Edited by Tim McDougall

Children and Young People’s Mental Health equips nurses and healthcare professionals with the essential skills and competencies needed to deliver effective assessment, treatment and support to children and young people with mental health problems and disorders, and their families. Drawing on…

Paperback – 2016-09-22
Routledge

By Kathleen A Kendall-Tackett

Depression is the most common complication of childbirth and results in adverse health outcomes for both mother and child. It is vital, therefore, that health professionals be ready to help women who have depression, anxiety, or posttraumatic stress disorder in the perinatal period. Now in its…

Paperback – 2016-09-05
Routledge

Edited by Edilma Yearwood, Vicki Hines-Martin

"I welcome, at long last, a book on global mental health targeted to nurses, the front-line health worker for billions of people around the world.　 The roles that nurses can, and should, play in mental health care are diverse and this book addresses both well-trod as well as emerging concerns…

Hardback – 2016-09-01
Routledge

Edited by Alison Tonkin, Julia Whitaker

PLAY. We all do it: wordplay, love play, role-play; we play cards, play sport, play the fool, and play around. And that’s just the grown-ups! It features in every aspect of our lives, whether we call it by that or another name. We all do it, but why do we do it? What does it mean to play and what,…

Paperback – 2016-06-21
Routledge

By Nicky Leap, Billie Hunter

Fear of childbirth, the increasing use of epidurals and soaring caesarean section rates are the focus of much apprehension, debate, and controversy in contemporary maternity care. Across the world, support in labour has been shown to reduce obstetric interventions and improve outcomes for…

Paperback – 2016-06-13
Routledge

By Merlinda Weinberg

In the helping professions, codes of ethics and decision-making models have been the primary vehicles for determining what constitutes ethical practice. These strategies are insufficient since they assume that shared meanings exist and that the contradictory universal principles of codes can be…

Hardback – 2016-03-10
Routledge