around governmentality and social change. Looking at breakdowns in the quality of care in the NHS and social care across a range of settings it holds that macro influences, such as austerity and marketisation, cannot explain everything and many of the damaging things that go on in care breakdowns occur in micro interactions between care provider and care recipient. Analysing the interactions between the calculations of political centres, the strength of professional identities, the effectiveness of oversight and supervision and the biographies of protagonists, Neil Small problematises the focus on culture, and culture change, in our response to care failures and examines what a different approach to care might involve. Exploring the interaction of politics, economics and social change and their impact on healthcare and the wider welfare state, this is an important contribution for students and researchers in health and social care, sociology, political science and management studies.

Scarred Visions - Bipolar Disorder (Hardcover): Amaan Shabir Scarred Visions - Bipolar Disorder (Hardcover)
Amaan Shabir
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Viewing Art with Babies - First Encounters (Hardcover): Kathy Danko-McGhee Viewing Art with Babies - First Encounters (Hardcover)
Kathy Danko-McGhee
R4,191 Discovery Miles 41 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Viewing Art with Babies demonstrates how to facilitate quality art viewing experiences with babies from as young as two months old. Such experiences can help to nurture early literacy and receptive language skills, sensory stimulation, and early brain development. Based on the author's research with babies in New Zealand, Australia, Romania, England, and the U.S., the book provides the reader with information about early brain, vision, sensory and language development, as well as the aesthetic preferences of babies. Danko-McGhee provides details about the type of art that babies like, how to display art in the learning environment, and how to interact with a baby when viewing art. Case studies of international museums, national museums and community agencies that have had success with engaging babies in art viewing experiences will be included in the book as a way to demonstrate how theory and research can be successfully put into practice. Viewing Art with Babies details practical ways that museum practitioners, early childhood and community educators and parents can provide art-viewing experiences in the museum, early childhood classroom or even their own home. It will be of interest to practitioners and parents around the world, as well as those engaged in the study of museum education.

Criminology of the Domestic (Hardcover): Pamela Davies, Michael Rowe Criminology of the Domestic (Hardcover)
Pamela Davies, Michael Rowe
R4,197 Discovery Miles 41 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and relational reconfigurations. We move beyond criminologies of public and urban domains to consider over-looked non-public locales, and crimes and harms that occur in the home and other private spaces. Developed in the context of the COVID-19 lockdowns, where distinctions between public and private became increasingly untenable, the book considers how the pandemic has accelerated new patterns of behaviour, enabled by technology and shifting social relations. Drawing on a range of criminological topics, including victimisation, offending, property and violent crime, consumption, deviance and leisure, and zemiology, the book argues that the domestic sphere, and its relation to the public realm, needs to be more carefully conceptualised if criminology is to respond to new spatial and relational dimensions of changing lifestyles. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, politics, geography, history, gender, surveillance and security and all those interested in a criminology of the domestic sphere.

Residential Work with the Elderly (Hardcover): C.Paul Brearley Residential Work with the Elderly (Hardcover)
C.Paul Brearley
R2,579 Discovery Miles 25 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1977, Residential Work with the Elderly brings together theoretical and practical approaches of relevance to providing care for older people in residential homes and long-stay geriatric hospitals. He describes the kinds of use to which institutional care is commonly put, the effects of institutional living o individual residents and the ageing process. He also examines ways of using such care to the benefit of both individuals and the resident group, so that new, improved ways may be found of helping older people in care. Intended principally for residential workers in homes for the elderly, the book is also designed for nurses and other workers involved in long-term hospital care for older people. It will also be of value to those involved in day-care and special housing provision for the elderly.

Justice, Education, and the World of Today - Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover): Inga Bostad, Marianna Papastephanou,... Justice, Education, and the World of Today - Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
Inga Bostad, Marianna Papastephanou, Torill Strand
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited book challenges the limits of current educational philosophical discourse and argues for a restored normativisation of education through a powerful notion of justice. Moving beyond conventional paradigms of how justice and education relate, the book rethinks the promotion of justice in, for, and through education in its current state. Chapters combine international and diverse philosophical perspectives with a focus on contemporary issues, such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, racism, and migrant crises. Divided into three distinct parts, the book explores the ontological and socio-political grounds underlying our notions of education and justice, and offers self-reflective meta-critique on education philosophers’ tendency of promoting and upholding orthodox visions and missions. Ultimately, the book offers contemporary and innovative philosophical reflections on the link between justice and education, and enriches the discourse through a multi-perspectival and sensitive exploration of the topic. It will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, education policy and politics, education studies, and social justice. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Funded by University of Oslo.

Health and Deprivation - Inequality and the North (Hardcover): Peter Townsend, Peter Phillimore, Alastair Beattie Health and Deprivation - Inequality and the North (Hardcover)
Peter Townsend, Peter Phillimore, Alastair Beattie
R2,748 Discovery Miles 27 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the North of England. It relates this evidence to long-term trends taking place in patterns of health in Britain as a whole and explores how far health inequalities can be explained by variations in material deprivation. The book provides a detailed examination of the correlation between health and wealth, or ill-health and deprivation in Britain in the 20th century but the book has an enduring relevance as the Covid Pandemic has once again shown that regional disparities in wealth have profound outcomes for health. The book is of significance for health professionals, social services and those planner and politicians concerned with levelling up.

Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets - National and International perspectives (Paperback): Tammy C. Ayres,... Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets - National and International perspectives (Paperback)
Tammy C. Ayres, Craig Ancrum
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets. It explores the motives and drivers of those involved in drug supply and dispels common and stereotypical myths and misconceptions surrounding illegal drug markets and those who operate within them. The drug dealer has become one of our foremost contemporary ‘folk devils’. Those who trade in substances prohibited by law are the subject of array of inaccurate myths and urban legends. Criminology has tended either to shoehorn drug dealers into neat typologies or portray them as ‘victims’ of an uncaring, predatory post-modern society. In reality, we know relatively little about the complex and diverse world of drug markets and our concentration inevitably falls on low-end ‘retail’ dealers who operate in the most visible sectors of the illegal economy. Bringing together an international group of experts, this book considers perspectives from around the world, including UK, USA, South America, Spain, India and Australia. This book will be of interest to students and researchers across criminology, law, sociology, criminal justice and public health, and will be essential reading for those taking courses on drugs, drug markets and substance misuse.

Rethinking Work - Essays on Building a Better Workplace (Hardcover): David L. Blustein, Lisa Y. Flores Rethinking Work - Essays on Building a Better Workplace (Hardcover)
David L. Blustein, Lisa Y. Flores
R3,781 Discovery Miles 37 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of brief essays by thought-leaders, scholars, activists, psychologists, and social scientists imagines new workplace structures and policies that promote decent and fair work for all members of society, especially those who are most vulnerable. The world of work has been deteriorating for decades and the very institution of work needs to be systematically understood, critiqued, reimagined, and rebuilt. This book offers thoughtful suggestions for new work arrangements, individual strategies for enhancing one's work life, and recommendations for innovative systemic and institutional reforms. The collection offers critical analyses in conjunction with constructive solutions on rebuilding work, providing direction and context for ongoing debates and policy discussions about work. The book will be of interest to activists, policy makers, management and leaders, scholars, professionals, students, and general readers interested work-based reform efforts and social change.

Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators - Relationship-Based Approaches that Reduce Stress, Build Resilience,... Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators - Relationship-Based Approaches that Reduce Stress, Build Resilience, and Support Healing in Young Children (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Julie Nicholson, Julie Kurtz, Linda Perez, ew Giles, Shawn Bryant
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This second edition of Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators continues to guide childcare providers and early educators working with infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers, and early elementary-aged children to understand trauma as well as its impact on young children's brains, behavior, learning, and development. The book covers a range of trauma-responsive teaching and family engagement strategies that readers can use to create strength-based environments that support children's health, healing, and resiliency. Updates include a greater emphasis on resilience and collaborating with mental health specialists, a new chapter on developing children's sensory literacy and additional case studies to use in workshops or professional development. Supervisors and coaches will learn a range of powerful trauma-responsive practices that they can use to support workforce development and enhance their quality improvement initiatives.

Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo - Sweetness Under Pressure (Hardcover): Mille Kjærgaard Thorsen Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo - Sweetness Under Pressure (Hardcover)
Mille Kjærgaard Thorsen
R3,912 Discovery Miles 39 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of ḍaghṭ, translated as “pressure” or “stress,” and another related primarily to obesity. The book is set in Egypt but draws links to a diabetes clinic in Denmark and a multinational medical company, as well as engaging with international diabetes research and guidelines. It tells a story of uncertainty, not only among people in Cairo, but also within medical research, and considers what uncertainty may generate in both bodies and societies at large. The chapters provide valuable insight into the lives of those in Cairo who are diagnosed with type-2 diabetes, and explore how those lives are linked to global movements. The book ultimately reflects on the question of what is overlooked and why in prevention strategies and treatments of type-2 diabetes in Egypt. It will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropology, global and public health, and the Middle East and North Africa.

Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan - Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, and Geo-Politics... Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan - Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, and Geo-Politics (Hardcover)
Inayat Ali
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores issues surrounding measles and vaccination in Pakistan. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it focuses on two major outbreaks in Sindh Province and on Pakistan’s vaccination campaigns. The chapters examine the responses to outbreaks and vaccination from various stakeholders including local people, the Pakistani government and the WHO. Inayat Ali reflects on the competing agendas, differing conceptualizations of measles and vaccination, and the factors that lie behind these contestations. Situating outbreaks within the institutionalized form of disparities, he analyzes the rituals used to deal with measles and local resistance to vaccines in Pakistan. The distinct imaginaries and practices related to measles and vaccination are considered in national and global context, and the book makes a valuable contribution to the development of an anthropology of vaccination and medical anthropology of Pakistan.

Building Resilience to Trauma - The Trauma and Community Resiliency Models (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Elaine Miller-Karas Building Resilience to Trauma - The Trauma and Community Resiliency Models (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Elaine Miller-Karas
R3,642 Discovery Miles 36 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Presents complex material and practical applications about the neuroscience of resiliency and trauma with innovation, clarity, simplicity, and accessibility to the reader. Presents easy-to-use applications based on cutting edge neuroscience to mobilize individuals and communities from a resiliency-focused and trauma-informed perspective, simply, creatively and with innovation. Demonstrates how the simple, clear and innovative methods based on cutting edge neuroscience and somatic approaches have been integrated into projects around the world from Dalai Lama's vision of creating a curriculum for children to civil rights leaders wanting to change systemic racism. This book gives readers tools and ideas to not only help themselves but also to transform their communities.

Marriage and the Culture of Peace - Communication Skills for Families, Therapists, and Society (Hardcover): Paris A.... Marriage and the Culture of Peace - Communication Skills for Families, Therapists, and Society (Hardcover)
Paris A. Cabello-Tijerina, Cecilia Sarahi de la Rosa Vazquez
R3,632 Discovery Miles 36 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides skills for therapists and families to help improve interpersonal communication, promoting a new system of family coexistence and a refreshed concept of the modern marriage in society. Written from a constructivist peace perspective, the book's aim is to reduce the high statistics of intimate partner violence that occurs in Mexico, arguing that the culture of peace and how it is born in the family in turn affects society for better or for worse. Based upon interviews from 150 long-term married couples, the chapters address the components that promote peaceful dialogue in marriages, such as assertive language, active listening, tolerance to frustration, and gender perspectives. Including accessible language and several models of peace, the book uniquely examines same-sex marriages, the role of children in marriage conflicts, and prescribed gender assumptions and roles in relationships. It aims to empower family members to move away from old habits and seek a more equitable existence in marriages and society at large. This interdisciplinary text will be of great interest to family therapists and clinical social workers, as well as to students and researchers in communication and peace studies.

Dance On! - Dancing through Life (Hardcover): Stephanie Burridge, Charlotte Svendler Nielsen Dance On! - Dancing through Life (Hardcover)
Stephanie Burridge, Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
R4,203 Discovery Miles 42 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A growing new area of study; Top quality editors and authors; Wide range of international coverage.

Monster Metaphors - When Rhetoric Runs Amok (Hardcover): Peter J. Adams Monster Metaphors - When Rhetoric Runs Amok (Hardcover)
Peter J. Adams
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance. The volume begins by unpacking the dynamics of metaphors, their power and influence and the ways in which they are bolstered by other rhetorical devices. Adams draws on four case studies to illustrate their destructive impact when they eclipse other points of view—the metaphor of mental illness; the metaphor of free-flowing markets; the metaphor of the mind as a mirror and the metaphor of men as naturally superior. Taken together, these examples prompt further reflection on the beneficiaries of these "monster metaphors" and how they promote such metaphors to serve their own interests but also on ways forward for challenging their dominance, strategies for preventing their rise and ways of creating space for alternatives. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in the study of metaphor, across such fields as linguistics, rhetoric and media studies.

Multi-Criteria Decision Making Theory and Applications in Sustainable Healthcare (Hardcover): Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Ripon Kumar... Multi-Criteria Decision Making Theory and Applications in Sustainable Healthcare (Hardcover)
Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Ripon Kumar Chakrabortty, Abduallah Gamal
R3,926 Discovery Miles 39 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Highlights the contributions of different optimization techniques, decision analytics (predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive), multi-criteria decision making "Helps develop intelligent machines to provide solutions to real-world problems, which are not modelled or are too difficult to model mathematically in hospital management systems " Discusses machine learning-based analytics such as GAN networks, autoencoders, computational imaging, quantum computing will be rigorously applied to smart cloud computing Explores evolutionary algorithms that demonstrate their ability as robust approaches to cope with the fundamental steps of image processing, image analysis, and computer vision pipeline (e.g., restoration, segmentation, registration, classification, reconstruction, or tracking), Creates a bridge between Industrial Engineering concepts and Computational Intelligence for designing complex and convoluted hospital management problems

The Experience and Fear of Violence in the Public Realm - Hegemonic Ideology and Individual Behaviour (Hardcover): Charlotte... The Experience and Fear of Violence in the Public Realm - Hegemonic Ideology and Individual Behaviour (Hardcover)
Charlotte Fabiansson
R4,202 Discovery Miles 42 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores violent and discriminatory values and beliefs and their interconnectedness between societal echelons. Violence has a foundation and a context. It comes from somewhere and is directed at someone or something, and it has an ambience established through generations of social, cultural, political, financial and religious strategies. It fashions nation-states’ hegemonic ideology and frames individual behaviours and attitudes, thus creating a milieu that enables the normalisation of violence. The focus is on violence-infused behaviours and actions in the public realm, a multifunctional environment for social and cultural activities, as well as a workplace, entertainment and transport hub. It is a public setting, sometimes demanding onerous deftness of individuals to stay safe. Attitudes, values and beliefs around violence, harassment and discrimination in the public realm frequently occur openly without anyone noticing that a crime has been committed, including by close bystanders. An audience steeped in societal hegemonic social and cultural patriarchal ideology might be oblivious to harassing or discriminative behaviours and attitudes against females, minority genders and ethnic minority groups. The habitual nature and normalisation of these invisible crimes make them easy to dismiss. Violence materialises on all societal levels: the hegemonic structural (macro) level, consisting of the society’s dominating political, financial, social, cultural and religious leaders, educational and community institutions (meso) level and the individual-agency (micro) level, hence the nationstate’s populace. Societal order is underpinned by structural, systemic and symbolic violence, all integrated into contemporary society’s cultural and social fabric, thus inconspicuous social norms as ingrained through internalisation. The book is written from a sociological perspective and within the risk society discourse, where the risk of violence in the public domain is omnipresent. Discourses of Arendt, Bauman, Bourdieu, Marx, Foucault, Galtung and Beck and present-day analysis underpin the discussions. The agency and political leadership research emphatically show that violence and discrimination are normalised and ingrained in the contemporary milieu.

Loneliness and Social Isolation in Old Age - Correlates and Implications (Hardcover): André Hajek, Steffi G Riedel-Heller,... Loneliness and Social Isolation in Old Age - Correlates and Implications (Hardcover)
André Hajek, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Hans-Helmut König
R4,059 Discovery Miles 40 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a seminal guide to loneliness and social isolation in old age, providing a comprehensive overview of the important correlates of socioeconomic, health and lifestyle factors upon loneliness and social isolation in old age. Bringing together contributions from leading authorities, the book showcases expertise from medicine, psychology, epidemiology, sociology, economics and gerontology. It shows the importance of identifying factors associated with loneliness and social isolation among older adults from a broader perspective, and includes discussion of a range of topics including income poverty, physical activity, family care and frailty. The chapters are evidence-based and offer a mix of empirical studies as well as reviews of international research. The book also discusses policy implications and provides an overview of nationally representative cohort studies around the world available to researchers quantifying loneliness or social isolation. This book is unique in examining loneliness and social isolation from such wide-ranging perspectives and will be essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students in the areas of mental health research, social work, and psychiatry. Health professionals involved with gerontology and geriatrics will also find this book of benefit.

Creating Community Health - Interventions for Sustainable Healthcare (Hardcover): Simon Lennane Creating Community Health - Interventions for Sustainable Healthcare (Hardcover)
Simon Lennane
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This important book explores how community-based interventions can bridge the gap between health services and the voluntary sector to create more sustainable, healthy communities. Moving beyond a technologically driven, medicalised approach to healthcare, the book shows how social prescribing can provide a direct pathway to improving community health, embracing connection and challenging inequality. Written by a practicing GP, and illustrated through practical guidance, it demonstrates how this can offer a cost-effective, preventative means to improving health outcomes, enabling communities to be more resilient when confronting major issues such as climate change or pandemics. Building to a case study of how these methods were used in one town, Ross-on-Wye, the book will be invaluable reading for those working in healthcare, public health, local authorities, and the voluntary sector, as well as students and researchers interested in these areas.

Supporting Young Children to Cope, Build Resilience, and Heal from Trauma through Play - A Practical Guide for Early Childhood... Supporting Young Children to Cope, Build Resilience, and Heal from Trauma through Play - A Practical Guide for Early Childhood Educators (Hardcover)
Julie Nicholson, Julie Kurtz, Lafeshia Edwards, Jonathan Iris-Wilbanks, Samantha Watson-Alvarado, …
R3,932 Discovery Miles 39 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now more than ever, there is a need for early childhood professionals to comprehensively integrate trauma-sensitive practices into their work with children and families. This essential resource offers instructional strategies teachers can use daily to support their students dealing with trauma in early learning environments. Readers will learn to create opportunities for children to use their natural language—play—to reduce their stress, to cope with adversity, to build resilience, and even to heal from trauma. Nicholson and Kurtz provide vignettes, case study examples, textboxes, photographs, and descriptions of adapted therapeutic strategies ready for implementation in the classroom. Practical and comprehensive, this book is ideal for both prospective and veteran early childhood educators seeking to understand trauma-informed practices when working with young children (birth–8) in a range of environments.

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