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A strengths-based perspective is imperative for holistic care and empowerment. This book presents a strengths-based approach for every day nursing practice, describing why nurses work with strengths within the context of problems, challenges and deficits, how nurses assess for strengths, the strategies nurses employ to help people meet their challenges, and the beneficial effects of a strengths-based approach on the patient.  The book also examines how to care for patients and families across settings (hospital, home, community), across the continuum of care (health, acute, chronic, rehabilitative, palliative), and across age groups (newborns to the elderly) by identifying and working with strengths to promote health and healing. Undergraduate and graduate students will find this text to be an essential tool as they seek to expand their understanding of strengths-based nursing. Clinicians, nurses, social workers, and therapists will also find this book useful.   Key features:   Identifies core strengths required for optimal functioning in health, recovery from illness, and managing crisis challenges Provides rich testimony from practicing nurses on how to identify, assess, mobilize, and develop strengths Includes pedagogical aides on a digital (DVD/web-based) adjunct Documents effects of the strengths-based approach to nursing on patients, families, and nurses

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Laurie N. Gottlieb, RN, PhD, is a full Professor, School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where she holds the Flora Madeline Shaw Chair of Nursing. She is the recipient of two prestigious awards: the Centennial Award, the first and one-time only award, from the Canadian Nurses Association recognizing the 100 most influential nurses in Canada; and, in 2009, the L'Insigne Du Merit, the highest recognition accorded to a nurse from the Order of Nurses of the Province of Quebec and the Prix du Conseil Interprofessionnel du Québec (CIQ). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Journal of Nursing Research and was recently named Nurse-Scholar-in-Residence at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, the largest hospital in Montreal. She has researched, lectured and published extensively on the McGill Model of Nursing and has over 40 other articles in peer reviewed journals, both American and Canadian. Her books include A Collaborative Partnership Approach to Care (Mosby/Elsevier, 2005, with French and Japanese translations) and Dreams Have No Expiry Date: A Practical Way for Women to Take Charge of their Futures (Random House, with Dutch, Korean and Portuguese translations). Other books include A Perspective on Health, Family, Learning and Collaborative Partnership and The Collaborative Partnership Approach to Care: A Delicate Balance (McGill University, French and Japanese translations). ||Anne Snowdon, MSc, PhD, is an Associate Professor, University of Windsor, in the Faculty of Nursing and the Odette School of Business. Dr. Snowdon is a theme coordinator for Auto 21 Centers of Excellence. She holds an MSc from McGill University and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Michigan. She has extensive research in family health promotion, has worked as chief nursing officer, and has extensive clinical experience.

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