Health psychology : a textbook / Jane Ogden.
By: Ogden, Jane
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BookPublisher: Maidenhead, Berks. : Open University Press, 2004Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xxvii, 473 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0335214711 (pbk.); 9780335214716; 9780335214877.Subject(s): Clinical health 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 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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Covers the biological aspects of health and illness. This book includes a chapter on stress, on pain; on eating behaviour, and a section on the consequences of coronary heart disease (CHD) and rehabilitation of CHD patients. It also has a coverage of problems associated with social cognition models.
Previous ed.: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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