Health psychology a textbook - Ogden, Jane 1966- (Maidenhead, [England] Open University Press, 2004)
Table of Contents: List of figures and tables. Preface to the third edition. Technology to enhance learning and teaching. Acknowledgements. -- 1. An introduction to health psychology -- 2. Health beliefs -- 3. Illness cognitions -- 4. Doctor-patient communication and the role of health professionals' health beliefs -- 5. Smoking and alcohol use -- 6. Eating behaviour -- 7. Exercise -- 8. Sex -- 9. Screening -- 10. Stress -- 11. Stress and illness -- 12. Pain -- 13. Placebos and the interrelationship between beliefs, behaviour and health -- 14. HIV and cancer: psychology throughout the course of illness -- 15. Obesity and coronary heart disease: psychology throughout the course of illness -- 16. Measuring health status: from mortality rates to quality of life -- 17. The assumptions of health psychology. -- Methodology glossary. References. Index.
Keywords: Clinical health psychology