Exploring Health Psychology
eBook - PDF

Exploring Health Psychology

  1. 544 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Exploring Health Psychology

About this book

Exploring Health Psychology provides comprehensive yet student-friendly coverage of both traditional topics in the field and important contemporary issues relating to reproductive, sexual, and psychological health. Using an informal, sometimes humorous narrative, the authors engage students of all interest levels, abilities, and learning styles by emphasizing the application of health and wellbeing psychology in their daily lives. Balancing depth and accessibly, each chapter describes the body systems relevant to a particular topic, incorporates up-to-date information and research, and contains relatable examples, real-world applications, compelling discussion and review questions, personal stories and vignettes, a running glossary, and more.

Broad in scope, Exploring Health Psychology examines the interactions between biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors in psychological disorders and discusses their psychological and medical treatment. Critical psychological health issues such as anxiety and depression, the health of sexual and gender minorities, and the psychological dangers and pitfalls of the digital age are addressed to meet the needs of today's students. An array of active learning features based on the SQ4R pedagogy—Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Reflect, and Review—enables students to take an active role in the learning process, develop effective study habits, strengthen critical and scientific thinking, and comprehend, retain, and apply the material.

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Yes, you can access Exploring Health Psychology by Spencer A. Rathus,Jeffrey S. Nevid in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Physiological Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781119686996
eBook ISBN
9781119760917

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Preface
  5. About the Author
  6. Contents in Brief
  7. Contents
  8. Chapter 1 Foundations of Health Psychology
  9. Chapter 2 Theories of Health Behavior: Adherence and Change
  10. Chapter 3 The Healthcare System
  11. Chapter 4 Stress and the Immune System
  12. Chapter 5 Resilience and Coping
  13. Chapter 6 Understanding and Managing Pain
  14. Chapter 7 The Digestive System, Nutrition, Weight, and Eating Disorders
  15. Chapter 8 Physical Activity, Sleep, Violence, and Accidents
  16. Chapter 9 Substance Use and Abuse
  17. Chapter 10 Reproductive and Sexual Health
  18. Chapter 11 Psychological Health
  19. Chapter 12 Cardiovascular Health
  20. Chapter 13 Cancer
  21. Chapter 14 Chronic Diseases and End-of-Life Issues
  22. Chapter 15 New Directions in Health Psychology
  23. References
  24. Index
  25. EULA