Send students to college with a copy of The Health Handbook tucked in between the new bedsheets and the jumbo pack of ramen noodles.
Providing engaging, straightforward, and medically sound information about the health and wellness topics facing college students today, this comprehensive manual tackles alcohol and substance abuse, eating disorders, exercise, mental health, nutrition, preventative health, sexuality, and sleep hygiene.
Written by a Doctor of Nursing Practice with over fourteen years of experience caring for college students, this comprehensive guide teaches young adults how to be responsible for their own health and wellness-and how to make sound decisions about their bodies and their futures.
Perfect for high school graduates or loved ones already away at school, this self-help book provides short, easy-to-read advice about physical, emotional and spiritual health. By providing your loved ones with the resources to cultivate proper skills and practices, you enable them to establish and maintain healthy habits that will jumpstart a lifetime of health and wellness.
About the Author: Dianna M. Jones, Doctor of Nursing Practice and board certified Family Nurse Practitioner, serves as the Director of Health Services at Regis College.
Jones has over fourteen years of experience treating young adults and college students. She earned her BA from Tufts University and her MS and DNP from Regis College, where she conducted research on cultural competence in college health.
Jones encourages the nurse practitioners that work under her to embrace cultural competence and holistic healing, particularly where those methods are supported by scientific research.
Jones serves as an adjunct faculty member at Regis College in the graduate nursing program and teaches health and wellness to the undergraduate population. Her work as a contributing editor has been published in textbooks, and she has been featured on radio and evening news programs.
She lives in eastern Massachusetts with her husband and their twins.
