Health Psychology [Paperback]

Preface

1. Introduction to health psychology

Part 1. Biological Bases of Health and Illness

2. Biopsychosocial Pathways to Health and illness

Part 2. Stress and Health

3. Stress Theory and Research

4. Stress and Health in Context

Part 3. Coping Resources: Social Support and Individual Differences

5. Coping and Social Support

6. Personality and Health

Part 4. Motivation and Behaviour

7. Health Cognitions and Health Behaviours

8. Changing Cognitions to Establish Motivation

9. Changing Behaviour: Intervention Design and Evaluation

Part 5. Applied Health Psychology

10. Working with Clients and Patients

11. Applying Psychology to Improve Health Services

References

Health Psychology offers the perfect introduction to this rapidly developing field. Clearly explaining the psychological processes that shape health-related behaviors, it shows how these relationships provide the foundation for psychological interventions which can change cognition, perception and behavior, thereby improving health.

Now 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 ill�