Product Description

'The book provides an excellent foundation to health psychology. It brings readers up to date with past controversies and current difficulties and suggests areas for further research to promote positive health behaviours and a healthy nation' - Janette C Allotey, Nurse Researcher

`This text provides a useful and refreshing addition to health psychology texts with a very applied social, and cultural focus. It would make a useful addition to any undergraduate or Masters course in health psychology' -British Journal of Health Psychology

This major textbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the health psychology field, focusing on core topics such as ealth and the individual, stress and coping and the linking of health psychology to experiences of health and illness.

The key features of Health Psychology are: its strong coverage of the entire health psychology discipline; its international and interdisciplinary appeal; it responds uniquely to a changing world where psychological processes need to be understood in relation to effective methods of disease prevention and health promotion; and it illustrates health psychology's relevance to the understanding of the cultural, political and economic roots of behaviour and experience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #385660 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Review
'The book provides an excellent foundation to health psychology. It brings readers up to date with past controversies and current difficulties and suggests areas for further research to promote positive health behaviours and a healthy nation' - Janette C Allotey, Nurse Researcher

`This text provides a useful and refreshing addition to health psychology texts with a very applied social, and cultural focus. It would make a useful addition to any undergraduate or Masters course in health psychology' -British Journal of Health Psychology

Customer Reviews

Advisable for those with previous knowledge of area
This is not what could be classed as a text book in the conventional way. It is presented as a reader with many new applications of health psychology perspectives and their results in various trials. The only fault with this is that it has the ability to distract the reader from their original point of interest and confuse those with little experiance of what is entailed within the area of the Health psychologist.

Health Psychology
The book is fantastic just what I need for my course. It came recommended by our tutor. The delivery was really fast and came in plenty of time to use it for my asessment.