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1000555
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b754925
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Psychology for nurses and the caring professions.
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| Edition Statement
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2nd ed. // Jan Walker [and others].
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| Publication Statement
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Maidenhead :: Open University Press,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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Social science for nurses and the caring professions
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1 online resource (x, 219 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0335214622
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: 0335215017
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: 0335228216
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: 9780335214624
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: 9780335215010
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: 9780335228218
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| Notes
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Previous edition: / Sheila Payne and Jan Walker. 1996.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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| Abstract
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This volume introduces students to a range of psychological theories and research, supported by evidence from health psychology. Applications are offered within a variety of health-care settings, with an emphasis on health promotion and preventative care.
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Clinical health psychology.
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Nursing-- Psychological aspects.
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Patients-- Psychology.
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Patients.
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Santé-- Psychologie clinique.
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Clinical health psychology.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Holism.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Reference.
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MEDICAL-- Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Essays.
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MEDICAL-- Family General Practice.
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MEDICAL-- Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Osteopathy.
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MEDICAL.
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Nursing-- Psychological aspects.
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Patients-- Psychology.
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| Dewey Classification
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610.19
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| LC Classification
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R726.5P79 2004eb
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| NLM classification
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WM 105P346p 2004
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| Added Entry
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Payne, Sheila,1954-
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Walker, Jan,1946-
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