Product Description: The best strategies in healthcare begin with empathyRevolutionary advances in medical knowledge have caused doctors to become so focused on their narrow fields of expertise that they often overlook the simplest fact of all: their patients are suffering...read more

Product Description: What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? And can there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own serious illness with insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher...read more

Product Description: The healthcare workforce and landscape continues to evolve with the ongoing education systems forming in foreign countries and immigration and foreign employment continuing to grow in the United States. Every heath care provider and patient is challenged with cultural competency and acceptance on a daily basis...read more

Product Description: Approaches to Behavior provides information and simple tools that healthcare professionals can use to help patients move beyond feelings that prevent them from benefiting fully from any learning opportunity. Each chapter opens with an introduction to experts’ newest psychological understanding about a common emotion...read more

Product Description: The book addresses the issue of the patient’s presence in specialist medical publications in the context of a patient-centered approach to medical practice. The author combines both quantitative and qualitative approaches in order to analyze the discourse about the patient in one of the oldest medical genres, case reports...read more

Product Description: Despite the scope and sophistication of contemporary health care, there is increasing international concern about the perceived lack of compassion in its delivery. Citing evidence that when the basic needs of patients are attended to with kindness and understanding, recovery often takes place at a faster level, patients cope more effectively with the self-management of chronic disorders and can more easily overcome anxiety associated with various disorders, this book looks at how good care can be put back into the process of caring...read more

Product Description: This Handbook chronicles fifty years of efforts by clinicians, medical scientists, and social science researchers to closely examine communication during medical interviews. Fifty-two chapters have been integrated to provide readers with a diverse sampling of significant contributions during this extended period...read more

Product Description: This Handbook chronicles fifty years of efforts by clinicians, medical scientists, and social science researchers to closely examine communication during medical interviews. Fifty-two chapters have been integrated to provide readers with a diverse sampling of significant contributions during this extended period...read more

Product Description: A prominent geriatric psychiatrist details the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of places where those with dementia are treated―from emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals to assisted living facilities and nursing homes.• Vignettes and experiences from author's practice illustrate strategies that will improve quality of life for caregivers and their loved one...read more

The sixth edition of this best-selling resource continues to teach nursing, health professions, medical and social science readers the importance of cultural competence and cultural awareness in the health care industry. The new edition will include revised organization to create a better flow of content, new content on gererational differences, updated chapter on health care delivery system, updated illustrations and tables and MediaLink icons. For undergraduate and graduate courses in patient care and basic health related profession programs, as well as medical, social work, and other health disciplines.

Product Description: Begin your intervention with Ending Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility: Why Nurses Eat Their Young and Each Other. Researchers report that verbal abuse contributes to up to 24% of staff turnover and 42% of nurse administrator turnover. To make matters worse, studies indicate that approximately 60% of newly registered nurses leave their first position within six months because of some form of horizontal hostility...read more

Product Description: Get a unique insight into the attitudes of mental health professionals working outside the United States! The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality: International Perspectives examines historical and contemporary attitudes toward homosexuality in the theory and practice of mental health professionals working in Europe and Asia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Lombardi, Donald N.

Product Description: When patient meets doctor, as well as engaging in a transaction with a clinical purpose, they react to one another as people. Their personalities and ability to form relationships in general also affect the professional interaction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Herbie the hippopotamus loves to dance. Detailed crayon illustrations tell his story in this picture book.