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Health Psychology

By Howard S. Friedman

ISBN-10: 0-13-384892-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-384892-2What's this?

Published by Prentice Hall

Pub. Date: Feb 15, 1989

Format: Paper

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Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY.

 1. The Field of Health Psychology.

 2. The Traditional Medical Model Becomes the New Health Psychology.

II. THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT.

 3. The Social Nature of Illness.

 4. Cooperation (Adherence) and Practitioner-Patient Relations.

 5. Communication with Patients.

III. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTORS TO AND TREATMENTS OF ILLNESS.

 6. The Mind and the Body.

 7. Stress and Illness.

 8. Personality and Health.

 9. Adaptation to Illness.

10. Dying and Death.

IV. THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT.

11. The Health Care Professional.

12. The Health Care System.

13. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

V. THE FUTURE.

14. Goals for the Future of Health Psychology.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

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