| Description |
ix, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The history and background of health psychology / Howard S. Friedman and Nancy E. Adler -- Measurement in health psychology research / Timothy W. Smith -- Designing and implementing interventions to promote health and prevent illness / J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Rivas and Roxane. C. Silver -- The brain, homeostasis, and health : balancing demands of the internal and external milieu / John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson -- Psychoneuroimmunology / Margaret E. Kemeny -- Stress, coping and health / Charles S. Carver -- Social Support / Shelley E. Taylor -- Personality, disease, and self-healing / Howard S. Friedman -- Adjustment to chronic disease : progress and promise in research / Annette L. Stanton and Tracey A. Revenson -- Aging and health / Karen S. Rook, Susan T. Charles and Jutta Heckhausen -- Expressive writing, emotional upheavals, and health / James W. Pennebaker and Cindy K. Chung -- Beyond the myths of coping with loss : prevailing assumptions versus scientific evidence / Camille B. Wortman and Kathrin Boerner -- Physician-patient communication / Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter -- Uncertainty, variability and resource allocation in the health care decision process / Robert M. Kaplan. |
| Subject |
Clinical health psychology.
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Behavioral Medicine.
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| Added Author |
Friedman, Howard S.
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Silver, Roxane Cohen.
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| ISBN |
0195139593 (hardback) |
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9780195139594 (hardback) |
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