Health psychology
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- ISBN: 9781259024788
- ISBN: 1259024784
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Physical Description:
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xxvi, 491 pages, 113 variously numbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm - Edition: Third Canadian edition.
- Publisher: [Toronto] : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, [[2014]
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General Note: | New March 2015. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction to health psychology -- What is health psychology? -- How has our view of the mind-body relationship changed over time? -- What is the bio-psychosocial model of health? -- Why is the field of health psychology needed? -- What is the purpose of health psychology training? -- The systems of the body -- What is the function of the nervous system? -- How does the endocrine system operate? -- What is the cardiovascular system? -- What is the function of the immune system? -- What are the physiological systems involved in the stress response? -- Health behaviour and primary prevention -- What is health promotion? -- Why are health behaviours important? -- What theories and models are used for understanding health behaviour change? -- How are cognitive-behavioural approaches used to change health behaviours? -- How can other methods be used to change health behaviours? -- Preventive and health-promoting behaviours -- What are preventable injuries? -- What are cancer-related health behaviours? -- How does exercise enhance health? -- Why is maintaining a healthy weight important? -- How is sleep related to health? -- Health-compromising behaviours -- What are the characteristics of health-compromising behaviours? -- What is substance dependence? -- How do alcoholism and problem drinking compromise health? -- How is smoking harmful for health and what factors influence smoking? -- What are eating disorders? -- Stress and coping -- What is stress? -- What theories and models are used to study stress? -- What makes events stressful? -- How has stress been assessed? -- What are the sources of chronic stress? -- Moderators of the stress experience -- What is coping? -- What are external coping resources? -- What are coping outcomes? -- How does social support affect stress? -- What are coping interventions? -- The patient in the treatment setting -- Using health services -- How do we recognize and interpret symptoms? -- What predicts the use of health services? -- How are health services misused? -- How does hospitalization impact the patient? -- How can control be increased in hospital settings? -- Patient-provider relations -- What is a health care provider? -- Why is patient-provider communication important? -- How can we improve patient-provider communication? -- What is treatment non-adherence and how can it be reduced? -- What is the placebo effect? -- Pain and its management -- What is the significance of pain? -- Why is pain difficult to study? -- What are the clinical issues in pain management? -- What techniques are used to control pain? -- How is chronic pain managed -- Management of chronic and terminal illness -- Living with chronic illness -- Living with chronic illness -- What is quality of life? -- What are the different responses to chronic illness? -- How is the self changed by chronic disease? -- How do people cope with and manage chronic illness? -- What psychological interventions are used to manage chronic illness? -- Psychological issues in advancing and terminal illness -- How does death differ across the lifespan? -- What are the psychological issues in advancing illness? -- Are there stages in adjustment to dying? -- What are the concerns in the psychological management of the terminally ill? -- What are the alternatives to hospital care for the terminally ill? -- Heart disease, hypertension, stroke, and diabetes -- What is coronary heart disease? -- What is hypertension? -- What is a stroke? -- What is diabetes? -- Psychoneuroimmunology, AIDS, cancer, and arthritis -- What is psychoneuroimmunology? -- What is AIDS? -- What is cancer? -- What is arthritis? -- Toward the future -- Health psychology: Challenges for the future -- What is healthy aging? -- What are the issues in chronic illness management for the future? -- Where is stress research headed? -- What is the future of health services? -- Glossary -- References -- Name index -- Subject index. |
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Subject: | Clinical health psychology Medicine, psychosomatic |
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