Health Psychology Arena

Hypertension and Stress

A Unified Concept

• By Alvin P. Shapiro

Understanding and treating hypertension has progressed significantly during the past 40 to 50 years. This progress has made a major contribution to health care concerns...

Published April 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Behavioral Medicine Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

• Edited by Kristina Orth-Gom‚r, Neil Schneiderman, Kristina Orth-Gomer

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of men and women in industrialized countries. In older age groups, CVD is also the most important...

Published November 1st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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Chronic Diseases

Perspectives in Behavioral Medicine

• Edited by Marvin Stein, , Andrew S. Baum, Andrew S. Baum

Although considerable progress has been made in the understanding and treatment of a range of medical disorders, it had recently been pointed out that 85...

Published October 1st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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Health and the New Media

Technologies Transforming Personal and Public Health

• Edited by Linda M. Harris

USE THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... This book presents an evaluation framework for assessing the impact of the new media on the health...

Published October 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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Compensating for Psychological Deficits and Declines

Managing Losses and Promoting Gains

• Edited by Roger A. Dixon, Lars B„ckman, Lars Backman

The concept of compensation in psychology refers to processes through which a gap or mismatch between current accessible skills and environmental demands is reduced or...

Published October 1st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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The Body Under Stress

Developing Skills For Keeping Healthy

• By Ed, Conduit

This textbook presents a model of positive health in terms of health behaviours and should be of interest to health professionals who aim to develop...

Published May 25th 1995 by Psychology Press.

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The Talk of the Clinic

Explorations in the Analysis of Medical and therapeutic Discourse

• Edited by G. H. Morris, Ronald J. Chenail

This collection of original papers by scholars who closely analyze the talk of the clinic features studies that were conceived with the aim of contributing...

Published May 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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Alcohol Problems Among Adolescents

Current Directions in Prevention Research

• Edited by Gayle M. Boyd, Jan Howard, Robert A. Zucker

Alcohol misuse presents a major risk for health and well-being throughout the life-span, but youth have a special vulnerability. Alcohol is the most widely used...

Published April 1st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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Quality of Life in Behavioral Medicine Research

• Edited by Joel E. Dimsdale, , Andrew S. Baum, Andrew S. Baum

The number of, and interest in, quality of life studies has grown dramatically in the last decade. On an ever increasing basis, patients, clinicians, researchers,...

Published March 1st 1995 by Psychology Press.

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Explanatory Style

• Edited by Gregory McClell Buchanan, Martin E.P. Seligman, Martin Seligman

This is the first work to condense the large literature on explanatory style -- one's tendency to offer similar sorts of explanations for different events....

Published March 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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