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Chronic Respiratory Illness (The Experience of Illness)
: :Chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD: bronchitis, emphysema and chronic asthma) is a major medical, psychological, social and economic problem. Breathlessness is one of the most distressing and disabling symptoms of COAD, and it has long been apparent that the condition results in impaired quality of life. Drawing upon sociological and psychological sources, and his own detailed research in this area, Simon Williams sesitively portrays the meaning, experience and impact of COAD. Sufferers' and their families' own accounts are used to portray the various stages and aspects of COAD, ranging from the experience ...
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Cleft Lip and or Palate: Behavioral Effects from Infancy to Adulthood
: :Chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD: bronchitis, emphysema and chronic asthma) is a major medical, psychological, social and economic problem. Breathlessness is one of the most distressing and disabling symptoms of COAD, and it has long been apparent that the condition results in impaired quality of life. Drawing upon sociological and psychological sources, and his own detailed research in this area, Simon Williams sesitively portrays the meaning, experience and impact of COAD. Sufferers' and their families' own accounts are used to portray the various stages and aspects of COAD, ranging from the experience ...
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The Cleft Palate Experience: New Perspectives on Management
: :Chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD: bronchitis, emphysema and chronic asthma) is a major medical, psychological, social and economic problem. Breathlessness is one of the most distressing and disabling symptoms of COAD, and it has long been apparent that the condition results in impaired quality of life. Drawing upon sociological and psychological sources, and his own detailed research in this area, Simon Williams sesitively portrays the meaning, experience and impact of COAD. Sufferers' and their families' own accounts are used to portray the various stages and aspects of COAD, ranging from the experience ...
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Clients with Complex Needs: Interprofessional Practice
: :The current trend in health care is to view health problems through a broader lens that encompasses both the psychological and social influences on illness.This book reflects practitioners' increasing concern for clients with multifaceted problems. The text takes a practical approach to the problem, based on sound empirical research. It provides insight into the nature of the multiple problems presented by clients and offers practical advice on how to provide the comprehensive support required by these disadvantaged individuals. It offers methods of carrying out psychosocial assessments and explains how these findings may ...
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Clinical Empathy
: :The current trend in health care is to view health problems through a broader lens that encompasses both the psychological and social influences on illness.This book reflects practitioners' increasing concern for clients with multifaceted problems. The text takes a practical approach to the problem, based on sound empirical research. It provides insight into the nature of the multiple problems presented by clients and offers practical advice on how to provide the comprehensive support required by these disadvantaged individuals. It offers methods of carrying out psychosocial assessments and explains how these findings may ...
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A Clinician's Guide to Menopause
from: American Psychiatric Association
: :Mental health professionals should have a comprehensive knowledge of both the physical and the psychiatric aspects of menopause in order to provide the best patient care. Written by international authorities in psychiatry, gynaecology, psychology, nursing, sociology and internal medicine, this book is a multidisciplinary resource for the care and treatment of menopausal and postmenopausal women. It explores menopause from a number of different perspectives and familiarizes clinicians with the medical issues associated with menopause, including physiology, symptomatology, risk factors, the medical evaluation, and hormone replacement therapy and other medical treatments. It then ...
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Cognition and the Menstrual Cycle (Contributions to Psychology and Medicine)
from: Springer
: :Mental health professionals should have a comprehensive knowledge of both the physical and the psychiatric aspects of menopause in order to provide the best patient care. Written by international authorities in psychiatry, gynaecology, psychology, nursing, sociology and internal medicine, this book is a multidisciplinary resource for the care and treatment of menopausal and postmenopausal women. It explores menopause from a number of different perspectives and familiarizes clinicians with the medical issues associated with menopause, including physiology, symptomatology, risk factors, the medical evaluation, and hormone replacement therapy and other medical treatments. It then ...
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Common Heroes: Facing a Life Threatening Illness
: :Mental health professionals should have a comprehensive knowledge of both the physical and the psychiatric aspects of menopause in order to provide the best patient care. Written by international authorities in psychiatry, gynaecology, psychology, nursing, sociology and internal medicine, this book is a multidisciplinary resource for the care and treatment of menopausal and postmenopausal women. It explores menopause from a number of different perspectives and familiarizes clinicians with the medical issues associated with menopause, including physiology, symptomatology, risk factors, the medical evaluation, and hormone replacement therapy and other medical treatments. It then ...
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Communication in Cancer Care
: :Mental health professionals should have a comprehensive knowledge of both the physical and the psychiatric aspects of menopause in order to provide the best patient care. Written by international authorities in psychiatry, gynaecology, psychology, nursing, sociology and internal medicine, this book is a multidisciplinary resource for the care and treatment of menopausal and postmenopausal women. It explores menopause from a number of different perspectives and familiarizes clinicians with the medical issues associated with menopause, including physiology, symptomatology, risk factors, the medical evaluation, and hormone replacement therapy and other medical treatments. It then ...
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Conception, Pregnancy and Birth (Psychology of Reproduction, 2)
from: Butterworth-Heinemann
: :Research into reproductive psychology has always posed particular problems, ensuring that the literature developed in isolation from the mainstream theories, concepts and treatment approaches of health psychology generally. Contributors to this volume, however, demonstrate that many of the problems can be tackled with considerable imagination, and success. Successive chapters look at reproductive decision-making, assisted fertility, pre-natal screening and ante-natal preparation, pain and the trauma of death. The perspectives of both the mother and the fetus are explored and the remarkable ability of individuals and families to cope with the emotional and physical ...
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