Foundations of Health Psychology

Preface
List of Contributors
1. The History and Background of Health Psychology, Howard S. Friedman and Nancy E. Adler
2. Measurement in Health Psychology Research, Timothy W. Smith
3. Designing and Implementing Interventions to Promote Health and Prevent Illness, J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Rivas, and Roxane C. Silver
PART TWO: CORE CONCEPTS OF THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO HEALTH
4. The Brain, Homeostasis, and Health: Balancing Demands of the Internal and External Milieu, John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson
5. Psychoneuroimmunology, Margaret E. Kemeny
6. Stress, Coping and Health, Charles S. Carver
7. Social Support, Shelley E. Taylor
8. Personality, Disease, and Self-healing, Howard S. Friedman
PART THREE: APPLICATIONS TO HEALTH PROMOTION AND EFFECTIVE TREATMENT
9. Adjustment to Chronic Disease: Progress and Promise in Research, Annette L. Stanton and Tracey A. Revenson
10. Aging and Health, Karen Rook, Susan Turk Charles and Jutta Heckhausen
11. Expressive Writing, Emotional Upheavals, and Health, James W. Pennebaker and Cindy K. Chung
12. Reactions to the Death of a Loved One: Beyond the Myths of Coping with Loss, Camille Wortman and Kathrin Boerner
13. Physician-Patient Communication, Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter
14. Uncertainty, Variability and Resource Allocation in the Healthcare Decision Process, Robert M. Kaplan
Subject Index
Name Index

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