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Volume 18 Issue 1-2 - 2005

Advances in Contemporary Child and Family Care

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iii Foreword: Contemporary Issues in Child and Family Health
Sandra Speedy Emeritus Professor

viii Preface: Children, Families and Nursing: Spotlights, Shadows and Places in Between
Philip Darbyshire, Debra Jackson

Child Health

1 Guest Editorial: 'We Are Just Kids'
Children within healthcare relationshipsAnnette Dickinson

3 'Sometime They Run Away, That's How Scared They Feel'
The paediatric hospitalisation experiences of Indigenous families from remote areas of AustraliaLaura Tanner, Kendall Agius, Philip Darbyshire

18 'I know my body, I've lived in it all my life'
Therapy, surgery and remediation experiences of young people with disabilitiesGillian Bricher, Philip Darbyshire

34 Father's Struggling for Relevance in the Care of Their Terminally Ill Child
Tom A Laws

46 Development and Evaluation of an Intensive Intervention Program for Children With a Chronic Health Condition
A Pilot StudyDianne Collis, Tracey Ludlow, Shelli Cosgrove, Kym Houston, David Irvine, Jenny Fraser, Susan Moloney

57 Children of the 21st Century
Slipping through the netJane Williams, Colin Holmes

67 Addressing the Needs of Children of Parents with a Mental Illness
Current approachesKim Foster, Louise O'Brien, Margaret McAllister

Family Health Care

81 Guest Editorial: 'A Last Resort?'
Impacts of the Australian Government's Immigrant Detention Policy breaching the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)Linda Shields

85 Family Violence
Walking the tightrope between maternal alienation and child safetyDenise Wilson, Karen McBride-Henry, Annette Hunington

97 Raising Families
Urban women's experiences of requiring supportDebra Jackson, Judy Mannix, Pat Faga, Donna Gillies

108 Managing Family Life While Studying
Single mothers' lived experience of being students in a nursing programOlayide O Ogunsiji, Lesley Wilkes

124 Eating Disorders
A qualitative analysis of the parents' journeyBarbara Beale, Rose McMaster, Sharon Hillege

133 Maternal and Child Health Nurses
A vital link to the community for primiparae over the age of 35Mary Carolan

Child and Family Health in the Community

143 Guest Editorial: Child and Family Health Nursing and Early Intervention
Gay Edgecombe

145 Obesity in Pre-School Children
Issues and challenges for community based child health nursesAnne McKey, Annette Huntingdon

152 Emergency Contraception
A qualitative study of young women's experiencesHelen Calabretto

164 Demonstrating Outcomes in a Nurse-Led Clinic
How primary Health Care Nurses make a difference to children and their familiesJill Clendon

177 Development of the School Entrant Health Questionnaire for Assessing Primary School Children Ages 5-7
Kay C Avant, Gay Edgecombe, Patrick Griffin, Karen Corneille

188 Volunteerism
'Community Mothers' in actionJill Downey, Kim Clark, Katy Clementson

199 Current State of Knowledge on Child-to-Mother Violence
A literature reviewMichel Stewart, Debra Jackson, Judy Mannix, Lesley Wilkes, Karin Lines

211 Epilogue: Using a Strengths Approach to Understand Resilience and Build Health Capacity in Families
Debra Jackson, Philip Darbyshire



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Vol 34/1, 1st Dec 2009


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Vol 33/2, 1st Oct 2009


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Vol 32/1-2, 1st Apr 2009


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Vol 30/2, 1st Oct 2008


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Advances in Contemporary Aged Care: Retirement to End of Life
Vol 26/2, 1st Oct 2007


Advances in Contemporary General Practice Nursing: Role of the Practice Nurse
Vol 26/1, 1st Aug 2007


Advances in Contemporary Nurse Recruitment and Retention
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Vol 23/2, 1st Jan 2007


Advances in Contemporary Indigenous Health Care
Vol 22/2, 1st Sep 2006


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Vol 21/2, 1st May 2006


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Selected Articles

Social Determinants of Health, the Physical Environment and Public Health Nursing


Drowning not waving


Pain management for children and infants


Enhancing Nursing Students’ Clinical Placement Experiences


Comparison of a Urine Chemistry Analyser and Microscopy, Culture and Sensitivity Results to Detect the Presence of Urinary Tract Infections in an Elective Orthopaedic Population


Caring by degrees


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