Using a human-interest story at the start of each chapter, to personalize each topic as it is introduced, this text on health psychology weaves case studies and news reports into the empirical content.
A comprehensive introduction to health psychology which covers both health enhancing and hazardous behaviours, as well as ways of encouraging people to improve their health.
Health Psychology: An Introduction to Behavior and Health
A sound, pragmatic understanding of the behaviours that affect health is presented in this study. It explains experimental design and critique studies and their findings and offers an increased emphasis on psychological interventions.
This work, designed for A-Level and undergraduate students, describes how behaviour can interact with stress to produce ill-health and, conversely, how stress can be managed to avoid the dangers of heart disease and other illnesses.
Offers a balanced view of health psychology, one that includes both behavioral medicine and and behavioral health. Organized into chapters that correspond to the main text, the guide includes innovative...
This text has made a major contribution to the teaching and study of this still rapidly expanding discipline. This substantial revision continues to provide the most accessible and comprehensive guide...
As before , the programmes were undertaken for ten weeks , and participants were assessed in terms of mood , anxiety , and coping ability , before and after training , and again at follow - up three months later .
To truly understand the interconnections between psychology and health, one must take a look at the whole person.
Students learn how and why these remedies work for some but not all populations, as well as how personal and societal beliefs can influence physical health. The anthology is divided into four sections.
This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including a new chapter on women's health.
Praise for this edition: "This third edition has now been extensively updated and considerably strengthened in a number of key areas...it provides a clear, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of a wide range of research and theory...it ...
With Straub’s Health Psychology, students explore the interrelationship of psychological and physical well-being, making meaningful connections between health psychology theory and research and their own everyday experience.
In this book [the authors] take a holistic approach to health psychology, giving equal weight to the biological, psychological and social factors that impact health behaviour, culture and change.
Clinical psychology.
"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.
Health Psychology: A Textbook with Redemption Card
This edition is updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, and includes many new real-world examples selected for their interest and relevance to today's students.
The text is packed with the most up-to-date citations available, presenting topics taken straight from headline news as well as classic issues in the field.
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