Dynamics of the Self-Help

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Author : Jean-Marie Romeder
Genre : Self-care, Health

Summary : This publication offers a summary of current knowledge in the field of self-help/mutual aid. It proposes a new definition of self-help groups, outlines a theory of motivation for mutual aid that gives readers a better understanding of the forces and dynamics at work in the mutual aid practised in self-help groups. It proposes a model for personal health, examines the sources of reluctance many people have to self-help groups and the way one can overcome them. It also contains an overview of numerous studies on self-help groups, and of the activities that have lent support to the self-help movement. Finally, it presents the similarities and differences between the activities of members of self-help groups and those of professionals.

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Author : Adrianne Dill Linton
Genre : Medical

Summary : Provide quality nursing care for adults with medical-surgical and psychiatric disorders! Building upon the fundamentals of nursing, Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition helps you master the role and responsibilities of the LPN/LVN in medical-surgical care. The text addresses the special problems of older adult patients, then covers each major disorder by body system, presenting patient problems, goals, outcome criteria, and nursing interventions. As LPN/LVNs do not formulate NANDA diagnoses, the book is organized by patient problems rather than NANDA nursing diagnoses. Written by noted educators Adrianne Dill Linton and Mary Ann Matteson, this text helps you build the clinical judgment skills you need to succeed on the Next-Generation NCLEX-PN® examination and in nursing practice.

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Author : Guido Iaccarino
Genre : Medical

Summary : Population aging and the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases are catalyzing a fundamental transformation in public health systems. This shift is away from merely reactive disease management to a focus on early diagnosis, risk stratification, health promotion, prevention, and self-management. The integration of digital technologies such as the Internet of Things, virtual care, remote monitoring, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, blockchain, and smart wearables, alongside platforms that facilitate data exchange and tools for accurate data acquisition, is enabling the rollout of innovative and economically sustainable preventive health interventions. These technologies are enhancing patient lifestyles, promoting continuous care, and mitigating the severity of disease exacerbations. Despite advancements on the supply side with a growing array of technological solutions, there remains a critical need on the demand side to develop IT-supported interventions that are precisely tailored to meet the multifaceted needs of patients—spanning health, social, and psychological spheres. This Research Topic aims to explore the design, implementation, testing, and economic analysis of cutting-edge services powered by information technologies. It seeks to advance knowledge on patient-centered approaches for both primary and secondary prevention, facilitated by IT solutions. The goal is to foster a better understanding of the methodologies involved in planning, executing, and evaluating pilot studies designed to measure the effect of digital interventions on patient outcomes. Additionally, this topic will address the creation and maintenance of these innovative services, focusing on ensuring their sustainability and effectiveness over time. To gather further insights in these areas, we welcome articles addressing, but not limited to, the following themes: Innovative methodologies for identifying and addressing patient’s unmet needs through IT-supported social and health interventions. Challenges related to financing, governance, and organizational management of health promotion and prevention interventions scaled by IT solutions, involving diverse stakeholder groups. Creative frameworks for the co-design, co-creation, and co-production of IT-supported health services tailored to specific patient needs. Multidisciplinary strategies for the integrative design and pilot testing of IT-supported health and social care services. Exploration of the opportunities, criticisms, and ethical issues surrounding the deployment of digital solutions in disease prevention and health promotion.

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Author : Min Han
Genre : Psychology

Summary : This book aims to reintroduce subjectivity in psychology and social sciences, exploring the uniqueness of human life. It features contributions from 26 scholars across various perspectives, including cultural psychology, developmental psychology, feminist perspectives, semiotics, and anthropology.

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Author : United States. Veterans Administration. Office of Academic Affairs
Genre : Medical education

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Author : Thalia Brookstone
Genre : Self-Help

Summary : Feeling drained isn't a productivity problem—it's a signal that something in your life is misaligned with your actual capacity. This book explores the psychological patterns beneath chronic exhaustion: the ways you've learned to override your body's signals, the guilt that makes rest feel like failure, and the cultural messages that equate worth with constant output. It examines why energy management advice often fails, how the pressure to optimize productivity actually depletes you further, and what your fatigue is really trying to communicate about your boundaries, values, and unacknowledged needs. Through compassionate psychological insight, it reframes energy not as a resource to maximize but as intelligence to listen to. It offers perspective on the difference between genuine rest and numbing, the hidden cost of pushing through depletion, and the quiet recalibration that happens when you stop treating your exhaustion as an obstacle to productivity and start seeing it as wisdom. This isn't about doing more efficiently—it's about understanding what your energy is telling you about how you're actually living.

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Author : Samuel R. Aymer
Genre : Social Science

Summary : Intimate Partner Violence: Clinical Interventions with Partners and Their Children brings into focus an ecological and clinical frame for addressing the resulting psychological effects of intimate partner violence (IPV). Aymer presents a perspective that is often omitted from social science textbooks which are geared to policy practice, tending to expose students to macro-systemic ideas (including criminal justice policies and procedures) relative to IPV. However, this book expands clinical practice pedagogy by reinforcing the need for students to go beyond macro issues in order to deliver competent clinically-based interventions that help partners and their children work through the consequential effects of partner violence. Designed for graduate students in social work, psychology, gender studies and allied mental health programs, it expands the discourse, arguing that IPV is a complex psycho-social-political-relational problem that must be understood from a multi-theoretical perspective. Through case studies, theory, research, and the author's clinical practice wisdom, this text will: increase understanding of how to work clinically with women affected by IPV, increase knowledge of how to work with abusive men, heighten knowledge of how IPV affects children and adolescents, expand knowledge of social and cultural notions, and explore men's role in terms of advocating against gender-based violence.