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"This succinct and insightful guide to reflective practice is designed for students and practitioners across a range of professions in the human services - social work, healthcare and related fields. The third edition covers the ways in which pandemic-induced remote working has affected opportunities for spontaneous group reflection. It also includes new content which looks at the significance of reflective practice for management and leadership and...

This edition has been extensively revised and updated to reflect the developments and advances in research into nursing. Key features include new chapters on evidence-based practice, implementing change and systematic reviews.

This is a helpful and practical guide that draws out what is known about the effectiveness of care in normal labour and birth. The text contains information to help students and practicing midwives keep abreast of the evidence surrounding normal birth and ensure their practice takes full advantage of it.

Quantitative methodology is a highly specialized field. This handbook is intended to introduce applied statisticians, empirical researchers & graduate students to the broad array of state-of-the-art quantitative methodologies in the social sciences.

For practicing or student counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, health professionals, and educators, analyzes current research and practice in stress counselling as more and more client groups are needing it. The 11 studies combine presentations from a symposium for the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling (date and location not noted.

Patient transfer is becoming more frequent as specialist departments are increasingly concentrated in the larger hospitals. This book gives a systematic approach for the safe transportation of critically ill patients between hospitals.

This text presents up-to-date magnetic resonance techniques for the brain and spine. The emphasis is on the neuropathology of diseases, the correlation of MR findings with biophysiochemical alterations, and the clinical aspects of neurologic diseases.

Providing essential information needed in clinical practice for the diagnosis and management of patients with blood disorders, this handbook covers haematological investigations and their interpretation, and commonly used protocols.