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The new edition of Health Psychology is the perfect introduction to
this rapidly developing field. Throughout the book, the
psychological processes that shape health-related behaviors, and
affect core functions such as the immune and cardiovascular
systems, are clearly explained. These relationships provide the
foundation for psychological interventions which can change
cognition, perception and behavior, thereby improving health. The
book is split into five sections, and builds to provide a
comprehensive overview of the field: the biological basis of health
and illness stress and health coping resources: social support and
individual differences motivation and behavior relating to patients
Extensively revised to include new material on behavioral change,
the role of stress, resilience and social support, recovery from
work, and the care of people with chronic disease, the book also
includes a range of features which highlight key issues, and engage
readers in applying what we have learned from research. This is
essential reading for any undergraduates studying this exciting
field for the first time, and the perfect primer for those
embarking on postgraduate study.
The new edition of Health Psychology is the perfect introduction to
this rapidly developing field. Throughout the book, the
psychological processes that shape health-related behaviours, and
affect core functions such as the immune and cardiovascular
systems, are clearly explained. These relationships provide the
foundation for psychological interventions which can change
cognition, perception and behaviour, thereby improving health. The
book is split into five sections, and builds to provide a
comprehensive overview of the field: the biological basis of health
and illness stress and health coping resources: social support and
individual differences motivation and behaviour relating to
patients Extensively revised to include new material on behavioural
change, the role of stress, resilience and social support, recovery
from work, and the care of people with chronic disease, the book
also includes a range of features which highlight key issues, and
engage readers in applying what we have learned from research. This
is essential reading for any undergraduates studying this exciting
field for the first time, and the perfect primer for those
embarking on postgraduate study.
In today's sick world, the application of psychological research
and methods to issues about and around health could not be more
important. Health psychologists pursue ambitious goals, including:
the promotion and maintenance of health; the prevention and
management of illness; the improvement of healthcare systems; and
the formulation of rational health policies. And they seek to
understand dizzyingly difficult questions, such as: how do people
adapt to chronic illness? What factors influence healthy eating?
How is stress linked to heart disease? And, why do so many patients
ignore medical advice and prescriptions? As research in and around
health psychology burgeons as never before, this new four-volume
collection from Routledge's acclaimed Critical Concepts in
Psychology series meets the need for an authoritative reference
work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex
corpus of literature. Edited by two leading scholars, the
collection gathers foundational and canonical work, together with
innovative and cutting-edge applications and interventions. With a
full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly
written by the editors, which places the collected material in its
historical and intellectual context, Health Psychology will be
particularly useful as a one-stop database allowing scattered and
often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be
welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less
familiar-and sometimes overlooked-texts. For researchers and
advanced students, it is a vital one-stop research and reference
resource.
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