Handbook of Health Psychology - Hardcover

9780805814958: Handbook of Health Psychology

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805814957 ISBN 13: 9780805814958

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2000

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This comprehensive Handbook, the first in a decade, provides an intensive review, integration, and evaluation of the first quarter-century of health psychology research and intervention. Because of research advances in behavioral, psychological, and social aspects of health, health psychology has created a new way of thinking about health and well-being. Working within biobehavioral and sociocultural frameworks, the 51 chapters address basic theories underlying health-behavior relationships while, at the same time, applying those theories to specific disease conditions and the promotion of health.

This book is intended for teachers of undergraduate, graduate or professional courses, students in psychology and other applied health fields, health researchers, and health practitioners.

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About the Author:

Stephen Sutton is Professor of Behavioural Science in the Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, and Director of Research and Head of the Behavioural Science Group in the General Practice & Primary Care Research Unit. He is also Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Visiting Professor of Social/Health Psychology at University College London. He studied social psychology at the London School of Economics and computer science at City University. He received his PhD from the University of London in 1981 for research on the effects of fear appeals. Before moving to Cambridge in 2001, he held posts at the Institute of Psychiatry and University College London. His research programme focuses on the development and evaluation of theory-based behaviour change interventions for smoking cessation, physical activity and medication adherence, using both face-to-face and ′distance′ approaches such as electronic monitoring and feedback and tailored text messaging.

Review:

This monumental summary of research achievements features 51 chapters written in generally crisp prose, up-to-date citations, and contributors who are major researchers working in health psychology and related areas....Reference libraries will certainly want a copy of this milestone work, since students at all levels will benefit from consulting it. Researchers, instructors, and graduate students in health psychology and related fields will find it an excellent resource.
—CHOICE

...the final result is a very successful volume, with a wide coverage and a general high standard of contributions....the volume will stand as an excellent resource for readers at a postgraduate level.
—European Health Psychology Society

The editors, Baum, Revenson, and Singer, are well-respected senior scholars in the field, and they have selected an outstanding array of contributors. So, in one place, in this book there are research and scholarly summariesof many of the most active researchers in health psychology. A handbook like this one provides a good sense of how the field of health psychology sees itself at the turn of the 21st century....it belongs on the shelves of university reference libraries; there it would be an essential addition.
—Contemporary Psychology

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