Psychology for nurses and allied health professionals
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Psychology for nurses and allied health professionals
Hodder Arnold, 2007
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Psychology for nurses : and allied health professionals
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-405) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Psychology for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals is a brand new textbook written for all those studying and working in nursing and in the allied health professions including midwifery and health visiting. It provides comprehensive coverage of the core subject areas of psychology: social processes such as conformity, obedience, social behaviour, development across the lifespan, including early experiences, cognitive, adolescence, adulthood and old age - as well as health psychology, stress and personality.
Written by the bestselling Psychology author Richard Gross, and Nancy Kinnison, a highly experienced nurse and nursing lecturer, Psychology for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals is a refreshingly new approach to applying the theoretical aspects of psychology to the practical aspects of nursing and health care. This highly illustrated text is accessible, practical, and comprehensive.
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
What is psychology?
Theoretical approaches
Part II: Health Psychology
Psychological aspects of illness
Social cognition and health behaviour
Stress
Personality and health behaviour
Substance use and abuse
Part III: Social processes
Social perception
Attribution theory
Attitudes and attitude change
Prejudice and discrimination
Conformity
Obedience
Part IV: Development across the lifespan
Early experience and social development
Self-concept
Cognitive development
Adolescence
Adulthood
Late Adulthood
Death and dying
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