Health Psychology Arena

Pain

Psychological Perspectives

• Edited by Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Kenneth D. Craig

This invaluable new resource presents a state-of-the-art account of the psychology of pain from leading researchers. It features contributions from clinical, social, and biopsychological perspectives,...

Published December 1st 2003 by Psychology Press.

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Core Processes in Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Advancing Effective Practice

• Edited by Denise P. Charman

Many students enter graduate programs with little or no experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Efforts to impart clinical skills have often been less than systematic and...

Published September 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Misadventures in Health Care

Inside Stories

• By Marilyn Sue Bogner, Marilyn Sue Bogner
• Edited by Marilyn Sue Bogner

Misadventures in Health Care: Inside Stories presents an alternative approach to attributing the cause of medical error solely to the health care provider. That alternative,...

Published August 1st 2003 by Psychology Press.

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Assessing Children's Well-Being

A Handbook of Measures

• By Sylvie Naar-King, Deborah A. Ellis, Maureen A. Frey, Michele Lee Ondersma

Behavioral medicine has now matured as a field to the point where all recognize that different populations are presented with different issues. Psychological reactions and...

Published August 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Rival Truths

Common Sense and Social Psychological Explanations in Health and Illness

• By Lindsay S. Claire

It is common sense that our survival as individuals depends on the survival of our physical bodies. However, common sense has been medicalised. Terms such...

Published May 8th 2003 by Psychology Press.

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Handbook of Health Communication

• Edited by Teresa L. Thompson, Alicia Dorsey, Roxanne Parrott, Katherine Miller

The Handbook of Health Communication brings together the current body of scholarly work in health communication. With its expansive scope, it offers an introduction for...

Published April 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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The Clinical Management of Early Alzheimer's Disease

A Handbook

• Edited by Reinhild Mulligan, Martial Van der Linden, Anne-Claude Juillerat

The enormous human and economic toll of Alzheimer's Disease in societies in which more and more people are living into old age is well-recognized. Scientists...

Published January 1st 2003 by Psychology Press.

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The Self-Regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour

• Edited by Linda Cameron, Howard Leventhal

Self-regulation theory focuses on the ways in which individuals direct and monitor their activities and emotions in order to attain their goals. It plays an...

Published December 12th 2002 by Routledge.

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-Special Issue on Women's Health

A Special Issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

• Edited by Lynda H. Powell, Karen A. Matthews

Published September 1st 2002 by Psychology Press.

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Substance Abuse and Dependence in Adolescence

Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Treatment

• Edited by Cecilia A. Essau

Recent years have seen a growth in the numbers of studies of substance abuse and dependence in adolescence, focusing on prevalence, risk factors, comorbidity, course...

Published May 30th 2002 by Routledge.

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