Healthcare Psychology and Communication Skills (Theory) for B.Pharm 1st Semester- NEP 2020

• Author Details: Dr. Rahul Shankar Tade, Dr. Swapnil Nitin Jain
• ISBN: 978-93-7979-070-5
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Healthcare Psychology and Communication Skills is a core undergraduate textbook prepared for the B.Pharm curriculum under NEP 2020 (Subject Code BP103T). The book comprises five chapters: Introduction to Psychology in Healthcare; Developmental and Behavioural Psychology; Foundations of Health Communication; Professional Communication in Healthcare Settings; and Health Psychology and Behavioural Interventions.

Structural Features

Each chapter opens with a set of Learning Objectives stated in measurable terms, allowing students to identify in advance precisely what they are expected to know, explain, or apply by the end of the chapter. This orientation helps students direct their attention efficiently during study and provides a checklist against which they can assess their own preparation before an examination.

Within each chapter, discussion follows a consistent framework — introduction, conceptual discussion, significance, applications, and contemporary perspective — applied uniformly across topics. This recurring structure allows students to anticipate how any new concept will be developed, reducing the cognitive effort of adapting to unfamiliar organization from section to section and allowing greater focus on the content itself. Because clinical significance and practical application are addressed explicitly within this framework, students are able to see not only what a concept means but why it matters for pharmacy and healthcare practice, rather than encountering theory in isolation from its use.

Tables are placed at points where comparison, classification, or consolidation of related ideas would otherwise require extended prose. These allow students to grasp distinctions between concepts, theories, or categories at a glance and serve as convenient reference points during revision. Figures, describing conceptual models and processes, are similarly included to support students who find visual representation useful for understanding sequential or hierarchical relationships between ideas, such as stages of behaviour change or communication flow.

The Chapter Summary, Key Takeaways, and Key Terms provided at the close of each chapter are designed to assist students in consolidating what has been studied without needing to re-read the full chapter, making them particularly useful during examination revision. The graded Assessment section, comprising objective, shortanswer, and long-answer questions, gives students the opportunity to test recall, conceptual understanding, and analytical ability in formats that mirror common university examination patterns, thereby supporting both self-assessment and structured examination preparation.

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