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This book includes multiple chapters related to themes on nursing and midwifery. Some of the topics explored here are clinical decision improving applications, healthy and happy aging, house accidents and first aid, complementary and alternative medicine, sleep quality in paediatric burn patients, dyspnoea management in palliative care, and personalized chemotherapy. It provides essential information on the most important issues in nursing and midwifery, including quality of life, depression, physical restraints and care dependency. It offers several suggestions for future research in nursing, basing its findings on surveys and scientific literature reviews. This book will appeal to professional nurses, nursing scientists, nursing students, scholars in health sciences and nursing, medical center staff, health sciences students, and other healthcare professionals. It will also provide a valuable resource for those working in nursing homes, as well as researchers in the field.
Up to date the scientific discussion about how frequency and regularity of physical activity can be increased is dominated by social-cognitive models. However, increasing evidence suggests that emotions and feelings have greater influence on physical activity than originally assumed (Rhodes, Fiala, & Conner, 2009). Generally speaking, humans possess an evaluative system with a basic action tendency to approach pleasurable events and to avoid aversive ones (Cacioppo & Berntson, 1999). Evaluative responses to a behavior and associated emotional states may influence a decision regarding whether or not to repeat being physically active. Generally, behavior associated with positive evaluations ha...
Journeys to school are important time and space transitions between homes and schools for children worldwide. This book comprises various chapters providing insights into children’s experiences of this essential aspect of their lives and schooling experience. From an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, leading international scholars focus on how children from very different contexts travel between their homes and their schools and how this transitional space impacts their daily lives and interactions with their environment. The way to and from school becomes a third place for some children who develop meaningful social and environmental relationships, mix up with children who belong to different groups, learn, relax, and so on. Studies from a wide range of disciplines and using different methods have highlighted benefits and risks related to children’s journey to school, providing insightful data regarding modes of transportation, health and wellbeing issues, school organisation and legislation, safety or urban development, and so on.
Athletes are naturally exposed to significant psychological challenges in sports, but do not wait helplessly for the assistance of sports psychologists or trainers. Instead, they practise one form or another of self-regulation. Self-talk in Sport explores one such self-regulatory strategy: self-talk, the inner voice that accompanies every human being throughout their lives. Over time, research has revealed many secrets of self-talk in sport, though many others remain unveiled. This book offers you the opportunity to discover the multiple identities of our self-talk, how the “inner coach” serves as a rational counterpart to the irrational self, and what we need to do to develop our inner ...
Dieses Referenzwerk bietet eine Zusammenstellung von Leitlinien und Empfehlungen zur psychologischen Begutachtung von Funktionen und Funktionseinschränkungen und stellt somit eine umfangreiche praktisch relevante Orientierung zur Qualitätssicherung gutachterlicher Tätigkeiten dar. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt hierbei auf der psychologischen Einzelfalldiagnostik und deren Bewertung im Laufe der gutachterlichen Beurteilung.Neben rechtlichen und ethischen Rahmenbedingungen werden aktuelle psychologische und medizinische Standards und Leitlinien sowie Rechtsverordnungen zur Funktions- und Leistungsbeurteilung aufgeführt und durch Empfehlungen zur evidenzbasierten psychologischen Funktionsd...
This concise and accessible guide to designing a dissertation, thesis or other major study helps researchers achieve the best possible outcomes. It sets out approaches that are not limited by conventions, but instead give the researcher the confidence to handle questions, literature reviews, data collection, analysis and other processes.