Psychology for Nurses and Health Visitors

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Psychology and nursing....Pages 7-17
How do you know? Psychology and scientific method....Pages 18-30
Biological bases of behaviour....Pages 31-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Understanding people....Pages 51-59
Knowledge of self....Pages 60-71
Psychopathology....Pages 72-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Assessing people and patients....Pages 89-97
Interviewing....Pages 98-109
Personality and individual assessment....Pages 110-126
Other approaches to assessment....Pages 127-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Early life....Pages 145-153
Abilities and behaviour in childhood and adolescence....Pages 154-164
Social development in early childhood....Pages 165-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
The family and later life....Pages 181-189
The family....Pages 190-203
Ageing and social problems....Pages 204-216
Dying and bereavement....Pages 217-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
People, patients and change....Pages 241-249
Counselling and helping....Pages 250-266
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Creating change....Pages 267-283
Learning and teaching....Pages 284-298
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
People and illness....Pages 301-311
Institutional climates....Pages 312-331
Pain....Pages 332-345
Communicating with the patient....Pages 346-358
Back Matter....Pages 359-374