Published August, 2008
By Geri L. Dickson and Linda Flynn
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Describes key issues related to the dwindling nurse supply, most of the causes of which are well known, and outlines research and strategies to enhance the recruitment, education, and retention of the nursing workforce. This book emphasizes the role of doctoral prepared nurses in health care policy development.

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Published June, 2008
By Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
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Focuses on how nursing science can better serve the particular and special needs of rural populations. This volume provides students, other researchers, and clinicians with the foundations for evidence-based practice and further research.

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Published May, 2008
By Susan Dowd Stone and Alexis E. Menken
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Pregnancy related mood disorders have become the focus of healthcare advocates and legislators alike with subsequent reflection in nationwide media. This book is suitable for healthcare professionals, mental health professionals, and medical, nursing, psychology, and social work students who confront this problem in their practices.

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Published April, 2008
By Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx and Deanna Gray-Miceli
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Covers the following leadership modules: team building; communication; power and negotiation; change theory and process; management: directing and designing; and, management: moving from conflict to collaboration. This title enhances the nurse's ability to: build and interact with the geriatric care team; resolve conflict; and, negotiate.

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Published March, 2008
By Laurence Miller
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Combining insights and lessons from the fields of criminology, victimology, trauma psychology, law enforcement, and psychotherapy, this book presents an integrated model of intervention for students and working mental health professionals in the criminal justice system.

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Published March, 2008
By Lucia McBee
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Introduces pain and stress reduction interventions adapted for use with elders and their caregivers. This book provides instruction for meditation, mindfulness, guided imagery, breathing exercises, gentle stretches and chair yoga, aromatherapy, and hand massage.

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Published March, 2008
By Philip D. Sloane, Ann Louise Barrick, Joanne Rader, Beverly Hoeffer and Stacey Biddle
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Provides an approach to providing person-centered, problem-focused solutions to reduce anxiety about and improve comfort during bathing. This book offers suggestions on assessment, interventions, care products and equipment, training, and organizational changes required to implement person-directed care.

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Published December, 2007
By Peter Roger Breggin
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Documents how psychiatric drugs and electroshock disable the brain. The author presents the scientific information on potential brain dysfunction and dangerous behavioral abnormalities produced by the most widely used drugs including Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Ritalin, and lithium.

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Published December, 2007
By John G. Watkins, Carol Forgash and Margaret Copeley
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) as a means of trauma resolution is a treatment that is supported by a body of scientific research. This book explains why its use with clients affected by dissociative disorders has been difficult and at times even impossible.

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Published December, 2007
By Leonard W. Poon, Thomas T. Perls and Leonard Poon
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Examines longevity issues in the fields of biology, behavioral and social sciences, and contemporary methodology. This volume takes on a multidisciplinary perspective, accounting for the complex interplay of the varying factors that affect different aspects of longevity.

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