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Mental and Physical Health Dimensions is an open-access textbook designed to provide students, educators, and healthcare professionals with a comprehensive, evidence-based, and accessible resource on the interconnectedness of mental and physical health. Developed with a strong emphasis on the Australian healthcare context, this book explores key concepts in mental health nursing, holistic patient care, multidisciplinary collaboration, and workforce development, ensuring learners gain the foundational knowledge necessary to provide high-quality, person-centered care.

Rooted in the principles of inclusivity, equity, and student wellbeing, this book addresses crucial areas of mental health care, offering insights into the evolving role of healthcare professionals, including nurses, social workers, dietitians, peer support workers, and allied health practitioners. It highlights essential Mental health in Australia, Mental health promotion, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing, Regulation of mind, body and behaviour and holistic wellness approaches, preparing students for real-world clinical practice while encouraging an understanding of evidence-based interventions.

This resource has undergone a rigorous peer-review process to ensure accuracy, relevance, and quality, making it a valuable learning tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students in nursing, mental health, and related fields.

As an open-access textbook, Mental and Physical Health Dimensions is free to use, adapt, and share, ensuring that financial barriers do not hinder access to high-quality education. By bridging the gap between academia, clinical practice, and lived experience, this book empowers students to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to contribute to the mental health care and deliver integrated, patient-centred care.

The Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks is written for Monash University Library staff who wish to project manage the publication of an open textbook. The Guide will also be helpful to Monash staff wishing to author an open textbook.

Content includes:

• Project planning
• Copyright and privacy
• Creating your book
• Reviewing and editing your book
• Publishing and maintaining your book.

This book was written for a Monash University audience, but we hope that others will find it a helpful resource to refer to in their own contexts.

From Search to Source: Finding Reliable Information is designed to support students through their learning journey at Southern Cross University. This book scaffolds students from a basic to a more advanced understanding of how to structure, explore and apply searching strategies and frameworks to locate and evaluate reliable and relevant information. Information and tips about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools are embedded into each chapter. The topics covered in the book include: where to find information, a guide to information resources, search strategies, levels of evidence and search frameworks, advanced literature searching, evaluating the information, and referencing. While the content of this book has been designed to align with the principles of the Southern Cross Model, the media-rich, interactive online components facilitate self-directed learning in any tertiary university context.

Tens of thousands of iconic fossils are housed in the collections of the Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka – University of Otago, in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. Used for teaching and research for over a century, here we offer a close look at some of the most special fossil treasures in the collections.

This book serves to fill a critical gap in existing healthcare education resources, by raising healthcare professional and healthcare educators’ awareness of uncertainty tolerance. This handbook explores the impact health professions education (and educators) can have on the future healthcare workforce’s ability to manage uncertainty effectively, and provides practical approaches (including exemplar curricular templates) for supporting this essential workplace-ready, transferable attribute.

As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the legal profession finds itself at a crossroads. Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate and the Australian Legal System provides an original, innovative and accessible analysis of the impact of climate change on legal doctrines and principles. It offers an overview of cutting-edge developments and how the transition to a low-carbon society is reshaping a wide range of laws, from corporate to criminal law, and beyond. This valuable new resource supports legal professionals, law students, and legal educators to understand current legal challenges – providing the know-how to strategically navigate, and positively influence, the development of law to respond to a climate changed world. The book delivers a transformative approach to legal education: equipping law students to become climate-conscious professionals with the confidence and competency to deliver legal solutions to a diverse range of clients, and promote climate justice across diverse communities.

A significant challenge for neurodivergent students is the transition to studying in a new environment. This book focuses on assisting students with this transition by guiding them through different learning activities and information to support the team-based learning they will engage in during their degree. The resources in this book are designed to be accessible for all students and staff, with the aim of developing an understanding of disability and neurodiversity, teamwork and communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with peers to achieve common goals. The resources shared here can be utilised within individual units to support student skill development in inclusivity, engagement with others and the capacity to contribute towards highly functional teams.

This accessible open-access textbook employs a critical health psychology perspective to health psychology to promote critical reflexive thinking and learning about health and wellbeing, within a social justice framework. The book navigates the reader through a comprehensive examination of contemporary research and theoretical developments in the field of critical health psychology. Organised into three distinct parts, the book radically orients readers to new ways to think about health through:

• incorporating a conscious reflection on and examination of how health is theorised, understood, treated, and promoted for individuals, communities, and societies;
• using a critical psychology lens that centres issues of power and meaning making, including gendered, Indigenous, and intersectional frameworks;
• an openness to, and engagement with, theoretical and methodological pluralism, including quantitative, qualitative and Indigenous approaches to explore people’s experiences and understandings of health and illness;
• explicit attention to socio-political contexts;
• and considering the application of knowledge beyond behaviour change, to social change including community-level (community-led interventions, activism and advocacy) and societal level (e.g., policy, wider discourses).

This book was designed to support teaching two postgraduate papers at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. It is laid out in four sections: the first two sections support the two papers I teach (Principles of Health and Safety Management and Identification, Assessment and Control of Hazards and Risks), section three summarises some of the many management and risk techniques a health and safety practitioner should know of and be able to apply, and section four provides definitions of some of the terms used in standards or found in the current edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

“Introduction to Business Law in Papua New Guinea” is an introductory text designed to support students enrolled in LEGL1007 Introduction to the Business Law of Papua New Guinea at Southern Cross University. The book is structured into five parts: Part 1 provides an introduction to studying business law, including writing legal essays and problem questions; Part 2 covers negligence; Part 3 discusses contract law; Part 4 addresses consumer law; and Part 5 focuses on agency within the Papua New Guinea legal system.