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Health Psychology

ISBN10: 1266302123 | ISBN13: 9781266302121

Health Psychology
ISBN10: 1266302123
ISBN13: 9781266302121
By Annette L. Stanton and Shelley Taylor

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Health Psychology provides a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging look into the field of health psychology. With a focus on the most current research related to stress, psychosocial issues, and chronic disorders, this release covers both the scientific progress of health psychology, as well as its important real-life applications. Research is presented with practical stories, written so that any reader can quickly identify how best to lead a healthier life. Health Psychology has helped thousands of students learn how to identify and eliminate stress, maintain their health, and use technology to get the best care possible.

Part 1 Introduction to Health Psychology

1: What is Health Psychology?

2: The Systems of the Body

Part 2 Health Behavior and Primary Prevention

3: Health Behaviors

4: Health-Promoting Behaviors

5: Health-Compromising Behaviors

Part 3 Stress and Coping

6: Stress

7: Coping, Resilience, and Social Support

Part 4 Seeking and Using Health Care Services

8: Using Health Services

9: Patients, Providers, and Treatments

10: The Management of Pain and Discomfort

Part 5 Management of Chronic and Terminal Health Disorders

11: Management of Chronic Health Disorders

12: Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal Illness

13: Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Type 2 Diabetes

14: Psychoneuroimmunology and Immune-Related Disorders

Part 6 Toward the Future

15: Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future

About the Author

Annette L. Stanton

Dr. Stanton's research centers on specifying factors that help and hinder individuals as they adjust to health-related adversity. She is interested in testing theories of stress and coping and related conceptual models in individuals and couples confronting cancer and other chronically stressful experiences. When adults face profound and prolonged stressors, what factors enhance or impede their well-being and health? How can theory and research specifying those factors be translated into approaches to enhance psychological and physical health outcomes during chronically stressful experiences?

Shelley Taylor

Shelley Taylor is professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University. Her research interests are in health psychology, especially the factors that promote long-term psychological adjustment, and in social cognition. In the former capacity, she is the co-director of the Health Psychology program at UCLA. Professor Taylor is the recipient of a number of awards—most notably, the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Psychology Award, a 10-year Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, and an Outstanding Scientific Contribution Award in Health Psychology. She is the author of more than 200 publications in journals and books and is the author of Social Cognition and Positive Illusions.

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