Ref: 04181

Authors: Julia Russell

Number of Pages: 257

Publication Date: 2005

ISBN: 0748780742

Cover: Paperback

Price: £14.95

If you are a health care student just starting out in your training, or are returning to practice after a break, the Foundations in Nursing and Health Care series is for you!
In the only multiprofessional, introductory series for health professionals, each title is written in an interactive and accessible way from a shared learning prospective. This unique series can be used as a complete learning tool or each title can be used individually as a guide to a specialist area.
Providing an accessible introduction to psychological reserach and theory, Julia Russell demonstrates how this approach can be used to interpret, explain, and actively influence clinical practice. This lively approach encourages readers to make connections between their own experiences of, and practice in, health care contexts.
Part of the popular Foundations in Nursing and Health Care series, this engaging text shows how pyshology makes an important contribution to health care practitioners' understanding of health and health promotion, treatment, stress, pain, emotion, and bereavement and loss.

Key Features:

• Provides all the relevant underpinning theory without assuming prior knowledge.
• Students Speaking and Professionally Speaking features illustrate the links between pyshological theory and the real-life experiences of students and practitioners.
• Case Studies drawn from multi-professional settings and reflective activities demonstrate scenarios and encourage you to question how to practice and learn.
• Regular Key Points provide convenient signposts to good practice and summarise concepts under discussion.
• Chapters commence with Learning Outcomes and conclude with Rapid Recap short answer questions (answers are provided in an Appendix).
• Cartoons reinforce the theory and add to the attractive two-colour design.