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Understanding Human Behavior

ISBN: 9781401825713 | 1401825710
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 3/19/2004

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SummaryTable of Contents
This text is designed to present basic psychological concepts in a format appropriate for all allied health learners. The book provides numerous examples and activities that help learners understand the behavior of others. It also includes exercises to encourage learners to study their own behavior.
Prefacexi
SECTION I ON BECOMING A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER1(48)
Unit 1 Challenges and Responsibilities of Health Care Providers
2(22)
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3(1)
Challenges
4(2)
Responsibilities
6(2)
Achievement as Progress
8(3)
Attitudes and Interest
11(1)
Empowerment
12(2)
Making a Decision
14(10)
Unit 2 The Philosophy of Individual Worth
24(12)
Meaning of Individual Worth
25(1)
The Health Care Provider and Cultural Bias
26(3)
Implications for Health Care Providers
29(1)
Practicing a Philosophy of Individual Worth
30(6)
Unit 3 Striving for Self-Understanding
36(13)
You, the Student
36(2)
Taking a New Look at Yourself
38(3)
You, a Person with Several Life Roles
41(2)
Guidelines for Growth
43(6)
SECTION II STRIVING TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN BEHAVIOR49(124)
Unit 4 Influences on Behavior
50(22)
How People Are Alike
51(1)
How People Are Different
51(1)
Heredity
51(3)
The Developmental Process
54(2)
Environment
56(3)
Influences on Development during Childhood
59(3)
Changing Influences during Life
62(3)
Assuming Responsibility for Behavior
65(1)
The Health Care Provider and the Patient
66(6)
Unit 5 Physical Needs
72(13)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
73(1)
Essential Physical Needs
73(3)
The Sleep Cycle
76(2)
Satisfaction of Physical Needs
78(1)
Comfort and Safety Needs
78(1)
Physical Needs and Behavior
79(1)
Understanding Behavior in Terms of Physical Needs
80(5)
Unit 6 The Need for Self-Approval
85(21)
Social Needs of People
86(2)
The Self-Concept
88(4)
Self-Esteem
92(1)
Influence of Others on One's Sense of Self
92(3)
Effects of Success and Failure
95(3)
Success
98(2)
Striving for Self-Approval
100(6)
Unit 7 The Need for Acceptance
106(14)
The Importance of Acceptance
107(1)
The Importance of Approval from Others
108(2)
Conformity
110(2)
The Need to Believe That Others Care
112(1)
The Need for Appreciation
113(2)
Gender Differences in Emotional Needs
115(1)
Social Needs and Behavior
116(1)
Behavior and the Health Care Provider
116(4)
Unit 8 Emotions and Behavior
120(34)
Meaning of Emotions
121(1)
Importance of Emotions
122(1)
Physiological Effects of Emotions
122(2)
Stress
124(3)
Positive Emotions
127(3)
Negative Emotions
130(4)
Formation of Emotional Patterns
134(2)
Individual Differences in Emotional Patterns
136(2)
Using Emotions Constructively
138(6)
Emotions and Behavior
144(10)
Unit 9 Adjustment and Patterns of Behavior
154(19)
Good Adjustment
155(1)
Poor Adjustment
155(1)
Effective Behavior versus Ineffective Behavior
155(2)
Emotions and Adjustment
157(2)
Daily Hassles
159(3)
Improving Adjustment
162(11)
SECTION III BEHAVIOR AND PROBLEMS IN LIVING173(116)
Unit 10 Common Threats to Adjustment
174(23)
Change as a Threat to Adjustment
175(1)
Life Stages and Change
175(4)
Social and Cultural Stessors
179(5)
Major Changes
184(4)
Chronic Stressors
188(4)
Coping Skills and Resilience
192(5)
Unit 11 Effects of Traumatic Events
197(29)
What Is Trauma?
198(1)
Traumatic Experiences
198(11)
Domestic Violence
209(7)
Reactions to Trauma
216(4)
The Survivor Role
220(1)
The Challenge
220(6)
Unit 12 Defense Mechanisms
226(29)
The Purpose of Defense Mechanisms
227(1)
Rationalization
228(1)
Projection
229(2)
Displacement
231(1)
Daydreaming
232(2)
Escape into Illness
234(2)
Repression
236(1)
Withdrawal
237(1)
Substance Dependency
238(8)
Codependency
246(1)
Defense Mechanisms and Adjustment
247(8)
Unit 13 Inner Conflict
255(16)
The Meaning of Inner Conflict
255(3)
Types of Inner Conflict
258(2)
How to Deal with Inner Conflict
260(3)
Inner Conflict and Adjustment
263(2)
Inner Conflict and the Health Care Provider
265(1)
Inner Conflict and the Patient
265(1)
Using Knowledge about Inner Conflict
266(5)
Unit 14 Frustration
271(18)
Degrees of Frustration
272(1)
Cumulative Effects of Frustration
272(1)
Sources of Frustration
273(4)
Effects of Frustration
277(1)
Frustration and Behavior Patterns
278(2)
Perfectionism and Frustration
280(1)
Coping with Frustration
281(8)
SECTION IV BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER289(54)
Unit 15 Effects of Illness on Behavior
290(17)
Physical Effects of Illness
291(1)
Emotional Effects of Illness
291(1)
General Effects of Serious Illness
292(1)
Influences on Patients' Reactions to Illness
293(5)
The Challenge for Health Care Providers
298(9)
Unit 16 Coping with Patient Behavior
307(21)
General Guidelines
308(7)
Common Behavior Patterns of Patients
315(13)
Unit 17 Human Relations and the Health Care Provider
328(15)
Helping Patients Adjust to Illness
329(4)
Becoming a Member of the Health Team
333(5)
Practicing Effective Patient Relations
338(1)
The Challenge
339(4)
SECTION V PRACTICING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION343(26)
Unit 18 Observing Nonverbal Behavior
344(12)
Observing and Interpreting Nonverbal Behavior
345(4)
Setting the Stage for Practicing Interpersonal Skills
349(1)
Exercise I: Observing Nonverbal Behavior
350(1)
Exercise II: Observing and Interpreting Nonverbal Behavior
351(5)
Unit 19 Verbal Communication
356(13)
Ambiguity
358(1)
Discrepancies in a Message
358(2)
Tone
360(1)
Effective Listening
360(1)
Assumptions and Expectations
360(1)
Improving Communication Skills
361(1)
Exercise III: Using Tone to Alter the Meaning of a Statement
362(2)
Exercise IV: Expressing Ideas and Listening Effectively
364(1)
Opinion Statements to Serve as a Basis for Discussion
365(1)
Class Challenge
365(4)
SECTION VI COPING WITH LOSS369(86)
Unit 20 Gains and Losses throughout the Life Span
370(24)
Life Changes as Gains and Losses
370(1)
Learning to Cope with Loss
371(1)
Significance of Loss
372(1)
Losses Due to Death
373(2)
Suicide
375(3)
Death of a Parent
378(2)
Losses in Specific Periods of the Life Span
380(6)
Striving for Readjustment Following Significant Loss
386(1)
Guidelines for Using Loss and Grief as a Growth Experience
387(7)
Unit 21 Death: Changing Attitudes and Practices
394(25)
The Emergence of Thanatology
398(1)
The Meaning of Death
398(2)
Death with Dignity
400(1)
Euthanasia
400(3)
Societal Issues Related to Care of the Dying
403(3)
Legal Aspects of the Right to Die
406(4)
A Dilemma for Health Care Providers
410(3)
Summary
413(6)
Unit 22 Grief and Bereavement
419(17)
Reactions to Loss and Bereavement
420(1)
Effects of Grief
421(1)
Importance of the Grief Process
422(1)
Influences on the Grief Process
423(4)
Grief Work
427(2)
Roles of Health Care Providers
429(1)
Guidelines for Assisting the Family of a Dying Patient
429(7)
Unit 23 Caring for the Dying Person
436(19)
Reactions to Diagnosis of a Terminal Illness
436(1)
Stages of Dying
437(2)
Dying as a Growth Process
439(3)
Personal and Family Issues Related to Care of the Dying
442(1)
Palliative Care
443(1)
Medical Issues Related to Care of the Dying
444(2)
Issues Related to Rights of the Dying Person
446(2)
Roles of Health Care Providers
448(1)
Guidelines for Care of a Dying Person
449(6)
SECTION VII TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE455(114)
Unit 24 Health Care through the Ages
457(33)
Definitions
458(1)
Innovations in Science and Health Care
458(3)
Healing in Early Civilizations
461(2)
Evolution of Modern Health Care
463(6)
Beginnings of Holistic Medicine
469(1)
Innovators and Modern Medicine
470(6)
The Health Care System-Today and Tomorrow
476(2)
Scientific Study of Complementary Therapies
478(1)
Issues in Health Care
479(11)
Unit 25 What Is Healing? Who Is the Healer?
490(20)
Placebo Effect
491(1)
The Immune System-Protector and Defender of the Body
491(1)
The Mind/Body Healing System
492(2)
Who Gets Sick? Who Gets Well?
494(1)
The Power of Love
495(1)
Healing versus Curing
496(1)
Intention
497(1)
Who Survives?
497(2)
The Holistic Approach to Health Care
499(5)
Future Health Care Systems
504(6)
Unit 26 Broadening Your View of Health Care
510(37)
What Is Legitimate Therapy?
511(2)
Holistic Medicine
513(4)
Psychoneuroimmunology
517(1)
Energy Medicine
518(1)
Osteopathy
518(1)
Chiropractic
519(1)
Naturopathy
520(1)
Psychotherapy/Counseling
521(1)
Homeopathy
522(2)
Traditional Chinese Medicine
524(4)
Ayurvedic Medicine
528(2)
Complementary Therapies
530(1)
Healing Touch
530(4)
Acupuncture
534(1)
Acupressure and Shiatsu
534(1)
Reflexology
535(3)
Therapeutic Massage
538(2)
The Self-Help Trend
540(2)
Role of the Health Care Provider
542(5)
Unit 27 Managing Stress with Relaxation/Meditation
547(22)
Stress Management
548(1)
Mind-Talk as a Source of Stress
548(1)
Mindfulness
549(1)
Relaxation and Meditation
549(5)
Relaxation Techniques
554(6)
Meditation Methods
560(4)
Using Positive Affirmations
564(1)
Conclusion
564(5)
Glossary569(13)
Index582

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