Handbook of Psychology

18 Health Psychology: Overview and Professional Issues „ „ Health promotion and public education skills. Consultation skills. As ...

Ethical and Policy Issues 19 Despite being a relatively new area of applied psychology, health psychology is developing at an as ...

20 Health Psychology: Overview and Professional Issues regardless of gender, age, religion, ethnic grouping, social class, mater ...

References 21 mainstream approach is modeled on health service provision similar to clinical psychology, but dealing principally ...

22 Health Psychology: Overview and Professional Issues Marks, D. F. (1994b). The training needs of professional health psy- chol ...

References 23 Walker, A., & Maltby, T. (1997). Ageing Europe.Buckingham, England: Open University press. Wallace, L. M. (199 ...

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CHAPTER 2 Stressful Life Events RALF SCHWARZER AND UTE SCHULZ 27 STRESS AND CRITICAL LIFE EVENTS: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 28 Th ...

28 Stressful Life Events STRESS AND CRITICAL LIFE EVENTS: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES There is no agreement among researchers about ...

Stress and Critical Life Events: Theoretical Perspectives 29 There are three metatheoretical assumptions:transaction, process,an ...

30 Stressful Life Events COR theory follows from the basic motivational tenet that people strive to obtain, retain, protect, and ...

The Nature of Stressful Life Events and Disasters 31 and tornadoes can be tracked long before they hit land, which allows for pr ...

32 Stressful Life Events American Psychiatric Association, 1994). According to this manual, PTSD may follow exposure to a trauma ...

Assessment of Stressful Life Events 33 in the checklist, such as vacation, Christmas, marriage, and pregnancy. Any change, wheth ...

34 Stressful Life Events not measured at all, but is merely inherent in the sample se- lection. For example, stress is simply im ...

Health Outcomes of Stressful Life Events 35 Severity Impact Duration Controllability Predictability Stressful Life Events Smokin ...

36 Stressful Life Events events in a sample of peptic ulcer patients. Compared to matched controls, ulcer patients reported a si ...

Research Examples of Stressful Life Events 37 and long-term effects are mingled. Green (1995) found that especially one year or ...