Health psychology / Shelley E. Taylor

By: Publication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2009Edition: 7th editionDescription: xvi, 552 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 00712770310
  • 97800712770311
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 616.89 TAY
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Contents

PART ONE - INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
1 -What Is Health Psychology?
2 - The Systems of the Body

PART TWO - HEALTH BEHAVIOR AND PRIMARY PREVENTION
3 - Health Behaviors
4 - Specific Health Related Behaviors
5 - Health-Compromising Behaviors: Alcoholism and Smoking

PART THREE - STRESS AND COPING
6 - Stress
7 - Moderators of the Stress Experience

PART FOUR - THE PATIENT IN THE TREATMENT SETTING
8 - Using Health Services
9 - Patient-Provider Relations
10 - The Management of Pain and Discomfort

PART FIVE - MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC AND TERMINAL ILLNESS
11 - Management of Chronic Illness
12 - Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal Illness
13 - Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes
13 - Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes
14 - Psychoneuroimmunology, AIDS, Cancer, and Arthritis

PART SIX - TOWARD THE FUTURE
15 - Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future

Includes References and Indexes

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