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Book Synopsis Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow by : Wendy Austin
Download or read book Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow written by Wendy Austin and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers who become “too tired to care.” Compassion, long seen as the foundation of ethical caring, is increasingly understood as a threat to the well-being of those who offer it. Through the lens of hermeneutic phenomenology, the authors present an insider’s perspective on compassion fatigue, its effects on the body, on the experience of time and space, and on personal and professional relationships. Accounts of health professionals, alongside examinations of poetry, images, movies, and literature, are used to explore the notions of compassion, hope, and hopelessness as they inform the meaning of caring work. The authors frame their exposé of compassion fatigue with the very Canadian metaphor of “lying down in the snow.” If suffering is imagined as ever-falling snow, then the need for training and resources for safe journeying in “winter country” becomes apparent. Recognizing the phenomenon of compassion fatigue reveals the role that health services education and the moral habitability of our healthcare environments play in supporting professionals’ ability to act compassionately and to endure.
Book Synopsis Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy by : A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
Download or read book Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy written by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone Weil is an often-overlooked thinker whose insights could radically reshape contemporary discourses on religion, nature, art, ethics, work, politics, and education. This collection of essays situates Simone Weil’s thought alongside prominent Continental thinkers and their philosophical concerns to show the ways in which she belongs to—but also stands outside—some of the major streams of 'Continental discourse', including phenomenology, ethics of embodied disposition and difference, and post-Marxian political thought. For the first time in a major work, intersections between the ideas of Weil and figures such as Nietzsche, Berdyaev, Foucault, Blanchot, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Chrétien, Agamben, Fanon, and Rancière are closely examined. The volume is authored by an international team of leading scholars in Weil studies and in contemporary Continental philosophy of religion more broadly. Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy is not only an unprecedented resource for Weil scholars who seek to read her in broader (and more current) philosophical terms, but also an important addition to the libraries of scholars and students of Continental philosophy and theology engaged in thinking about some of the most pressing questions of our time.
Book Synopsis Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice by : Wendy Austin
Download or read book Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice written by Wendy Austin and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 2100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the challenges of mental health nursing—in Canada and around the world. Optimized for the unique challenges of Canadian health care and thoroughly revised to reflect the changing field of mental health, Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice, 4th Edition, is your key to a generalist-level mastery of fundamental knowledge and skills in mental health nursing. Gain the knowledge you need to deliver quality psychiatric and mental health nursing care to a diverse population. • Discover the biological foundations of psychiatric disorders and master mental health promotion, assessment, and interventions for patients at every age. • Explore current research and key topics as you prepare for the unique realities of Canadian clinical practice. • Gain a deeper understanding of the historical trauma of Aboriginal peoples and its implications for nursing care. • Online Video Series, Lippincott Theory to Practice Video Series: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing includes videos of true-to-life patients displaying mental health disorders, allowing students to gain experience and a deeper understanding of mental health patients.
Book Synopsis Positive Psychotherapy by : Tayyab Rashid
Download or read book Positive Psychotherapy written by Tayyab Rashid and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century the focus of psychotherapy has been on what ails us, with the therapeutic process resting upon the assumption that unearthing past traumas, correcting faulty thinking, and restoring dysfunctional relationships is curative. And indeed, they are - but in the rush to identify and reduce symptoms of mental disorder, something important has been overlooked: the positives. Should enhancing well-being, and building upon character strengths and virtues, be explicit goals of therapy? Positive Psychotherapy provides therapists with a session-by-session therapeutic approach based on the principles of positive psychology, a burgeoning area of study examining the conditions and processes that enable individuals, communities, and institutions to flourish. This clinician's manual begins with an overview of the theoretical framework for positive psychotherapy, exploring character strengths and positive psychology practices, processes, and mechanisms of change. The second half of the book contains 15 positive psychotherapy sessions, each complete with core concepts, guidelines, skills, and worksheets for practicing skills learned in session. Each session also includes at least one vignette as well as discussion of cross-cultural implications. Mental health professionals of all orientations will find in Positive Psychotherapy a refreshing alternative to symptom-based approaches that will endow clients with a sense of purpose and meaning that many have found lacking in more traditional therapies.
Book Synopsis Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness by : Lacie White
Download or read book Palliative Care Nursing as Mindfulness written by Lacie White and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As nurses, we hear about mindfulness all the time, but what does that actually mean in practice? In this book readers are invited into conversation to explore how mindfulness influences palliative care nurses’ approaches to caring for themselves and others through experiences of living-dying. Under the guise of stress reduction and self-care, the assumption often made is that mindfulness can smooth out difficult experiences. Instead, the objective of this inquiry is not to bypass the practice of caring in those spaces that are really hard, but to understand how nurses are working directly within them. Calling out from the shadows—and our bodies—the intensity of palliative care nursing practice arises. In this text, a dialogue unfolds of nurses caring in deeply meaningful practice environments while searching for ground that is perpetually shifting, uncertain, and fraught with suffering and strong emotion. Integrating literature across nursing, sociology, and contemplative scholarship, evocative stories from palliative care nurses lead in this conversation—their words in italics—showing how they are guided into action through connection with-in their bodies. At other times, stories show how nurses are taking pause and drawing on various somatic practices to unravel entanglements that touch on their own humanity. These stories also offer insight into how systemic forces, across educational and organizational institutions, are either enhancing or constraining the way nurses engage mindfulness as a relationally embodied ethic of care. This insightful volume is not a how-to guide, rather it is a timely resource exploring approaches for palliative care nurses to care for themselves and others with mindfulness and compassion. Those seeking nuanced perspectives, particularly in relation to embodying mindfulness through suffering and strong emotion, will be drawn to this text. Qualitative researchers studying emotionally sensitive topics may also find inspiration in the narrative, arts-based, and embodied methods that shape this inquiry.
Book Synopsis Understanding Other-Oriented Hope by : Andrew J. Howell
Download or read book Understanding Other-Oriented Hope written by Andrew J. Howell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief integrates the literature and research on other-oriented hope. It discusses the position of other-oriented hope as one manifestation of the broader attribute of other-interest and argues the importance of other-interest in well-being. The Brief examines definitions and attributes of other-oriented hope, based upon theoretical and empirical understandings of hope more generally. Thereafter it reviews both qualitative and quantitative research findings concerning the occurrence of other-oriented hope in several domains, including other-oriented hope among parents of ill children, other-oriented hope among caregivers and other-oriented hope among the elderly. Several theoretical frameworks for understanding the phenomenon of other-oriented hope are considered, as are the functions of and elements comprising, other-oriented hope. The differentiation of other-oriented hope and related concepts, such as compassion and love, is considered. Finally, the brief examines the application of other-oriented hope to practical work in counselling and caregiving and outlines several directions for future work on other-oriented hope.
Download or read book Whiter Than Snow written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes the moving and powerful story of a small town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there Whiter Than Snow opens in 1920, on a spring afternoon in Swandyke, a small town near Colorado's Tenmile Range. Just moments after four o'clock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high above the tiny hamlet and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path including nine young children who are walking home from school. But only four children survive. Whiter Than Snow takes you into the lives of each of these families: There's Lucy and Dolly Patch—two sisters, long estranged by a shocking betrayal. Joe Cobb, Swandyke's only black resident, whose love for his daughter Jane forces him to flee Alabama. There's Grace Foote, who hides secrets and scandal that belies her genteel façade. And Minder Evans, a civil war veteran who considers his cowardice his greatest sin. Finally, there's Essie Snowball, born Esther Schnable to conservative Jewish parents, but who now works as a prostitute and hides her child's parentage from all the world. Ultimately, each story serves as an allegory to the greater theme of the novel by echoing that fate, chance, and perhaps even divine providence, are all woven into the fabric of everyday life. And it's through each character's defining moment in his or her past that the reader understands how each child has become its parent's purpose for living. In the end, it's a novel of forgiveness, redemption, survival, faith and family.
Book Synopsis Social Work Practice in Africa by : Janestic Twikirize
Download or read book Social Work Practice in Africa written by Janestic Twikirize and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of integrating indigenous knowledge systems into mainstream social work and ensuring context-specific, culturally relevant practice has long been emphasised in Africa and the Global South. This book, based on empirical research, presents a selection of indigenous and innovative models and approaches of problem solving that will inspire social work practice and education. At the core of these models lies a conceptual understanding of the community as the overarching principle for effective social work and social development in African contexts. The empirical part of the book has a focus on East Africa and highlights case examples from Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, and Kenya. The book is intended for use by those involved in social work and social development practice, social work educators, students, as well as policy makers. It is relevant not just for audiences in Africa but also the global social work community, especially those interested in promoting culturally relevant social work.
Book Synopsis Stories for the Christian year by : Cecilia Anne Jones
Download or read book Stories for the Christian year written by Cecilia Anne Jones and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Falling Snow written by Glenn Thomas Fell and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of inspirations by a naturalist and lover of nature. They arose from the opportunity to do walks, hikes, runs, and cross country skis during which time was spent sitting alone in silence and stillness in nature. These inspirations describe both what was seen by the eyes and heard by ear and the heart at each location and each has a photo taken at the site where the inspiration occurred. This book is the result of practicing not thinking when alone in nature and instead just observing and listening. The locations are in the tallgrass prairies of the Flint Hills of Kansas and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This book is created in the hope that others will find inspiration for their own mind and heart in reading it and be inspired to pursue their own encounters with nature, even if through the simplicity of looking out a window. The book title comes from the author's adopted nature name, Falling Snow, and because the inspirations arrived like snow falling.
Book Synopsis In Falling Snow by : Mary-Rose MacColl
Download or read book In Falling Snow written by Mary-Rose MacColl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, a bestselling writer’s American debut and a heart-wrenching novel of WWI—a tale of love, regret, and the powerful draw of the road not taken Iris Crane’s tranquil life is shattered when a letter summons memories from her bittersweet past: her first love, her best friend, and the tragedy that changed everything. Iris, a young Australian nurse, travels to France during World War I to bring home her fifteen-year-old brother, who ran away to enlist. But in Paris she meets the charismatic Dr. Frances Ivens, who convinces Iris to help establish a field hospital in the old abbey at Royaumont, staffed entirely by women—a decision that will change her life. Seamlessly interwoven is the story of Grace, Iris’s granddaughter in 1970s Australia. Together their narratives paint a portrait of the changing role of women in medicine and the powerful legacy of love.
Book Synopsis Translation by : Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)
Download or read book Translation written by Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide by : George A. Crofutt
Download or read book Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide written by George A. Crofutt and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Michigan Engineers' Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society.
Book Synopsis Michigan Engineers' Annual Containing the Proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society by :
Download or read book Michigan Engineers' Annual Containing the Proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society by :
Download or read book Proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society.
Book Synopsis The Great Bordello by : Avery Hopwood
Download or read book The Great Bordello written by Avery Hopwood and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2011 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, 'The Great Bordello' is a semi-autobiographical novel about aspiring playwright Edwin Endsleigh, who heads for Broadway to earn his fortune.
