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Integrative Health Promotion: Conceptual Bases for Nursing Practice, Second Edition

Author(s): Susan Kun Leddy, PhD, RN, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Widener University
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763738402
  • ISBN-10:0763738409
  • Paperback    495 pages      © 2006
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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. Health belief systems, models, and theories are emphasized. 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.

Integrative Health Promotion discusses cultural, legal, and ethical influences on health promotion and addresses the elements of healing as a goal of nursing, as contrasted with curing. The text goes on to discuss creating a helping relationship that is characterized by presence (being rather than doing), mindfulness, respect, genuineness, active listening, empathy, and the therapeutic use of self. Promoting community health through empowerment strategies and ecocentric approaches to global health are also presented.

2006 AJN Book of the Year!

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Section 1 - Conceptual Bases of Health Promotion

Chapter 1: Health, Promotion, and Healing

Chapter 2: Strengths as Resources for Health

Chapter 3: The Meaning of Health: Health Care Belief System

Chapter 4: The Meaning of Health: Models and Theories

Chapter 5: The Meaning of Health: Cultural Influences

Chapter 6: Ethical and Legal Influences on Health Promotion

Chapter 7: Beyond Physical Assessment

 

Section 2 - The Disease Worldview

Chapter 8: Promoting Individual Behavior Change

Chapter 9: Global Health: The Ecocentric Approach

 

Section 3 - The Person Worldview

Chapter 10: The Essence of a Healing Helping Relationship

Chapter 11: Empowering Community Health

 

Section 4 - Integrative Nursing Interventions to Promote 
                     Health and Healing

Chapter 12: Relinquishing Bound Energy: Herbal Therapy and
                 Aromatherapy

Chapter 13: Re-Establishing Energy Flow: Physical Activity and Exercise

Chapter 14: Releasing Blocked Energy: Touch and Bodywork Techniques

Chapter 15: Reducing Energy Depletion: Relaxation and Stress Deduction

Chapter 16: Regenerating Energy: Nutrition

Chapter 17: Restoring Energy Field Harmony: Energy Patterning


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Susan Kun Leddy, PhD, RN-Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Widener University

Professor EmeriSusan Kun Leddy earned a bachelor of science in nursing from Skidmore College, Saratoga, New York in 1960, a master of science in nursing (teaching medical-surgical nursing) from Boston University in 1965, a doctor of philosophy (nursing science) from New York University in 1973, and did post-doctoral work at Harvard University (1985) and the University of Pennsylvania (1996-98).

Dr. Leddy initially taught in diploma schools of nursing for 4 years and then in the baccalaureate program at Columbia University before completing doctoral work. She was then one of four founding faculty for the RN-BSN program at Pace University. In 1976, after a year as an NLN consultant, she was asked to do a feasibility study and then write the proposal to the State of New York for a new RN-BSN program at Mercy College. She became the first chairperson of the program (Mae Pepper was the first faculty member), which opened in 1977.

Dr. Leddy left Mercy College in 1981 to first become dean of the School of Nursing, and then dean of the reconstituted College of Health Sciences at the University of Wyoming. In 1988, she became dean of the School of Nursing at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, returning to teaching there in 1993. She is currently a professor in the School of Nursing, teaching primarily in the doctoral program.

In addition to authoring Integrative Health Promotion: Conceptual Bases for Nursing Practice, Dr. Leddy is the co-author with Lucy Hood of Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing, Fifth Edition and is working on a manuscript, Nursing Knowledge and Nursing Science, with Jacqueline Fawcett. She has authored numerous periodical publications.

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  • "Leddy has meticulously crafted an exquisite text exploring integrative facets of health promotion…Complex information, such as health models and theories, is made understandable and easy to read. This book would be a valuable resource to holistic nurses who seek to learn about interventions they can provide in order to promote health for their clients. This would also be an excellent resource for nursing educational programs that are preparing

    students to sit for holistic nursing certification exams administered by the American Holistic Nurses Certification Corporation."

     

    —Reviewed by Valerie S. Eschit RN, MSN, CHTP, AHN-BC

    Beginnings, volume 26, number 4

    American Holistic Nurses Association

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