The Health Psychology Reader

by David F Marks

• ISBN13: 9780761972716
• ISBN10: 0761972714
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-06
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

The Health Psychology Reader is designed to complement and support the recent textbook Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice by David F. Marks, Michael Murray, Brian Evans and Carla Willig (SAGE, 2000). It can also be used as a stand-alone resource given its didactic nature. The Reader explores key topics within the health psychology field with incisive introductions to each section by the Editor and includes a selection of the most important theoretical and empirical published work. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Part I: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S DEVELOPMENT, DEFINITION AND CONTEXT	9	(80)
Behavioral health's challenge to academic, scientific, and professional psychology	16	(24)
Joseph D. Matarazzo
Redefining health psychology: Matarazzo revisited	40	(10)
Mark McDermott
The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine	50	(16)
George L. Engel
Theoretical tensions in biopsychosocial medicine	66	(11)
David Armstrong
The rhetoric and reality of psychosocial theories of health: a challenge to biomedicine?	77	(12)
Jane Ogden
Part II: THEORIES IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY	89	(74)
Introduction
Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall	94	(13)
Albert Bandura
Emotion narratives: A radical new research approach	107	(13)
Richard S. Lazarus
The role of theory in HIV prevention	120	(7)
Martin Fishbein
Unraveling the mystery of health: How people manage stress and stay well	127	(13)
Aaron Antonovsky
Some observations on health and socio-economic status	140	(23)
Douglas Carroll
George Davey Smith
Paul Bennett
Part III: HEALTH BEHAVIOUR AND EXPERIENCE	163	(72)
Introduction
Context and coping: Toward a unifying conceptual framework	167	(19)
Rudolf H. Moos
An 'ecological' approach to the obesity pandemic	186	(9)
Garry Egger
Boyd Swinburn
Moving towards active living: Understanding the contextual nature of barriers to physical activity	195	(7)
Susan Drew
Conditional versus unconditional risk estimates in models of AIDS-related risk behaviour	202	(16)
Frank W. van der Velde
Christa Hooykaas
Joop van der Pligt
Health and romance: Understanding unprotected sex in relationships between gay men	218	(17)
Paul Flowers
Jonathan A. Smith
Paschal Sheeran
Nigel Beail
Part IV: HEALTH BELIEFS, EXPLANATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, EDUCATION AND PROMOTION	235	(46)
Introduction
Cultural diversity in causal attributions for illness: the role of the supernatural	239	(11)
Hope Landrine
Elizabeth A. Klonoff
Illness perceptions: a new paradigm for psychosomatics?	250	(5)
John Weinman
Keith J. Petrie
Consumer/provider communication research: A personal plea to address issues of ecological validity, relational development, message diversity, and situational constraints	255	(7)
Gary L. Kreps
From analysis to synthesis: Theories of health education	262	(9)
Jeff French
Lee Adams
A new evidence framework for health promotion practice	271	(10)
Gordon Macdonald
Part V: CRITICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY	281	(92)
Introduction
Critical approaches to health psychology	286	(18)
Wendy Stainton Rogers
Theorizing health and illness: Functionalism, subjectivity and reflexivity	304	(15)
Henderikus J. Stam
A discourse-dynamic approach to the study of subjectivity in health psychology	319	(22)
Carla Willig
Health psychology, embodiment and the question of vulnerability	341	(11)
Alan Radley
Possible contributions of a psychology of liberation: Whither health and human rights?	352	(21)
M. Brinton Lykes
Glossary	373	(5)
References	378	(3)
Index	381