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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 402 p. : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 610.1/9
• Soggetto topico: Clinical health psychology
• Altri autori: FriedmanHoward S SilverRoxane Cohen
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 major concepts of the biopsychosocial approach to health and then discuss applications to health promotion and effective treatment and prevention.
• Titolo autorizzato: Foundations of health psychology
• ISBN: 0-19-803194-7; 1-280-83484-6; 1-4237-9982-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910962895103321
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