The Textbook of Health Psychology
eBook - ePub

The Textbook of Health Psychology

  1. 486 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Textbook of Health Psychology

About this book

This book examines the concept of health psychology following its trajectory from ancient to contemporary times. It analyses the theories, practice and research in health psychology from both Indian and Western perspectives.

The volume brings together knowledge diversified across various narrow subfields. It expounds upon physiological psychology; chronic illnesses associated with physiological systems; and biopsychosocial approaches to treatment and management with therapeutic interventions integrated throughout the book. It further discusses health promotive and health risk behaviour with reference to health policies and databases at national and global levels.

This book will be beneficial to the students, researchers and teachers of psychology, applied psychology, public health, public policy, community health, and medical and paramedical studies. It will also be indispensable to the policy-makers and NGOs working in the field of public health.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. List of boxes
  9. Foreword
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. 1 History and Evolution of Health Psychology
  13. 2 Wellness, Illness, Health and Health Psychology
  14. 3 Positive Health Behaviour
  15. 4 Health Risk Behaviour
  16. 5 Theories of Health Behaviour
  17. 6 Human Physiology
  18. 7 Stress and Illness
  19. 8 Chronic Illness and Therapeutic Interventions
  20. 9 Psychology of the Caregiver and Careprovider
  21. 10 Health Resilience
  22. 11 Pain and Its Psychosocial Correlates
  23. Index