Complementary Health for Women: A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Diseases and Common Conditions » (New Edition)

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.

"The volume features extensive references throughout to document evidence-based practices...For practitioners of complementary therapies this is a useful resource...that provide[s] more in-depth understanding of each condition and therapy. Summing up: recommended."

--Choice

"Carolyn provides a foundation for healthy sharing and decision making."

--C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD

Holos University Graduate Seminary

Complementary and alternative therapies have become increasingly popular in the West, but to date no book has served as a practical, how-to guide for administering complementary therapies specifically for women.

This authoritative guidebook documents all the nonmedical approaches nurses will need when treating women with functional complaints, diseases, and disorders, including depression, breast cancer, menopause, pregnancy, and more. For each condition and disease, Clark outlines expected responses, cautions, assessments, tips for treatment, and additional references.

Key Features:

Essential for all levels of nurses working with women, this book provides an invaluable wealth of information on complementary health and treatment for women.

1 Alzheimer's/Memory 1

2 Anxiety 23

3 Bladder Infections (Cystitis) 37

4 Blood Pressure/Hypertension 45

5 Breast Cancer 65

6 Cervical Cancer 93

7 Colon and Rectal Cancer 105

8 Depression 121

9 Digestion (Constipation, Crohn's, Diarrhea, GERD [Heartburn]), IBS/IBD 133

10 Endometrial Cancer 145

11 Falls 157

12 Fatigue 163

13 Fibroids 169

14 Gastric Cancer 173

15 Heart/Blood Vessels 185

16 Incontinence 209

17 Insomnia 215

18 Kidney Conditions 221

19 Liver Conditions 229

20 Lung Conditions 241

21 Menopause 253

22 Migraines 263

23 Osteoporosis/Osteopenia 269

24 Ovarian Cancer 281

25 Overweight/Obesity 287

26 Pain 299

27 Pancreatic Cancer 313

28 PMS 325

29 Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) 333

30 Pregnancy/Labor/Delivery 337

31 Stroke 359

Appendix 367

Index 369