An introduction for nurses and other health care professionals to the study of the normal human behaviour in relation to health. The section of the psychology of self has been expanded, and new sections added on learning theory, memory and aggression.
With the former it becomes necessary to change the behaviour , and • Type II errors occur through commission ' – that with the latter to change the system . is , when something is done that should not have Roberts and Holly ( 1996 ) ...
The Practice of Clinical Health Psychology
This book is organized around fundamental psychological theories and issues. ∗ A strong emphasis on research, including an entire chapter devoted solely to research methods. ∗ Strongly and clearly grounded in current theories and ...
This accessible introduction to health psychology has been written specifically for undergraduate medical and nursing students.
Lifespan Health Psychology: Nursing Problems and Interventions
Mead describes three stages in the development of the Self , while Shibutani ( 1955 : 562-569 & 1962 : 129-144 ) adds a fourth stage . From a symbolic interactionist point of view , there is no Self at birth , only a responding organism ...
The Healthy City movement must be closely integrated with city bureaucratic structures so that it is able to influence them but also sufficiently apart from them to be able to challenge aspects of city policy when necessary (Baum 1993).
We discovered that qualitative methods could be used to test a theoretical model and that this is not just the province of quantitative statistical approaches.
Taking an epidemiological approach to the field, the text goes beyond the study of psychological processes in the individual such as stress and coping or personality factors to examine the interrelationship between health and human behavior ...
Clinical Supervision in Mental Health