“This fourth edition incorporates a number of substantive new topics, including a new chapter on women's health, as well as opportunities for the reader to critically examine key conceptual and methodological issues within each chapter. It remains clearly written and highly accessible and still deserves its place as the number one choice of health psychology textbook.” – John Weinman, Ki…
Daftar isi: 1. an introduction to health psychology 2. health beliefs 3. Illness cognitions 4. Health professional-patient communication and the role of health beliefs 5. Smoking and alcohol use 6. Eating behaviour 7. Exercise 8. Sex 9. Screening 10. Stress 11. Stress and illness 12. Pain 13. Placebos and the interrelationship among beliefs, behaviour and health 14. HIV and career…