"When I wrote the first edition of Health Psychology over 30 years ago, the task was much simpler than it is now. Health psychology was a new field and was relatively small. In recent decades, the field has grown steadily, and great research advances have been made. Chief among these de-velopments has been the use and refinement of the biopsychosocial model: the study of health issues from the standpoint of biological, psychological, and social factors acting together. In-creasingly, research has attempted to identify the biological pathways by which psychosocial fac-tors such as stress may adversely affect health and potentially protective factors such as social support may buffer the impact of stress. My goal in the tenth edition of this text is to convey this increasing sophistication of the field in a manner that makes it accessible, comprehensible, and exciting to undergraduates"--
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The Practice of Clinical Health Psychology
This book is organized around fundamental psychological theories and issues. ∗ A strong emphasis on research, including an entire chapter devoted solely to research methods. ∗ Strongly and clearly grounded in current theories and ...
This accessible introduction to health psychology has been written specifically for undergraduate medical and nursing students.
Lifespan Health Psychology: Nursing Problems and Interventions
Mead describes three stages in the development of the Self , while Shibutani ( 1955 : 562-569 & 1962 : 129-144 ) adds a fourth stage . From a symbolic interactionist point of view , there is no Self at birth , only a responding organism ...
The Healthy City movement must be closely integrated with city bureaucratic structures so that it is able to influence them but also sufficiently apart from them to be able to challenge aspects of city policy when necessary (Baum 1993).
We discovered that qualitative methods could be used to test a theoretical model and that this is not just the province of quantitative statistical approaches.
Taking an epidemiological approach to the field, the text goes beyond the study of psychological processes in the individual such as stress and coping or personality factors to examine the interrelationship between health and human behavior ...
Clinical Supervision in Mental Health