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Mental health problems and worries are common among infants, children and adolescents in every part of the world. This book is a practical manual for primary healthcare professionals, teachers and anyone who works with children - especially in places where specialist psychiatric care is not available. After giving the reader an overview of child mental health problems, the manual goes on to deal with the various developmental, behavioural and emotional problems that arise in as many as 10% of the youth population. For each problem it first provides a case study and then describes how to find out more about a child with this problem. It suggests what can be done to help the child and their family. It also examines the mental health aspects of childhood maltreatment and exposure to natural or man-made disasters. The only comprehensive book on mental healthcare in young people for those with no access to specialist medical advice, this book is intended for anyone who works with children or young people, but who does not have specialist training in mental health problems, which includes primary care doctors and nurses, community health workers and teachers. This title is also available

Medicine. --- Mental disorders. --- Mental healthcare. --- International Cooperation --- Age Groups --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Persons --- Internationality --- Social Sciences --- Named Groups --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Developing Countries --- Adolescent --- Child --- Mental Disorders --- Child psychiatry. --- Child mental health. --- Child psychiatry --- Child mental health

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From the moment it was first proposed, the role of the nurse practitioner has been steeped in controversy. In the fields of both nursing and medicine, the idea that a nurse practitioner can, to some degree, serve as a replacement for the physician has sparked heated debates. Perhaps for that reason, despite the progress of the nurse practitioner movement, NPs have been reluctant to speak about themselves and their work, and their own vision of their role has thus remained largely invisible. Current research is dominated by instrumental and economic modes of discourse and tends to focus on the clinical activities associated with the role. Although information about demographics, educational preparation, position titles, reporting relationships, and costs of care contribute to our understanding, what was missing was an exploration of the lived experience of the nurse practitioner, as a means to deepen that understanding as well as our appreciation for their role. The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner is based on in-depth interviews with twenty-six nurse practitioners working in acute-care settings within tertiary-care institutions all across Canada. Employing a hermeneutic approach, Rashotte explores the perspectives from which NPs view their reality as they undergo a transformational journey of becoming—a journey that is directed both outward, into the world, and inward, into the self. We learn how, in their struggle to engage in a meaningful practice that fulfils their goals as nurses, their purpose was hindered or achieved. In large part, the story unfolds in the voices of the NPs themselves, but their words are complemented by descriptive passages and excerpts of poetry that construct an animated and powerful commentary on their journey. Poised between two worlds, NPs make a significant contribution to the work of their colleagues and to the care of patients and families. The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner offers an experiential alternative to conventional discourse surrounding this health care provider’s role.

Nurses --- Health Personnel --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Occupational Groups --- Persons --- Health Care --- Named Groups --- Nurse Practitioners --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Nursing --- Nurse practitioners --- Intensive care nursing --- Attitudes. --- Canada. --- Acute care nursing --- Critical care nursing --- Clinical nurse specialists --- Nurse clinicians --- Critical care medicine --- Physicians' assistants --- Practice --- medical --- role --- nursing --- interview

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What role does sports medicine play in today's society? Is it solely about treating sports injuries? Should it only be concerned with elite sport? This book provides a history of the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It combines the sub-disciplines of the history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced analysis of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries. In an age where sports medicine plays an increasingly prominent role in both elite and recreational sport, this book provides a timely

Health promotion -- History. --- Sports medicine -- History. --- Persons --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Medicine --- Preventive Health Services --- Health Occupations --- History --- Health Care --- Health Services --- Named Groups --- Humanities --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Sports Medicine --- Health Promotion --- History, 20th Century --- History, 19th Century --- Athletes --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Sports medicine --- Health promotion --- History. --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Athletic medicine --- Athletics --- Medicine and sports --- Physical education and training --- Sports --- Sports sciences --- Medical aspects

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This book recounts some experiences of young Australians with catastrophic brain injuries, their families and the medical system which they encountered. Whilst most of the events described occurred two to three decades ago they raise questions relevant to contemporary medical practice.

Patient Care Management --- Diagnosis --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Health Personnel --- Psychology, Social --- Persons --- Brain Diseases --- Named Groups --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Health Services Administration --- Occupational Groups --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Nervous System Diseases --- Diseases --- Caregivers --- Delivery of Health Care --- Prognosis --- Brain Damage, Chronic --- Prejudice --- Brain --- Brain damage --- Coma --- Wounds and injuries. --- Patients --- Rehabilitation. --- Treatment. --- Freeman, E. A. --- Comatose state --- Freeman, Edward Alan --- Freeman, Ted --- Freeman, Ted, --- Loss of consciousness --- Persistent vegetative state --- Psychology, Pathological --- Wounds and injuries

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Psychiatric disorders in adolescents are an important social problem which is relevant to almost all healthcare professionals. According to the results of The National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), the lifetime prevalence of anxiety, behavior, mood, and substance use disorders among adolescents was 31.9%, 19.1%, 14.3%, and 11.4%, respectively. Approximately 40% of participants in this survey with one class of disorder also met criteria for another class of lifetime disorder. Comorbidity is increasingly recognized as a key feature of mental disorders among adolescents. Female adolescents are more likely than males to have mood and anxiety disorders, but less likely to have behavioral and substance use disorders. Regretfully, medical professionals are not sufficiently trained about adolescent psychiatric disorders. For example, primary care providers correctly identify less than a fourth of youth with a depressive or anxiety disorder. Also, many clinicians underestimate the importance of the problem of adolescent psychiatric illnesses and suicidal behavior. Lack of skilled medical providers impedes the delivery of needed services to adolescents with mental health issues. This coupled with a lag in the ability of primary health care services to incorporate psychiatric interventions, and a failure of public health initiatives to pay attention to adolescent mental health problems has led to continuing gaps in care over decades despite the public pronouncements of needs. In this book you will find relevant information for health professionals, since we believe that the mental health of adolescents is essential for sustaining healthy and productive societies.

Adolescent behavior -- Psychology. --- Adolescent psychiatry -- Education. --- Adolescent. --- Mental disorders -- Psychology. --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Social Problems --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Behavioral Sciences --- Psychiatry --- Persons --- Behavior --- Age Groups --- Self-Injurious Behavior --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Named Groups --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Medicine --- Behavioral Symptoms --- Sociology --- Health Occupations --- Social Sciences --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Adolescent --- Adolescent Psychiatry --- Mental Disorders --- Suicide --- Education --- Psychology --- Adolescent Behavior --- Veterans --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Pediatrics --- Adolescent psychiatry. --- Adolescent psychology. --- Adolescence --- Teenagers --- Adolescent medicine --- Adolescent psychopathology --- Child psychiatry --- Medicine & Public Health --- Public Health --- Psychiatric disorders