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Health Psychology (Topics in Applied Psychology)
by Charles Abraham Mark Conner Fiona Jones Daryl O'ConnorNow in its third edition, Health Psychology offers the perfect introduction to this rapidly developing field. Clearly explaining the psychological processes that shape health-related behaviors, and affect core functions such as the immune and cardiovascular systems, it shows how these relationships provide the foundation for psychological interventions which can change cognition, perception and behavior, thereby improving health.Divided into five parts, the book looks at the biological bases of health and illness, stress and health, coping resources, motivation and behaviour, and applied health psychology. The third edition has been revised to highlight:• Current research on the biological processes that underpin stress and illness.• How stress can be best managed at individual, organisational and community levels.• The ways people’s beliefs and attitudes shape motivation and behaviour.• How health promotion can effectively change beliefs and attitudes to promote health behavior change.• The implications of current health psychology research for services.• How health psychology research can improve healthcare practice.• Looking at the roles of practitioner health psychologists.The book is supported by useful in-text features including boxes that highlight key issues, activity boxes and essay questions to engage readers in applying what they have learned from research, and suggestions for further reading to encourage further study.With its clear structure and ability to eloquently link theory to real-world application, this is the perfect primer for both undergraduates studying health psychology for the first time, and those embarking on postgraduate study in this exciting field.
Health Psychology in Action
by David Sheffield Mark ForshawA definitive guide to the growing field of health psychology, which showcases contributions from academics and professionals working at the cutting edge of their discipline.Explores the field of modern health psychology, its latest developments, and how it fits into the contexts of modern healthcare, industry and academiaOffers practical, real-world examples and applications for psychological theory in health care settingsProvides a timely resource to support the new HPC registration of health and other psychologistsIncludes contributions from practitioners in a wide range of health care settings who share their own vivid personal experiences, as well as more general guidance to applying theory in practice
Health Psychology in Australia
by Melissa Day Jillian Dorrian Einar Thorsteinsson Di Benedetto Mirella Lane-Krebs Katrina Amanda Hutchinson Kerry ShermanIn today's diverse society, health professionals require a complete understanding of how physiological, social and psychological factors impact physical wellbeing. Health Psychology in Australia provides a contemporary, relevant perspective on the unique climate in which this increasingly important area of healthcare is practised in Australia. Drawing on the expertise of the author team, this book gives students the skills to identify and evaluate health risk factors and to intervene in and manage health behaviour. Each chapter includes learning objectives, case studies with accompanying reflection questions, critical thinking activities and a detailed summary to consolidate learning. The comprehensive glossary and links to online resources solidify understanding of key concepts and ideas. Written with a focus on respectful advocacy of health promotion, Health Psychology in Australia provides psychology and allied health students with a comprehensive understanding of the role of the health psychologist as clinician, researcher, educator and client.
Health Psychology in Clinical Practice
by Mark J. ForshawHealth Psychology in Clinical Practice provides a collection of first-hand accounts from several of the most established and experienced clinically working Health Psychologists in the UK, explaining what they do, how they do it and why their work is important. In recent years, health psychologists have come into their own in being able to provide high-quality, evidence-based, clinical support for patients by utilising relevant therapies. Trainees and would-be clinical practitioners in the health psychology community are keen to learn more about this aspect of their craft, and this book provides a valuable source of information they can turn to – unlike the vast majority of literature on clinical practice in psychology, written by clinical psychologists, which is mostly of tangential relevance to a health psychologist. As a compilation, the first-hand accounts within Health Psychology in Clinical Practice provide a guide that will help define what clinical health psychology is and should be for a decade or more. This book is an essential resource as a crucial snapshot of practice in the discipline in the UK and will additionally support trainees and those seeking a career in health psychology centered on practice rather than research or teaching.
Health Psychology in Integrative Health Care
by Sundeep Katevarapu Anand Pratap Singh Priyanka Tiwari Akriti Varshney Priya Lanka Aankur Pradhan Neeraj Panwar Kumud Sapru WangnueThe 8th International Conference of Indian Academy of Health Psychology (ICIAHP 2023) gathered leading experts, researchers, and professionals to exchange insights and explore innovations in mental and physical well-being. Featuring workshops on trauma release, hypnotherapy basics, mindfulness-based CBT, and suicide prevention, ICIAHP offered a diverse learning experience. Distinguished speakers from national and international universities attended the conference. The conference catered to health psychology professionals, researchers, educators, and scholars. ICIAHP 2023 stood out for its comprehensive program, renowned speakers, and ample networking, providing a platform for holistic learning and collaboration.
Health Psychology, 2nd Edition: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Health
by Deborah Fish RaginA truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of health, Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach uses the social ecological perspective to explore the impact of five systems on individual health outcomes: individual, culture/family, social/physical environment, health systems and health policy. In order to provide readers with an understanding of how health affects the individual on a mental and emotional level, the author has taken an interdisciplinary approach, considering the roles of anthropology, biology, economics, environmental studies, medicine, public health, and sociology.
Health Psychology, Eighth Edition
by Shelley E. TaylorThe book highlights health issues that face the college student and his or her family through both accessible research examples and profiles of interventions such as coping with stress, maintaining physical health, and making decisions about alcohol and smoking. This edition contains clear descriptions of current research into the prevention, treatment, and causes (social, genetic, and biological) of specific health related disorders.
Health Psychology, Fifth Edition
by Richard O. StraubStraub’s Health Psychology shows students how psychology and health are interconnected. The text encourages students to make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and their own everyday experience. The text is comprehensive in its approach, includes in engaging real world examples, and thoroughly examines the intersection of diversity and health with regard to gender, ethnicity, age, and orientation. Health Psychology incorporates the latest research and uses the biopsychosocial perspective as it explores the main ideas of the field and models a scientific way of thinking about those ideas.
Health Psychology: A Biopsychosocial Approach
by Richard O. StraubRichard Straub’s Health Psychology shows students how psychology and health are interconnected. Using real world examples, Straub encourages students to make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and their own everyday experience. Health Psychology is comprehensive in its approach and incorporates the latest research as it examines the field’s main ideas and models a scientific way of thinking about those ideas.
Health Psychology: A Biopsychosocial Approach
by Richard O. StraubStraub’s Health Psychology helps you make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and everyday experiences such as stress, coping, and sleep.
Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach
by Deborah Fish RaginNow 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.Fully revised to reflect current research and studies, and now in full color, the book includes new content on the impact of COVID-19 and greater coverage of health diversity. It unpacks the issue of social inequities in health by addressing how race and social economies have been traditionally confounded. The author achieves this by focusing on five systems that affect individual health outcomes: individual, family/community, social/physical environment, health care systems, and health policy. The social ecological perspective on health psychology creates a depth of understanding of the diverse facets of health, and examines health from a global perspective by exploring the impact of infectious and chronic illnesses both regionally and globally. This new edition has been packed with updated statistics and references, as well as helpful video links infused throughout, to actively engage readers in each topic.While grounded in psychology, the book incorporates perspectives from anthropology, biology, economics, environmental studies, medicine, public health, and sociology, and will be of particular interest to undergraduate students in health psychology and public health and for masters’ students of health psychology.For additional instructor resources, please visit www.routledge.com/9781032292557, which includes lecture slides, an instructor manual, and test bank.
Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach (3rd Edition)
by Deborah Fish Ragin<p>This textbook takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology. It examines five systems that affect individual health outcomes: individual, family/community, social/physical environment, healthcare systems, and health policy. While grounded in psychology, it incorporates perspectives from anthropology, biology, economics, environmental studies, medicine, public health, and sociology. The social ecological perspective on health psychology creates a depth of understanding of the diverse facets of health. This text also examines health from a global perspective by exploring the impact of infectious and chronic illnesses locally, regionally and globally. <p>This new edition includes updated statistics and references throughout, a new chapter on psychoneuroimmunology, and significant changes and updates to the chapters on health care systems and risky health behaviors. It will be of particular interest to undergraduate students. <p>For additional resources, consult http://routledge.com/9781138201309, where instructors will find downloadable lecture slides, instructor manual, and testbank.</p>
Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Health, CourseSmart eTextbook
by Elizabeth D. WhitakerThis reader looks at both the biological and cultural aspects of health and healing within a comparative framework. Health and Healing in Comparative Perspective provides both fascinating comparative ethnographic detail and a theoretical framework for organizing and interpreting information about health. While there are many health-related fields represented in this book, its core discipline is medical anthropology and its main focus is the comparative approach. Cross-cultural comparison gives anthropological analysis breadth while the evolutionary time scale gives it depth. These two features have always been fundamental to anthropology and continue to distinguish it among the social sciences. A third feature is the in-depth knowledge of culture produced by anthropological methods such as participant-observation, involving long-term presence in and research among a study population. For medical anthropology, medical sociology, public health, nursing courses.
Health Psychology: An Introduction to Behavior and Health Eighth Edition
by Jess Feist Linda Brannon John A. UpdegraffFor over 20 years, HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH has remained a leader in the field of health psychology for its scholarship, strong and current research base, and balanced coverage of the cognitive, behavioral, and biological approaches to health psychology.
Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions
by Edward P. Sarafino Timothy W. SmithEd Sarafino and Timothy Smith draw from the research and theory of multiple disciplines in order to effectively demonstrate how psychology and health impact each other. The newly updated 9th Edition of Health Psychology: Biopsychsocial Interactions includes a broader picture of health psychology by presenting cross-cultural data. Furthermore, international examples are also included to further explore the psychologists perspective of health issues around the world and highlight what works in the field. The psychological research cited in the text supports a variety of behavioral, physiological, cognitive, and social/personality viewpoints. An emphasis on lifespan development in health and illness is integrated throughout the text.
Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions
by Edward P. Sarafino Timothy W. SmithIn the newly revised 10th edition of Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions, a team of dedicated psychologists delivers an insightful and multidisciplinary demonstration of the impact of psychology and health on one another. Relying heavily on cross-cultural data, the book offers a sweeping and inclusive picture of health psychology and includes local and global research and case studies. <P><P> The authors have included boxed materials in each chapter that directs the reader’s attention to the right information at the right time. Behavioral, physiological, cognitive, and social/personality viewpoints are addressed throughout the text and a strong focus on lifespan development in health and illness pervades the material.
Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions (8th Edition)
by Edward P. Sarafino Timothy W. SmithSarafino draws from the research and theory of many disciplines in order to show psychologists how psychology and health affect each other.
Health Psychology: Contributions to the Indian Health System
by Meena Hariharan Meera Padhy Usha ChivukulaThis book provides a holistic understanding of the state of health psychology in the Indian context and the types of psychological and social support and welfare that are offered and required within treatment processes for various illnesses. The book discusses why health care should be the prerogative of both the biomedical profession and health psychologists and how they work together with medical professionals to augment public health. It emphasises the shift from biomedical to biopsychosocial approach in strengthening health care outcomes. The book highlights the substantial contribution of health psychology to the Indian health care system through simple, cost-effective, indigenous, and standardised techniques that worked efficiently in the context of various diseases. It projects the emerging trends and innovative techniques in health psychology in handling challenging health care needs. This book will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of psychology, psychiatry, social psychology, sociology, social work and South Asian studies.
Health Psychology: Critical Concepts In Psychology (Topics in Applied Psychology)
by Charles AbrahamTopics in Applied Psychology offers a range of accessible, integrated texts ideal for courses in applied psychology. The books are written by leading figures in their field and provide a comprehensive academic and professional insight into each topic. They incorporate a range of features to bring psychology to life including case histories, research methods, ethical debate and learner activities. Each chapter opens with learning objectives to consolidate key points. A reading list and sample essay questions at the end of chapters enable further independent study. The series also offers an appreciation of multiple perspectives, examines the relationship between psychology and other cognate disciplines and discusses recent developments in each field. Topics in Applied Psychology will provide you with the tools you need to engage with, enjoy and understand your applied psychology discipline, ultimately ensuring confidence and success in exams as well as a comprehensive grounding in the profession. Health Psychology guides the reader through core issues in health psychology research and practice. Each chapter builds on previous ones so that the text provides an overview of the field rather than presenting a compendium of topics. The book discusses mechanisms, models and methods and examines how biological, cognitive, affective and social processes impact on health and illness. It also explores how stress and coping mechanisms affect health behaviours and the psychological determinants of health behaviour. Two chapters focus on how psychological research can be applied to change health-related attitudes and behaviours. Communication between the patient and practitioner is examined as is the role of the health psychologist. The integrated and interactive approach, combined with the comprehensive coverage, make this book the ideal companion for courses in health psychology.Other books in the series include: Clinical Psychology, Criminal Psychology, Educational Psychology, Organizational and Work Psychology and Sport and Exercise Psychology.
Health Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies (Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies)
by Martin S. Hagger Mark TarrantHealth Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies reflects and expands upon 13 of the most innovative contributions to the field from researchers such as Friedman and Rosenman, Marmot, Kiecolt-Glaser, and Ajzen. This book will familiarise you with the classic studies, spanning a period from the 1950s to 2010s, and show you how they continue to apply to the world today. Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research have advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. Mark Tarrant is Professor at the University of Plymouth Martin S. Hagger is Professor at the University of California, Merced and Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) at University of Jyväskylä.
Health Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies (Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies)
by Martin S. Hagger Mark TarrantHealth Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies reflects and expands upon 13 of the most innovative contributions to the field from researchers such as Friedman and Rosenman, Marmot, Kiecolt-Glaser, and Ajzen. This book will familiarise you with the classic studies, spanning a period from the 1950s to 2010s, and show you how they continue to apply to the world today. Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about core topics in the discipline today. It provokes students to ask more interesting and challenging questions about the field by encouraging a deeper level of engagement both with the details of the studies themselves and with the nature of their contribution. Edited by leading scholars in their field and written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments, the chapters in each text provide details of the original works and their theoretical and empirical impact, and then discuss the ways in which thinking and research have advanced in the years since the studies were conducted. Mark Tarrant is Professor at the University of Plymouth Martin S. Hagger is Professor at the University of California, Merced and Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) at University of Jyväskylä.
Health Psychology: Stress, Behaviour And Disease (Contemporary Psychology Ser. #Vol. 4)
by Douglas CarrollThis work, designed for A-Level and undergraduate students, describes how behaviour can interact with stress to produce ill-health and, conversely, how stress can be managed to avoid the dangers of heart disease and other illnesses. Health psychology has a relatively short history, but the past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in this topic. It is designed to be accessible to the beginning psychology student but to take that student, or any other interested reader, to a depth sufficient to enable them to feel a sense of satisfaction in being able to co me to grips with the major theoretical and empirical perspectives that are influential in contemporary psychology. Professor Carroll has, himself, a distinguished record of research in health psychology and his own research and writing has substantially influenced the development of this field in Britain..
Health Psychology: The Basics (The Basics)
by Erica Cook Lynne WoodThis accessible primer on health psychology covers the key theories and models of the discipline. Through the use of real-life case studies and examples, it covers a broad range of topics related to the field of health psychology including: health promotion, risky health behaviour and health in healthcare settings. It explains how health psychology serves to not only promote positive health and reduce maladaptive health behaviours, but also support those who are chronically ill. Unlike medicine, health psychology takes a more holistic approach through the interaction of psychological, social and biological factors to improve health. This book outlines the inter-relationship between how we think and feel, our biological systems and the social contexts in which we live. It discusses how belief and attitude can shape behavior, the pivotal role of stress and how we can adjust to chronic illness. Drawing from experience, the authors answer important and common questions like how can we stop people from smoking? Does stress really make us ill? Why don't people take their medication as prescribed? And how can we support people to adjust to a chronic health condition? It also provides a unique focus on children and adolescent health which considers how developmental changes impact health behaviours and subsequent health. It is an essential introductory text suitable for students, professionals and general readers interested in this important and emerging topic area. It also provides useful information for those interested in working in the field by providing an overview of what health psychologists do, where they work and the pathways available to become a registered health psychologist.
Health Psychology: Theory, Practice and Research
by Meena HariharanIt is a textbook meant for the students of UG and PG courses in Psychology. Satisfying a long-standing need for an approachable textbook that brings together the Western and Indian perspective on health psychology, this book coherently presents the knowledge diversified across various narrow sub-fields. Each chapter is illustrated with engaging diagrams, real-life examples and recent research studies to make the content easy to understand as well as application-oriented. Dedicated text boxes for practitioners and researchers in the area are expected to stimulate students to think innovatively along culturally relevant lines and take steps towards meaningful research. Health Psychology: Theory, Practice and Research will prove to be an indispensable companion for students of undergraduate and postgraduate levels, researchers and practitioners in psychology, as well as for medical and paramedical studies. Key Features: • Enriched with real-life cases, engaging illustrations and citations from major research studies • Insights into culturally relevant problems and interventions • Identification of research design and practitioner's action points for every theme • Self-explanatory and student-friendly treatment of topics, following curriculum guidelines of major Indian universities
Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice
by Michael Murray David F. Marks Emee Vida Estacio Gareth J. Treharne Abigail Locke Rachel A. AnnunziatoHealth Psychology takes a truly international and critical biopsychosocial approach, providing students with a holistic understanding of health behaviour, culture and change. Thoroughly updated with the latest research, this comprehensive introduction to foundational and cutting-edge topics in health psychology gives you the tools you need to critically appraise theory and research, and to apply this knowledge to real-world public health issues. Praised for its coverage of social justice, macro-social and cultural issues in health, this edition features three new chapters on parenting and health, responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and gender-affirmative healthcare for transgender people. Now in full colour, it also includes updated pedagogy, with international Key Studies, Critical Discussions and Insights boxes to extend your learning. Written by experts in the field, this must-read for students of Health Psychology, Health Promotion and Health Behaviour demonstrates how theory and research learned in the classroom impacts public policy around the world. David F. Marks is a psychologist specializing in Health Psychology, Mental Imagery and Consciousness research. Michael Murray is Emeritus Professor of Social and Health Psychology at Keele University. Emee Vida Estacio is a chartered psychologist, author, speaker and health promotion specialist. Rachel A. Annunziato is Professor of Psychology at Fordham University. Abigail Locke is Professor of Critical Social and Health Psychology and Head of School at Keele University. Gareth J. Treharne is Professor of Psychology at te Whare Wananga o Otago (the University of Otago).