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Abstract
The study of psychology is a key part of nursing training. The Psychology of Nursing Care is built around nursing themes and focuses on those areas of psychology with direct relevance to nursing practice, omitting those with little bearing. The result is an applied psychology of nursing profoundly useful to pre-registration students.
The study of psychology is a key part of nursing training. The Psychology of Nursing Care is built around nursing themes and focuses on those areas of psychology with direct relevance to nursing practice, omitting those with little bearing. The result is an applied psychology of nursing profoundly useful to pre-registration students.
NEIL NIVEN sometime Chartered Health Psychologist and Research Supervisor for the RCN Institute. He was also Head of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Newcastle, and Visting Professor of Health Psychology at the Universities of Conneticut and Helsinki.
'[A] useful addition to the wealth of literature already available...' - Journal of Advanced Nursing
'Whether you are an experienced practitioner, or a student in the early days of your education and practice, this text is for you. The text is not only written in a way that is clear and interesting but also in a style which demonstrates its relevance to current practice.' Dr. Dorothy Feguson, Journal of Community Nursing
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| List of Illustrations | x | ||
| List of Tables | xi | ||
| List of Exercises | xii | ||
| Acknowledgements | xiii | ||
| Preface | xiv | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Psychology and nursing | 5 | ||
| The psychology of nursing care | 6 | ||
| 1 Interpersonal Skills | 8 | ||
| Self-esteem: the affective component of self | 9 | ||
| Self-actualisation | 10 | ||
| Social construction: the distributed self | 16 | ||
| Questioning and listening | 29 | ||
| Listening | 32 | ||
| Assertiveness | 34 | ||
| Handling difficult emotions | 36 | ||
| Embarrassment | 39 | ||
| Humour | 40 | ||
| 2 Making Judgements about Others | 47 | ||
| Attribution: understanding the causes of behaviour | 48 | ||
| Errors and bias | 53 | ||
| Prejudice | 56 | ||
| Origins of prejudice | 62 | ||
| Reducing of prejudice | 66 | ||
| 3 The Effect of Groups on Behaviour | 73 | ||
| Groups | 74 | ||
| The family group | 88 | ||
| 4 Child Health Development | 102 | ||
| The neonate | 103 | ||
| Parent–child interaction | 106 | ||
| Attachment behaviour | 112 | ||
| Maternal deprivation | 116 | ||
| Children’s understanding of health and illness | 119 | ||
| 5 Adolescence, Adulthood and Ageing | 133 | ||
| Adolescence | 134 | ||
| Eating disorders | 137 | ||
| Social and cultural factors | 139 | ||
| Nursing adolescents | 142 | ||
| Adulthood | 143 | ||
| Middle adulthood | 153 | ||
| Late adulthood | 158 | ||
| 6 Life Events, Transitions and Crises | 183 | ||
| Classification of life events | 184 | ||
| Models of life events | 191 | ||
| 7 The Biopsychosocial Perspective (1) Individual Differences | 216 | ||
| Psychophysiology | 217 | ||
| The nervous system | 217 | ||
| Sleep | 226 | ||
| Personality | 230 | ||
| Psychodynamic theories | 230 | ||
| Psychometric theories | 234 | ||
| Humanistic theories | 242 | ||
| 8 The Biopsychosocial Perspective (2) Pain and Stress | 251 | ||
| Pain | 252 | ||
| Types of pain | 253 | ||
| Theories of pain | 255 | ||
| The experience of pain | 257 | ||
| What influences the perception of pain? | 258 | ||
| Assessment of pain | 261 | ||
| Management of pain | 264 | ||
| Cognitive restructuring | 265 | ||
| CBT and chronic pain | 269 | ||
| Stress and coping | 273 | ||
| The nature of stress | 273 | ||
| Coping strategies | 277 | ||
| Stress management | 280 | ||
| Organisational stress | 292 | ||
| 9 Decision Making and Communication | 315 | ||
| Decision making | 316 | ||
| Health decision making | 322 | ||
| Problem solving | 324 | ||
| Social influence | 330 | ||
| 10 Changing Attitudes and Behaviour | 342 | ||
| Attitude formation | 343 | ||
| Attitude measurement | 344 | ||
| Attitude change | 346 | ||
| Models of behaviour change | 361 | ||
| Locus of control | 364 | ||
| Self-efficacy | 365 | ||
| 11 Community Health Psychology | 375 | ||
| Environment and behaviour | 376 | ||
| The hospital environment | 379 | ||
| Children and hospitalisation | 392 | ||
| Index | 411 | ||
| A | 411 | ||
| B | 411 | ||
| C | 412 | ||
| D | 413 | ||
| E | 413 | ||
| F | 413 | ||
| G | 414 | ||
| H | 414 | ||
| I | 414 | ||
| J | 414 | ||
| K | 414 | ||
| L | 415 | ||
| M | 415 | ||
| N | 416 | ||
| O | 416 | ||
| P | 416 | ||
| Q | 417 | ||
| R | 417 | ||
| S | 417 | ||
| T | 418 | ||
| V | 418 | ||
| W | 418 | ||
| Z | 418 |