基本説明
Describes exemplary applications in the prevention and clinical management of today's most pressing health risks and diseases, including coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer chronic pain, obesity, sleep disturbances, and smoking.
Full Description
What psychological and environmental forces have an impact on health? How does behavior contribute to wellness or illness? This comprehensive volume answers these questions and others with a state-of-the-art overview of theory, research, and practice at the interface of psychology and health. Leading experts from multiple disciplines explore how health and health behaviors are shaped by a wide range of psychological processes and social-environmental factors. The book describes exemplary applications in the prevention and clinical management of today's most pressing health risks and diseases, including coronary heart disease, depression, diabetes, cancer, chronic pain, obesity, sleep disturbances, and smoking. Featuring succinct, accessible chapters on critical concepts and contemporary issues, the Handbook integrates psychological perspectives with cutting-edge work in preventive medicine, epidemiology, public health, genetics, nursing, and the social sciences.
Contents
I. Health Psychology in the Context of Medicine and Theory 1. The Great Debate on the Contribution of Behavioral Interventions, Robert M. Kaplan and Karina W. Davidson 2. The Biopsychosocial Model and the Use of Theory in Health Psychology, Jerry Suls, Tana Luger, and René MartinII. Psychological Foundations of Health Psychology 3. Emotions and Stress, William R. Lovallo 4. Cognitive and Affective Influences on Health Decisions, Angela Fagerlin, Ellen Peters, Alan Schwartz, and Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher 5. Specifying the Determinants of People's Health Beliefs and Health Behavior: How a Social Psychological Perspective Can Inform Initiatives to Promote Health, Marc T. Kiviniemi and Alexander J. Rothman 6. Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology: Toward an Integrated Perspective on Health, Perry M. Nicassio, Melanie A. Greenberg, and Sarosh J. Motivala 7. Contributions of Personality to Health Psychology, Howard S. Friedman and Margaret L. Kern 8. Anger, Anger Expression, and Health, Padmini Iyer, Maya Rom Korin, Laura Higginbotham, and Karina W. Davidson 9. Developmental Influences in Understanding Child and Adolescent Health Behaviors, Dawn K. Wilson, Sara St. George, and Nicole Zarrett 10. Adult Development, Aging, and Gerontology, Ilene C. Siegler, Karen Hooker, Hayden B. Bosworth, Merrill F. Elias, and Avron Spiro 11. Animal Models in Health Psychology Research, Daniel A. Nation, Neil Schneiderman, and Phillip M. McCabe 12. All Roads Lead to Psychoneuroimmunology, Christopher L. Coe III. Contributions of Other Sciences to Health Psychology 13. Behavioral Epidemiology, Robert M. Kaplan 14. Depression and Illness, Madeline Li and Gary Rodin 15. Self-Direction toward Health: Overriding the Default American Lifestyle, John Mirowsky and Catherine E. Ross 16. How Genetics Will Change Medicine and Health Psychology, Jeanne McCaffery 17. Nursing Science and Psychological Phenomena, Diane Lauver, Rebecca West, and Jean E. Johnson 18. Medical Anthropology, William W. Dressler 19. Health Psychology Meets Health Economics, Yaniv Hanoch and Thomas Rice 20. The Evidence-Based Movement in Health Psychology, Maya Rom Korin, Robert M. Kaplan, and Karina W. DavidsonIV. Health Psychology, Public Health, and Prevention 21. Impacts of Being Uninsured, Dylan Habeeb Roby 22. Health Services Research, Alison Herrmann 23. Primary Care and Prevention, JoEllen Patterson, Joseph E. Scherger, and Ann Marie Smith 24. Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, Gerdi Weidner and Friederike Kendel 25. The Role of Behavior in Cancer Prevention, Deborah Bowen and Ulrike Boehmer 26. Community HIV Preventive Interventions, María Luisa Zúñiga, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Estela Blanco, Jose L. Burgos, and Thomas L. Patterson 27. The Contribution of Health Psychology to the Advancement of Global Health, Brian Oldenburg, Maximilian de Courten, and Emma FreanV. Health Psychology and the Medical Specialties 28. Cardiology, Manjunath Harlapur, Dennis Abraham, and Daichi Shimbo 29. The Management of Diabetes, Ian M. Kronish and Devin Mann 30. Sleep Medicine, Amy M. Sawyer and Terri E. Weaver 31. Psychosocial Interventions for Patients with Cancer, Michael A Diefenbach, Nihal E. Mohamed, Gina Turner, and Catherine S. Diefenbach 32. Pain and Painful Syndromes (Including Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia), David A. Williams 33. Coping with Chronic Illness, Austin S. Baldwin, Quinn D. Kellerman, and Alan J. Christensen 34. Managing the Obesity Epidemic, Lucy F. Faulconbridge and Thomas A. Wadden 35. Pharmacology and Behavior: The Case of Tobacco Dependence, Kenneth A. Perkins
