Health Psychology Arena

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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Helping the Hard-core Smoker

A Clinician's Guide

• Edited by Daniel F. Seidman, Lirio S. Covey

This book constitutes a major new resource for professionals working with hard core smokers and their families. It is designed as a practical, clinically useful...

Published January 1st 1999 by Routledge.

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Life-span Perspectives on Health and Illness

• Edited by Thomas L. Whitman, Thomas V. Merluzzi, Robert D. White

This volume offers a comprehensive and conceptually integrated overview of the changing biological, psychological, and social/environmental influences on health and illness from the prenatal period...

Published December 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Handbook of Pain Syndromes

Biopsychosocial Perspectives

• Edited by Andrew R. Block, Ephrem Fernandez, Edwin Kremer

Pain syndromes involve a complex interaction of medical and psychological factors. In each syndrome unique physiological mechanisms are mediated by emotional states, personality traits, and...

Published November 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Power in the Blood

A Handbook on Aids, Politics, and Communication

• Edited by William N. Elwood

In this single volume, William N. Elwood has gathered potent evidence of the impact that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had on the world, its communities,...

Published November 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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The Human Quest for Meaning

A Handbook of Psychological Research and Clinical Applications

• Edited by Paul T.P. Wong, Prem S. Fry

Does life have real meaning? Is it worth living? How can one make sense of suffering, illness, and death? Through the ages, philosophers, clergy, and...

Published August 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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The Environment and Mental Health

A Guide for Clinicians

• Edited by Ante Lundberg

Environmental illness is a concept of growing concern to all health professionals. Patients with problems presumably caused by sick buildings, electromagnetic fields and hypersensitivity to...

Published August 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Technology and Methods in Behavioral Medicine

• Edited by David S. Krantz, , Andrew S. Baum, Andrew S. Baum

This book provides an illustrative overview of some of the key methodological and technical innovations that form the cutting edge of current research in behavioral...

Published July 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Post-Natal Depression

Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood

• By Paula Nicolson

Post-Natal Depression challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a 'happy mother'. It provides a radical critique of the traditional medical and social...

Published June 18th 1998 by Routledge.

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Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents

Implications for Research and Practice

• Edited by Dennis Drotar

This volume's purpose is to describe concepts and methods concerning assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents with a special focus...

Published May 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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