This topical, readable text draws students into the subject of health psychology using human interest stories, case studies, and news reports to personalise each topic.
The initial data suggest that it takes about two years and possibly longer for smoking to become consistent and frequent (Leventhal & Cleary, 1980). During the "becoming a smoker” stage, biological factors appear to play a critical role ...
21 Older Persons and Health Psychology Margaret Gatz , Cynthia Pearson , and Wendy Weicker There has been surprisingly little recognition of the natural overlap between health psychology and the psychology of the adult development and ...
HIV Vaccine research: South Africa's ethical and legal framework and its ability to promote the welfare of trial ... Humor as an adjunctive therapy in cardiac rehabilitation, attenuates catecholamines & myocardial infarction ...
The Health Psychology Reader is designed to complement and support the recent textbook Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice by David F. Marks, Michael Murray, Brian Evans and Carla Willig (SAGE, 2000).
Parker, E.S., Parker, D.A.,& Harford, T.C.(1991). Specifying the relationshipbetween alcoholuseand cognitive loss: ... Parra,G.,Sher,K.J., Krull,J., &Jackson, K.M. (2007).Frequency ofheavydrinking and perceivedpeer alcohol involvement: ...
Freeman, E., 436 Freeth, D., 329 Freidson, E., 230 French, D., 55, 220–21, 266, 419 Freud, S., 5 Friedman, M., 72, ... 17, 18, 19 GET (graded exercise therapy), 143 Gibson, B., 185 Gidron, Y., 318, 388 Gijsbers van Wijk, C., 254 Glaser, ...
Behavioral Medicine Behavioral medicine is the multidisciplinary field that seeks to integrate knowledge and techniques from both the behavioral and the biomedical sciences . The field is dedicated to the diagnosis , treatment , and ...
Zhang, S., Hunter, D. J., Forman, M. R., Rosner, B. A., Speizer, F. E., Colditz, G. A., Manson, J. E., Hankinson, S. E., & Willett, W. C. (1999). Dietary carotenoids and vitamins A, C, and E and risk of breast cancer.
Smoking status of Australian general practice patients and their attempts to quit. Addictive Behavior, 31, 758–766. Dorn, J.M., Hovey, K., Williams, B.A., Freudenheim, J.L., Russell, M., Nochajski, T.H. & Trevisan, M. (2007).
A truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of health, Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach uses the social ecological perspective to explore the impact of five systems on individual health outcomes: individual, ...