The Oxford Handbook of Health PsychologyThe Oxford Handbook of

Health Psychology

Edited by Howard S. Friedman,

Distinguished Professor at the University of California

 

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The flaws in today's healthcare systems and practices are well-documented: millions remain far from optimal health due to a variety of psychological and social factors; large numbers of patients do not fully cooperate with medical advice; errors in medical decision-making -- some stemming from flaws in interpersonal relations -- regularly lead to needless suffering and death. Further, the effects of emotions, personality, and motivation on healing are not well incorporated into traditional medical care.
The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology compiles the most relevant scholarship from psychology, medicine, and public health to offer a thorough and authoritative model of the biopsychosocial approach to health. A collection of international contributors addresses all relevant concepts in this model, including its applications to health promotion, health behavior change, and treatment.

 

Features

Part of the OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY

Chapters authored by finest health psychology scholars in the United States, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, and Spain

Emphasis on the fundamentals, core areas, and insights of health psychology

Exceptionally well-written chapters that go beyond literature reviews to tackle and explain challenging health issues

 

Contributors:
Nancy E. Adler; Leona S. Aiken; Yael Benyamini; Gary G. Berntson; Kathrin Boerner; Mary H. Burleson; John T. Cacioppo; Charles S. Carver; John P. Capitanio; Susan T. Charles; Cindy K. Chung; Silvia Degni; Mary Amanda Dew; Andrea F. DiMartini; Howard S. Friedman; Virginia Gil-Rivas; Judith A. Hall; Jutta Heckhausen; Robert M. Kaplan; Margaret E. Kemeny; Heather Kitzman-Ulrich; Marta Gil Lacruz; Andrew K. Littlefield; Vanessa L. Malcarne; Julia Martinez; James W. Pennebaker; Wade E. Pickren; Hollie A. Raynor; Britta Renner; Tracey A. Revenson; Michael J. Rohrbaugh; Karen S. Rook; Debra L. Roter; Yosuke Sakairi; Harald Schupp; Ralf Schwarzer; Suzanne C. Segerstrom; Kenneth J. Sher; Varda Shoham; Roxane Cohen Silver; Timothy W. Smith; Annette L. Stanton; Betsy A. Steeves; Patrick Steffen; Genji Sugamura; Jerry Suls; Iowa City, IA; Masao Suzuki; Amelia Talley; Shelley E. Taylor; Lydia Temoshok; Beverly E. Thorn; Barbara J. Tinsley; Irina L.G. Todorova; Emily L. Van Walleghen; Sara Vargas; Barbara B. Walker; J. Lee Westmaas; Dawn K. Wilson; Camille B. Wortman; Nicole Zarrett

 

 

Table of Contents

Part One: Background, History, and Methods
1. The Intellectual Roots of Health Psychology
Howard S. Friedman and Nancy E. Adler
2. A History of the Development of Health Psychology
Wade Pickren and Silvia Degni
3. Measurement in Health Psychology Research
Timothy W. Smith
4. Designing and Conducting Interventions to Enhance Physical and Mental Health Outcomes
J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Rivas, and Roxane C. Silver
5. Uncertainty, Variability, and Resource Allocation in the Health Care Decision Process
Robert M. Kaplan

Part Two: Core Concepts in Health Psychology
6. The Brain, Homeostasis, and Health: Balancing Demands of the Internal and External Milieu
John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson
7. Psychoneuroimmunology
Margaret E. Kemeny
8. Stress, Coping, and Health
Charles S. Carver and Sara Vargas
9. Social Support
Shelley E. Taylor
10. Personality, Disease, and Self-healing
Howard S. Friedman
11. Adjustment to Chronic Disease: Progress and Promise in Research
Annette L. Stanton and Tracey A. Revenson
12. Social Comparison Processes: Implications for Physical Health
Jerry Suls
13. Health and Illness Perceptions
Yael Benyamimi

Part Three: Core Issues in Clinical Health
14. Physician-Patient Communication
Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter
15. Aging and Health
Karen Rook, Susan Turk Charles, and Jutta Heckhausen
16. Chronic Pain: Closing the Gap between Evidence and Practice
Beverly Thorn
17. Coping with Cancer
Vanessa Malcarne
18. Expressive Writing, Emotional Upheavals, and Health
James W. Pennebaker and Cindy K. Chung
19. Beyond the Myths of Coping with Loss: Prevailing Assumptions versus Scientific Evidence
Camille Wortman and Kathrin Boerner
20. Family Consultation for Couples Coping with Health Problems: A Social Cybernetic Approach
Michael J. Rohrbaugh and Varda Shoham
21. Childhood Health and Chronic Illness
Barbara Tinsley
22. Transplantation
Mary Amanda Dew and Andrea F. DiMartini
23. HIV/AIDS
Lydia Temoshok

Part Four: Health Behaviors and Change
24. Health Behavior Change
Ralf Schwarzer
25. Advancing Health Behavior Theory: The Interplay among Theories of Health Behavior, Empirical Modeling of Health Behavior, and Behavioral Interventions
Leona Aiken
26. The Perception of Health Risks
Britta Renner and Harald Schupp
27. Physical Activity
Dawn Wilson
28. Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Disorders
Kenneth J. Sher, Amelia Talley, Andrew K. Littlefield, and Julia Martinez
29. Obesity
Emily L. Van Walleghen, Betsy A. Steeves, and Hollie A. Raynor
30. Dispositional Optimism, Psychophysiology, and Health
Suzanne Segerstrom

Part Five: Population and Socio-Cultural Issues
31. Community Health
Marta Gil Lacruz
32. Latino Health
John Ruiz and Patrick Steffen
33. Two Decades of Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for Health
Irina L. G. Todorova
34. Asian Meditation and Health
Yosuke Sakairi, Genji Sugamura, and Masao Suzukiiâ“ü—m‰E,›‘şŒş“ń,—é–؏ť•vj
35. Health Consequences of Social Relationships in Non-human Primates
John P. Capitanio

Part Six: Conclusion
36. Conclusion: The Achievements and Promise of Health Psychology
Howard S. Friedman

 

 

About the Author(s)

Howard S. Friedman is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Major awards for his health psychology research include the Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association, and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science, its most prestigious award in the field of applied scientific research. Author or editor of a dozen books and 150 scientific articles, Dr. Friedman graduated from Yale and was awarded a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship for his doctoral work at Harvard.

 

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