Psychology for nurses and allied health professionals : applying theory to practice

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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 12 Chapter 1: What is psychology? 16 Introduction and overview 16 A brief history 16 Classifying the work that psychologists do 19 What do we mean by ‘science’? 28 The scientific study of human behaviour 28 Conclusions 35 Chapter summary 36 Chapter 2: Theoretical approaches 38 Introduction and overview 38 The behaviourist approach 38 The psychodynamic approach 42 The humanistic approach 46 The social constructionist approach 48 Conclusions: can psychology be a science if psychologists cannot agree what psychology is? 52 Chapter summary 53 Chapter 3: Psychological aspects of illness 56 Introduction and overview 56 What is health psychology? 57 Psychosocial aspects of surgery and other treatments 62 Psychosocial aspects of chronic illness 68 Pain 69 Chapter summary 74 Chapter 4: Social cognition and health behaviour 76 Introduction and overview 76 Defining health and illness 77 Models of health behaviour 84 Chapter summary 92 Chapter 5: Stress 94 Introduction and overview 94 Stress: what is it? 95 What causes stress? 96 What are the effects of stress? 104 Coping with stress 112 Chapter summary 114 Chapter 6: Personality and health behaviour 116 Introduction and overview 116 The psychometric approach (Eysenck and Cattell) 117 Humanistic theories (Rogers and Maslow) 127 Psychoanalytic theory (Freud) 129 Chapter summary 135 Chapter 7: Substance use and abuse 136 Introduction and overview 136 Defining abuse 137 Classifying drugs 142 The effects of drugs 142 Theories of dependence 149 Chapter summary 154 Chapter 8: Social perception 156 Introduction and overview 156 Perceiving objects and perceiving people 157 Are we all psychologists? 158 The person as thinker 158 Forming global impressions of people 159 Inferring what people are like 163 Influencing how others see us 169 Chapter summary 173 Chapter 9: Attribution 174 Introduction and overview 174 Attribution and the naïve scientist 175 Jones and Davis’s correspondent inference theory (CIT) 176 Kelley’s covariation and configuration models 180 Error and bias in the attribution process 183 Conclusions 189 Chapter summary 189 Chapter 10: Attitudes and attitude change 192 Introduction and overview 192 What are attitudes? 193 The measurement of attitudes 195 The relationship between attitudes and behaviour 196 Social influence and behaviour change 200 Theories of attitude change 206 Chapter summary 211 Chapter 11: Prejudice and discrimination 214 Introduction and overview 214 Prejudice as an attitude 215 Theories of prejudice and discrimination 221 Reducing prejudice and discrimination 228 Conclusions: what to do with stereotypes? 231 Chapter summary 232 Chapter 12: Conformity and group influence 234 Introduction and overview 234 Conformity 235 Chapter summary 250 Chapter 13: Obedience 252 Introduction and overview 252 Distinguishing between conformity and obedience 253 Experimental studies of obedience 253 The power of social situations 263 Patient compliance: doing what you’re told 263 Chapter summary 267 Chapter 14: Early experience and social development 270 Introduction and overview 270 The development and variety of attachments 271 Theories of the attachment process 272 Individual variations in attachment 277 Deprivation and privation 280 Conclusions 289 Chapter summary 289 Chapter 15: Cognitive development 292 Introduction and overview 292 Piaget’s theory: the child-as-scientist 293 Vygotsky’s theory: the child-as-apprentice 305 Chapter summary 308 Chapter 16: Development of the self-concept 310 Introduction and overview 310 Consciousness and self-consciousness 311 What is the self? 311 Components of the self-concept 312 Developmental changes in the self-concept 321 Chapter summary 325 Chapter 17: Adolescence 326 Introduction and overview 326 Normative and non-normative shifts 327 Puberty: The social and psychological meaning of biological changes 328 Adolescents in hospital 332 Theories of adolescence 333 Conclusions 344 Chapter summary 345 Chapter 18: Adulthood 348 Introduction and overview 348 Erikson’s theory: achieving intimacy and generativity 349 Levinson et al.’s ‘seasons of a man’s life’ 352 The validity of stage theories of adult development 357 Marriage 358 Parenthood 360 Conclusions 363 Chapter summary 364 Chapter 19: Late adulthood 366 Introduction and overview 366 The meaning of ‘old’ 367 Ageism 369 Cognitive changes in late adulthood 371 Social changes in late adulthood 376 Conclusions 383 Chapter summary 383 Chapter 20: Death and dying 386 Introduction and overview 386 Approaches to the understanding of grief 387 Nurses, death and dying 392 Chapter summary 401 References 404 Index 421 Content: ""Cover"" ""Title Page"" ""Copyright Page"" ""Table of Contents"" ""Acknowledgements"" ""Introduction"" ""Chapter 1: What is psychology?"" ""Introduction and overview"" ""A brief history"" ""Classifying the work that psychologists do"" ""What do we mean by â€?scienceâ€??"" ""The scientific study of human behaviour"" ""Conclusions"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 2: Theoretical approaches"" ""Introduction and overview"" ""The behaviourist approach"" ""The psychodynamic approach"" ""The humanistic approach"" ""The social constructionist approach"" ""Conclusions: can psychology be a science if psychologists cannot agree what psychology is?""""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 3: Psychological aspects of illness"" ""Introduction and overview"" ""What is health psychology?"" ""Psychosocial aspects of surgery and other treatments"" ""Psychosocial aspects of chronic illness"" ""Pain"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 4: Social cognition and health behaviour"" ""Introduction and overview"" ""Defining health and illness"" ""Models of health behaviour"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 5: Stress"" ""Introduction and overview"" ""Stress: what is it?""""What causes stress?"" ""What are the effects of stress?"" ""Coping with stress"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 6: Personality and health behaviour"" ""Introduction and overview"" ""The psychometric approach (Eysenck and Cattell)"" ""Humanistic theories (Rogers and Maslow)"" ""Psychoanalytic theory (Freud)"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 7: Substance use and abuse"" ""Introduction and overview"" ""Defining abuse"" ""Classifying drugs"" ""The effects of drugs"" ""Theories of dependence"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 8: Social perception"" ""Introduction and overview""""Perceiving objects and perceiving people"" ""Are we all psychologists?"" ""The person as thinker"" ""Forming global impressions of people"" ""Inferring what people are like"" ""Influencing how others see us"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 9: Attribution"" ""Introduction and overview"" ""Attribution and the naÃv̄e scientist"" ""Jones and Davisâ€?s correspondent inference theory (CIT)"" ""Kelleyâ€?s covariation and configuration models"" ""Error and bias in the attribution process"" ""Conclusions"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 10: Attitudes and attitude change""""Introduction and overview"" ""What are attitudes?"" ""The measurement of attitudes"" ""The relationship between attitudes and behaviour"" ""Social influence and behaviour change"" ""Theories of attitude change"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 11: Prejudice and discrimination"" ""Introduction and overview"" ""Prejudice as an attitude"" ""Theories of prejudice and discrimination"" ""Reducing prejudice and discrimination"" ""Conclusions: what to do with stereotypes?"" ""Chapter summary"" ""Chapter 12: Conformity and group influence""

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 with 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.

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 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 with 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.