Health Psychology : a Textbook

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Fig. 1-1 The biopsychosocial model of health and illness 4 Fig. 1-2 Psychology and health: direct and ...

Fig. 10-1 Selye’s three-stage general adaptation syndrome 235 Fig. 10-2 The role of appraisal in stress 239 Fig. 10-3 Stress and ...

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION Why I first wrote this book I first wrote this book in 1995 after several years of teaching my own ...

The chapter on pain has also been expanded. I have included more work on how psychological factors may exacerbate pain percept ...

encourage individuals to continue exercising. Chapter 8 examines sexual behaviour and the factors that predict self-protective b ...

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our thanks go to the following reviewers for their comments at various stages in the text’s development: Develo ...

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1 An introduction to health psychology CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter examines the background against which health psychology dev ...

THE BACKGROUND TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY During the nineteenth century, modern medicine was established. ‘Man’ (the nineteenth- centu ...

For example, cancer may cause unhappiness but mood is not seen as related to either the onset or progression of the cancer. THE ...

as neurosis and psychosis are not within behavioural medicine unless they contribute to the development of illness. Behavioural ...

(3) The social aspects of health were described in terms of social norms of behaviour (e.g. the social norm of smoking or not sm ...

WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY? Health psychology emphasizes the role of psychological factors in the cause, progression ...

(e) Evaluating the role of psychology in the treatment of illness. For example:
If psychological factors are important in the ...

health psychology and their application to the health care setting (Johnston and Kennedy 1998). A trained clinical health psycho ...

analysis and the role of hypothesis testing and physiological theories with their interest in biological processes and their lin ...

assesses the psychological factors that relate to whether or not someone attends for a health check and the psychological conseq ...

FURTHER READING ➧ Carroll, D., Bennett, P. and Davey Smith, G. (1993) Socio-economic health inequalities: their origins and impl ...