Body Image in Girls
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Young girls of today face many challenges when it comes to thier body image. Many young women are chasing unrealistic and ultimately unattainable goals of body image perfection. Dissatisfaction with their faces, hair, weight, breast sizes and body shape i
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Body Image in Teenagers
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Acne, body odour, too much or too little body hair, body shape and weight, having the latest designer clothes – these body image issues are apparently more important to our young people than global warming and career opportunities.
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Understanding Portion Size for Children
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In Australia, childhood obesity has hit epidemic levels, with more than 15% of girls and 20% of boys considered obese. Health implications for these children, including diabetes, high blood pressure, hormonal imbalance and sleep disorders, are as serious
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Men and Weight Gain
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Australian men are more likely to be obese than women. Government studies show that the rate of overweight and obese men is 25% higher than that of women. This puts men at higher risk for the side effects of obesity, which includes high blood pressure.
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Helping an Anxious Teenager
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A teenager who worries a lot tends to overestimate the likelihood and seriousness of something bad happening to them. This fast fact sheet comprises a plan to help reduce anxiety and to promote realistic thinking in worried or fearful teenagers.
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Comments About Anxiety in Teenagers
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Anxiety is commonly experienced by teenagers. This Fast Fact sheet describes the common ways in which adolescents experience and cope with anxiety.
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Teenagers and Anger
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Anger is a healthy emotion that tells us something is wrong but it needs to be dealt with appropriately. It is a normal, natural and healthy reaction to experiencing difficult situations we really don’t like and provides energy for action to change.
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Accessing Mental Health Services
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This fact sheet outlines some different types of mental health/psychiatric services; so that a patient displaying mental health issues can be directed to the most appropriate service...
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Personality Disorders
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This fact sheet gives a brief outline of personality disorders generally, and then indicates specific personality disorder traits...
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Signs of Mental Illness
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This fact sheet outlines a number of characteristics or behaviours, which may indicate that a patient or client has a mental illness.
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Warning Signs of Anxiety
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This fact sheet indicates common physical, behavioural and emotional signals that anxiety exists within a patient/client...
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Care Planning - Hints and Tips
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This three-page fast fact sheet provides an outline of the process necessary in creating a care plan; as well as indicating some of the different international methods of documenting and writing care plans...
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Short Glossary of Some Medical Terms
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Lack of clarity in medical terms can be both embarrassing and potentially confusing. This fast fact glossary sheet is designed to help alleviate this confusion...
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Identifying Values in Life
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When overwhelmed by life, we often forget to focus on what really matters to us. This fact sheet, indicating values in relation to an individual, is ideal for a patient feeling lost or down, or a health professional consulting their patient...
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Looking After Yourself as the Carer
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Often carers, so concerns with the well-being of their patient, forget to care about themselves; causing them to often become anxious and tired...
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Helping Children Adjust to a Cancer Diagnosis
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Informing children of cancer, or other illnesses, can often seem a concerning experience - how much do you tell the child? How can you answer their questions? This fact sheet provides guidance on this issue; giving the reader tips on this often tricky iss
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Getting your Sex Life Back on Track after Treatment
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Rather than providing a crude and abrupt strategy checklist, this fast fact sheet instead outlines a vast range of practical strategies patients could apply in their everyday life to improve their sex life...
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Reaching Our Limit of Coping
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This fast fact sheet provides both information about and a diagram of the stress threshold - how much we can handle and what we should do when we know we've reached that threshold...
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Progressive Muscle Relaxation
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Where stress and other anxieties have caused a patient to be overcome with emotion, Progressive Muscle Relaxation can be utilised to assist the patient in releasing these concerns and thus more rationally dealing with their problems...
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Strategies to Manage Your Stress
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"Just as people experience stress differently, the things that can work to relieve stress vary too. A number of suggestions for ways of coping with stress are listed..."
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Strategies to Manage Your Worry
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Providing four easy steps to help manage your worry, this fact sheet encourages active self-help when an individual may be becoming overwhelmed by worrisome thoughts...
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Keeping a Diary of Your Thoughts
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Managing negative thoughts can often be overwhelming, so documenting them in a diary can usually prove an effective way to release stress and create a sense of control and order within your mind...
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How to Challenge Unhelpful Thoughts
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This fact sheet provides a four-step, practical guide to reshaping negative to positive thoughts - centred around personal analysis of the thought itself...
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Looking After Yourself During the Cancer Journey
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This fact sheet provides some practical strategies for inspiring motivation and positive thoughts. Specifically addressing, looking after: (1) yourself daily; (2) your needs; (3) your relationships; (4) your emotions...
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The Activity Schedule for Patients
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This fact sheet is a practical worksheet, which cancer patients can use to both record their events, and motivate themselves in performing other everyday activities.
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Mindfulness in Everyday Life
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Dealing with cancer can often be an overwhelming experience, resulting in cancer patients struggling to focus their attention upon other things.
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Returning to Work after Cancer
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Another step in the cancer experience is returning back to work once treatment or rehabilitation has ceased. This can be a daunting experience in itself, thus this fact sheet provides a number of strategies which may assist in a more comfortable transitio
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Dealing with Hair Loss
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Hair loss is a very common side effect of cancer treatment. Whilst it may initially seem a daunting prospect, better understanding and preparing for the experience may make it more bearable.
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How to Get a Good Night's Sleep
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Difficulties in sleeping can be very immobilising as tiredness, stress, anxiety and isolation may follow as consequences of a lack of, or sporadic, sleep.
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Maintaining Health and Wellbeing
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Often cancer patients forget that their health and wellbeing encompasses more than just their physical health. This fast fact sheet provides suggestions for optimizing health and wellbeing...
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CBT Interventions for Cancer-Related Pain
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one method of dealing with cancer-related pain. By implementing CBT techniques in care provision, cancer patients may be able to gain even more effective pain relief.
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Assessing Concerns
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Often specialist health care professionals have patients that require additional medical support. This fact sheet is designed in a ready-to-use format, so that it can be immediately implemented in the clinical setting to ensure that even better care is pr
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Sample letter to a general practitioner
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This fast fact sheet provides a sample of the typical letter sent to a general practitioner - it can be used as a guideline for writing your own referral letter.
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Coping with Anger
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Within the health care setting, it is important that patients and health professionals are sufficiently assisted in identifying, understanding and resolving situations involving anger so that the environment is as beneficial and productive as possible.
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Communicating Effectively With Others
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Communicating with others is an important part of life. In the clinical setting, communcation both between health professionals; and with patients, is an important part of any health professional's role. Discussing a topic, such as cancer, can be particul
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Strategies For Effective Information Provision
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Communicating with patients, their families and their friends is both an important and sometimes difficult task. This may be because of a difference in medical understanding; ethical or moral perceptions; or an impaired mental state arising from health pr
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Unhelpful Beliefs in Health Professionals
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If health professionals, caring for cancer patients, have negative thoughts, these thoughts can often influence their ability to work proficiently within their health care environment. This fact sheet outlines eleven common misconceptions, so that these
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Conducting Successful Staff Support Sessions
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Caring for cancer patients can often be a confronting experience for nurses and other health care professionals. To ensure that the health care staff have sufficient support, this fast fact sheet provides a number of guidelines in establishing staff suppo
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Nutrition for Cardiovascular Disease
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This nutrition sheet provides information about the types of foods and food groups that people with CVD should avoid and consume. Foods/food groups specifically mentioned include soluble fibre, soy protein, antioxidants, sodium, and fat.
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Nutrition for People with Diabetes Mellitus
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Diabetes Mellitus is a disorder in which the metabolism of glucose is impaired.This fast fact sheet provides you with easy-to-understand, useful and helpful nutritional information about diabetes....
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Nutrition to Boost the Immune System
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Proper nutrition plays a significant role in the healthy functioning of the immune system. This fast fact sheet provides you with easy-to-understand, useful and helpful nutritional information...
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Foods That Build Muscle Tissue
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Since muscle tissue is built from amino acids (proteins),
a diet that contains adequate protein is necessary when
trying to build muscles.
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Nutrition For Menopause
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Nutrients
not also protect the skeleton and cardiovascular system, but also help improve brain function and reduce
menopausal symptoms.
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Nutrition For People Who Are Immobile
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Ensuring an overall healthy diet that includes adequate intake of
vitamins, minerals, fibre and macronutrients, is essential in
the nutritional management of people who are immobile.
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Nutrition For Wound Healing
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People with wounds
need a well-balanced diet that contains enough of all three
macronutrients as well as certain vitamins and minerals
that are involved in the repair and healing of wounds.
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Nutrition For Frail Elderly Patients
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The frail elderly – older people who need assistance with
everyday activities – are at high risk for malnutrition. Nutritional
needs change as people age.
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Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease
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The field of kidney disease has evolved over the years to encompass a broad and sophisticated knowledge base. There has been a proliferation of scientific information and technical advances in the field. In Nutrition in Kidney Disease, the authors provide
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