"Therapeutic photography is an increasingly popular approach for increasing self-esteem, resilience and self-reliance in a wide range of people, including those with dementia, autism or mental health problems, school children and offenders. This book provides practical guidance …
"Therapeutic photography is an increasingly popular approach for increasing self-esteem, resilience and self-reliance in a wide range of people, including those with dementia, autism or mental health problems, school children and offenders. This book provides practical guidance …
"Alternatives to Suicide: Beyond Risk and Toward a Life Worth Living demonstrates how fostering resilience and a desire for life can broaden and advance an understanding of suicide. The book summarizes the existing literature and outlines a new focus on the dynamic interplay of …
Table of Contents: Frailty : from awareness to identity Living well with frailty : from identity to care Evidence-based practice in frailty : falls and activity Surgical outcomes, cognitive frailty and delirium Sarcopenia and frailty Interventions in frailty care and enhancing i…
Frailty : from awareness to identity -- Living well with frailty : from identity to care -- Evidence-based practice in frailty : falls and activity -- Surgical outcomes, cognitive frailty and delirium -- Sarcopenia and frailty -- Interventions in frailty care and enhancing indep…
Increasingly, we question 'what makes us healthy?', as well as 'what makes us ill?'. What does this shift mean for frailty? Almost wholly defined in negative terms, the term 'frail' tends to refer to a group of older people who are at highest risk of adverse outcomes such as fal…
Increasingly, we question 'what makes us healthy?', as well as 'what makes us ill?'. What does this shift mean for frailty? Almost wholly defined in negative terms, the term 'frail' tends to refer to a group of older people who are at highest risk of adverse outcomes such as fal…
"This book bridges theory and practice in examining emerging approaches treating traumatised children. Adopting a child-centred perspective, it highlights the importance of the synergy between individual, family and community interventions for recovery from post-traumatic stress…
"Helping Children Cope with Trauma bridges theory and practice in examining emerging approaches to enhancing resilience and treating traumatised children. Adopting a child-centred perspective, it highlights the importance of the synergy between individual, family, community and …
"Helping Children Cope with Trauma bridges theory and practice in examining emerging approaches to enhancing resilience and treating traumatised children. Adopting a child-centred perspective, it highlights the importance of the synergy between individual, family, community and …
In Resilience and Aging, renowned geriatric psychiatrist Dr. Helen Lavretsky explains how enhanced resilience which involves positively adapting to adversity in a way that maintains a persons biological and psychologicalequilibrium can counter that vulnerability.
"When aging adults struggle with social isolation, financial instability, or the difficult work of caring for a spouse with a chronic illness, their levels of stress can be enormous. But many older adults are living longer and are trying to make the best of their later years des…