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Stress Management for HIV
Clinical Validation and Intervention Manual
- By Michael H. Antoni, Neil Schneiderman and Gail Ironson.
Published December 2009
Trauma, Dissociation and Health
Casual Mechanisms and Multidimensional Pathways
- Edited by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, and Bridget Klest.
Published November 2009
This book explores the impact of trauma and dissociation on physical health throughout the lifespan. Important chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and chronic pain, are examined. In addition, trauma in childbearing women is considering, specifically examining the short- and long-term…
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Predicting and Changing Behavior
The Reasoned Action Approach
- By Martin Fishbein, and Icek Ajzen.
Published July 2009
This book describes the reasoned action approach, an integrative framework for the prediction and change of human social behavior. It provides an up-to-date review of relevant research, discusses critical issues related to the reasoned action framework, and provides methodological and conceptual…
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The Psychology of Lifestyle
Promoting Healthy Behaviour
- By Kathryn Thirlaway, and Dominic Upton.
Published November 2008
Improving lifestyles is thought to be one of the most effective means of reducing mortality and morbidity in the developed world. However, despite decades of health promotion, there has been no significant difference to lifestyles and instead there are rising levels of inactivity and obesity.
The…
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A New Introduction to Social and Behavioural Sciences in Dentistry
- By Barry Gibson, Tim Newton and David Locker.
Published July 2008
This introductory text to social and behavioural sciences as applied to dentistry encourages a deeper awareness of the role of social and psychological issues in the daily lives of dentists and patients. It approaches the study of social and behavioural sciences in new and innovative ways,…
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Psychology of Physical Activity
Determinants, Well-Being and Interventions
- By Nanette Mutrie, and Stuart J.H. Biddle.
Published August 2007
In today’s urbanized and technologized society, physical activity is becoming an increasingly peripheral part of our daily lives.
This second edition is updated to reflect new findings and current research directions, and includes full textbook features, such as key points and chapter summaries.…
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Sport and Spirituality
An Introduction
- By Jim Parry, Simon Robinson, Nick Watson and Mark Nesti.
Published August 2007
Sport science can quantify many aspects of human performance but the spiritual dimensions of sports experience cannot be fully understood through measurement. However, the spiritual experience of sport – be it described as ‘flow’, ‘transcendence’ or the discovery of meaning and value – is central…
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Communication Perspectives on HIV/AIDS for the 21st Century
- Edited by Timothy Edgar, Seth M. Noar and Vicki S. Freimuth.
Published August 2007
Reflecting the current state of research into the communication aspects of HIV/AIDS, this volume explores AIDS-related communication scholarship, moving forward from the 1992 publication AIDS: A Communication Perspective.
Editors Timothy Edgar, Seth M. Noar, and Vicki S. Freimuth have developed…
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Nature and Sociology
- By Tim Newton.
Published July 2007
This book engages with, and contests, the ‘new sociology of nature’. It moves beyond existing debates by presenting new social theory and working across current fields of interest, addressing the debate on new genetics and genomics, taking human biology seriously, and the issues of…
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