Understanding Human Behavior,
9th Edition

Alyson Honeycutt, Mary Elizabeth Milliken

ISBN-13: 9781305959880
Copyright 2018 | Published
480 pages | List Price: USD $281.95

Empowering you as a future health care professional, UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 9e, delivers reliable, practical information that equips you with a solid understanding of basic psychological concepts from a health care perspective. Updated with the latest industry trends and examples, the text offers streamlined coverage that spans a broad but valuable range of important mental health topics -- as well as their implications for you as a health care professional. It includes new coverage of cultural bias and cultural competence; developmental disorders; trauma-informed care; drug use in the U.S.; alternative, complementary, and integrative medicine; stress-management techniques; and much more. Presenting both client and caregiver perspectives, this powerful resource explores the behaviors, emotions, and coping mechanisms you may encounter in a variety of health care situations and settings. Practical examples and activities help you apply what you learn to real-world scenarios.

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Section I: BECOMING A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL.
1. Challenges and Responsibilities of Health Care Professionals.
2. The Philosophy of Individual Worth.
3. Self-Understanding.
Section II: UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
4. Influences on Behavior.
5. Physical Needs.
6. Self-Esteem and Social Needs.
7. Emotions and Behavior.
8. Adjustment and Patterns of Behavior.
Section III: BEHAVIOR AND PROBLEMS IN LIVING.
9. Common Threats to Adjustment.
10. Effects of Trauma.
11. Defense Mechanisms.
12. Frustration and Inner Conflict.
Section IV: EFFECTIVE HUMAN RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATION.
13. Effects of Illness on Behavior.
14. Human Relations and Coping with Patient Behavior.
15. Practicing Effective Communication.
Section V: DEATH AND LOSS.
16. Grief and Loss throughout Life.
17. Death: Attitudes and Practices.
18. Caring for the Dying Person.
Section VI: TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE.
19. Health Care through the Ages.
20. What Is Healing? Who Is the Healer?
21. Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine.
22. Managing Stress.
Glossary.
Index.

  • Alyson Honeycutt

    Alyson Honeycutt, M.A., N.C.C., is a National Certified Counselor who holds a License in School Counseling from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction as well as advanced degrees from North Carolina State University at Raleigh and Appalachian State University. In addition to teaching parenting and literacy classes, she has taught students with emotional and behavioral disabilities. She also has served as an instructor in English at the college level and as a district-level behavior support coordinator in public schools.

  • Mary Elizabeth Milliken

    Mary Elizabeth Milliken, B.S.N., M.S., Ed.D., practiced nursing in a variety of settings, served as instructor, then coordinator, of a practical nursing education program, was curriculum specialist for health occupations in the North Carolina Department of Community Colleges, and was a consultant on curriculum and effective teaching. From 1971 to 1987 she served as coordinator of Health Occupations Teacher Education at the University of Georgia in Athens. She graduated from Duke University School of Nursing, and her graduate study at North Carolina State University at Raleigh concentrated on both education and psychology. Since 1974 Dr. Milliken has followed the emerging holistic health movement, attending numerous workshops and conferences in which holistic concepts and complementary healing modalities were presented. In addition, she completed the curriculum sequence and certification requirements of Healing Touch International, Inc.

  • Thoroughly revised, UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR: A GUIDE FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, 9e, reflects the latest developments in the field. Chapters are streamlined and condensed for conciseness. Up-to-date illustrations mirror contemporary health care settings. And the text's all-new design features full-color art and cartoons.

  • The new edition is more practical than ever. Rewritten Learning Objectives are now application based, while new "For Discussion and Reflection" features help students make personal connections to chapter concepts and apply them to real-world scenarios.

  • In Section I: Becoming a Health Care Professional, Chapter 1 describes effective study skills that have been validated by research, Chapter 2 introduces the concepts of cultural bias and cultural competence, and Chapter 3 discusses the concept of fixed mindset versus growth mindset.

  • In Section III: Behavior and Problems in Living, Chapter 9's new information about developmental disorders includes autism spectrum disorder, Chapter 10 introduces the concept of trauma-informed care, and Chapter 11 provides updated information about the prevalence of drug use in the U.S.

  • In Section IV: Effective Human Relations and Communication, Chapter 14 discusses strategies for setting limits with patients who display inappropriate behavior, while Chapter 15 emphasizes the interrelated role of nonverbal and verbal communication as well as introduces the concept of paraverbal communication.

  • In Section V: Death and Loss, Chapter 18 now examines the benefits and the limitations of Kubler-Ross's stages of dying.

  • In Section VI: Trends in Health Care, Chapter 20 introduces the concept that all treatment takes place in a psychosocial content as well as discusses the nocebo effect. Chapter 21 includes updated coverage of alternative, complementary, and integrative medicine. In addition, Chapter 22 provides new information on the causes of stress and a variety of stress-management techniques, including relaxation, exercise, mindfulness, and meditation.

  • Making it easy for students to build upon their knowledge, UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR is organized to proceed from relatively simple information to more complex concepts, from the known to the unknown, and from personal application to application in a variety of interpersonal situations.

  • Hands-on end-of-chapter critical thinking activities reinforce key chapter objectives.

  • User-friendly cartoons help explain complex situations as well as prompt students to think about the reasons why a client or colleague behaves a certain way.

  • Section I provides an orientation to the role of a health care professional, the importance of accepting each patient as a worthwhile human being, the challenge of striving for self-understanding, and guidelines for personal and professional growth.

  • Section II discusses information about various influences on human behavior: the role of heredity, basic physical and psychological needs, developmental factors, role of the social environment, emotions and their power to influence behavior, and adjustment as a composite of all these factors.

  • Section III covers more complex concepts related to human behavior: stressful events that occur in the lives of most people, domestic violence and bullying, and the mental and emotional effects of traumatic experiences.

  • Section IV contains expanded content on the components of effective communication. Practice exercises are designed to help students become better communicators by improving their skills in sending, receiving, and observing verbal and nonverbal exchanges.

  • Section V presents an overview of changing practices in relation to death and dying, the effect of these changes, and legislation related to the rights of patients to participate in health care decisions -- especially those related to end-of-life care.

  • Section VI is designed to encourage students to accept the changes that inevitably will occur in the dynamic health care system.

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