Product Description

“This fourth edition incorporates a number of substantive new topics, including a new chapter on women's health, as well as opportunities for the reader to critically examine key conceptual and methodological issues within each chapter. It remains clearly written and highly accessible and still deserves its place as the number one choice of health psychology textbook.”
– John Weinman, King’s College, London

The market leading textbook in the field, Health Psychology by Jane Ogden is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology. It will also be invaluable to students of medicine, nursing and allied health. Retaining the breadth of coverage, clarity and relevance that has made it a favourite with students and lecturers, this fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated.

New Features:

New chapter on women's health issues, exploring recent research into pregnancy, miscarriage, birth, menopause and related areas
New "Problems" boxes analyse health psychology research and identify the shortcomings and limitations of research in the area
Updated "Focus on Research" examples introduce you to contemporary topics and emerging areas for research in health psychology, including exercise, smoking and pain. The new edition includes new data, graphs and further reading plus suggestions about where you can access the most recent publications and other data
Revised end-of-chapter review questions Online Learning Centre: www.openup.co.uk/ogden. The OLC hosts web links and multiple choice questions for students, plus supporting teaching resources including teaching tips and PowerPoint presentations for lecturers.

Interested in accessing more research readings? Essential Readings in Health Psychology by Jane Ogden is a new collection of key papers brought together for the first time in one volume which complements Health Psychology: A Textbook 4/e and offers more detailed accounts of the issues covered in this text.

Free Vital Source Digital Textbook included in this package

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And that’s not all. Instructors will also have access to the digital version which allows them to add their own notes to the book for students to view. Instructors can also set questions for their students at specific points in the book to encourage class discussion or as tutorial assignments. If you would like to know more about the books available in this digital format, or would like to see a demonstration, please contact your local representative.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #246133 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 489 pages

About the Author
Jane Ogden studied for a PhD in eating behaviour at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. She then became a lecturer in health psychology at Middlesex University where she set up a health psychology course. Jane is Reader in Health Psychology at Guy's, King's and St. Thomas's School of Medicine, University of London, where she carries out research into health related behaviours and teaches health psychology to both medical and psychology students.

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Customer Reviews

Rather theoretical and neglects personality research
An excellent introduction to Health Psychology, but I did find it a bit too theoretical and rather basic at times. There is also relatively little emphasis on personality and health, despite strong evidence for interactions between these. I expected to see coverage of the five factor model and health behaviours/outcomes, and more on heart disease and hostility. But good coverage and excellent set of references for further reading.

Health psychology bible
During my MSc in Health Psychology I found this book excellent at explaining the important health psychology models and some interesting research in key areas of health. I have gone on to use it as a reference book in my PhD. I would recommend this to anyone intereted in health psychology and it is a must have for anyone doing a masters or an undergrad module on health psychology.

engaging
as a student nurse, it was vital to myself that i found a book that tackeled the different elements of psychology within nursing. It can truely be said that this book offers depth and insight to various different issues helping to evaluate and support my studying