Health Psychology

Auteur

Deborah Fish Ragin is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Montclair State University, New Jersey. She served as Assistant Professor on the faculties of Hunter College, City University of New York, and as Associate Research Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (now the Icahn School of Medicine) before joining Montclair State. She also served as an American Psychological Association Representative to the United Nations, focusing on the psychosocial impact of HIV/AIDS.

Texte du rabat

Now in its fourth edition, Health Psychology takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology, and offers a comprehensive overview of the subareas within this fascinating subject

Contenu

1. An Interdisciplinary View of Health.

2. Research Methods

3. Theories and Models of Health Behavior Change

4. Global, Communicable, and Chronic Disease

5. Risky Health Behaviors: Part I

6. Risky Health Behaviors: Part II

7. Emotional Health and Well-Being

8. Stress and Coping

9. Psychoneuroimmunology

10. Cardiovascular Disease

11. Chronic Pain Management and Arthritis

12. Cancer

13. Health Care Systems and Health Policy: Effects on Health Outcomes

14. The Health Psychologist's Role: Research, Application, and Advocacy