Handbook of health psychology and behavioral medicine / edited by Jerry M. Suls, Karina W. Davidson, Robert M. Kaplan.

• Cover; Copyright Page; About the Editors; Contributors; Preface; Contents; PART I. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDICINE AND THEORY; 1. The Great Debate on the Contribution of Behavioral Interventions; 2. The Biopsychosocial Model and the Use of Theory in Health Psychology; PART II. PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY; 3. Emotions and Stress; 4. Cognitive and Affective Influences on Health Decisions; 5. Specifying the Determinants of People's Health Beliefs and Health Behavior: How a Social Psychological Perspective Can Inform Initiatives to Promote Health. 
• 6. Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology: Toward an Integrated Perspective on Health7. Contributions of Personality to Health Psychology; 8. Anger, Anger Expression, and Health; 9. Developmental Influences in Understanding Child and Adolescent Health Behaviors; 10. Adult Development, Aging, and Gerontology; 11. Animal Models in Health Psychology Research; 12. All Roads Lead to Psychoneuroimmunology; PART III. CONTRIBUTIONS OF OTHER SCIENCES TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY; 13. Behavioral Epidemiology; 14. Depression and Illness. 
• 15. Self-Direction toward Health: Overriding the Default American Lifestyle16. How Genetics Will Change Medicine and Health Psychology; 17. Nursing Science and Psychological Phenomena; 18. Medical Anthropology; 19. Health Psychology Meets Health Economics; 20. The Evidence-Based Movement in Health Psychology; PART IV. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND PREVENTION; 21. Impacts of Being Uninsured; 22. Health Services Research; 23. Primary Care and Prevention; 24. Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease; 25. The Role of Behavior in Cancer Prevention; 26. Community HIV Preventive Interventions. 
• 27. The Contribution of Health Psychology to the Advancement of Global HealthPART V. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MEDICAL SPECIALTIES; 28. Cardiology; 29. The Management of Diabetes; 30. Sleep Medicine; 31. Psychosocial Interventions for Patients with Cancer; 32. Pain and Painful Syndromes (Including Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia); 33. Coping with Chronic Illness; 34. Managing the Obesity Epidemic; 35. Pharmacology and Behavior: The Case of Tobacco Dependence; 36. Theory-Based Behavioral Interventions for Smoking Cessation: Efficacy, Processes, and Future Directions; Author Index. 
• Subject IndexAbout Guilford Publications; From the Publisher; Discover More Guilford Periodicals; Back Cover. 

• Providing a state-of-the-science overview of theory, research, and practice at the interface of psychology and health, this comprehensive volume brings together leading experts from multiple disciplines. The book explores how health and health behaviors are shaped by a wide range of psychological processes and social-environmental factors. It describes exemplary applications in the prevention and clinical management of today's most pressing health risks and diseases, including coronary heart disease, depression, diabetes, cancer, chronic pain, obesity, sleep disturbances, and smoking. Featurin

Ämnesord

Behavioral medicine  (MeSH)

Clinical health psychology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 

Medicine and psychology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 

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Electronic books.  (LCSH)

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616.001/9 (DDC)

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