Barley, Elizabeth,
Health psychology in nursing practice / Elizabeth Barley. - Los Angeles : SAGE, c2016. - x, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index.
Contents: 1 Why nurses, midwives and health visitors need health psychology -- 2 Emotions and health -- 3 Improving self- management -- 4 Promoting healthy choices -- 5 Managing enduring physical symptoms -- 6 Looking after yourself -- 7 Putting it all together.
Health Psychology in Nursing Practice gives nurses and healthcare practitioners the essentials of health psychology to assist patients and their relatives in adjusting to diagnoses, coping with treatments and other disease-related life changes, managing symptoms and making healthy choices. Directly aimed at nurses, this textbook helps them improve their practice in a very practical way.--
English
9781473913677 [paperback]
Clinical health psychology.
Nursing.
Health psychology in nursing practice / Elizabeth Barley. - Los Angeles : SAGE, c2016. - x, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index.
Contents: 1 Why nurses, midwives and health visitors need health psychology -- 2 Emotions and health -- 3 Improving self- management -- 4 Promoting healthy choices -- 5 Managing enduring physical symptoms -- 6 Looking after yourself -- 7 Putting it all together.
Health Psychology in Nursing Practice gives nurses and healthcare practitioners the essentials of health psychology to assist patients and their relatives in adjusting to diagnoses, coping with treatments and other disease-related life changes, managing symptoms and making healthy choices. Directly aimed at nurses, this textbook helps them improve their practice in a very practical way.--
English
9781473913677 [paperback]
Clinical health psychology.
Nursing.