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Psychology for nurses and the caring professions

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Psychology for nurses and the caring professions/ Jan Walker ... [et al.].
other author:	Walker, Jan,
Published:	Maidenhead :Open University Press, : 2004.,
Description:	xii, 219 p. :ill. ; : 24 cm.;
Series:	Social science for nurses and the caring professions
Subject:	Patients -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780335228218 (electronic bk.)

Psychology for nurses and the caring professions
Psychology for nurses and the caring professions[electronic resource] /Jan Walker ... [et al.]. - 2nd ed. - Maidenhead :Open University Press,2004. - xii, 219 p. :ill. ;24 cm. - Social science for nurses and the caring professions.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-209) and index.

1. What is psychology? -- Key questions -- Introduction -- What is psychology and why is it important in health care? -- Different perspectives in psychology -- The development of psychology -- Schools of thought in psychology -- Cognitive science -- Behavioural psychology -- Psychodynamic psychology -- Humanistic psychology -- Social psychology -- Psychological facts versus psychological theory -- What is a theory? -- Research methods in psychology -- Quantitative methods -- Qualitative methods -- Pop psychology and pseudoscience -- Psychology in practice : introduction to scenario -- Applying psychology to explain Anna's anxiety -- Cognitive approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Behavioural and social learning approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Psychodynamic approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Humanistic approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Social psychological approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Comparing different psychological approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Professionals involved in the prevention, management and treatment of psychological problems -- Summary of key points -- Further reading --

Electronic reproduction.
Boulder, Colo. :
NetLibrary,
2008.

Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780335228218 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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LC Class. No.: R726.7 / .P38 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 610.19

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WM 105 / P346p 2004

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505 0 $a 1. What is psychology? -- Key questions -- Introduction -- What is psychology and why is it important in health care? -- Different perspectives in psychology -- The development of psychology -- Schools of thought in psychology -- Cognitive science -- Behavioural psychology -- Psychodynamic psychology -- Humanistic psychology -- Social psychology -- Psychological facts versus psychological theory -- What is a theory? -- Research methods in psychology -- Quantitative methods -- Qualitative methods -- Pop psychology and pseudoscience -- Psychology in practice : introduction to scenario -- Applying psychology to explain Anna's anxiety -- Cognitive approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Behavioural and social learning approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Psychodynamic approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Humanistic approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Social psychological approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Comparing different psychological approaches to Anna's anxiety -- Professionals involved in the prevention, management and treatment of psychological problems -- Summary of key points -- Further reading --
505 0 $a 2. The perception of self and others -- Key questions -- Introduction -- The self concept -- The looking-glass self -- Self defined by social comparison -- George Kelly's personal construct theory -- Self and narrative -- Narrative therapy -- Self-esteem -- Body image -- Social roles -- Goffman's dramaturgical model -- Impression management -- Changing roles -- Stigma -- The stigma of facial disfigurement -- Attitudes -- Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination -- The self-fulfilling prophecy -- Attribution theory -- The fundamental attribution error -- Trait theory -- Stability and change in personality -- Personality and physical health -- Personality and mental health -- Problems with personality theory -- Summary of key points -- Further reading -- 3. Memory, understanding and information-giving -- Key questions -- Memory -- Arousal and attention -- Short-term memory -- Familiarity, salience and selective attention -- Primacy and recency effects -- Conveying useful information -- Long-term memory -- Understanding -- Mental schemas and scripts -- Recognition, false memories and context-specific memories -- Forgetting -- Memory loss -- Dementias -- Brain injury -- Communicating effectively with patients -- Breaking bad news -- Forgetting bad news -- Individualized information-giving -- Summary of key points -- Further reading --
505 0 $a 4. Learning and social learning -- Key questions -- Introduction -- Types of learning -- Background to the development of learning theory -- Conditioning theories -- Classical conditioning -- Conditioned emotional responses -- The importance of fear reduction in hospital settings -- Fear and avoidance -- Systematic desensitization -- Operant (instrumental) conditioning -- Context and cues -- Schedules of reinforcement or punishment -- The subjective nature of reinforcement and punishment -- The immediacy of the consequence -- The certainty of the consequences -- Lifestyle and behaviour -- Behaviour modification -- Functional analysis of behaviour -- Self-modification -- Illness behaviours -- Reinforcement or control? -- Learned helplessness, uncontrollability and depression -- Undoing leaned helplessness -- Social learning theory -- Observational earning -- Self-efficacy -- Locus of control -- Cognitive behavioural therapy -- Applying behavioural principles to designing a health education programme -- Summary of key points -- Further reading --
505 0 $a 5. Development and change across the lifespan -- Key questions -- Introduction -- The development of thinking and understanding -- Piaget's theory of cognitive development -- Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of cognitive development -- Children's knowledge of their bodies -- Children's understanding of health and illness -- Children's understanding of death and dying -- The importance of play -- Children's social development -- Attachment -- Separation -- Types of attachment -- Moral reasoning and development -- Parenting styles -- Development across the lifespan -- Later life -- Theories of ageing -- The life review -- Loss -- Traditional theories of loss and grief -- Recent perspectives of loss and grief -- Hope -- Summary of key points -- Recommended reading -- 6. Social processes in health care -- Key questions -- Introduction -- Persuasion -- The source or sender of the message -- The nature of the message -- Cognitive dissonance -- Complexity and presentation of the message -- Immediacy of action and endurance of the message -- Audience influences and effects -- Selective attention -- Self-esteem and compliance -- In summary -- Obedience to authority -- Conformity -- Social desirability -- Helping others -- Taking responsibility in an emergency -- Non-verbal communication -- Managing conflict -- The importance of individualized care -- Psychological perspectives on leadership -- Groups and group interactions -- Summary of key points -- Further reading --
505 0 $a 7. Stress and coping -- Key questions -- Introduction -- Definitions of stress -- The transactional model of stress and coping -- Appraisal -- Demographic influences on appraisal and coping -- Coping -- Review of the transactional model of stress -- Physiological responses to stress -- Stress and immune function -- Control and controllability -- Controllable situations -- Uncontrollable situations -- Effort and controllability -- Promoting control -- Social support -- Social support and health outcomes -- Negative aspects of social support -- The spiritual dimension of support -- Emotional responses to stress -- Confidence and pleasure -- Anxiety -- Depression -- Who gets anxious and depressed? -- Individual differences in responses to stress -- Optimism versus pessimism -- Type A and type C personalities -- Hardy personality -- The 'big five' -- Locus on control -- Sense of coherence -- Individual differences and stress-related illness -- Review of personality and stress -- Stress in different contexts -- Illness and hospitalization -- Life events -- Daily hassles -- Traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder -- Organizational stress -- The management of stress -- Summary of key points -- Further reading --
505 0 $a 8. Psychology applied to health and well-being -- Key questions -- Introduction -- Defining health, illness and disease -- Promoting health and preventing ill health -- Social cognition -- Social cognition and prevention -- The health belief model (HBM) -- The theory of planned behaviour (TPB) -- Critique of the HBM and TPB -- Stages of change -- Self-regulation and health-related behaviour change -- Medical help-seeking -- Psychological perspectives on illness -- Adherence to or concordance with medical advice -- Adherence and health professionals -- Self management in chronic disease -- Peer teaching -- Evaluating health outcomes -- Measuring health outcomes -- Professionally determined outcome measurement -- User-led outcome measurement -- Summary of key points -- Further reading -- 9. Case study -- Key questions -- Introduction -- Case study -- Summary of psychological applications -- Summary of key issues -- Further reading -- Glossary.
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