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Essential readings in health psychology
- Editors:
- OGDEN Jane, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 516p.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
The second edition includes a new chapter on the measurement of health status and new sections on professional issues, recent developments in social cognition models, body dissatisfaction and dieting, causes of obesity and the measurement of pain. The introduction provides a historical and theoretical framework within which to study health psychology. The book focuses on psychological theory and how it has been applied in the area of health. It explores how research can be used to influence and structure practice.
Health psychology: a textbook
- Author:
- OGDEN Jane
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 396p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Textbook designed to present an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics in health psychology which can also form the basis for a complete health psychology course. Includes sections on: health beliefs; illness cognitions; doctor patient communication and the role of health professionals' health beliefs; smoking and alcohol use; obesity and eating behaviour; exercise; sex; screening; stress; pain; placebos and the interrelationship between beliefs, behaviour and health; psychology throughout the course of illness; measuring health status; and the assumptions of health psychology.