Main description:

This fourth edition retains the highly praised approach of previous editions, with each chapter providing an overview of the theory and research before moving on to explore applications and intervention practice. The primary goals of health psychologists are to describe, predict and then to intervene and this book continues to reflect that process.

Contents:

PART I: BEING AND STAYING HEALTHY
Chapter 1 What is health?
Chapter 2 Health inequalities
Chapter 3 Health-risk behaviour
Chapter 4 Health-protective behaviour
Chapter 5 Explaining health behaviour
Chapter 6 Reducing risk of disease - individual approaches
Chapter 7 Population approaches to public health
PART II: BECOMING ILL
Chapter 8 The body in health and illness
Chapter 9 Symptom perception, interpretation and response
Chapter 10 The consultation and beyond
Chapter 11 Stress, health and illness: theory
Chapter 12 Stress and illness moderators
Chapter 13 Managing stress
PART III: BEING ILL
Chapter 14 The impact of illness on quality of life
Chapter 15 The impact of illness on patients and their families
Chapter 16 Pain
Chapter 17 Improving health and quality of life
PART IV: FUTURES
Chapter 18 Futures