Health psychology : a biopsychosocial approach

✍ Scribed by Straub, Richard Otto

Publisher: Worth Publishers
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 741
Edition: Fourth edition
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Rick Straub's focus on the biopsychosocial model, gender/lifespan/culture perspectives, and real world applications makes Health Psychology a riveting and culturally-enriched educational experience for students. This redesigned new edition has been carefully and extensively updated, enhanced by Straub's meticulous revision process and feedback from instructors and students.With more emphasis on positive health, the new edition examines information from biological, psychological, and social aspects of health offering students a balanced perspective that can help inform their future health decisions in real life.”

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Foundationds of health psychology. Introducing health psychology --
Research in Health psychology --
Biological foundations of health and illness --
Stress and health. Stress --
Coping with stress --
Behavior and health. Staying healthy : primary prevention and positive psychology --
Exercise, sleep, and injury control --
Nutrition, obesity, and eating disorders --
Substance use, abuse, and addiction --
Chronic and life-threatening illnesses. Cardiovascular disease and diabetes --
Cancer --
HIV and AIDS --
Treatment. The role of health psychology in health care settings --
Managing pain --
Complementary and alternative medicine.

✦ Subjects

Clinical health psychology. Health behavior. Social medicine.

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