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Handbook of health psychology

Author: Andrew Baum; Tracey A Revenson; Jerome E Singer
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ©2001.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This edited volume provides a comprehensive source on health psychology.
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Genre/Form: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Andrew Baum; Tracey A Revenson; Jerome E Singer
ISBN: 058538715X 9780585387154 0805814957 9780805814958
OCLC Number: 44812281
Description: xx, 961 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Contents: Factors influencing behavior and behavior change --
Representations, procedures, and affect in illness self-regulation : a perceptual-cognitive model --
Conceptualization and operationalization of perceived control --
On who gets sick and why : the role of personality and stress --
Visceral learning --
Biofeedback and self-regulation of physiological activity : a major adjunctive treatment modality in health psychology --
Behavioral conditioning of the immune system --
Physiological and psychological bases of pain --
Personality traits as risk factors for physical illness --
Personality's role in the protection and enhancement of health : where the research has been, where it is stuck, how it might move --
Social comparison processes in the physical health domain --
Social networks and social support --
Self-efficacy and health --
The psychobiology of nicotine self-administration --
Obesity --
Alcohol use and misuse --
Stress, health and illness --
What are the health effects of disclosure? --
Preventive management of work stress : current themes and future challenges --
Environmental stress and health --
Adjustment to chronic illness : theory and research --
Recall biases and cognitive errors in retrospective self-reports : a call for momentary assessments --
Burnout and health --
Sociocultural influences on health --
The multiple contexts of chronic illness : diabetic adolescents and community characteristics --
Childhood health issues across the life span --
Social influences in etiology and prevention of smoking and other health threatening behaviors in children and adolescents --
Health, behavior, and aging --
Informal caregiving to older adults : health effects of providing and receiving care --
Stress processes in pregnancy and birth : psychological, biological, and sociocultural influences --
Women's health promotion --
Male partner violence : relevance to health care providers --
Confronting fertility problems : current research and future challenges --
Patient adherence to treatment regimen --
Rehabilitation --
Community intervention --
Citizen participation and health : toward a psychology of improving health through individual, organizational, and community involvement --
The effects of physical activity on physical and psychological health --Hostility (and other psychosocial risk factors) : effects on health and the potential for successful behavioral approaches to prevention and treatment --
Stress and silent ischemia --
Stress, immunity, and susceptibility to infectious disease --
Nonpharmacological treatment of hypertension --
Cancer --
Subjective risk and health protective behavior : cancer screening and cancer prevention --
Stress and breast cancer --
Behavioral intervention in comprehensive cancer care --
Frontiers in the behavioral epidemiology of HIV/STDs --
HIV disease in ethnic minorities : implications of racial/ethnic differences in disease susceptibility and drug dosage response for HIV infection and treatment --
Women and AIDS : a contextual analysis --
Living with HIV disease --
Cultural diversity and health psychology.
Responsibility: [edited by] Andrew Baum, Tracey A. Revenson, Jerome E. Singer.
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