Health Psychology: Stress, Behaviour and Disease: Stress, Behaviour and Disease

ISBN-13: 9781850008422 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 140 str.

Douglas Carroll University of Glasgow.;Douglas Carroll University of Glasgow.

Opis

It is increasingly clear that how healthy we are is bound up with who we are, our characteristic styles of behaving and the sorts of psychological worlds we occupy. Correspondingly, it is likely that psychological strategies which seek to reduce unhealthy behaviour and to change our ways of dealing with stress will become increasingly important in the battle against illness and in the promotion of health.

Spis treści

Introduction - stress, behaviour and disease; type A behaviour and coronary heart disease; hypertension and cardiovascular reactions to stress; cancer and the immune system; the challenge of AIDS; stress management - reducing the risk of coronary heart disease; exercise, fitness and health; taking one's medicine - following therapeutic advice; pain and psychological approaches to its management; final comments - gender, race, social class, and health.

O autorze

Douglas Carroll, University of Glasgow