Full Description
This overview health psychology emphasizes health maintenance and illness prevention. It integrates contemporary research in biology, psychology, anthropology and sociology, utilizing the biopsychosocial model as the basic explanatory theme for health and health care.
Contents
* An Overview of Psychology and Health * The Body s Physical Systems * Stress Its Meaning Impact, and Sources * Stress, Biopsychosocial Factors, and Illness * Coping with and Reducing Stress * Health Related Behavior and Health Promotion * Reducing Substance Use and Abuse * Improving Nutrition, Weight Control and Diet, Exercise, and Safety * Using Health Services * In the Hospital: The Setting, Procedures, and Effects on Patients * The Nature and Symptoms of Pain * Managing and Controlling Clinical Pain * Serious and Disabling Chronic Illnesses: Causes, Management, and Coping * Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, and AIDS: Causes, Management, and Coping * What s Ahead for Health Psychology?
