Psychology

An Introduction For Health Professionals

Patricia Barkway, Deb O'Kane
Elsevier Australia
442 pages
ISBN-13: 9780729542968
September 2019

Psychology: An Introduction for Health Professionals will appeal to the undergraduate nursing and health science student seeking to understand patient responses and behaviours to various diagnoses, interventions and health outcomes. Written by Patricia Barkway, the text is divided into two sections. The first introduces essential concepts and theories of psychology in the context of human development across the lifespan. The second focuses on applying these concepts and theories to healthcare issues and practice.