Foundations of health psychology

Foundations of health psychology / edited by Howard S. Friedman and Roxane Cohen Silver.

Health psychology is the scientific study of psychological processes related to health and health care. Although the field is only 25 years old, it has burgeoned into a major scientific and clinical discipline. Health psychology has excellent scientific journals, thousands of scientists and practiti...

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Other Authors: Friedman, Howard S., Silver, Roxane Cohen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Clinical health psychology.
Clinical psychology.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Clinical psychology
Clinical health psychology
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One: History and Methods: 1. The History and Background of Health Psychology / Howard S. Friedman and Nancy E. Adler
  • 2. Measurement in Health Psychology Research / Timothy W. Smith
  • 3. Designing and Implementing Interventions to Promote Health and Prevent Illness / J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Rivas and Roxane. C. Silver
  • Part Two: Core Concepts of the Biopsychosocial Approach to Health: 4. The Brain, Homeostasis, and Health: Balancing Demands of the Internal and External / Milieu John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson
  • 5. Psychoneuroimmunology / Margaret E. Kemeny
  • 6. Stress, Coping and Health Charles / S. Carver
  • 7. Social Support / Shelley E. Taylor
  • 8. Personality, Disease, and Self-healing / Howard S. Friedman
  • Part Three: Applications to Health Promotion and Effective Treatment
  • 9. Adjustment to Chronic Disease: Progress and Promise in Research / Annette L. Stanton & Tracey A. Revenson
  • 10. Aging and Health / Karen Rook, Susan Turk Charles and Jutta Heckhausen
  • 11. Expressive Writing, Emotional Upheavals, and Health / James W. Pennebaker & Cindy K. Chung
  • 12. Reactions to the Death of a Loved One: Beyond the Myths of Coping with Loss / Camille Wortman & Kathrin Boerner
  • 13. Physician-Patient Communication / Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter
  • 14. Uncertainty, Variability and Resource Allocation in the Health Care Decision Process / Robert M. Kaplan.

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