Integrative Health Promotion: Conceptual Bases for Nursing Practice
Integrative Health Promotion: Conceptual Bases for Nursing Practice is a comprehensive textbook that integrates the conceptual and theoretical bases of lifestyle approaches to health promotion and holistic approaches to healing. Additionally, the text stimulates thought and foundations for practice through the exploration of the theoretical and evidence bases for a variety of noninvasive therapeutic interventions.
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This textbook for graduate level courses in nursing combines traditional Western health promotion theories with those of alternative and complementary medicine. Leddy first compares the "disease perspective" dominant in the epidemiological and public health literature with the more person-centered practices of nurses. She then shows how strategies from both schools of thought may be used to inform practice. Some of the nursing interventions described include herbal therapy, bodywork techniques, and instruction in relaxation. Leddy is professor emerita of nursing at Widener U. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ch. 1Health, health promotion, and healing3Ch. 2Health strengths31Ch. 3The meaning of health : health care belief systems49Ch. 4The meaning of health : models and theories75Ch. 5The meaning of health : cultural influences99Ch. 6Ethical and legal influences on health promotion129Ch. 7Beyond physical assessment157Ch. 8Promoting individual behavior change197Ch. 9Global health : the ecocentric approach219Ch. 10The essence of a healing helping relationship243Ch. 11Empowering community health265Ch. 12Relinquishing bound energy : herbal therapy and aromatherapy293Ch. 13Re-establishing energy flow : physical activity and exercise327Ch. 14Releasing blocked energy : touch and bodywork techniques357Ch. 15Reducing energy depletion : relaxation and stress reduction379Ch. 16Regenerating energy : nutrition409Ch. 17Restoring energy field harmony : energy patterning443
