ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|20 pages

What is psychology?

chapter 2|20 pages

Theoretical approaches

chapter 3|34 pages

Psychological aspects of illness

chapter 4|26 pages

Stress: Definitions and causes

chapter 5|26 pages

Stress: Effects and methods of coping

chapter 6|18 pages

Attitudes and attitude change

chapter 7|26 pages

Prejudice and discrimination

chapter 8|16 pages

Conformity and group influence

chapter 9|28 pages

Obedience

chapter 10|32 pages

Social cognition and health behaviour

chapter 12|22 pages

Substance use and abuse

chapter 13|28 pages

Death and dying

chapter 14|24 pages

Early experience and social development

chapter 15|18 pages

Cognitive development

chapter 16|18 pages

Development of the self-concept

chapter 17|18 pages

Adolescence

chapter 18|16 pages

Adulthood

chapter 19|20 pages

Late adulthood