This book will help the students understand the basic concepts of psychology and its application in personal and community life, health, illness and nursing. It complies to the recent revision in the B.Sc Nursing curriculum that embraces application based and competency based approach in learning. The language is simple and easy to understand and includes chapter outline, critical thinking challenges, numerous debate questions and scenarios, and a recap included in the book in an effort to aid students in remembering the material. Emphasis on Applied Psychology has been placed in the new edition as per the requirement of the curriculum. Both aspiring nurses and experienced ones will consider it a lifelong Companion for Compassionate Caring. • Comprehensive, learner centered, assessment driven approach that maximizes the student engagement and enables educators to keep students on track. • Essential elements of applied psychology in every day issues relating to human behaviour, such as those involving health, the workplace, or education, are covered in depth. • Topics such as different psychological theories, the body-mind connection, personality changes, different learning styles, emotional intelligence, resilience building and stress management are interesting to learn. • Notes on habit formation, memorization methods, abnormalities of cognitive processes and its testing are all covered in great detail. • Excellent integration of text using clinical anecdotes and case scenarios included wherever necessary. • Complies with the current examination format by including long essays, short essays, and multiple-choice questions for each chapter.