The successful practical textbook for nursing assistants in acute and long-term care provides the essential nursing content for nursing assistant training. It conveys an understanding of professional nursing actions and corresponds to the tasks and requirements placed on nursing assistants. The language is deliberately kept simple and practical. Key terms are briefly and concisely brought to the point. All important procedures are described step-by-step and comprehensibly and illustrated with colored figures. The basic section introduces nursing models, the nursing process, documentation, observation and perception, the role of professional secrecy, aspects of sexual harassment, ethics, and human and patient rights. The subsequent chapters present the topics and activities of life such as breathing, excretion, eating and drinking, movement, dressing, communicating, personal hygiene, regulating body temperature, up to playing and working, sleeping and sexuality, as well as safety with the necessary assistance from the nursing assistant. The concluding part provides an introduction to anatomical structures and physiological functions. The glossary explains central technical terms in an easily understandable way.

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Outpatient care for mentally ill people The authors of the first comprehensive textbook on outpatient psychiatric nursing describe the development of outpatient psychiatric nursing (OPN) in Germany and Switzerland explain professional foundations and basic nursing attitudes outline organizational elements of OPN, from tour planning, documentation, and marketing to quality, admission, change, and self-management describe process-oriented instruments of outpatient psychiatric nursing, such as the REACH model and the nursing process clarify legal foundations regarding admission requirements, prevention of violence, forced treatment, liability law, and data protection in Germany and Switzerland outline therapeutic offerings in psychotherapy, family and peer group work, promotion of participation, and structuring services for complex illnesses present specific treatment settings for children, adolescents, adults, and older people, supplemented by forensic and transcultural services outline 36 concepts and "action areas," ranging from aggression, adherence, anxiety, chronicity, eating, humor, hope, identity, integration, communication, boredom, powerlessness, manipulation, migration, privacy, recovery, shame, sleep, self-concept, self-neglect, self-harm, sexuality, trauma, grief, trust, confusion, well-being, to compulsion emphasize the importance of personal networks, continuing education and training, and professional political engagement for the further development of outpatient psychiatric nursing.

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The Tidal Model by Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker describes a recovery-oriented psychiatric service based on the human experience of mental distress. The focus is not on diagnoses but on the personal stories and experiences of people with mental health challenges. This model enables professionals to implement person-centered services. The first part, following an interview with the authors, introduces the Tidal Model. It presents the 10 Commitments, the beliefs for tidal-oriented practitioners, the 20 resulting competencies, and the live documentation belonging to the model. The following three parts are dedicated to the three dimensions: the Self, where the focus is on building a bridging relationship and creating a personal safety plan; the World dimension, where a holistic assessment is conducted; and the Other dimension, whose main focus is on group work. The practical implementation and scientific classification of the Tidal Model are discussed in the last part. New to the 2nd edition are supplementary contributions on the application of the model in acute psychiatry, outpatient psychiatric care, and gerontopsychiatric care. The original recovery-oriented psychiatric care by Barker - understanding people with mental health challenges as experts by experience, listening to their stories, and searching with them for ways of mental support.

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What is Easy Language? How exactly do you write and speak in an easy or easier way? This book provides answers. Easy Language is a particularly simple language with short sentences, everyday words, concise statements, and clear presentation. Studies show that about one-third of adults struggle to understand written information from companies, authorities, or media in their daily lives. More than half of the German population has difficulty following explanations from medical and therapeutic professionals. Through Easy Language, health-related information is better understood, thereby improving relationship quality, patient safety, and therapy success. However, Easy Language is also successfully used in other areas to reach more people, reduce misunderstandings, and improve cooperation. Therefore, in addition to medical and care professionals, teachers, parents, executives, politicians, government employees, relatives of people affected by dementia, and many other professional groups benefit from Easy Language. This book gives you an overview of everything you need to know about Easy Language: the basics, the background, and how it works. You will also learn about existing rule sets and how to optimally use the rules for yourself and your goals. The theory is conveyed with entertaining examples, and the included exercises, tips, and checklists support you in your own implementation.

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Humor Can Be Trained and Applied in Doses Scientific findings prove that humor and laughter have a positive effect on our physical and mental health and can be used as an effective coping strategy for stressful and unpleasant situations. This book comprehensively examines the direct and indirect effects of humor on health and how it can be meaningfully applied in various settings. A well-thought-out concept guides the reader through different perspectives of scientific disciplines (public health, psychology, communication science, etc.) and presents potentials and areas of application in different life phases and areas. Humor can: support the therapeutic relationship and positively influence patients' experiences, contribute to promoting well-being and even bring about an improvement in vascular function, strengthen the immune system, or increase pain tolerance, in combination with psychological methods and health communication measures, better reach target groups in health promotion and prevention interventions, increase willingness to learn and health awareness from childhood to old age. Based on many practical examples, the book explains how humor interventions can be planned, carried out, and evaluated. Concrete recommendations for action and tips enable a direct connection to one's own daily routine. An indispensable reference work for all humor researchers and an inspiration for all who want to use humor more purposefully in their professional environment. With a foreword by Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen Physician, science journalist and founder of the HUMOR HILFT HEILEN and Gesunde Erde – Gesunde Menschen foundations

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Noah has holed himself up in his darkened room, as he has so often since the incident at the gravel pit. He desperately clutches his phone, where the photo is displayed. "How can I fix this?" he feverishly ponders. He doesn't even notice the meowing of his perpetually hungry cat. Unfortunately, this isn't the only tricky situation the 16-year-old is facing. Mira probably doesn't want to talk to him anymore, even though things were going so well between them. Maybe his buddy Leo is right and he's just a softie. It's certainly not normal for your heart to pound so much in front of the class and then for you to just lose your breath. He really doesn't know who he can talk to about something like this, because actually "nothing bad" happened, right? His parents certainly wouldn't understand him. How should things proceed? As a reader, you can help decide. Furthermore, at the end of the story, you will find a lot of information and strategies on depression, anxiety, and mental health in general. Questions such as "What can I do if my thoughts won't let me sleep?" or "How do you get out of a slump?" will also be answered.

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The book provides concrete foundations for person-centred care and support for older people and uses everyday examples to show how these can be put into practice.

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'Recovery' deals with the process of recovering from severe and debilitating mental health problems. It is an optimistic book that challenges the common perception that recovery is only for a select few. It describes what changes are needed within psychiatric services to create a recovery culture that enables people to regain their well-being and strive for a better quality of life. A crucial role in this process is played by relationships that enable clients to develop and maintain hope, self-confidence, determination, and orientation. At the heart of the book are five recovery stories that prove that the human spirit is indomitable and empowers us to rise above difficulties and achieve our goals. This book -depicts the promotion of personal development and health and its significance for the recovery process -reflects the current efforts of the psychiatric system to recognize clients as 'experts in their own cause' -presents various approaches and describes the familial, cultural, spiritual, and creative dimensions of the recovery process -has been adapted for the German edition and supplemented with German-language literature and addresses.

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Why do people do what they do, and what goes on inside them? To answer this question, psychological knowledge is presented in an understandable way and applied to everyday care situations. The most important psychiatric disorders are described in striking cases and summarized with regard to symptoms, causes, course, and treatment. The peculiarities of mental disorders in old age are also discussed, as are the burdens and opportunities in nursing professions. From the content Part I: Psychology The study of behavior and experience Cognitive processes: Perception and attribution Learning processes Motivation and emotion Cognitive processes and motivation Social processes Stress and coping with burdens Part II: Psychiatry Diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders Dementia and delirium Affective disorders: depression and mania Schizophrenia and paranoia Addiction Neurotic and somatoform disorders

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CanMEDS in Healthcare  Professional expertise, clinical competence and outcome-orientation are the goals for healthcare professionals to ensure high-quality healthcare in an interdisciplinary team. They achieve this in their roles as Medical Expert, Health Advocate, Professional, Collaborator, Communicator, Scholar, Manager (CanMEDS Role Framework). In clinical practice, it is always a mix of competencies that leads to problem-solving.  After an introduction to CanMEDS, the volumes in the series are based on the activities of the professional groups. Structurally, the volumes are clearly designed with graphics and case studies. The authors are experts in healthcare practice as well as in research and teaching.  Healthcare professions are relationship professions!  Appreciative, reliable and transparent communication is the basis for trust and adherence and thus the foundation of optimal healthcare. The two authors describe the role of the Communicator and the development towards targeted communication in seven phases. The necessary tools for implementation are graphically designed and invite application.

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How do you get to know yourself better? And does self-knowledge lead to successful communication? The author duo takes you on a journey of discovery to your own perspective. Petra Jansen and Stefanie Richter show on a scientific basis how communication can succeed: Only when we know ourselves can communication with others be improved – because we then know how many perspectives and facets there can be, and that our own is just one. In other words: You can deal better with others (communicate) because you better understand how the other person "ticks" and to what extent that fits with your own way. This means you also better understand where facets might not fit together so well and can thus accept where the limits of mutual understanding are. The authors provide background information to better understand and assess oneself and others • explain how to achieve greater acceptance of one's own self (e.g., mindfulness) • present common communication models and supplement them by emphasizing the importance of the sender's and recipient's own perspective. The authors' expansion of the presented communication models incorporates the uniqueness of the communicators and thus breaks the framework of the communication level: The clarity about one's own uniqueness leads to connectedness, from which we all People who are interested in personal development and better communication - a successful coexistence.

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In Germany, around one-fifth of children and adolescents aged eleven to 17 show symptoms of eating disorders. Girls are affected more frequently than boys. Eating disorders appear in the form of bulimia, binge eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, and obesity. This practical handbook for nursing professionals provides basic knowledge, concepts, and skills for the professional care of people with eating disorders. The authors follow a positive, recovery-oriented approach focusing on abilities and resources and describe how to build recovery-promoting relationships. Using case studies, they make it easier to understand people with eating disorders. They describe the clinical assessment of eating disorders, their therapy management, and work with the body image of those affected in a process-oriented manner. They clearly explain the role of family members and integrate them into the recovery process. They highlight the risks of social media in the development of eating disorders and the stigmatization of those affected. They clarify the roles, tasks, problems, and solutions for nursing support for people with eating disorders in various everyday situations and care settings. They provide a didactically well-structured and professionally sound text with practice-oriented case studies, questions for self-reflection, and useful assessments and checklists. The German-language edition was edited and adapted by a nursing expert for eating disorders and refeeding.

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Addiction in old age explained concisely    Addiction in old age, especially addiction to alcohol and sedating medications, has so far received little attention. Age-typical critical life events, e.g., death of relatives, social isolation, and physical limitations due to age-related or chronic diseases, increase the risk of problematic consumption in retirement. Also, people with addiction disorders that have existed since younger years are increasingly aging. Premature need for care and even premature death can be the result.     Addiction disorders are rarely recognized in older people; often, addiction-causing medications are used with incorrect indications (e.g., sedatives), and access to age-appropriate therapies is often difficult. Multimorbidity and polypharmacy, which are particularly observed in older people, complicate the course and worsen the prognosis.    Based on current clinical evidence and experience, this manual offers concrete recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of addiction disorders in old age. They are deliberately designed to be interprofessional, as this complex clinical picture necessitates teamwork. The treatment recommendations are intended to support professionals in developing an understanding and awareness of the various facets of the lives of older people with substance use disorder in order to ensure needs-oriented treatment.

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Health literacy through professional communication Professional communication is a prerequisite for promoting the health literacy of patients, clients, and customers, as well as their social networks. Empowering them to play an active role in their recovery simplifies high-quality care and ensures long-term active health behaviors. In addition to scientific background information, this textbook establishes a comprehensive training program available in the media library. Three tried-and-tested workshops with training materials can be directly used in training, further education, and continuing professional development on communication, health literacy, and patient safety. The approaches are evidence- and theory-based and have been scientifically proven effective in clinics in Germany. The textbook offers: Unique description and presentation of scientifically sound background information, particularly in the areas of communication, health literacy, patient-centeredness, and teamwork First-time description and presentation of an interdisciplinary training program for healthcare professionals in various settings Scientific background information and theory-based explanations that support a systematic development process of one's own training and provide impulses for further application and research. The working materials for the workshops in this book can be downloaded from the Hogrefe website after registration.

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Meeting and Treating People with Addictive Disorders in the Team The practical handbook for interdisciplinary care and treatment of people with addictive disorders outlines the care situation of addicts, the epidemiology of substance use, treatment guidelines and classification systems describes diagnostic tools for addictive disorders and co-occurring conditions, motivational theories and therapeutic procedures such as cognitive behavioral therapy, group therapy, motivational interviewing, family work and manualized treatment programs differentiates and characterizes substance-related and non-substance-related addictions regarding epidemiology, mortality, ingredients, forms of consumption, effects, withdrawal symptoms and sequelae describes substance-related addictions from alcohol to cannabis, gabapentinoids, hallucinogens, cocaine, opiates, psychostimulants such as amphetamines and ecstasy, to new psychoactive substances such as designer and bath salt drugs describes non-substance-related addictions such as pathological gambling, internet addiction, addictive work, exercise, shopping and sexual behavior connects theoretical knowledge with interdisciplinary action through examples from medical, nursing and social work practice highlights the topics of migration and addiction, harm reduction, co-dependency, supervision and stigmatization offers an outlook on the digital transformation of addiction help, hospital-at-home treatment (StäB) and the future of interdisciplinary addiction treatment.

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Recognizing and treating acute psychiatric emergencies, individualized medication therapy, and managing long-term consequences are part of the daily routine in general practice. For the first time, the most common mental illnesses are consistently presented jointly by general practitioners and psychiatrists. Experts, from an interdisciplinary perspective, place great emphasis on concrete recommendations with high practical relevance. Leading symptoms and their differential diagnosis: Depressive episode or long-lasting affective disorder? Psychotherapy: What happens after diagnosis? Functional and somatoform bodily complaints. Peculiarities in special life situations: Old age, pregnancy (postpartum); What should be considered in specific psychopharmacotherapy? Preventive psychiatry: Early detection of affective disorders and suicide prevention; Risk assessment and early detection for dementias; Screening in young people Mental illnesses and social environment: Refugees and asylum seekers; Domestic violence, psychotrauma, and self-harm Concrete recommendations for forensic and organizational issues: Assessment for guardianship law; Inability to work and earn; Illness in the workplace; Outpatient care in homes: Basic knowledge of social psychiatry - Leading symptoms and their differential diagnosis: Depressive episode or long-lasting affective disorder? - Psychotherapy: What happens after diagnosis? - Functional and somatoform bodily complaints - Peculiarities in special life situations: Old age, pregnancy (postpartum); What should be considered in specific psychopharmacotherapy? - Preventive psychiatry: Early detection of affective disorders and suicide prevention; Risk assessment and early detection for dementias; Screening in young people - Mental illnesses and social environment: Refugees and asylum seekers; Domestic violence, psychotrauma, and self-harm - Concrete recommendations for forensic and organizational issues: Assessment for guardianship law; Inability to work and earn; Illness in the workplace; - Outpatient care in homes: Basic knowledge of social psychiatry

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The book explores the development of aggression and violence from neurobiological and psychological perspectives.

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The book focuses on the fundamental principles of person-centered work, such as empathy, client appreciation, and congruence, and offers practical guidance for everyday institutional settings and therapeutic interactions.

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The successful textbook by the German-Swiss editorial team presents the fundamentals, framework conditions, tools, skills, nursing concepts, and specific settings of psychiatric nursing, all client and nursing-oriented. The fourth edition has been extensively updated and expanded. It clearly explains phenomena and life challenges that nurses encounter in psychiatric fields of action and describes them in a nursing process-oriented manner. The experienced team of over 70 authors describes in the basic section: the concept of nursing, nursing-theoretical foundations, characteristics of health, illness and recovery, elements of social inclusion, as well as basic knowledge of nursing ethics and history. It summarizes the framework conditions of psychiatric nursing regarding research, profession, law, care, quality management and teamwork. It explains in detail the two tools of psychiatric nursing: the nursing relationship and interaction, as well as the nursing process. It names central skills of psychiatric nursing, from working with relatives and mindfulness to counseling, group work and conversation, to home visits, crisis intervention, milieu design, person and resource orientation, symptom management, and coercive measures. It describes from A-Z over 40 essential concepts of psychiatric nursing, such as aggression, anxiety, autonomy, coping, loneliness, emotion regulation, eating disorders, hope, humor, communication, boredom, powerlessness, manipulation, and migration experience. It illustrates the building blocks and nursing process elements of the concepts of shame, sleep, pain, self-harm and neglect, as well as sexuality, spirituality, stigmatization, hearing voices, and addiction, suicidality, grief, and trauma, up to restlessness, trust, confusion, and time perception. It explains the specifics of settings in outpatient and inpatient, acute and long-term care, child and adolescent psychiatry, addiction help, inpatient psychotherapy, and forensic psychiatry. "The editors of this textbook... have created a truly phenomenal work. It is obvious that experts were at work here. ... I only have one problem with the book: it's hard to put down." Prof. Dr. Ruth Schröck

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Communication and interaction are among the core competencies that must be acquired in nursing education and applied in practice. The authors of the concise textbook on communication and interaction in nursing introduce the basics of communication regarding the functions of language, the dimensions of a message, and nonverbal communication, describe the communicative competencies of empathy and active listening, present standardized conversation and reflection formats such as supervision, peer consultation, and staff appraisals, outline the specifics of communication in hospitals, provide additional information on the topics of humor, interprofessional communication, mirror neurons, and micro-training for medication intake, offer in-depth information on communication with children and adolescents regarding their language acquisition and development, convey practical information on interaction with elderly people regarding brief interactions, communication with people with dementia, organizing a storytelling circle, and dealing with experiences of loss in dying and grieving individuals, cover the curriculum-relevant content of general nursing education regarding the design of person- and situation-oriented communication and counseling, and facilitate the learning and application of the content with numerous exercises, vivid illustrations, curricular references, and practice-oriented examples.

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