Promoting Health, Well-Being, and Quality of Life – New Textbook

I am happy to share that a new textbook has been published, Interprofessional Perspectives for Community Practice: Promoting Health, Well-being and Quality of Life.

Now more than ever health care professionals play an increased role in the promotion of health to populations. Unique and innovative, Interprofessional Perspectives for Community Practice: Promoting Health, Well-being and Quality of Life weaves everyday care into prevention, community, and population health, creating a new and more expansive vision of health for all without compromising traditional practices.

Authors and editors or this book, Drs. Pizzi and Amir discuss and illustrate a client-centered preventive and health, well-being and quality of life approach rooted in best practice principles from interprofessional literature and firsthand experience.

The text illustrates how allied health professionals implement those principles in their everyday and traditional practices with an emphasis on exploring health and well-being issues. Interprofessional Perspectives for Community Practice provides detailed guidance in program development and implementation.

In Part VII Promoting Spiritual Health, I am one of the contributing authors to this great book for chapters 19, 20, and 21.

Chapter 19: Promoting Spiritual Health: Children and Youth

Chapter 20: Promoting Spiritual Health: Adults

Chapter 21: Promoting Spiritual Health: Older Adults

I am grateful to have written alongside Tamera Keiter Humbert, DEd, OTR/L, FAOTA, Deanna Waggy, OTR, MSA, and Priscilla Denham, MDiv, D.Min.

The first text of its kind to weave interprofessionalism, community practice, health, well-being, and quality of life, Interprofessional Perspectives for Community Practice: Promoting Health, Well-being and Quality of Life is for all health care workers and students who wish to transfer practice skills from the clinical setting to a population-based program development model.

What’s included in Interprofessional Perspectives for Community:

• Clinical anecdotes on successful community practices
• A focus on primary and secondary prevention
• Assessments, interventions, and community practice examples
• Descriptions of community-based practice settings such as adult day care, independent living programs, hospice, and home health care
• Health and wellness across the lifespan
• Bonus chapters available online as PDFs for readers

Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L is the Founder and Director of the Holistic OT Community at HolisticOT.org. She has been advocating for the inclusion of complementary and integrative health in health care for many years and teaches continuing education on these topics. Learn more about Emmy here.