Health Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781352002546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 234 str.

Karen Rodham

Spis treści

Introduction and Overview.- What is Health Psychology?.- PART ONE: HEALTH BEHAVIOUR.- What is Health Behaviour?.- Influences on Health Behaviour.- Explaining Health Behaviour: Cognitive Models.- PART TWO: HEALTH PROMOTION.- What is Health Promotion?.- How is Health Promotion Evaluated?.- PART THREE: EXAMPLES OF HEALTH ISSUES.- IN PSYCHOLOGY.- Stress.- Coping with Stress.- Eating Behaviour.- Treating/Managing Anorexia, Bulimia, Obesity.

O autorze

KAREN RODHAM is Lecturer in Health Psychology at the University of Bath, UK and a practising Health Psychologist at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK. 

Blurb

Why is having a good diet and getting plenty of exercise so important for our health? How do we know that smoking is bad for us?

In this illuminating introduction, Rodham unpacks the relationship between our behaviour and health, exploring the principal areas that concern health psychologists, including health promotion, policy and specific issues such as eating behaviour and stress.

Whatever your level of study, this overview of health psychology will help you get to grips with the main issues and allow you to push your understanding further.