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Psychology 5/e Book Cover
Psychology, 5/e
Lester M. Sdorow, Arcadia University
Cheryl A. Rickabaugh, University of Redlands

Psychology and Health

For More Information On Psychology And Health

For General Works on Psychology and Health

        Dasen, P. R., Berry, J. W., and Sartorius, N. (Eds.). (1988). Health and cross-cultural psychology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

        Taylor, S. E. (1998). Health psychology (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

For More on Stress and Illness

Psychological Stress and Psychological Stressors

        Brown, G. W., and Harris, T. O. (Eds.). (1999). Life events and illness. New York: Guilford.

        Goldberger, L., and Breznitz, S. (Eds.). (1993). Handbook of stress: Theoretical and clinical aspects. New York: Free Press.

        Marsella, A. J., Friedman, M. J., Gerrity, E., Friedman, M. F., and Scurfield, R. M. (Eds.). (1996). Ethnocultural aspects of posttraumatic stress disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Biopsychology of Stress and Illness

        Cooper, C. L., and Watson, M. (Eds.). (1991). Cancer and stress. New York: Wiley.

        Goodkin, K., and Visser, A. P. (Eds.). (2000). Psychoneuroimmunology, mental disorders, and health. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.

        Friedman, M. (1996). Type A behavior: Its prevention and treatment. New York: Plenum.

        Rice, P. L. (1999). Stress and health (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.

        Selye, H. (1956). The stress of life. New York: McGraw-Hill.

        Shorter, E. (1992). From paralysis to fatigue: A history of psychosomatic illness in the modern era. New York: Free Press.

Factors That Moderate the Stress Response

        Buchanan, G., and Seligman, M. E. (Eds.). (1994). Explanatory style. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

        Cousins, N. (1989). Head first: The biology of hope. New York: Dutton.

        Friedman, H. S. (1991). The self-healing personality: Why some people achieve health and others succumb to illness. New York: Henry Holt.

        Maddi, S. R., and Kobasa, S. (1984). Hardy executive: Health under stress. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.

        Peterson, C., Maier, S.F., and Seligman, M. E. P. (1993). Learned helplessness: A theory for the age of personal control. New York: Oxford University Press.

        Sarason, B. R., Sarason, I., and Pierce, G. R. (Eds.). (1990). Social support: An international view. New York: Wiley.

        Seligman, M. E. P. (1991). Learned optimism. New York: Knopf.

        Taylor, S. E. (1989). Positive illusions: Creative self-deception and the healthy mind. New York: Basic Books.

Coping with Stress

        Fried, R. (1990). The breath connection. New York: Human Sciences Press.

        Greenberg, J. S. (1998). Comprehensive stress management (6th ed.). Dubuque, IA: Brown and Benchmark.

        Pennebaker, J. (1990). Opening up: The healing power of confiding in others. New York: Morrow.

        Willis, J. D., and Campbell, L. F. (1992). Exercise psychology. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

For More on Health-Promoting Habits

        Catalan, J. (Ed.). (1999). Mental health and HIV infection. London: UCL Press.

        Dishman, R. K. (1994). Advances in exercise adherence. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

        Mermelstein, R. J. (1990). Smoking cessation: A biopsychosocial approach. New York: Pergamon.

        Polivy, J., and Herman, C. P. (1983). Breaking the diet habit: The natural weight alternative. New York: Basic Books.

        Rothman, A., and Salovey, P. (2000). Health behaviors: A social-psychological approach. New York: Wiley.

For More on Reactions to Illness

        Fisher, S., and Todd, A. D. (1992). The social organization of doctor-patient communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

        Myers, L., and Midence, K. (Eds.). (1998). Adherence to treatment in medical conditions. Reading, England: Harwood Academic Publishers.

        Salmon, P. (2000). Psychology of medicine and surgery. New York: Wiley.

        Shuman, R. (1996). The psychology of chronic illness. New York: Basic Books.

For More on Contributors to the Study of Psychology and Health

        Benison, S., Barger, A. C., and Wolfe, E. L. (1987). Walter B. Cannon: The life and times of a young scientist. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard.

        Selye, H. (1979). The stress of my life: A scientist's memoirs. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.