Health Psychology Arena

The Psychology of Health

An Introduction

• Edited by Keith Phillips, Marian Pitts

The first edition of The Psychology of Health has become the standard recommended text for many courses. This completely revised and updated second edition contains...

Published April 2nd 1998 by Routledge.

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Adolescents' Health

A Developmental Perspective

• By Inge Seiffge-Krenke

This book is devoted to identifying the precursors of adolescents' health problems and risk taking behaviors and the developmental processes that accompany them. It presents...

Published April 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Women, Stress, and Heart Disease

• Edited by Kristina Orth-Gom‚r, Margaret A. Chesney, Nanette K. Wenger, Kristina Orth-Gomer

The issue of women's health has long been neglected. This applies to many medical areas, but it has become most evident in the field of...

Published March 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Black Women's Health

A Special Double Issue of women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy

• Edited by Hope Landrine, Elizabeth A. Klonoff

In this special issue, top researchers from a diversity of disciplines provide an overview of and insights into the major social, cultural, and structural variables...

Published December 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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The Thin Woman

Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa

• By Helen Malson

The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all presented us with...

Published November 13th 1997 by Routledge.

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Re-thinking Abortion

Psychology, Gender and the Law

• By Mary Boyle

Women have been able to have abortions legally for over 30 years. Yet few books have considered it as anything other...

Published November 6th 1997 by Routledge.

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Emotions in Social Life

Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues

• Edited by Gillian Bendelow, Simon J. Williams

The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life. Emotions are 'social things', they are controlled and managed in...

Published November 6th 1997 by Routledge.

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Alternatives to Cognition

A New Look at Explaining Human Social Behavior

• By Christina Lee

In this provocative book, Christina Lee takes a consciously critical approach to the apparently unchallenged principle that conscious thought is the cause of all human...

Published September 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Environmental Psychology

Behaviour and Experience In Context

• By Tony Cassidy

This text contains an up-to-date survey of theory, research and practice in environmental psychology, drawing on international literature. It adopts the perspective that physical and...

Published August 11th 1997 by Psychology Press.

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The Menstrual Cycle

• By Anne Walker

Anne Walker shows that women are neither the victims of raging hormonal fluctuations nor entirely unaffected by them. Unlike most previous publications that focus on...

Published July 31st 1997 by Routledge.

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