Health Psychology Arena

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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Anxiety in a 'Risk' Society

• By Iain Wilkinson

Few would dispute that we are living at a time of high anxiety and uncertainty in which many of us will experience a crisis of...

Published April 12th 2001 by Routledge.

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Behavioral Factors and Interventions in Pain and Musculoskeletal Disorders

A Special Issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

• Edited by Joost Dekker, Amanda C. de C. Williams

Behavioral factors affect both the etiology and the prognosis of musculoskeletal disorders. Application of behavioral interventions contributes to the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders and to...

Published March 1st 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Neuropsychology of Cardiovascular Disease

• Edited by Shari R. Waldstein, Merrill F. Elias, Merrill F. Elias

Cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and many other countries, confers substantial risk for cerebrovascular events, such as...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Handbook of Health Psychology

• Edited by Andrew S. Baum, Tracey A. Revenson, Jerome E. Singer

This comprehensive Handbook, the first in a decade, provides an intensive review, integration, and evaluation of the first quarter-century of health psychology research and intervention....

Published December 1st 2000 by Psychology Press.

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Persuading People To Have Safer Sex

Applications of Social Science To the Aids Crisis

• By Richard M. Perloff

Persuading People to Have Safer Sex offers a lucid, in-depth, student-friendly and academically thorough discussion of AIDS prevention and health persuasion. In so doing it...

Published November 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Femininity and the Physically Active Woman

• By Precilla Y. L. Choi

The fitness boom of the last two decades has led to many people incorporating exercise into their lifestyles through activities such as jogging and aerobics....

Published August 24th 2000 by Routledge.

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Promoting Adherence to Medical Treatment in Chronic Childhood Illness

Concepts, Methods, and Interventions

• Edited by Dennis Drotar

Based on a conference that assembled experts in the field of pediatric compliance in chronic illness, this book presents the latest data and conceptual models...

Published August 1st 2000 by Psychology Press.

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Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2

• By Alan F. Friedman, Richard Lewak, David S. Nichols, James T. Webb

User-friendly yet sophisticated, Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2 will be welcomed by practicing psychologists, researchers, and students alike. This long-awaited second edition constitutes the single...

Published July 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Behavior, Health, and Aging

• Edited by Stephen B. Manuck, Richard Jennings, Bruce Rabin, Andrew S. Baum, Andrew S. Baum

A dramatic shift in the average age of the U.S. population and the increasing number of elderly Americans has introduced new and challenging healthcare dilemmas....

Published June 1st 2000 by Psychology Press.

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