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Understanding Human Behavior: A Guide for Health Care Professionals, 10th Edition

Alyson Honeycutt

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Understanding Human Behavior: A Guide for Health Care Professionals 10th Edition by Alyson Honeycutt
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Updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, Honeycutt's UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 10th Edition, delivers reliable, practical information students need to understand basic psychological and behavioral concepts from a health care perspective. In addition to its signature need-to-know presentation and easy-to-read writing style, the 10th Edition is more streamlined and includes full-color illustrations. Its concise yet thorough coverage spans a broad range of important mental health topics and addresses them alongside their implications for health care professionals. UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR presents both client and caregiver perspectives, exploring the behaviors, emotions and coping mechanisms encountered in a variety of health care situations and settings. Real-world examples and activities encourage students to examine their own behaviors and round-out its comprehensive approach, making this a must-have tool for health care programs.

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Alyson Honeycutt

Alyson Honeycutt, M.A., N.C.C., is a National Certified Counselor and licensed school counselor. She holds advanced degrees from North Carolina State University and Appalachian State University and has taught parenting and literacy classes as well as teaching students with learning, emotional and behavioral disabilities. She has also served as an English instructor at the college level and as a district-level behavior support coordinator in public schools. Alyson currently works as a health and wellness coach.

What's New

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  • Thoroughly revised, the 10th edition reflects recent developments in the field with streamlined chapters condensed for conciseness, up-to-date illustrations that mirror contemporary health care settings and full-color art.
  • More practical than ever, the 10th edition's Learning Objectives are application based and aligned to topic headings within each chapter and activities at the end of each chapter.
  • Section I: Becoming a Health Care Professional, Chapter 3 includes an expanded discussion of the growth mindset.
  • Section II, Understanding Human Behavior, Chapter 5 describes the connection between nutrition and resistance to illness. Chapter 6 contains an exploration of the need for balance between independence and interdependence. Chapter 8 provides an expanded discussion of positive emotions, including gratitude and joy, and addresses the influence of culture on the expression of emotion. Chapter 8 also includes a discussion of how social media can impact adjustment, and Chapter 9 addresses the influence of national and world events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, on adjustment.
  • Section III: Behavior and Problems in Living, Chapter 10 describes the traumatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapter 11 includes updated information about substance use in the U.S., and Chapter 12 now includes a discussion of discrimination can be a source of frustration.
  • Section IV: Effective Human Relations and Communication, Chapter 13 now includes a discussion of how financial concerns and cultural background impact the behavior of patients and their families. Chapter 14 provides practical strategies for setting personal matters aside while at work, and Chapter 16 discusses cultural differences in how individuals express grief.
  • Section V: Death and Loss, Chapter 18 discusses how financial concerns impact family decisions about end-of-life care.
  • Section VI: Trends in Health Care, Chapter 20 is streamlined, providing guidelines for evaluating the validity of alternative and complementary treatments. Chapter 21 explores the connection between stress and health.

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  • Making it easy for students to build on their knowledge, content is organized to proceed from relatively simple information to more complex concepts, from the known to the unknown and from personal application to interpersonal application in a variety of situations.
  • "For Discussion and Reflection" features help students make personal connections to chapter concepts and apply them to real-world scenarios.
  • Hands-on end-of-chapter critical thinking activities reinforce key chapter objectives.
  • 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-awareness and guidelines for personal and professional growth, including the concepts of cultural bias, cultural competence and growth mindset.
  • Section II discusses various influences on human behavior -- the role of heredity, basic physical and psychological needs, developmental factors, the 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 human behavior concepts -- stressful events that occur in the lives of most people, domestic violence and bullying and the mental and emotional effects of traumatic experiences, including national and global events.
  • Section IV expands content on the components of effective communication. Practice exercises help students become better communicators by improving their skills in sending, receiving and observing verbal and nonverbal exchanges. Students are introduced to strategies for setting limits with patients who display inappropriate behavior.
  • 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 provides a historical perspective of the evolution of health care to encourage students to accept the changes that inevitably will occur in the dynamic health care system.

Table of Contents

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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-Awareness.
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. Managing Stress.
Glossary.
Index.

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