Health Psychology: An Introduction

Health Psychology is a textbook providing students with a critical, thought-provoking introduction to this rapidly expanding discipline, covering health, illness and healthcare.

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• A textbook giving a critical, thought-provoking introduction to the rapidly expanding discipline of health psychology.
  
• Written by some of the world’s leading health psychologists.
  
• Divided into three sections on Health and Illness Behavior, Process and Outcome in Illness, and Health Care Contexts and the Practice of Health Psychology.
  
• Each chapter stands alone as an overview of a particular area.
  
• At the same time, all of the contributions have been carefully edited to make the book fully cohesive and integrated.
  
• Includes an in-depth introduction by the editors to the field of health psychology and the volume as a whole.
  
• Supported by evidence from research studies drawn from around the world.

Ad Kaptein is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology as applied to Medicine at the Leiden University Medical Centre. He is involved with Psychology & Health (Editor-in-Chief, 1992 – 2000), and the European Health Psychology Society (President, 2000 – 2002). His main research areas are self-regulation and self-management of chronic illness, in particular with regard to respiratory disorders. He has written and edited a large number of research papers, chapters and books in the field of health psychology.

John Weinman is Professor of Psychology as applied to Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry in the University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and has played a major role in the development of academic and professional health psychology in the UK. His main research areas are cognition and health, communication and decision-making in health care, stress, wound healing and recovery from surgery, and self-regulation and self-management in chronic illness. He was the founding editor of Psychology & Health and has edited and written a large number of books, chapters and research papers in the field of health psychology.