The health psychology reader

Author(s)

• Marks, David

Bibliographic Information

The health psychology reader

edited by David F. Marks

SAGE, 2002

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references(p. [378]-380) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

`This book was an absolute joy to read and offers a comprehensive review of health psychology.... This book should become a classic - necessary reading for students in all branches of health. Nursing students will find it invaluable, but other students - and their teachers - will also find it very useful. SAGE have added a valuable and important text to their already impressive list, and Marks can be complimented on his scholarly organisation of complex topics into an accessible and readable whole. No library should be without it and serious students should invest in a copy of their own' - Health Matters The Health Psychology Reader is designed to complement and support the recent textbook Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice by David F Marks, Michael Murray, Brian Evans and Carla Willig (SAGE, 2000). It can also be used as a stand-alone resource given its didactic nature. The Reader explores key topics within the health psychology field with incisive introductions to each section by the editor and includes a selection of the most important theoretical and empirical published work. The Reader is organized into the following parts: Part 1: Health Psychology's development, definition and context Part 2: Theories in health psychology Part 3: Health behaviour and experience Part 4: Beliefs, explanations and communication Part 5: Critical approaches to health psychology In each of these areas the editor has written introductory sections which highlight the key issues, questions and problems. These are summarized in Boxes, which condense into a few words the essential features of each topic. The Health Psychology Reader will be invaluable reading to all students in Health Psychology, either at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S DEVELOPMENT, DEFINITION AND CONTEX Behavioral Health's Challenge to Academic, Scientific and Professional Psychology - Joseph D Matarazzo Redefining Health Psychology - Mark McDermott Matarazzo Revisited The Need for a New Medical Model - George L Engel A Challenge for Biomedicine Theoretical Tensions in Biopsychosocial Medicine - David Armstrong The Rhetoric and Reality of Psychosocial Theories of Health - Jane Ogden A Challenge to Biomedicine PART TWO: THEORIES IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Social Foundations of Thought and Action - Albert Bandura A Social Cognitive Theory Emotion Narratives - Richard S Lazarus A Radical New Research Approach The Role of Theory in HIV Prevention - Martin Fishbein Unravelling the Mystery of Health - Aaron Antonovsky How People Manage Stress and Stay Well Some Observations on Health and Socio-Economic Status - Douglas Carroll, George Davey Smith and Paul Bennett PART THREE: HEALTH BEHAVIOUR AND EXPERIENCE Context and Coping - Rudolf H Moos Toward a Unifying Conceptual Framework An Ecological Approach to the Obesity Pandemic - Garry Egger and Boyd Swinburn Moving towards Active Living - Susan Drew Understanding the Contextual Nature of Barriers to Physical Activity Conditional Versus Unconditional Risk Behaviour Estimates in Models of AIDS-related Risk Behaviour - Frank W van der Velde, Christa Hoojkaas and Joop van der Pligt Health and Romance - Paul Flowers et al Understanding Unprotected Sex in Relationships Between Gay Men PART FOUR: HEALTH BELIEFS, EXPLANATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, EDUCATION AND PROMOTION Cultural Diversity in Causal Attributions for Illness - Hope Landrine and Elizabeth A Klonoff The Role of the Supernatural Illness Perceptions - John Weinman and Keith J Petrie A New Paradigm for Psychosomatics? Consumer/Provider Communication Research - Gary L Kreps A Personal Plea to Address Issues of Ecological Validity, Relational Development, Message Diversity and Situational Constraints From Analysis to Synthesis - Jeff French and Lee Adams Theories of Health Education A New Evidence Framework for Health Promotion - Gordon Macdonald PART FIVE: CRITICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Critical Approaches to Health Psychology - Wendy Stainton-Rogers Theorizing Health and Illness - Henderikus J Stam Functionalism, Subjectivity and Reflexivity A Discourse-Dynamic Approach to the Study of Subjectivity in Health Psychology - Carla Willig Health Psychology, Embodiment and the Question of Vulnerability - Alan Radley Possible Contributions of a Psychology of Liberation - M Brinton Lykes Whither Health and Human Rights?

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Details

• NCID: BA58563487
• ISBN:
  • 0761972706
  • 0761972714
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 388 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 610.19
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Clinical health psychology