Full Description
What factors determine healthy behavior? Health Psychology: Well-Being in a Diverse World answers this question by introducing and regularly applying research to stress, coping, interventions and health behaviors in today's world. Speaking directly to students, Regan A. R. Gurung's conversational voice guides learners through the key determinants of behavior, such as family, environment, ethnicity, and religion. Each chapter delves into the biological foundations of health, presents interdisciplinary case studies, and integrates personality and social psychological theories, fostering a comprehensive grasp of the subject. Continually asking readers to think further, to synthesize, to analyze, and to apply to improve their own health outcomes as they learn, Gurung empowers students through connections to personal experience. The Fifth Edition offers contemporary reference updates, an expanded focus on intersectional topics across cultures, test yourself practice, and much more.
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Contents
Chapter 1. What Is Health? Cultural and Historical Roots
Chapter 2. Doing Health Psychology: Research Methods
Chapter 3. Cultural Approaches to Health - Deepti Karkhanis
Chapter 4. Essential Physiology
Chapter 5. Diverse Understandings of Stress - Deepti Karkhanis
Chapter 6. Coping and Social Support - Deepti Karkhanis
Chapter 7. Why Don't We Do What We Need To? Models of Behavior Change - Amanda ElBassiouny
Chapter 8. Health Behaviors: Eating, Being Active, Smoking, and Drinking - Aurora Sherman
Chapter 9. Illness Cognitions, Adherence, and Patient-Practitioner Interactions - Amanda ElBassiouny
Chapter 10. Diverse Approaches to Pain - Amanda ElBassiouny
Chapter 11. Chronic Illness, Terminal Illness, and Death - Kathleen Bogart
Chapter 12. Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV - Melissa Oxlad
Chapter 13. Cancer: Fundamentals and Cultural Variations - Melissa Oxlad
Chapter 14. Cardiovascular Disease: Fundamentals and Cultural Variations - Melissa Oxlad
Chapter 15. Controversies and the Future of Health Psychology
