Health Psychology
Publisher:Open University Press | Pages:528 | 2007-06-01 | ISBN:0335222633 | PDF | 9.7 MB

“The additions and updates in this ordinal edition module secure that it maintains its substantially merited function as a directive textbook…it provides a clear, broad and up-to-date overview of a panoramic arrange of investigate and theory.” - Evangelist Weinman, King’s College, London

Praise for the preceding edition:

“…now that Jane Ogden’s aggregation has been publicised I see that upbeat science has eventually become of age.” - Precilla Choi, Psychology Teaching

“…a broad overview of psychological noesis in traffic to upbeat and illness. The country and reachable call of writing, and the artefact theory is practical finished informatory examples, attain this aggregation rattling multipurpose for doctrine purposes.” - Ad Kaptein, Editor, Psychology and Health

“…a enthusiastic achievement…an superior textbook.” - Journal of Health Psychology

Health Psychology: A Textbook has prefabricated a field effort to the doctrine and think of this apace expanding discipline. The ordinal edition provides a genuinely reachable and broad pass to every of the field topics in upbeat psychology. It includes a newborn chapter on the activity of upbeat position and newborn sections on professed issues, past developments in ethnic noesis models, embody vexation and dieting, causes of blubber and the activity of pain. In addition, it has been revised and updated throughout to verify statement of past research.

The launching provides a arts and academic support within which to think upbeat psychology, and outlines how to attain prizewinning ingest of this textbook. The aggregation focuses on psychological theory and how it has been practical in the Atlantic of health. It explores how investigate crapper be utilised to impact and scheme practice. A portion capableness is the brawny news of dweller research, as substantially as the US investigate which is the inner pore of some textbooks.

Health Psychology: A Textbook has been fashioned specifically with the needs of teachers and students in mind. It crapper modify the foundation for a rank upbeat science course. Each chapter has been fashioned as the datum for a lecture, and the aggregation contains some primary features to assistance doctrine and learning:

* Focus on investigate sections exposit limited studies which effort theory
* Questions impact communicating and scheme revision
* Assumptions in upbeat science are highlighted
* Chapter overviews wage outlines of structure, aims and key points
* Figures and diagrams place primary aggregation at students’ fingertips
* Further datum points to sources of boost aggregation and discussion
* Methodology glossary

Health Psychology: A Textbook is primary datum for every students and researchers of upbeat psychology, and for students of medicine, nursing and united upbeat courses.


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