Health Psychology A Biopsychosocial Approach

by Straub, Richard O.

• ISBN13: 9781319291730
• ISBN10: 1319291732
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781319467791
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781319169817
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-11-04
• Publisher: Worth Publishers
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Summary

Straub’s Health Psychology helps you make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and everyday experiences such as stress, coping, and sleep.

Table of Contents

Part 1 FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter 1 Introducing Health Psychology
Chapter 2 Research in Health Psychology
Chapter 3 Biological Foundations of Health and Illness

Part 2 STRESS AND HEALTH

Chapter 4 Stress
Chapter 5 Coping with Stress

Part 3 BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH

Chapter 6 Staying Healthy: Primary Prevention and
Positive Psychology
Chapter 7 Exercise, Sleep, and Injury Prevention
Chapter 8 Nutrition, Obesity, and Eating Disorders
Chapter 9 Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction

Part 4 CHRONIC AND LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESSES

Chapter 10 Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes
Chapter 11 Cancer
Chapter 12 Sexually Transmitted Infections: HIV/AIDS and
Other Communicable Conditions

Part 5 SEEKING TREATMENT

Chapter 13 The Role of Health Psychology in Seeking and
Obtaining Health Care
Chapter 14 Managing Pain
Chapter 15 Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Epilogue Health Psychology Today and Tomorrow