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Understanding Human Behavior: A Guide for Health Care Providers

ISBN: 9780827382213 | 0827382219
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 8/28/1997

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SummaryTable of Contents
A unique book designed to present basic psychological concepts in a format appropriate for all allied health learners. The book provides numerous examples and activities that encourage learners to study their own behavior in light of new teachings with a vocabulary level that is appropriate for students enrolled in health-related programs. It can be used as the primary resource in a course on human relations/personal growth and as a supplementary book for topics presented within other courses such as the basic health occupations course, vocatio... MORE
Prefacexii
SECTION I ON BECOMING A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER1(40)
Unit 1 Challenges and Responsibilities of Health Care Providers
2(20)
S... MORE
3(1)
The Challenge
4(1)
Responsibilities
5(8)
Making a Decision
13(9)
Unit 2 The Philosophy of Individual Worth
22(9)
Meaning of Individual Worth
23(1)
The Health Care Provider and Socioeconomic Class
24(2)
Implications for Health Care Providers
26(1)
Applying a Philosophy of Individual Worth
27(4)
Unit 3 Striving for Self-Understanding
31(10)
You, the Student
31(1)
Taking a New Look at Yourself
32(3)
You, a Person with Several Life Roles
35(1)
Guides for Growth
36(5)
SECTION II STRIVING TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN BEHAVIOR41(110)
Unit 4 Influences on Behavior
42(20)
How People Are Alike
43(1)
How People Are Different
43(1)
Heredity
43(3)
The Developmental Process
46(2)
Environment
48(1)
Influences on Development During Childhood
49(2)
Changing Influences During Life
51(3)
Assuming Responsibility for Behavior
54(1)
The Health Care Provider and the Patient
55(7)
Unit 5 Physical Needs
62(9)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
63(1)
Essential Physical Needs
63(1)
The Sleep Cycle
64(2)
Comfort and Safety Needs
66(1)
Physical Needs and Behavior
66(1)
Understanding Behavior in Terms of Physical Needs
67(4)
Unit 6 The Need for Self-Approval
71(20)
Social Needs of People
72(2)
The Self-Concept
74(3)
Self-Esteem
77(1)
Influence of Others on One's Sense of Self
78(2)
Effects of Success and Failure
80(3)
Success
83(1)
Striving for Self-Approval
84(7)
Unit 7 The Need for Acceptance
91(13)
The Importance of Acceptance
92(1)
Approval from Others
93(2)
Conformity
95(1)
The Need to Believe That Others Care
96(1)
Need for Appreciation
97(1)
Sex Differences in Emotional Needs
98(1)
Social Needs and Behavior
98(1)
Behavior and the Health Care Provider
99(5)
Unit 8 Emotions and Behavior
104(30)
Meaning of Emotions
105(1)
Importance of Emotions
105(1)
Physiological Effects of Emotions
106(1)
Stress
107(3)
Positive Emotions
110(3)
Negative Emotions
113(4)
Formation of Emotional Patterns
117(2)
Individual Differences in Emotional Patterns
119(2)
Using Emotions Constructively
121(4)
Emotions and Behavior
125(9)
Unit 9 Adjustment and Patterns of Behavior
134(17)
Good Adjustment
134(1)
Poor Adjustment
135(1)
Effective Behavior Versus Ineffective Behavior
135(2)
Emotions and Adjustment
137(5)
Improving Adjustment
142(9)
SECTION III BEHAVIOR AND PROBLEMS IN LIVING151(94)
Unit 10 Threats to Adjustment
152(37)
Change as a Threat to Adjustment
153(1)
Life Stages and Change
153(4)
Major Changes
157(2)
Societal and Cultural Issues as Threats to Adjustment
159(21)
The Challenge
180(9)
Unit 11 Defense Mechanisms and Behavior
189(28)
Reactions to Threat
190(1)
The Purpose of Defense Mechanisms
191(1)
Common Defense Mechanisms
191(9)
Substance Dependency
200(10)
Defense Mechanisms and Adjustment
210(7)
Unit 12 Inner Conflict
217(14)
The Meaning of Inner Conflict
217(2)
Types of Inner Conflict
219(3)
How to Deal with Inner Conflict
222(2)
Inner Conflict and Adjustment
224(1)
Inner Conflict and the Health Care Provider
225(1)
Conflict and the Patient
226(1)
Using Knowledge of Conflict
227(4)
Unit 13 Frustration and Behavior
231(14)
Meaning of Frustration
232(1)
Sources of Frustration
233(3)
Effects of Frustration
236(1)
Frustration and Behavior Patterns
237(1)
Coping with Frustration
238(7)
SECTION IV STRIVING TO BECOME AN EFFECTIVE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER245(52)
Unit 14 Illness and Patient Behavior
246(15)
Physical Effects of Illness
247(1)
Emotional Effects of Illness
247(1)
General Effects of Serious Illness
248(1)
Influences on Patients' Reactions to Illness
249(4)
The Challenge for Health Care Providers
253(8)
Unit 15 Coping with Patient Behavior
261(20)
General Guidelines
262(6)
Common Behavior Patterns of Patients
268(13)
Unit 16 Human Relations and the Health Care Provider
281(16)
Helping Patients Adjust to Illness
283(3)
Becoming a Member of the Health Team
286(4)
The Challenge
290(1)
Practicing Effective Patient Relations
291(6)
SECTION V PRACTICING EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION297(36)
Unit 17 Observing Nonverbal Behavior
298(17)
Observing and Interpreting Nonverbal Behavior
299(4)
Setting the Stage for Practicing Interpersonal Skills
303(1)
Exercise I: Observing Nonverbal Behavior
304(3)
The Incident to Be Portrayed
307(1)
The Private Life of Mrs. A.
308(1)
The Private Life of Mr. M.
309(2)
Exercise II: Interpreting Nonverbal Behavior
311(4)
Unit 18 Verbal Communication
315(18)
Ambiguity
317(1)
Discrepancies in a Message
317(2)
Assumptions and Expectations
319(1)
Improving Communication Skills
320(1)
Exercise III: Expressing Ideas Clearly
321(2)
Statements to Serve as the Basis for Discussion by Communicators
323(1)
Exercise IV: Paraphrasing Ideas Expressed by Others
323(3)
Opinion Statements to Serve as a Basis for Discussion
326(1)
Class Challenge
326(7)
SECTION VI COPING WITH LOSS333(90)
Unit 19 Gains and Losses throughout the Life Span
334(25)
Life Changes as Gains and Losses
334(1)
Learning to Cope with Loss
335(1)
Significance of Loss
336(1)
Losses Due to Death
337(1)
Suicide
338(4)
Euthanasia
342(2)
Death of a Parent
344(2)
Losses in Specific Periods of the Life Span
346(5)
Striving for Readjustment Following Significant Loss
351(1)
Guidelines for Using Loss and Grief as a Growth Experience
352(7)
Unit 20 Death: Changing Attitudes and Practices
359(28)
Death and Dying
359(4)
The Emergence of Thanatology
363(1)
The Meaning of Death
363(1)
Death with Dignity
364(1)
Societal Issues Related to Care of the Dying
365(4)
Legal Aspects of the Right to Die
369(9)
A Dilemma for Health Care Providers
378(2)
Summary
380(7)
Unit 21 Grief and Bereavement
387(16)
Meanings
387(1)
Reactions to Loss and Bereavement
388(1)
Effects of Grief
389(1)
Importance of the Grief Process
390(1)
Influences on the Grief Process
391(3)
Grief Work
394(2)
Roles of Health Care Providers
396(1)
Guidelines for Assisting the Family of a Dying Patient
397(6)
Unit 22 Caring for the Dying Person
403(20)
Reactions to Diagnosis of a Terminal Illness
403(1)
Stages of Dying
404(2)
Dying as a Growth Process
406(3)
Personal and Family Issues Related to Care of the Dying
409(1)
Palliative Care
410(1)
Medical Issues Related to Care of the Dying
411(2)
Issues Related to Rights of the Dying Person
413(2)
Roles of Health Care Providers
415(2)
Guidelines for Care of a Dying Person
417(6)
SECTION VII TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE423(106)
Unit 23 Health Care through the Ages
425(31)
Definitions
426(1)
Innovations in Science and Health Care
426(3)
Healers in Early Civilizations
429(4)
Chinese Medicine
433(1)
Evolution of Modern Health Care
434(6)
Modern Pioneers in Medicine
440(6)
Characteristics of Today's Health Care System
446(10)
Unit 24 What Is Healing? Who Is the Healer?
456(17)
Placebo Effect
457(1)
The Immune System -- Protector and Defender of the Body
457(1)
Who Gets Sick?
458(1)
The Mystery of Healing -- Who Gets Well?
459(2)
Health Care Providers as Healers
461(1)
The Holistic Approach to Health Care
462(5)
The American Holistic Nurses' Association
467(1)
Future Health Care Systems
468(5)
Unit 25 Managing Stress with Relaxation Meditation
473(21)
Stress Management
474(1)
Mind - Talk as a Source of Stress
474(1)
Mindfulness
475(1)
Relaxation and Meditation
475(4)
Relaxation Techniques
479(6)
Meditation Methods
485(4)
Conclusion
489(5)
Unit 26 A Broadening View of Health Care
494(35)
What Is Legitimate Therapy? What Is Quackery?
495(2)
The Healing Professions
497(8)
Therapeutic Techniques
505(6)
Alternative Therapies
511(11)
The Self-Help Trend
522(2)
Role of the Health Care Provider
524(5)
GLOSSARY529(11)
INDEX540

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