Health Psychology: a Textbook

Argumento de Health Psychology: a Textbook

The market leading textbook in the field, Health Psychology by Jane Ogden is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology. It will also be invaluable to students of medicine, nursing and allied health. Retaining the breadth of coverage, clarity and relevance that has made it a favourite with students and lecturers, this fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated.

New Features:

• New chapter on women's health issues, exploring recent research into pregnancy, miscarriage, birth, menopause and related areas
• New "Problems" boxes analyse health psychology research and identify the shortcomings and limitations of research in the area
• Updated "Focus on Research" examples introduce you to contemporary topics and emerging areas for research in health psychology, including exercise, smoking and pain.
• The new edition includes new data, graphs and further reading plus suggestions about where you can access the most recent publications and other data
• Revised end-of-chapter review questions

The OLC hosts web links and multiple choice questions for students, plus supporting teaching resources including teaching tips and PowerPoint presentations for lecturers.

Interested in accessing more research readings? Essential Readings in Health Psychology by Jane Ogden is a new collection of key papers brought together for the first time in one volume which complements Health Psychology: A Textbook 4/e and offers more detailed accounts of the issues covered in this text.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
Doctor¿patient 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