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.
1. What is psychology? 2. Theoretical approaches 3. Psychological aspects of illness 4. Stress: Definitions and causes 5. Stress: Effects and methods of coping 6. Attitudes and attitude change 7. Prejudice and discrimination 8. Conformity and group influence 9. Obedience 10. Social cognition and health behaviour 11. Neuropsychological and genetic aspects of illness 12. Substance use and abuse 13. Death and dying 14. Early experience and social development 15. Cognitive development 16. Development of the self-concept 17. Adolescence 18. Adulthood 19. Late adulthood
