Health Psychology
The textbook on health psychology illustrates the scientific relations among psychological factors, behavior, physical health and illness. It provides an understanding on how psychological, environmental, biological and societal factors affect the health of an individual and stresses upon the role that beliefs and behavior play in health.
Table of Content
- Introduction to Health Psychology
- Biological Foundations of Health and Illness
- Health Behaviors
- Enhancing Health and Preventing Illness
- Health-compromising Behaviors
- Stress and the Development of Illness
- Coping with Stress
- Pain and its Management
- Patient in the Treatment Setting
- Diabetes, Stroke, CHD and Hypertension
- Chronic Illness – Cancer and AIDS
- Pediatric Health Psychology
- Ageing and Health
Bibliography
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Salient Features
- The textbook is rich in illustrations to facilitate learning
- Each chapter begins with key outlines and chapter objectives
- Modular questions at the end of each chapter
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