The Oxford handbook of health psychology

The Oxford handbook of health psychology / edited by Howard S. Friedman.

This title brings together preeminent experts to provide a comprehensive view of key concepts, tools, and findings of this rapidly expanding core discipline. The contributors address foundational concepts of the biopsychosocial approach to health and then discuss application.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Friedman, Howard S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Oxford library of psychology.
Subjects:
Clinical health psychology > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Medicine and psychology > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Health behavior.
Medicine and psychology.
Health behavior
Clinical health psychology
Medicine and psychology
Gesundheitspsychologie
Psychiatry.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Clinical Psychology.
Gesundheitspsychologie.
Handbooks and manuals
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Table of Contents:
  • The intellectual roots of health psychology / Howard S. Friedman, Nancy E. Adler
  • A history of the development of health psychology / Wade E. Pickren, Silvia Degni
  • Measurement in health psychology research / Timothy W. Smith
  • Designing and conducting interventions to enhance physical and mental health outcomes / J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Ravas, Roxane Cohen Silver
  • Uncertainty, variability, and resource allocation in the health care decision process / Robert M. Kaplan
  • The brain, homeostasis, and health : balancing demands of the internal and external milieu / John T. Cacioppo, Gary G. Berntson
  • Psychoneuroimmunology / Margaret E. Kemeny
  • Stress, coping, and health / Charles S. Carver, Sara Vargas
  • Social support : a review / Shelley E. Taylor
  • Personality, disease, and self-healing / Howard S. Friedman
  • Adjustment to chronic disease : progress and promise in research / Annette L. Stanton, Tracey A. Revenson
  • Social comparison processes : implications for physical health / Jerry Suls
  • Health and illness perceptions / Yael Beyamini
  • Physician-patient communication / Judith A. Hall, Debra L. Roter
  • Aging and health / Karen S. Rook, Susan Turk Charles, Jutta Heckhausen
  • Chronic pain : closing the gap between evidence and practice / Beverly E. Thorn, Barbara B. Walker
  • Coping with cancer / Vanessa L. Malcarne
  • Expressive writing : connections to physical and mental health / James W. Pennebaker, Cindy K. Chung
  • Beyond myths of coping with loss : prevailing assumptions versus scientific evidence / Camille B. Wortman, Kathrin Boerner
  • Family consultation for couples coping with health problems : a social cybernetic approach / Michael J. Rohrbaugh, Varda Shoham
  • Childhood health and chronic illness / Barbara J. Tinsley, Mary H. Burleson
  • Transplantation / Mary Amanda Dew, Andrea F. DiMartini
  • HIV/AIDS / Lydia Temoshok
  • Health behavior change / Ralf Schwarzer
  • Advancing health behavior theory : the interplay among theories of health behavior, empirical modeling of health behavior, and behavioral interventions / Leona S. Aiken
  • The perception of health risks / Britta Renner, Harald Schupp
  • Physical activity and health : current research trends and critical issues / Dawn K. Wilson, Nicole Zarrett, Heather Kitzman-Ulrich
  • Alcohol use and alcohol use disorders / Kenneth J. Sher [and others]
  • Obesity / Emily L. Van Walleghen, Betsy A. Steeves, Hollie A. Raynor
  • Dispositional optimism, psychophysiology, and health / Suzanne C. Segerstrom
  • Community health / Marta Gil Lacruz
  • Latino health / John M. Ruiz, Patrick Steffen
  • Two decades of social change in Central and Eastern Europe : implications for health / Irina L.G. Todorova
  • Asian meditation and health / Yosuke Sakairi, Genji Sugamura, Masao Suzuki
  • Health and social relationships in nonhuman primates : toward a comparative health psychology / John P. Capitanio
  • Conclusion : the achievements and promise of health psychology / Howard S. Friedman.

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