Health Psychology Arena

The Internet and Health Care

Theory, Research, and Practice

• Edited by Monica Murero, Ronald E. Rice

The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research, and Practice presents an in-depth introduction to the field of health care and the Internet, from international and...

Published May 23rd 2006 by Routledge.

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The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders

Theory, Research, and Practice

• By Michael P. Levine, Linda Smolak

This is the first authored volume to offer a detailed, integrated analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders with theory, research, and practical...

Published August 3rd 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Sport and Exercise Psychology

A Critical Introduction

• By Aidan P. Moran

Sport and exercise psychology is a rapidly expanding field both academically and professionally. Aidan Moran, former psychologist to the Irish Olympic squad, provides the first...

Published December 12th 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 (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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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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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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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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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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Physical Activity and Psychological Well-Being

• Edited by Stuart J.H. Biddle, Ken Fox, Steve Boutcher

The 'feel-good' effect of physical activity is widely reported among participants. Physical Activity and Psychological Well-Being represents a research consensus on the relationship between physical...

Published October 5th 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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Health Psychology

• By Anthony Curtis

This simple and concise introduction to the psychology of health is the perfect text for students new to the area. Topics covered include health policy...

Published December 16th 1999 by Routledge.

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Understanding Depression

Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches

• By Janet Stoppard

Women are particularly vulnerable to depression. Understanding Depression provides an in-depth critical examination of mainstream approaches to understanding and treating depression from a feminist perspective....

Published November 11th 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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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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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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The Psychology of Health

An Introduction, second edition

• Edited by Keith Phillips, Marian Pitts

The first edition of The Psychology of Health has become the standard recommended text for many courses. This completely revised and updated second edition contains...

Published April 2nd 1998 by Routledge.

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The Psychology of Health

An Introduction, second edition

• Edited by Keith Phillips, Marian Pitts

The first edition of The Psychology of Health has become the standard recommended text for many courses. This completely revised and updated second edition contains...

Published April 2nd 1998 by Routledge.

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The Thin Woman

Feminism, Post-structuralism and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa

• By Helen Malson

The Thin Woman provides an in-depth discussion of anorexia nervosa from a feminist social psychological standpoint. Medicine, psychiatry and psychology have all presented us with...

Published November 13th 1997 by Routledge.

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Re-thinking Abortion

Psychology, Gender and the Law

• By Mary Boyle

Women have been able to have abortions legally for over 30 years. Yet few books have considered it as anything other...

Published November 6th 1997 by Routledge.

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The Menstrual Cycle

• By Anne Walker

Anne Walker shows that women are neither the victims of raging hormonal fluctuations nor entirely unaffected by them. Unlike most previous publications that focus on...

Published July 31st 1997 by Routledge.

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Partnership for Health

Building Relationships Between Women and Health Caregivers

• By Christina S. Beck, Sandra L. Ragan, Athena du Pr‚, Athena du Pre

In the 1960s, feminists voiced their outrage about the health care system in the United States which routinely discriminated against women and, in so doing,...

Published July 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Material Discourses of Health and Illness

• Edited by Lucy Yardley

Material Discourses of Health and Illness applies discursive approaches to the field of health psychology, in stark contrast to the bio-medical model of health and...

Published February 6th 1997 by Routledge.

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Material Discourses of Health and Illness

• Edited by Lucy Yardley

Material Discourses of Health and Illness applies discursive approaches to the field of health psychology, in stark contrast to the bio-medical model of health and...

Published February 6th 1997 by Routledge.

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Negotiating the Crisis

Drgs and the Transformation of Hospitals

• By Patricia Geist, Monica Hardesty

In 1984 Congress revamped Medicare to save a financially distraught health care system, thus transforming the hospital as an organization. Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) --...

Published October 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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Case Studies in Communication and Disenfranchisement

Applications To Social Health Issues

• Edited by Eileen Berlin Ray

Published August 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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The Silicone Breast Implant Story

Communication and Uncertainty

• By Marsha L. Vanderford, David H. Smith

This volume examines one health issue -- breast implants -- across a series of contexts often thought to be separate -- media coverage, doctor-patient interaction,...

Published August 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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The Silicone Breast Implant Story

Communication and Uncertainty

• By Marsha L. Vanderford, David H. Smith

This volume examines one health issue -- breast implants -- across a series of contexts often thought to be separate -- media coverage, doctor-patient interaction,...

Published August 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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The Psychology of Preventive Health

• By Marian Pitts

Should I vaccinate my child? Can we stop ourselves getting cancer? How much can I safely drink? These are the everyday questions that health educators...

Published June 13th 1996 by Routledge.

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Health and the New Media

Technologies Transforming Personal and Public Health

• Edited by Linda M. Harris

USE THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... This book presents an evaluation framework for assessing the impact of the new media on the health...

Published October 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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The Talk of the Clinic

Explorations in the Analysis of Medical and therapeutic Discourse

• Edited by G. H. Morris, Ronald J. Chenail

This collection of original papers by scholars who closely analyze the talk of the clinic features studies that were conceived with the aim of contributing...

Published May 1st 1995 by Routledge.

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Bad Tidings

Communication and Catastrophe

• Edited by Lynne Masel-Walters, Lee Wilkins, Tim Walters

Published February 1st 1993 by Routledge.

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Case Studies in Health Communication

• Edited by Eileen Berlin Ray

This book focuses on the complexities of the communication of health-related messages and information through the use of case studies. The expert contributors to this...

Published November 1st 1992 by Routledge.

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Health Psychology: Stress, Behaviour And Disease

• By Douglas Carroll University of Glasgow.

Published April 27th 1992 by Routledge.

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Health Psychology: Stress, Behaviour And Disease

• By Douglas Carroll University of Glasgow.

Published April 27th 1992 by Routledge.

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Communication and Health

Systems and Applications

• Edited by Eileen Berlin Ray, Lewis Donohew

This volume examines this rapidly growing and changing field by applying a unified framework that integrates both interpersonal and mass communication investigations into theoretical and...

Published November 1st 1989 by Routledge.

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Communication and Health

Systems and Applications

• Edited by Eileen Berlin Ray, Lewis Donohew

This volume examines this rapidly growing and changing field by applying a unified framework that integrates both interpersonal and mass communication investigations into theoretical and...

Published November 1st 1989 by Routledge.

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Communication Campaigns About Drugs

Government, Media, and the Public

• Edited by Pamela J. Shoemaker

Published February 1st 1989 by Routledge.

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