Community-Based Collaborative Action Research: A Nursing Approach provides a clear framework for an action research process to improve health outcomes... and enact needed systems improvement. The authors bring years of experience in community-based collaborative action research (CBCAR) to demonstrate how nursing and other health care practitioners, leaders, and scholars can transform communities by identifying and addressing systemic and structural barriers to health and well-being. These communities can range from neighborhoods, practice environments, and villages to boardrooms and organizations. Ideal for novice and experienced researchers, including graduate and doctoral students involved in research initiatives and capstone projects, this rigorous text is a non-prescriptive, step-by-step guide to enacting meaningful change that emerges primarily from within the community. Rooted in social justice and advocacy and driven by theory and evidence-based practice, Community-Based Collaborative Action Research: A Nursing Approach is a unique and innovative resource.

Up-to-date, comprehensive, and objective, COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS gives you essential information on the wide array of punishment and treatment... programs that constitute alternatives to incarceration. You'll be introduced into a number of programs--such as probation, parole, electronic monitoring, house arrest, day-treatment centers, boot camps, restitution, and fines-designed to meet the needs and levels of risk posed by the individual offender. Additionally, you will learn about the practical and legal matters involved in running these programs, and you'll gain insight into their historical, philosophical, social, and legal underpinnings.

The prison system is changing. But what's the best direction? COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS shows you how the prison system can help more people and cost... taxpayers less by starting to put some types of felons in supervised programs. Programs discussed include probation, parole, electronic monitoring, house arrest, day-treatment centers, bootcamps, restitution, and fines. With a balanced approach, this text reflects a strong emphasis on practical and legal matters related to alternatives to prison and jail.

The best-selling COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS, 9th Edition delivers essential information on the wide array of punishment and treatment programs that... constitute alternatives to prison and jail. Although some offenders need to be incarcerated for public safety reasons, this book argues that the vast majority of convicted offenders can be effectively supervised in the community--using programs that meet the level of risk posed by, and the needs of, each individual. Offering a balanced approach that reflects a strong emphasis on practical and legal matters, the book provides solid coverage of numerous community corrections programs, including probation, parole, electronic monitoring, house arrest, day-treatment centers, boot camps, restitution, and fines.

Up-to-date, comprehensive, and objective, COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS, 8e delivers essential information on the wide array of punishment and treatment... programs that constitute alternatives to incarceration. This best-selling text provides solid coverage of numerous programs--including probation, parole, electronic monitoring, house arrest, day-treatment centers, boot camps, restitution, and fines--designed to meet the needs and levels of risk posed by the individual offender. It also covers the practical and legal matters involved in running these programs as well as offers insight into their historical, philosophical, social, and legal underpinnings.

Presenting a more practical viewpoint than other texts available for the course, this book offers a unique textbook/reader alternative to the... traditional textbook format. The book is divided into 11 author-written sections that present basic concepts, key terms, and recent data. Each section is followed by two to three cutting-edge, research-based articles. 

This text, known for its balanced and in-depth coverage, focuses on all forms of community-based correctional facilities from traditional probation... programs to more current programs such as electronic monitoring, house arrest, day-treatment, bootcamp and fines. The authors offer especially strong examples of programs throughout the country designed to control, monitor, and in some cases, rehabilitate offenders.

Community-Based Health Interventions covers the skills necessary to change health in a community setting through the reduction of disease, disease... conditions, and risks to health, as well as create a supportive environment for the maintenance of the behavior changes. The first section provides background information about why interventions in communities are important, the history of several major community interventions, ethical issues in the design and implementation of interventions and the different types of interventions. The second section covers planning and activities needed to complete an intervention, along with the theoretical basis of interventions. The third section shows how to assess the needs and strengths of a particular community, gain community support, define the goals of an intervention and get started. This section also contains information on obtaining material and financial support and on strategies for continuing the intervention beyond its initial phase. The final section examines current work and problems encountered as well as projecting future trends. Each chapter includes practice exercises or activities useful to students learning to develop interventions at the population or community level, such as public health, social work and nursing.

Health promotion and illness prevention are the focus of this text designed to address the unique aspects of community-based nursing. Principles for... community-based healthcare for the major population groups across the lifespan help you provide the best care for all of your clients. Common community settings, nursing roles, and interventions are explored. Be prepared for a wide range of situations with key topics such as environmental health, epidemiology, and communicable disease.Case studies that detail "real-life” clinical examples introduce each chapter.Learning Activities and Application to Practice exercises provide opportunities to apply learning and gain deeper understanding. Community Application boxes detail specific examples of the relevance of content to community-based nurses. Research Highlights, Health Teaching boxes, Healthy People 2010 boxes and other special features highlight key information for better understanding.Student Learning Resources on the companion Evolve website include helpful web links, a glossary, and assessment tools. Disaster content focuses on the nurse's role in both natural and man-made disasters, emphasizing preparedness and management.Culturally based health beliefs and practices are examined. Education and Health Teaching chapter provides processes, methods and tools to assist nurses in educating clients. Case Management chapter addresses the important skill of coordinating client care and services in the community. Updated information on current community issues, including childhood obesity, emerging infectious diseases (including SARS), telehealth, and refugees/evacuees/displaced people.

Minkler and Wallerstein have pulled together a fantastic set of contributions from the leading researchers in the field. In addition to a fine... collection of case studies, this book puts the key issues for researchers and practitioners in a historical, philosophical, and applied, practical context

Community-Based Prevention: Programs that Work is a topical book created from Aspen's Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. It covers... everything from how to assess the health needs of a community to the actual development and implementation of community-based prevention programs. It provides actual examples from all over the country while looking at multiple health issues such as breast cancer, early detection and chronic disease mortality.

Community-Based Research and Higher Education is the long-awaited guide to how to incorporate a powerful and promising new form of scholarship into... academic settings. The book presents a model of community-based research (CBR) that engages community members with students and faculty in the course of their academic work. Unlike traditional academic research, CBR is collaborative and change-oriented and finds its research questions in the needs of communities. This dynamic research model combines classroom learning with social action in ways that can ultimately empower community groups to address their own agendas and shape their own futures. At the same time it emphasizes the development of knowledge and skills that truly prepare students for active civic engagement.