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Focusing in particular on compassionate care, this practical textbook covers all aspects of psychology relevant to nursing and healthcare students.
Key Features include:
- Coverage of the most important core psychology concepts for students, directly linked to relevant practice contexts
- Case studies and scenarios from service users, carers, students and practitioners to help readers relate theory to practice
- Reflective activities to develop critical thinking with outline answers at the end of each chapter
- A glossary with definitions of key terms to further understanding.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to Psychological Theory
Chapter 2 Lifespan development
Chapter 3 Understanding suffering
Chapter 4 Compassionate care - Janet Scammell
Chapter 5 Person centred approaches - Sue Barker & Janet Scammell
Chapter 6 The Care Practitioner - Sue Barker & Gareth Morgan
Chapter 7 Therapeutic Relationships - Sue Barker & Hamed Al Battashi
Chapter 8 Emotional Intelligence - Sue Barker, Beverley Johnson, Andrew Santos
Chapter 9 Emotional labour
Chapter 10 Maintaining a culture of compassionate care - Sue Barker & Gemma Stacey-Emile
About the author
Dr Sue Barker is a registered mental health nurse and chartered psychologist; she works at Bournemouth University in the School of Health and Social Care as a Senior Lecturer. She is also a member of Bournemouth University Dementia Institute as part of this she has undertaken consultancy and evaluation work. She has a particular interest in mental and emotional wellbeing and her PhD explored the emotional care given to women becoming mothers. Sue leads a unit on the mental health nursing programme entitled mental health and wellbeing in later life.
Summary
Focusing particularly on compassionate care, this practical textbook covers all aspects of psychology relevant to nursing and healthcare students.
