This new edition introduces the underpinning theory and concepts required for the development of first class communication and interpersonal skills in nursing. By providing a simple to read overview of the central topics students are able to quickly gain a solid, evidence-based grounding in the subject.

The full range of developmental and acquired communication disorders are examined by analyzing their clinical features and explaining how therapists assess and treat them. Clinical linguistic data are given throughout, and a comprehensive companion website containing colour photographs, audio and video files and self-test questions, is provided.

This book brings together a comprehensive and contemporary collection of chapters including: social and functional linguistic behaviour in adults and children, discourse, pragmatics, social skills and voice and articulation.

Designed to help those studying speech-language pathology, this useful workbook is both an introduction to the basic concepts and a teaching tool to develop and test students' knowledge. Frequently encountered communication disorders are explained, alongside conditions less commonly found in speech-language pathology curricula but which feature increasingly in clinical caseloads.

This book uses real student experiences and stories from patients to help students develop their communication skills throughout the three years of training, with a focus on how to develop person-centredness and compassionate and collaborative care.

Argues that communication is at the heart of the various approaches to dementia care. This book offers an exploration of ways of establishing and developing communication with people with dementia. It examines both the nature of dementia as a condition and the subjective experience of those affected.

With an emphasis on practical application, this lively and accessible guide will help nurses to hone and develop their communication skills.

A fully updated edition of a successful text, which enables nurses and health professionals to use core communication skills in a patient-centred way. With new content on diversity, electronic communication and telephone skills, it remains a key text for any health professional seeking to apply communication theory to their daily practice.

For those undertaking a nursing degree within higher education, this book provides study support and skills development for both oral and written communication in the context of nursing and healthcare in HE.

Presented in a unique and easy-to-use dictionary format, this practical guide will help students and practitioners understand and apply the principles of effective communication.

This updated and expanded second edition of a bestselling text develops critiques of the changing context and identifies challenges faced by community development.

Focuses on the issues, responsibilities, and roles important for providing contemporary community health nursing care. The upstream thinking approach emphasizes health promotion efforts within a community to address the precursors of poor health. Detailed case studies provide a community component for each step of the nursing process.

A rounded account of Community Mental Health Nurses' practice in dementia care has been long overdue. This is the first book to focus on the role of Community Mental Health Nurses in their highly valued work with both people with dementia and their families.

Provides a critical analysis of the salient aspects of community nursing, including a move towards more holistic care, assessment of needs, management issues, research, client relationships and values. This text is designed to enable students and educationalists to explore key issues.

Compassion and caring are at the heart of nursing but what does that mean in practice? This text uses real-life narratives, case studies and activities to demonstrate how you can develop the empathy and communication skills you need to create effective, compassionate and caring partnerships with patients, families and colleagues.

Written by a leading academic, this text presents a radical approach to death, ageing and public health that is useful reading for anyone working or studying in those fields.

Competencies for Advanced Nursing Practice is the definitive book to deliver guidance for practitioners working to be recognised for their advanced nursing practice.

Explores the historical, social, political and cultural facets of integration between complementary and alternative medicine and nursing/midwifery. This title provides the critical overview of this important field of health research.

For those working in maternity care who seek the evidence base for therapeutic approaches, this title offers a guide to the principles and practice of complementary therapies, and their application to expectant and new mothers and their babies.

This comprehensive text brings together the scientific background, methodology and teaching skills to support health professionals in providing fertility awareness methods. It offers an ideal reference for general practitioners, practice nurses, and sexual health doctors and nurses.

* The previous editions of this book have been extremely successful, with nearly 80,000 copies sold to date. * Of the 6-7 million children receiving special education in the U.S. , the clear majority are considered Learning Disabled.