| Description |
xxviii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
The Plenum series in culture and health |
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Plenum series in culture and health.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Diversity issues in health psychology / Traci Mann and Pamela M. Kato -- Fear of heterogeneity in the study of human populations and the statistical artifacts it produces / Helena Chmura Kraemer -- Issues of age and health / Monisha Pasupathi -- Touch therapies across the life span / Tiffany M. Field -- The center of development for young children from cocaine-abusing families / Linda C. Mayes and Marc H. Bornstein -- The problem of pediatric pain / Betty R. Kasson, Sandra K. Sentivany, and Pamela M. Kato -- Healthy adolescent development : risks and opportunities / Nancy Leffert and Anne C. Petersen -- Reversing disablitiy in old age / Becca Levy and Ellen Langer -- Functional impairment, physical disease, and depression in older adults / Antonette M. Zeiss, Peter M. Lewinsohn, and Paul Rohde -- Why do we need a health psychology of gender or sexual orientation? / Traci Mann -- Smoking and cardiovascular disease risk in women : issues for prevention and women's health / Margaret A. Chesney and Jill B. Nealey -- Masculine gender role stress : a perspective on men's health / Michael M. Copenhaver and Richard M. Eisler -- |
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Psychotherapy with HIV-infected gay men / Gary Grossman -- Homophobia and the health psychology of lesbians / Katherine A. O'Hanlan -- On nothing and everything : the relationship between ethnicity and health / Pamela M. Kato -- African-American health over the life course : a multidimensional framework / James S. Jackson and Sherrill L. Sellers -- Designing health promotion programs for Latinos / Felipe G. Castro ... [et al.] -- Health care issues among Asian Americans : implications of somatizations / Chi-Ah Chun, Kana Enomoto, and Stanley Sue -- Behavioral approaches to illness prevention for Native Americans / Steven Schinke -- A biological, environmental, and cultural basis for ethnic differences in treatment / Michael Smith and Keh-Ming Lin -- Socioeconomic status and the health of racial minority populations / David R. Williams and Toni Rucker. |
| Subject |
Clinical health psychology.
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Clinical health psychology -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Minorities -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
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Minorities -- Medical care -- United States.
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Behavioral Medicine.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Ethnicity -- psychology.
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Minority Groups -- psychology.
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| Added Author |
Kato, Pamela M.
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Mann, Traci.
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| ISBN |
0306453258 |
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