Integrates the views of dynamical systems concepts with a behavioral view of development. This book emphasizes learning as the major process for change in development and the integration of environmental influences with genetic and historical factors.

Based on the theoretical approach to cooperative negotiating skills developed at the Harvard Project on Negotiation, this book presents a two-step process towards mastery of negotiating and influencing skills.

This book helps nursing students recognise why they need to know about psychology, how it can affect and influence their individual nursing practice as well as the role it plays in health and illness.