Health Psychology Arena

Tailoring Health Messages

Customizing Communication With Computer Technology

• By Matthew W. Kreuter, David W. Farrell, Laura K. Brennan, Laura R. Olevitch

Through the use of new technologies, researchers, and practitioners in health education and health communication can now provide health information and behavior change strategies that...

Published November 1st 1999 by Routledge.

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Explaining Illness

Research, Theory, and Strategies

• Edited by Bryan B. Whaley

Understanding one's health conditions plays a key role in a patient's response to illness, influencing stress levels and the likelihood of following treatment regimens and...

Published November 1st 1999 by Routledge.

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Tailoring Health Messages

Customizing Communication With Computer Technology

• By Matthew W. Kreuter, David W. Farrell, Laura R. Olevitch, Laura K. Brennan

Through the use of new technologies, researchers, and practitioners in health education and health communication can now provide health information and behavior change strategies that...

Published October 1st 1999 by Routledge.

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Adolescence, Affect and Health

• By Donna Spruijt-Metz

Adolescence, Affect and Health covers the entire empirical cycle in adolescent health research and education. It describes in depth the development and evaluation of a...

Published August 26th 1999 by Psychology Press.

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The Science of Self-report

Implications for Research and Practice

• Edited by Arthur A. Stone, Christine A. Bachrach, Jared B. Jobe, Howard S. Kurtzman, Virginia S. Cain

Rigorous methodological techniques have been developed in the last decade to improve the reliability and accuracy of self reports from research volunteers and patients about...

Published August 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth

A Clinician's Guide

• Edited by Lawrence G. Calhoun, Richard G. Tedeschi

In this book, Calhoun and Tedeschi construct the first systematic framework for clinical efforts to enhance the processes they sum up as posttraumatic growth.

Posttraumatic...

Published July 1st 1999 by Routledge.

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Stress, Cognition and Health

• By Tony Cassidy

Stress Cognition and Health examines the key issues in the psychology of stress and health, bringing together a wide range of material generally not found...

Published May 20th 1999 by Routledge.

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Stress, Cognition and Health

• By Tony Cassidy

Stress Cognition and Health examines the key issues in the psychology of stress and health, bringing together a wide range of material generally not found...

Published May 20th 1999 by Routledge.

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Processing of Medical information in Aging Patients

Cognitive and Human Factors Perspectives

• Edited by Denise C. Park, Roger W. Morrell, Kim Shifren, Denise Park

This volume focuses on understanding the impact of age-related decline in cognitive abilities on medical decisions and compliance with medical instructions. It examines how medical...

Published May 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Soothing and Stress

• Edited by Michael Lewis, Douglas S. Ramsay

This volume addresses topics related to the nature of the stress response, the role of environment in individual differences in stress, and the different strategies...

Published April 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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