Health psychology : a textbook / Jane Ogden.
Material type: TextPublication details: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2004.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxvii, 473 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780335214716 (pbk.) :
- 9780335214877 (hbk.) :
- 0335214878 (hbk.)
- 616.001 OGD
- R726.7 .O37 2004
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 616.001 OGD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 124630 |
Previous ed.: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-457) and index.
1. An introduction to health psychology -- 2. Health beliefs -- 3. Illness cognitions -- 4.Doctor-patient communication and the role of health professionals\' health beliefs -- 5.Smoking and alcohol use -- 6. Eating behaviour -- 7. Exercise -- 8. Sex -- 9. Screening -- 10. Stress --- 11. Stress and illness -- 12. Pain -- 13. Placebos and the interrelationship between beliefs, behaviour and health -- 14. HIV and cancer: psychology throughout the course of illness (1) -- 15. Obesity and coronary heart disease: psychology throughout the course of illness -- 16. Measuring health status: from mortality rates to quality of life -- 17.The assumptions of health psychology.
This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including new chapters on stress and eating disorders. It is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology and for students of medicine, nursing and allied health courses.