Loose-leaf Version for Health Psychology & LaunchPad Health Psychology Tool Kit (Six-Month Online)

by Straub, Richard O.

• ISBN13: 9781319164348
• ISBN10: 131916434X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2017-02-06
• Publisher: Worth Publishers

Summary

Straub’s Health Psychology shows students how psychology and health are interconnected.  The text encourages students to make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and their own everyday experience.  The text is comprehensive in its approach, includes in engaging real world examples, and thoroughly examines the intersection of diversity and health with regard to gender, ethnicity, age, and orientation.

Health Psychology incorporates the latest research and uses the biopsychosocial perspective as it  explores the main ideas of the field and models a scientific way of thinking about those ideas.

Table of Contents

Brief Contents
Preface

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 Control
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 HIV/AIDS and Other Communicable Diseases

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

Glossary G-1
References R-1
Name Index NI-1
Subject Index SI-1