As a result, the material covered in this text is not only authoritative and wide-ranging, but also thought provoking. Many of the chapters challenge the reader to consider existing evidence from different perspectives and to examine ways in which innovations in both theory and methodology could further improve the quality of the research undertaken and the resulting evidence base. In this way, there is material of interest for both naive and expert audiences. With regard to the content of the individual chapters, the text starts appropriately with a chapter that provides a context for the rest of the book; examining how and why health psychology has come to play such a pivotal role in our understanding of health and illness.
The second and third chapters then consider health and illness from epidemiological and biological perspectives; exploring how health psychology can dovetail with these disciplinary traditions to improve our understanding of health and illness. Several of the chapters then examine more traditional areas of health psychology by examining the evidence for the role of cognitions, emotions, and personality in health. The text does not, however, focus exclusively on characteristics of the individual and how these may give rise to individual differences in health outcomes.
Attention is also paid to social determinants, i. Attention then turns from observation to intervention. The authors of Chapter 11 examine the contribution of health psychology to interventions that seek to promote health, prevent disease, and promote adaptation to illness.
While recognizing the pitfalls of conducting such interventions and the limitations of some of the available data, they conclude that there is already a considerable body of evidence indicating effectiveness. However, it is also clear that there is substantial room for methodological refinement in order to make such interventions maximally effective and widely applicable. Indeed, this is a recurring theme across several chapters. Perhaps not surprisingly then, the text concludes with two methodological chapters: Nevertheless, the editors and contributors of this text are to be congratulated on putting together a coherent volume, which is easily digestible, informative, as well as thought provoking.
I would expect it to be of interest to their intended readership as well as academics from allied disciplines who are interested in learning how health psychology can contribute to our understanding of health and illness. Login or create a profile above so that you can save clips, playlists, and searches. Please log in from an authenticated institution or log into your member profile to access the email feature.
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The SAGE Handbook of Health Psychology represents a landmark work in the field, gathering together, in a single volume, contributions from an internationally renowned group of scholars.
As a result its potential as an authoritative entry point to those new to the discipline as well as those already working inside it is very high. Given its breadth of content and accessibility, the Handbook will be indispensable for advanced students as well as researchers. Expertly organized by editors of international stature, and authored by a similar team of luminaries in the field, this single volume Handbook is an essential purchase for individuals and librarians worldwide. Her main research interests are workplace intervention studies to promote health and reduce the risk of illness.
Further research interests include the evaluation of patient satisfaction and medical guidelines. She is the author of a monograph on worksite health promotion and a handbook on promoting health and preventing diseases in bus drivers, and author and co-author of several articles and book chapters on psychosocial factors and health. She primarily teaches medical students about health psychology and communication skills.
Her research interests include stress and coping in healthcare settings, particularly anxiety and stress disorders following health events. She is also interested in psychological factors in obstetrics and gynaecology.
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Andrew Baum is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and Deputy Director for Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and is primarily responsible for oversight and coordination of cancer control and prevention research activities. As such, he has fostered projects to better understand the basis of individual susceptibility to cancer; the conditions that promote cancer development; and the social and behavioral barriers to effective prevention, early detection, and treatment of cancer.
His current research interests include the biobehavioral aspects of cancer and chronic illness, chronic stress and illness, and psychoneuroimmunology Dr.
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Baum has authored or co-authored more than scientific articles, chapters, and books, and is editor of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology and Journal of Applied BioBehavioral Research. She has published [Page viii] numerous articles and chapters on competencies in professional practice, including those with a focus on clinical psychology, clinical health psychology, managed health care, primary care, and scientist-practitioner models of education and training. Paul Bennett has worked both as an academic and clinical health psychologist in the Universities of Cardiff and Bristol and their health care Trusts.
He presently holds a chair in clinical psychology at the University of Wales, Swansea. She has experience with various types of interventions for chronic patients. Her current research focuses on determinants of quality of life in various patient groups from a self-regulation perspective. Debbie Bonetti is a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen. Her publications reflect her main area of interest, which is the application of health psychology models in health service research. She is particularly interested in developing and evaluating interventions to enhance health outcomes and developing measures using theoretical frameworks for use in practical situations.
Her current work is conducted with research groups in the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Newcastle, and Ottawa. Contrada is Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. He has been on the Rutgers faculty since , when he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. His major area of interest is cardiovascular health psychology and he has contributed several dozen articles on this topic.
Other research interests include health effects of personality, religious involvement, and physiologic responses to stress. He is co-editor of Self, social identity, and physical health: His current research concerns risk communication, assessment of beliefs, and the use of psychological theories to predict and influence health behaviour. A theme that cuts across much of this work is the extent to which psychological phenomena are products of the research methods employed.
Her current research focuses on the impact of depression and other psychosocial factors on cardiovascular disease outcomes. He is a practicing general internist, clinical epidemiologist and health services researcher whose research focuses on measuring overuse, underuse and misuse in health care, and developing strategies for changing physician, patient and organizational behavior.
He is actively involved in examining self-regulation beliefs and self-management behaviors and their relation to outcomes among inner city adults with asthma. Dr Halm received his medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine. He received a master's degree in public health from Harvard University. His research and clinical work is centered on uncovering and intervening in biobehavioral processes related to cancer onset or progression.
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He also studies the usefulness of psychological strategies to promote adjustment to cancer among cancer patients and their families. She currently practices and teaches primary care internal medicine. She conducts multimethod qualitative and quantitative research projects to understand the reasons for and to address health disparities among persons of color with common chronic conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension and heart failure. She uses community-based participatory research methods to allow for the persons in communities being studied to partner in the research, and to receive immediate benefits from its results.
Johnston is Professor of Psychology in the University of Aberdeen. He conducts research on the psychology and psychobiology of cardiovascular disease and psychological interventions to improve health. He has written over papers and chapters, and co-written or edited two books.
Her research focuses in two areas: She is a past President of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and currently a member of their executive board. Her research interests include defining risks for frailty in the ambulatory elderly, exploring the role of immune competency in health and chronic illness, and studying health and illness behaviors that affect health care utilization. She has also looked at elder-specific treatment for substance abuse and the identification and treatment of geriatric depression in the primary care setting.
Most recently he co-edited Self regulation of health and illness with Linda Cameron. He has over scientific publications including five books concerning health promotion and interventions in patients with chronic diseases. His current work focuses on the development of a new model for the prediction of health behaviour the health behaviour goal model and an extension of traditional stress-coping models applied to chronic illnesses from a self-regulation perspective. Over the past 15 years she has been conducting research on psychological aspects of health risk assessment. The work has covered genetic testing in pregnancy, adulthood and childhood, as well as population-based screening programmes.
The conditions studied include heart disease, cervical, breast and bowel cancer, and cystic fibrosis. The aim of this research is to understand responses as a first step towards evaluating different methods of communicating information to promote understanding, reduce emotional distress and enhance health promoting behaviours. She has published over peer-reviewed articles in this and related areas and is co-editor of The troubled helix , paperback , a book reviewing the psychological implications of the new human genetics.
Her research interests include gender and cultural issues in health and illness, occupational stress in health professionals, psychological trauma and health, health promotion at the school level and outcome evaluation.
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She has edited and co-edited several clinical and health psychology books, such as Health Psychology and The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians, and has published internationally in this domain both in Europe and the United States. His main research interests are understanding and predicting health related behaviours, the evaluation of theoretically driven health promotion interventions, health inequalities and public health. He then spent a number of years working as a senior researcher for the health service, examining health needs and public health initiatives and as a Principal Lecturer in Health Psychology at UWE, Bristol.
He has published extensively on health promotion and is co-author of a text in this area. He and his students are exploring the links between traumatic experiences, disclosure, and health. His studies find that physician use, medical costs, and biological markers of stress can be reduced by simple writing exercises. His most recent research focuses on the role that language plays in reflecting and changing social, personality, and biological processes.
Author or editor of eight books and over articles, Pennebaker has received numerous awards and honors.