Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches [Hardcover]

Carolyn Chambers Clark EdD ARNP FAAN (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0826114075 | ISBN-13: 978-0826114075 | Publication Date: December 27, 2001 | Edition: 1

In her latest book, Dr. Clark applies a holistic, wellness perspective to community health, focusing on community strengths and resilience - such as positive nutrition, healthy environment, fitness, and self care skills - rather than risks and disease. Practitioners and students will find this book a practical and comprehensive resource for creating community health programs and promoting wellness among individuals and groups. Special features include:

• A step-by-step guide to planning, implementing, and marketing community health programs;
• Strategies for wellness nutrition, fitness, stress management, and smoking cessation;
• Strategies for preventing violence in the schools and larger community;
• Tips on sharpening communication skills with individuals and groups; and
• Models of culturally sensitive health promotion programs.

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About the Author

Carolyn Chambers Clark, ARNP, EdD, FAAN, AHNC, founded the Wellness Institute and now runs a website called Wellness and Relationship Resources at www.carolynchambersclark.com that provides continuing education materials, newsletters, seminars, and practice management consultation. As a certified advanced holistic nurse and mental health nurse practitioner, she has maintained a private practice with clients for more than 30 years, focusing on whole person wellness.

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 1980 and is an award-winning author who has conducted research and published widely on wellness, holistic, and self-care topics, including Wellness Practitioner, Integrating Complementary Procedures into Practice, Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches (Springer Publishing Company, 2001),Holistic Assertiveness Skills for Nurses: Empower Yourself (and Others!) (Springer Publishing Company, 2003) and The Encyclopedia of Complementary Health Practice (Springer Publishing Company. 1999) She was also founding editor of the Alternative Health Practitioner: The Journal of Complementary and Natural Care and is the author of Group Leadership Skills (Springer Publishing Company, 2003), now in its fourth edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (December 27, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826114075
• ISBN-13: 978-0826114075
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,397,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm a nurse practitioner, forensic examiner, and wellness educator. Find out more about my health selfcare books and free articles and ebooks at www.carolynchambersclark.com. Find all my fiction books running down the right hand side of http://freeandbargainebooks.blogspot.com; click on a cover to read sample chapters. including...

Thrillers/mysteries (OUT OF BODY: A Paranormal Mystery; FORENSICS BY THE NUMBERS; DARK FORCES; ARMED & DANGEROUS, CANDY, MURDER & ME; VERTICAL STRIPES CAN KILL YOU)

Women's Fiction (ANGEL IN COWBOY BOOTS, LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING, THAT'S AMORE, UNFORGETTABLE)

Young Adult Novels (JANE EYRE BEWARE; MY SUMMER AS AN AU PAIR; VIRGO RISING; HOW I BECAME A WIMBLEDON BALL GIRL, MET THE QUEEN, and MET THE BOY OF MY DREAMS)

Middle Grade Novels (HOW I LEARNED TO DUEL, STOP BULLIES, AND BECOME A HERO; SMALL BOY'S BOOK OF SELF-DEFENSE; MORGAINA, HER MAGIC HORSE, GHOSTS & GODS;

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a dynamite book!, October 27, 2004

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Sarah Simpson, Holistic Nurse (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Health Promotion in Communities: Holistic and Wellness Approaches (Hardcover)

This book not only applies a holistic-wellness perspective to community health, but it also focuses on community strengths and resilience. Chapters focus on positive nutrition, healthy environments, fitness and self-care skills, not risks and disease.

Whether you're a practitioner or a student, you'll find a lot of useful information. Some things I really liked are strategies for preventing violence in the schools and larger community, smoking cessation approaches and information on how to sharpen my communication skills with individuals and groups---something I haven't had in depth since I took psych/mh nursing!