Psychology for Nurses and Health Professionals
eBook - PDF

Psychology for Nurses and Health Professionals

  1. 531 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Psychology for Nurses and Health Professionals

About this book

Psychology for Nurses and Health Professionals, Second Edition is an accessible guide providing comprehensive coverage of psychology for nurses and healthcare professionals in training and practice.

Key features include:



  • Fully updated and restructured to ensure content matches training requirements for nurses and healthcare practitioners


  • Stronger focus on the biopsychosocial model, therapeutic relationships and self-awareness


  • More examples to highlight application with theories demonstrated through scenarios relevant to practice


  • Accessible style with critical discussion boxes, student diary entries, reflection points, summary boxes and glossary


  • Free lecturer PowerPoints, extension material, MCQs and exercises available to download

Written by the bestselling psychology author Richard Gross and Nancy Kinnison, an experienced nurse and lecturer, this is an essential guide to applying theoretical aspects of psychology to nursing and health care.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138454491
eBook ISBN
9781444179934
Edition
2
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Authors
  7. Table of diary extracts
  8. Chapter 1 What is psychology?
  9. Chapter 2 Theoretical approaches
  10. Chapter 3 Psychological aspects of illness
  11. Chapter 4 Stress: Definitions and causes
  12. Chapter 5 Stress: Effects and methods of coping
  13. Chapter 6 Attitudes and attitude change
  14. Chapter 7 Prejudice and discrimination
  15. Chapter 8 Conformity and group influence
  16. Chapter 9 Obedience
  17. Chapter 10 Social cognition and health behaviour
  18. Chapter 11 Neuropsychological and genetic aspects of illness
  19. Chapter 12 Substance use and abuse
  20. Chapter 13 Death and dying
  21. Chapter 14 Early experience and social development
  22. Chapter 15 Cognitive development
  23. Chapter 16 Development of the self- concept
  24. Chapter 17 Adolescence
  25. Chapter 18 Adulthood
  26. Chapter 19 Late adulthood
  27. Glossary
  28. References
  29. Back Cover