Foundations of health psychology /
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. 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
- pt. 2. 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
- pt. 3. 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.