| Description |
xv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Historical and conceptual basis of health psychology -- 2. Assessing health and quality of life -- 3. Doing research: questions and methods -- 4. Biomedical science and health psychology -- 5. Mental health -- 6. Psychoneuroimmunology -- 7. Modelling change in health behaviour -- 8. Exercise, health and eating -- 9. Health compromising behaviours I: alcohol use and abuse -- 10. Health compromising behaviours II: Smoking -- 11. Health compromising behaviours III: HIV infection and sexual behaviour -- 12. Health promotion and behaviour change -- 13. Social class and health -- 14. Gender and health -- 15. Disability, health and illness -- 16. Ethnicity, culture and health -- 17. Social relationships -- 18. Doctors and patients -- 19. Cancer -- 20. Diabetes -- 21. Coronary heart disease -- 22. Psychological factors in degenerative neurological disease -- 23. Issues in palliative care -- 24. The future of health psychology |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Clinical health psychology.
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Medicine and psychology.
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| Author |
Towell, Tony.
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Golding, John.
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| ISBN |
0333738586 |
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