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Health psychology /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Colección: | Routledge modular psychology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Health Psychology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to health psychology; Defining health psychology; Historical perspective on health and illness; The biomedical model; The biopsychosocial model; Social and environmental factors; A new model of health; Psychology and health; Models of behaviour change; The health belief model (HBM); The stages of change model; Comparing the models; Summary; 2. Social epidemiology and health policy; What is epidemiology?; Mortality and morbidity; Research into morbidity and mortality
- Quality of lifeHealth policy; Summary; 3. Symptoms of illness and pain; Symptoms of illness and pain: adopting sick-role behaviour; Illness behaviour vs. sick-role behaviour; Social and demographic factors; Symptom characteristics; Social construction of health and illness; Introduction to pain; Defining pain; History of pain; An early model of pain; Characteristics of pain; Injury without pain; Delayed pain following injury; Pain without injury; Phantom limb pain; Pain out of proportion to the injury; Theories of pain; Specificity theory; Pattern theories; Gate control theory; Summary
- 4. Pain: assessment, management and treatmentMeasuring pain; Physiological measures; Behavioural assessment; Self-report; Medical treatments for pain; Medical treatments; Psychological treatments of pain; Multimodal approaches; Multimodal approaches multidisciplinary treatments: the pain clinic; Summary; 5. Doctor-patient communication; The patient-practitioner relationship; Research into doctor-patient communication; Compliance with medical advice; Predicting patient compliance; Patient satisfaction; Patient understanding; Patient recall; Psychological aspects of hospitalisation
- Preparation for surgerySummary; 6. Psychological factors in illness; The mind-body issue in health; The role of psychological factors in chronic health problems chronic ill-health problems; Chronic ill-health problems; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); The role of psychology in the study of HIV and AIDS; Interim summary; Coronary heart disease (CHD); The role of psychology in CHD; Terminal illness; Cancer; Prevalence of cancer; The role of psychology in cancer; Adjustment to illness; Summary; 7. Lifestyles and health; Aspects of lifestyle; Research into lifestyles
- Exercise and nutritionPhysical exercise; Physical benefits of exercise; Psychological benefits of exercise; Nutrition: diet and health; Obesity and eating disorders; Eating disorders; Bulimia; Summary; 8. Stress and stress management; Nature of stress; Physiology of stress; Role of the nervous system; Role of the neuroendocrine system; Adrenal glands; Theories of stress; Selye's general adaptation syndrome; Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) transactional model of stress; Coping with stress; Stress management; Stress inoculation; Stress and illness; The role of the immune system in stress; Summary