Wellness Defined

Health and Wellness, Tenth Edition is written in a personal and engaging style with specific tips and aids to help students improve their health habits. This text encourages students to learn the skills they need to enhance the quality and longevity of life. Health and Wellness covers the many perspectives of personal health, including physical, emotional, mental, social, environmental, and spiritual perspectives, with a central theme of self-responsibility for one’s behavior.

This book presents scientific wellness interventions to aid healthcare professionals helping people complete their journeys to full health.

Valuable insights into the potentials, risks, and excitement of establishing a private practice in occupational therapy. This groundbreaking volume provides general and specific ideas to help guide the OT professional who is considering independent practice.

This isn't just a guide; it's an empowering narrative that encourages you to pursue wellness in every aspect of your life. With practical exercises, real-life stories, and evidence-based insights, this book equips you with the tools to understand and pursue true wellness. In "Wellness Defined" author Michaella Unnasch invites you on a compelling journey of self-discovery, offering a roadmap to understand and pursue the 8 Dimensions of Wellness. This insightful guide goes beyond conventional health narratives, illuminating the interconnected threads that weave a tapestry of true wellness. Whether you're seeking a more fulfilling life or aiming to revitalize a specific dimension, "Wellness Defined" is your companion on this transformative journey. Join Michaella Unnasch on this enlightening expedition, and discover the transformative power of pursuing and understanding the 8 Dimensions of Wellness. Your path to true wellness begins here.

Now in its Fifth Edition, this text provides a comprehensive and wellness-oriented approach to the theory and practice of gerontologic nursing. Organized around the author's unique "functional consequences theory" of gerontologic nursing, the book explores "normal" age-related changes and risk factors that often interfere with optimal health and functioning, to effectively identify and teach health-promotion interventions. The author provides research-based background information and a variety of practical assessment and intervention strategies for use in every clinical setting. Highlights of this edition include expanded coverage of evidence-based practice, more first-person stories, new chapters, and clinical tools such as assessment tools recommended by the Hartford Institute of Geriatric Nursing.

The focus of Wellness and Physical Therapy will be the application of wellness, particularly fitness wellness, to the practice and profession of physical therapy. The book addresses all items related to wellness in the Normative Model of Physical Therapist Professional Education: Version 2004, the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, and APTA’s Education Strategic Plan. The text consists of foundational knowledge, theoretical models, empirical research and application of material to physical therapy practice. Evidence-based practice is emphasized through a mixed approach of formalist and reader-response. An important text for all physical therapy students! Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.