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Foundations of Health Psychology
Edited by Howard S. Friedman and Roxane Cohen Silver
412 pages
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17 line illustrations
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253x178mm
978-0-19-513959-4
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Hardback
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28 September 2006
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- Brings together top experts to provide a much-needed conceptual base for the rapidly expanding field of health psychology
- Examines health psychology from a theoretical, conceptual, and psychological perspective
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 practitioners, and many students. Yet, there has not been a sufficient statement or explication of the foundational concepts upon which this flourishing field is built.
Foundations of Health Psychology brings together top experts to provide a much-needed conceptual base for this rapidly expanding field. Rather than
take a medical model approach, the volume examines health psychology from a theoretical, conceptual, and psychological perspective. After presenting an overview of the field's history and methods, the contributors address core concepts of the biopsychosocial approach to health and then discuss applications to health promotion and illness prevention and treatment.
Providing a deep understanding of the intellectual foundations of health psychology, this volume will be invaluable for both new and experienced researchers, as well as students and other scholars seeking a firm basis for successful research and practice.Readership: New researchers, students, and other scholars in social and health
psychology seeking a firm basis for successful research and practice, psychiatrists, sociologists, gerontologists, public health specialists
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Edited by Howard S. Friedman, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, USA, and Roxane Cohen Silver, Professor of Social Ecology and Associate Dean of the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, USA
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List of Contributors
I HISTORY AND METHODS
1: Howard S. Friedman and Nancy E. Adler: The History and Background of Health Psychology
2: Timothy W. Smith: Measurement in Health Psychology Research
3: J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Rivas, and Roxane C. Silver: Designing and Implementing Interventions to Promote Health and Prevent Illness
II CORE CONCEPTS OF THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO HEALTH
4: John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson: The Brain, Homeostasis, and Health: Balancing Demands of the Internal and External Milieu
5: Margaret E. Kemeny: Psychoneuroimmunology
6: Charles S. Carver: Stress, Coping and Health
7: Shelley E. Taylor: Social Support
8: Howard S. Friedman: Personality, Disease, and Self-Healing
III APPLICATIONS TO HEALTH PROMOTION AND EFFECTIVE TREATMENT
9: Annette L. Stanton and Tracey A. Revenson: Adjustment to Chronic Disease: Progress and Promise in Research
10: Karen Rook, Susan Turk Charles and Jutta Heckhausen: Aging and Health
11: James W. Pennebaker and Cindy K. Chung: Expressive Writing, Emotional Upheavals, and Health
12: Cammile B. Wortman and Kathrin Boerner: Reactions to the Death of a Loved One: Prevailing Assumptions Versus Scientfic Evidenve
13: Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter: Physician-Patient Communication
14: Robert M. Kaplan: Uncertainty, Variability and Resource Allocation in the Healthcare Decision Process
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