Health Psychology is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology. Organized into four sections, the 7th edition is structured with a clear emphasis on theory and evidence throughout. With renewed focus on thinking critically about health psychology, Ogden’s revised ed…
This well-established textbook is a must-buy for all mentalhealth nursing students and is an invaluable resource for nurses in registeredpractice. Comprehensive and broad, it explores in detail the many ways in whichmental health nursing has a positive impact on the lives of people with mentalhealth…
Recovery is a key concept throughout mental health, but its meaning is elusive and hard to grasp in day to day practice. This textbook is an accessible and practical guide to recovery in mental health, demystifying the concept and helping students and practitioners to develop a personal awareness of…
This text is an accessible and clinically practical guide to medicines management in mental health for all student nurses and professionals. Making the topic manageable and understandable at undergraduate nurse level, it also encourages a growing understanding beyond this in professional practice to…
Most specialist mental health care is provided by nurses who use face to face helping skills with a wide range of people in a variety of contexts. This book puts therapeutic skills at the heart of the nurse’s role, with one central aim: to equip you with knowledge to use in your practice, thus imp…
“This book is an excellent resource which brings together the essential elements of contemporary mental health practice, providing students with practical and values-based guidance for a range of clinical specialties. The language used throughout is accessible and practice-focused case studies pro…
This text provides readers with a concise introduction to the psychology of eating focussing on the psychological and biological processes that underlie eating behaviour. While insights into eating behaviour that has gone wrong, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, are offered, the primary focus is…
This unique book is the first to bring together the world of health psychology with that of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
The authors draw on their wealth of experience as health psychologists to explore the relationship between health psychology and CAM and look at how an understa…
What is health psychology? Where is health psychology useful? Who uses the principles and techniques developed in health psychology? These are some of the questions that, as a clinical health psychologist for almost 20 years, Felicity Allen is pleased to answer in Health Psychology and Behaviour. Th…
"Well written and with an accessible and engaging style, practice-based issues are skilfully interwoven throughout each chapter of the book."Matt Fowler, Co-ordination & Development Officer, Safer Middlesbrough Partnership, UK (Journal of Interprofessional Care)"There is a growing body of litera…