Full Description
This radical new textbook provides readers with a balanced, research-focused, critical understanding of health psychology through an inclusive lens, addressing issues relating to diversity, inclusion and decolonisation of the curriculum. In so doing, it offers a new understanding on established topics in the field of health psychology to create a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of health and illness that reflects the diversity of human experience.
The book explores the importance of biopsychosocial processes in health and illness, through an exploration of socio-cultural factors beyond the restrictive Western-centric models of health to include Indigenous populations and marginalised groups. Within this book, readers are introduced to the negative health impacts of direct and transgenerational colonialism, racism, restrictions on cultural practices, freedoms and institutionalisation. This includes recognising the impact of systemic oppression on health outcomes and advocating for policies that address health disparities of diverse populations in order to tailor interventions to meet their specific needs. Research studies present examples of how sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, culture and disabilities intersect with health outcomes in the exploration and the perpetuation of health disparities.
Primarily written for undergraduates, the book also provides a firm foundation for graduate students, teachers and practitioners in psychology, nursing and the allied health professions.
Contents
Chapter 1. Health psychology context setting: Careers, cultures and diversity
Chapter 2. Historical and cross-cultural views of health and the development of health psychology
Chapter 3. Methods and issues in research
Chapter 4. Physiological knowledge for health psychology
Chapter 5. Conceptions of health, disease and illness
Chapter 6. Adherence
Chapter 7. Health theories and models
Chapter 8. Stress and coping
Chapter 9. Chronic Illness
Chapter 10.Pain
Chapter 11. Palliative and end of life care
