New book: Writing for publication nursing and healthcare

 Roger Watson has co-edited:

Holland K & Watson R (2021) Writing for publication in nursing and healthcare Wiley, Oxford

(NB: contains chapters by Roger Watson & Mark Hayter)

Timely Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia Care

Timely Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia Care Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Edited by Jill Manthorpe and Esme Moniz-Cook
This new edited volume seeks to meet the growing need for ways to support people with dementia across the whole course and trajectory of dementia care, with a wide scope of expertise. The book addresses how practitioners and carers can apply psychosocial interventions - which take into consideration the individual, social and environmental aspects of a person’s life - across this trajectory, right from the earliest stages through to practice in care home settings. Divided into four sections, each covers a different context in which people with dementia can be supported: at home; in community settings; family and carer support; and those in care homes and hospitals. In addition, there is a distinct focus throughout on evidence-based practice and its implementation in real-world settings. This book is essential reading for any practitioner and caregiver wanting to support people with dementia.

Liz Walker has co-authored:

Leah Gilbert, Liz Walker, Silvie Cooper, Kezia Lewins, Rajohane Matshedisho, Lorena Nunez-Carrasco, Terry-Ann Selikow (2019) Society, Health and Disease in South Africa Wits University Press, Johannesburg

The onset of the quadruple burden of disease in South Africa, the challenges faced by the medical establishment to curtail the rapid growth of multiple epidemics, the inadequate response by the state to various inequities in the health system, and the public debates associated with it, have all combined to draw attention to the sociological aspects of health and disease. Sociology as a resource of knowledge and a unique analytical and conceptual perspective can be used to understand, explain and positively infl uence the course of health and disease in South African society and our responses to it.

Preparing for higher education study

Penny Grubb has published: 

Grubb P (2018) Preparing for higher education study 

Preparing for Higher Education Study aims to support students starting out in higher education. It focuses on the key skills required to make the step up from school or college to university education.

Anatomy & Physiology for Nurses 14th edition

Roger Watson has just published the 14th edition of Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses with Elsevier. 

Probiotics for mental health

Professor Colin Martin
has co-authored:

Probiotics in Mental Health 

From the website:
The concept that the gut and brain are intricately linked is widely accepted not just within the lay community but increasingly within scientific and therapeutic circles as well. Terms such as "heartache" and "gut wrenching" are more than mere metaphor, they represent key fundamental aspects of human experience which all individuals will invariably endure from time to time. The relationship between the gut and brain is complex but fundamental to health and wellbeing. Increasing and compelling evidence supports the existence of a relationship between the health and status of the gut and the manifestation of significant psychopathology.

Book review of: Chris Clarke and Emma Wolverson (eds), Positive psychology approaches to dementia

An excellent review, by Prof John Keady of University of Manchester has been published in Dementia; the opening paragraph of John's review says:

This is a ground-breaking book. It is also an important book as it challenges (past) negative discourses in dementia and sets out a new direction for dementia studies and everyday clinical practice. As the name of the text suggests, the focus is squarely on affirming person-centred values with each of the chapters presenting positive psychology understanding/themes and their application to living well with dementia. In the hands of less experienced editors, advancing this understanding could be seen as a form of idealism as, at times, the lived experience of dementia can dance uncontrollably to the tune of stress and distress, emotions that ripple through the generations and into the communities where people with dementia live. However, to their enormous credit, the editors do not shirk from this critique/responsibility and emphatically stress that a balance needs to be struck between idealism and realism. Idealism as expressed through the positive narrative of the text and realism in that this will not be everyone’s experience.

Conducting health checks using the serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP]

Jacquie White has written a chapter:

Dr Jacuei White

White, J. Conducting health checks using the serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP] Chapter 10 In Bradshaw, T. & Mairs, H. Eds (2017) Health Promotion and Wellbeing in People with Mental Health Problems Sage, London

New book by Kate Galvin

Professor Kate Galvin has co-edited:

Kate Galvin

Galvin K, Prendergast M (2015) Poetic inquiry II - seeing, caring, uunderstanding Sense Publishers, Rotterdam

New midwifery text from local team

The midwifery team along with Julie Jomeen and clinicians from local NHS rust partners have published:

Fundamentals of Midwifery: A textbook for studentshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Fundamentals-Midwifery-Textbook-Students-E-Text/dp/1118528026

New book by Julie Santy-Tomlinson

Julie Santy has co-authored:

Julie Santy-Tomlinson

Clarke S, Santy-Tomlinson J (2014) Orthopaedic and trauma nursing: an evidence-based approach to musculoskeletal care Wiley, Oxford