Conclusion : the achievements and promise of health psychology / Howard S. Friedman. A history of the development of health psychology / Wade E. Pickren and Silvia Degni -- Measurement in health psychology research / Timothy W. Smith -- Designing and conducting interventions to enhance physical and mental health outcomes / J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Ravas, and Roxane Cohen Silver -- Uncertainty, variability, and resource allocation in the health care decision process / Robert M. Kaplan -- The brain, homeostasis, and health : balancing demands of the internal and external milieu / John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson -- Psychoneuroimmunology / Margaret E. Kemeny -- Stress, coping, and health / Charles S. Carver and Sara Vargas -- Social support : a review / Shelley E. Taylor -- Personality, disease, and self-healing / Howard S. Friedman -- Adjustment to chronic disease : progress and promise in research / Annette L. Stanton and Tracey A. Revenson -- Social comparison processes : implications for physical health / Jerry Suls -- Health and illness perceptions / Yael Beyamini -- Physician-patient communication / Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter -- Aging and health / Karen S. Rook, Susan Turk Charles, and Jutta Heckhausen -- Chronic pain : closing the gap between evidence and practice / Beverly E. Thorn and Barbara B. Walker -- Coping with cancer / Vanessa L. Malcarne -- Expressive writing : connections to physical and mental health / James W. Pennebaker and Cindy K. Chung -- Beyond myths of coping with loss : prevailing assumptions versus scientific evidence / Camille B. Wortman and Kathrin Boerner -- Family consultation for couples coping with health problems : a social cybernetic approach / Michael J. Rohrbaugh and Varda Shoham -- Childhood health and chronic illness / Barbara J. Tinsley and Mary H. Burleson -- Transplantation / Mary Amanda Dew and Andrea F. DiMartini -- HIV/AIDS / Lydia Temoshok -- Health behavior change / Ralf Schwarzer -- Advancing health behavior theory : the interplay among theories of health behavior, empirical modeling of health behavior, and behavioral interventions / Leona S. Aiken -- The perception of health risks / Britta Renner and Harald Schupp -- Physical activity and health : current research trends and critical issues / Dawn K. Wilson, Nicole Zarrett, and Heather Kitzman-Ulrich -- Alcohol use and alcohol use disorders / Kenneth J. Sher [and others] -- Obesity / Emily L. Van Walleghen, Betsy A. Steeves, and Hollie A. Raynor -- Dispositional optimism, psychophysiology, and health / Suzanne C. Segerstrom -- Community health / Marta Gil Lacruz -- Latino health / John M. Ruiz and Patrick Steffen -- Two decades of social change in Central and Eastern Europe : implications for health / Irina L.G. Todorova -- Asian meditation and health / Yosuke Sakairi, Genji Sugamura, and Masao Suzuki -- Health and social relationships in nonhuman primates : toward a comparative health psychology / John P. Capitanio -- Conclusion : the achievements and promise of health psychology / Howard S. Friedman.
Summary:
It is evidence of the importance of the new field of health psychology that it warrants this volume in the prestigious series of Oxford Handbooks. Presenting the state of research, the 35 chapters are divided into five sections; foundations, core concepts, core issues, health behaviors and change, and population and sociocultural issues. The focus on methodology and practice of the initial two sections will be particularly useful to beginning practitioners and graduate students. Editor Howard S. Friedman (psychology, U. of California, Riverside) has contributed a chapter on personality, disease, and self-healing and the concluding chapter describing future trends in addition to co-authoring the chapter on the field's intellectual roots with Nancy E. Adler (U. of California, San Francisco). As is typical for the series, the material is clearly and thoughtfully presented, with an abstract, list of keywords, and bibliography in each chapter, with the text presented in outline form, clearly dividing a substantial body of information into accessible parts.
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