ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|22 pages

What is psychology?

chapter 2|18 pages

Theoretical approaches

chapter 3|20 pages

Psychological aspects of illness

chapter 4|18 pages

Social cognition and health behaviour

chapter 5|22 pages

Stress

chapter 6|20 pages

Personality and health behaviour

chapter 7|20 pages

Substance use and abuse

chapter 8|18 pages

Social perception

chapter 9|18 pages

Attribution

chapter 10|22 pages

Attitudes and attitude change

chapter 11|20 pages

Prejudice and discrimination

chapter 12|18 pages

Conformity and group influence

chapter 13|18 pages

Obedience

chapter 14|22 pages

Early experience and social development

chapter 15|18 pages

Cognitive development

chapter 16|16 pages

Development of the self-concept

chapter 17|22 pages

Adolescence

chapter 18|18 pages

Adulthood

chapter 19|20 pages

Late adulthood

chapter 20|18 pages

Death and dying