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Subject(s)

• Clinical health psychology—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]
• Medicine and psychology—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Related name

• Friedman, Howard S. [Browse]

Series

Oxford library of psychology [More in this series]

Summary note

This title brings together preeminent experts to provide a comprehensive view of key concepts, tools, and findings of this rapidly expanding core discipline. The contributors address foundational concepts of the biopsychosocial approach to health and then discuss application.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The intellectual roots of health psychology / Howard S. Friedman and Nancy E. Adler
• A history of the development of health psychology / Wade E. Pickren and Silvia Degni
• Measurement in health psychology research / Timothy W. Smith
• Designing and conducting interventions to enhance physical and mental health outcomes / J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Ravas, and Roxane Cohen Silver
• Uncertainty, variability, and resource allocation in the health care decision process / Robert M. Kaplan
• The brain, homeostasis, and health : balancing demands of the internal and external milieu / John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson
• Psychoneuroimmunology / Margaret E. Kemeny
• Stress, coping, and health / Charles S. Carver and Sara Vargas
• Social support : a review / Shelley E. Taylor
• Personality, disease, and self-healing / Howard S. Friedman
• Adjustment to chronic disease : progress and promise in research /
• Annette L. Stanton and Tracey A. Revenson
• Social comparison processes : implications for physical health / Jerry Suls
• Health and illness perceptions / Yael Beyamini
• Physician-patient communication / Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter
• Aging and health / Karen S. Rook, Susan Turk Charles, and Jutta Heckhausen
• Chronic pain : closing the gap between evidence and practice / Beverly E. Thorn and Barbara B. Walker
• Coping with cancer / Vanessa L. Malcarne
• Expressive writing : connections to physical and mental health / James W. Pennebaker and Cindy K. Chung
• Beyond myths of coping with loss : prevailing assumptions versus scientific evidence / Camille B. Wortman and Kathrin Boerner
• Family consultation for couples coping with health problems : a social cybernetic approach / Michael J. Rohrbaugh and Varda Shoham
• Childhood health and chronic illness / Barbara J. Tinsley and Mary H. Burleson
• Transplantation /
• Mary Amanda Dew and Andrea F. DiMartini
• HIV/AIDS / Lydia Temoshok
• Health behavior change / Ralf Schwarzer
• Advancing health behavior theory : the interplay among theories of health behavior, empirical modeling of health behavior, and behavioral interventions / Leona S. Aiken
• The perception of health risks / Britta Renner and Harald Schupp
• Physical activity and health : current research trends and critical issues / Dawn K. Wilson, Nicole Zarrett, and Heather Kitzman-Ulrich
• Alcohol use and alcohol use disorders / Kenneth J. Sher ... [et al.]
• Obesity / Emily L. Van Walleghen, Betsy A. Steeves, and Hollie A. Raynor
• Dispositional optimism, psychophysiology, and health / Suzanne C. Segerstrom
• Community health / Marta Gil Lacruz
• Latino health / John M. Ruiz and Patrick Steffen
• Two decades of social change in Central and Eastern Europe : implications for health / Irina L.G. Todorova --
• Asian meditation and health / Yosuke Sakairi, Genji Sugamura, and Masao Suzuki
• Health and social relationships in nonhuman primates : toward a comparative health psychology / John P. Capitanio
• Conclusion : the achievements and promise of health psychology / Howard S. Friedman.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of health psychology
• Oxford handbooks online

ISBN

• 9780195342819 (alk. paper)
• 019534281X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011001676

OCLC

700377042

RCP

H - S

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