Health Psychology Arena

Public Health Communication

Evidence for Behavior Change

• Edited by Robert Hornik

This volume argues the case that public health communication has affected health behavior. It brings together 16 studies of large-scale communication in a variety of...

Published January 1st 2002 by Routledge.

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Selenium and Cancer

Larry C. Clark Memorial Issue: A Special Issue of Nutrition and Cancer

• Edited by Leonard A. Cohen

This special issue is devoted to the cancerchemopreventive effects of the trace element selenium. Although epidemiological and animal model studies have contributed enormously to this...

Published December 1st 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Geriatric Residential Care

• Edited by Robert D. Hill, Brian L. Thorn, John Bowling, Anthony Morrison

This book's main goal is to examine the concept of residential care from a psychological perspective. The chapter authors espouse a psychological approach to long-term...

Published December 1st 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Health and the Construction of the Individual

A Social Study of Social Science

• By Jane Ogden

Social Constructionism has been used mainly to explore how individuals construct their world or to investigate the social construction of knowledge. However, whilst critical studies...

Published November 29th 2001 by Routledge.

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Older Adults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web

• Edited by Roger W. Morrell

Older Adults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web is devoted to the exploration of how the World Wide Web might be used to deliver...

Published November 1st 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Mass Media and Drug Prevention

Classic and Contemporary Theories and Research

• Edited by William D. Crano, Michael Burgoon, Stuart Oskamp

This book tells the story of the mass media's potential in the war against drug abuse. It is based on scientific evidence on the use...

Published November 1st 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Assessment in Behavioral Medicine

• Edited by Ad Vingerhoets

How can the influence of behavioral factors on health and well-being be measured?
Research over the past two decades has shown that psychological factors and...

Published November 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Treatment

• Edited by Cecilia A. Essau, Franz Petermann

Recent years have seen a growing awareness of the common occurrence of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. There has been a parallel increase in...

Published October 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Quality of Life in Child and Adolescent Illness

Concepts, Methods and Findings

• Edited by Hans Koot, Jan Wallander

How can we measure the quality of life in children and adolescents with chronic disease?
Major progress in the diagnosis and treatment of severe and...

Published October 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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Adult Crying

A Biopsychosocial Approach

• Edited by Randolph R. Cornelius, Ad J.J.M. Vingerhoets

Crying is a typical human expression of emotion. Surprisingly, until now little scientific attention has been devoted to this phenomenon. Many textbooks on emotion fail...

Published August 16th 2001 by Routledge.

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