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Health psychology. / Shelley E. Taylor.

By: Taylor, Shelley E.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2003Edition: 5th ed.Description: xvi, 656 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0071199039.Subject(s): Clinical health psychology | Medicine, PsychosomaticDDC classification: 616.0019 TAY
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 536-625) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part 1 Introduction to Health Psychology
  • Chapter 1 What is Health Psychology?
  • Chapter 2 The Systems of the Body
  • Part 2 Health Behavior and Primary Prevention
  • Chapter 3 Health Behaviors
  • Chapter 4 Health-Enhancing Behaviors
  • Chapter 5 Health-Compromising Behaviors
  • Part 3 Stress and Coping
  • Chapter 6 Stress
  • Chapter 7 Moderators of the Stress Experience
  • Part 4 The Patient in the Treatment Setting
  • Chapter 8 Using Health Services
  • Chapter 9 Patient-Provider Relations
  • Chapter 10 Pain and Its Management
  • Part 5 Management of Chronic and Terminal Illness
  • Chapter 11 Management of Chronic Illness
  • Chapter 12 Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal Illness
  • Chapter 13 Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke, and Diabetes
  • Chapter 14 Psychoneuroimmunology, AIDS, Cancer, and Arthritis
  • Part 6 Toward the Future
  • Chapter 15 Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future Glossary References Credits Name Index
  • Subject Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Shelley E. Taylor is a distinguished professor of psychology at UCLA and one of the country's leading scientists. She lives in Los Angeles.