Main description:

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.

Contents:

What Is Psychology? Theoretical Approaches. Psychological Aspects of Illness. Stress. Attitudes and Attitude Change. Prejudice and Discrimination. Conformity. Obedience. Social Cognition and Health Behaviour. Neuropsychological and Genetic Aspects of Illness. Substance Use And Abuse: Death And Dying. Early Experience and Social Development. Chapter Cognitive Development. Self-Concept. Adolescence. Adulthood. Late Adulthood.