Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine

Author Susan Ayers

Publisher Cambridge University Press

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Author

Susan Ayers

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Volume

Edition

2

Copyright

2007

ISBN13

9780511481192

Release

Format

eBook

Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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Overview

Wholly revised and reworked, this new edition offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for psychologists, health professionals and healthcare specialists. The prestigious editorial team (which includes two new members, Susan Ayers and Kenneth Wallston), have added substantially to their international, interdisciplinary cast of authors and areas of coverage.
Front Cover.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Contributors.
Preface.
1: Psychology, Health and Illness.
2: Psychological Aspects of Health and Illness.
3: Adolescent Lifestyle.
4: Age and Physical Functioning.
5: Age and Cognitive Functioning.
6: Ageing and Health.
7: Architecture and Health.
8: Attributions and Health.
9: Childhood Influences on Health.
10: Children's Perceptions of Illness and Death.
11: Coping with Bereavement.
12: Coping with Chronic Illness.
13: Coping with Chronic Pain.
14: Coping with Death and Dying.
15: Coping with Stressful Medical Procedures.
16: Cultural and Ethnic Factors in Health.
17: Delay in Seeking Help.
18: Diet and Health.
19: Disability.
20: Emotional Expression and Health.
21: Expectations and Health.
22: Gender Issues and Women's Health.
23: The Health Belief Model.
24: Health-Related Behaviours: Common Factors.
25: Hospitalization in Adults.
26: Hospitalization in Children.
27: Hostility and Type a Behaviour in Coronary Artery Disease.
28: Lay Beliefs about Health and Illness.
29: Life Events and Health.
30: Men's Health.
31: Noise: Effects on Health.
32: Pain: A Multidimensional Perspective.
33: Perceived Control.
34: Personality and Health.
35: Physical Activity and Health.
36: Placebos.
37: Psychoneuroimmunology.
38: Psychosomatics.
39: Quality of Life.
40: Religion and Health.
41: Risk Perception and Health Behaviour.
42: Self-Efficacy in Health Functioning.
43: Sexual Risk Behaviour.
44: Sleep and Health.
45: Social Support and Health.
46: Socioeconomic Status and Health.
47: Stigma.
48: Stress and Health.
49: Symptom Perception.
50: Theory of Planned Behaviour.
51: Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change.
52: Unemployment and Health.
53: Psychological Assessment.
54: Brain Imaging and Function.
55: Communication Assessment.
56: Coping Assessment.
57: Diagnostic Interviews and Clinical Practice.
58: Disability
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