pt. 1. Understanding Ourselves and Others. 1. Self-awareness and reflective practice. 2. The self-system. 3. The development of the self in childhood -- Focus on clinical practice: children's reactions to separation. 4. Evaluating and protecting the self -- pt. 2. Reactions to Change, Challenging Events and Loss. 5. Stress, appraisal and coping. 6. Anxiety in clinical practice. 7. Anger and aggression in clinical practice. 8. Depression in clinical practice -- Focus on clinical practice: the myth of ageing and inevitable decline. 9. Dying, bereavement and loss -- pt. 3. Promoting and Maintaining Health. 10. Health protective behaviour -- Focus on clinical practice: quality of life. 11. Compliance and non-compliance with medical advice -- pt. 4. Psycho-Physiology: The Relationship between Mind and Body. 12. Psycho-physiological reactions to acute and chronic stress -- Focus on clinical practice: stress and self-awareness -- 13. Personality type and disease -- 14. Psychological perspectives on pain -- pt. 5. Applying Psychological Knowledge in Clinical Practice. 15. Building and applying a psychological framework in clinical practice.