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Health Psychology, 5/e
Shelley Taylor, University of California, Los Angeles


Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to Health Psychology
    1. What is Health Psychology
    2. The Systems of the Body
  2. Health Behavior and Primary Prevention
    1. Health Behaviors
    2. Health-Enhancing Behaviors
    3. Health-Compromising Behaviors
  3. Stress and Coping
    1. What is Stress
    2. Moderators of the Stress Experience
  4. The Patient in the Treatment Setting
    1. Using Health Services
    2. Patient-Practitioner Relations
    3. Pain and Its Management
  5. Management of Chronic and Terminal Illness
    1. Management of Chronic Illness
    2. Psychological Issues in Advancing and Terminal Illness
    3. Heart Disease, Hypertension, Stroke and Diabetes
    4. Psychoimmunology, AIDS, Cancer and Arthritis
  6. Toward the Future
    1. Health Psychology: Challenges for the Future
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography