Preface
List of Contributors
1: Howard S. Friedman and Nancy E. Adler: The History and
Background of Health Psychology
2: Timothy W. Smith: Measurement in Health Psychology Research
3: J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Rivas, and Roxane C. Silver:
Designing and Implementing Interventions to Promote Health and
Prevent Illness
PART TWO: CORE CONCEPTS OF THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO
HEALTH
4: John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson: The Brain, Homeostasis,
and Health: Balancing Demands of the Internal and External
Milieu
5: Margaret E. Kemeny: Psychoneuroimmunology
6: Charles S. Carver: Stress, Coping and Health
7: Shelley E. Taylor: Social Support
8: Howard S. Friedman: Personality, Disease, and Self-healing
PART THREE: APPLICATIONS TO HEALTH PROMOTION AND EFFECTIVE
TREATMENT
9: Annette L. Stanton and Tracey A. Revenson: Adjustment to Chronic
Disease: Progress and Promise in Research
10: Karen Rook, Susan Turk Charles and Jutta Heckhausen: Aging and
Health
11: James W. Pennebaker and Cindy K. Chung: Expressive Writing,
Emotional Upheavals, and Health
12: Camille Wortman and Kathrin Boerner: Reactions to the Death of
a Loved One: Beyond the Myths of Coping with Loss
13: Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter: Physician-Patient
Communication
14: Robert M. Kaplan: Uncertainty, Variability and Resource
Allocation in the Healthcare Decision Process
Subject Index
Name Index
Howard S. Friedman is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the
University of California, Riverside (UCR). His research is focused
on lifespan psychosocial predictors and mediators of health and
longevity. Dr. Friedman is the recipient of the career award for
"Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology" from the American
Psychological Association (Division 38) and winner of UCR's
Distinguished Teaching Award.
Roxane Cohen Silver is Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior
and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine
(UCI). She studies how individuals cope with stressful life
experiences, such as loss of a spouse or child, divorce, childhood
sexual abuse, physical disability, natural disaster, and terrorism.
Dr. Silver has been an advisor to the US Department of Homeland
Security and has received UCI's Distinguished Faculty Lectureship
Award for Teaching.
"In the field of health psychology, this is the book to have. It is
comprehensive and covers the ground one would expect. It is easy to
read and presents a thorough research foundation."--Doody's
"In summary, this book is sure to hold a seminal position in health
psychology education and continuing education. It would be highly
useful as an advanced graduate text, an update for health
psychologists on the state of the science of health psychology, and
for other health professionals (psychologists and others) with an
interest in improving their understanding of the biopsychosocial
model to conceptualize, study, and intervene on human health.
The
editors should be commended for their efforts and success in
collecting high-quality reviews of important topics within the
complex field of health psychology."--PsycCRITIQUES
"The great depth and breath to ideas covered is an accomplishment,
and my overall impression of this book is highly
positive."--Rebecca Jayne Stack in The Psychologist
"...useful for those who teach undergraduate health psychology. It
would also be a good book for graduate students who are working in
the area or related areas. The topics are dealt with in a more
sophisticated level than introductory readers but would still be
accessible to other researchers who want to learn more about a
particular area outside of their expertise...I envisage that I will
use this book for reference and pick it up again and again. All
the
chapters are well-written and informative, challenging one's
preconceptions and emphasising the importance of theory."--Barbara
Johnson, Psychology Teaching Review
"In the field of health psychology, this is the book to have. It is
comprehensive and covers the ground one would expect. It is easy to
read and presents a thorough research foundation."--Doody's
"In summary, this book is sure to hold a seminal position in health
psychology education and continuing education. It would be highly
useful as an advanced graduate text, an update for health
psychologists on the state of the science of health psychology, and
for other health professionals (psychologists and others) with an
interest in improving their understanding of the biopsychosocial
model to conceptualize, study, and intervene on human health.
The
editors should be commended for their efforts and success in
collecting high-quality reviews of important topics within the
complex field of health psychology."--PsycCRITIQUES
"...useful for those who teach undergraduate health psychology. It
would also be a good book for graduate students who are working in
the area or related areas. The topics are dealt with in a more
sophisticated level than introductory readers but would still be
accessible to other researchers who want to learn more about a
particular area outside of their expertise...I envisage that I will
use this book for reference and pick it up again and again. All
the
chapters are well-written and informative, challenging one's
preconceptions and emphasising the importance of theory."--Barbara
Johnson, Psychology Teaching Review
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