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Health psychology : a textbook / Jane Ogden.

By: Ogden, Jane, 1966-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2000Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xvii, 396 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0335205968 (PB); 9780335205967; 9780335205974.Subject(s): Clinical health psychology | Clinical psychology | Health and Wellbeing | Health psychologyDDC classification: 616.0019 OGD Summary: This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including smoking and alcohol use, exercise, stress and chronic illness. It has been designed specifically with the needs of teachers and students in mind.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This textbook has made a major contribution to the teaching and study of this rapidly expanding discipline. The second edition provides a truly accessible and comprehensive guide to all of the major topics in health psychology. It includes a new chapter on the measurement of health status and new sections on professional issues, recent developments in social cognition models, body dissatisfaction and dieting, causes of obesity and the measurement of pain. In addition, it has been revised and updated throughout to take account of recent research.

Previous ed.: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-382) and index.

This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including smoking and alcohol use, exercise, stress and chronic illness. It has been designed specifically with the needs of teachers and students in mind.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Detailed table of contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Preface to the third edition
  • Guided tour Technology to enhance learning and teaching
  • Acknowledgements
  • An introduction to health psychology
  • Health beliefs
  • Illness cognitions
  • Doctorpatient communication and the role of health professionals' health beliefs
  • Smoking and alcohol use
  • Eating behaviour
  • Exercise
  • Sex
  • Screening
  • Stress
  • Stress and illness
  • Pain
  • Placebos and the interrelationship between beliefs, behaviour and health HIV and cancer: psychology throughout the course of illness
  • (1) Obesity and coronary heart disease: psychology throughout the course of illness
  • (2) Women's health issues Measuring health status: from mortality rates to quality of life
  • The assumptions of health psychology
  • Methodology glossary
  • References
  • Index