Health Psychology Arena

Women, Children, and Addiction

• Edited by Loretta Finnegan, and Stephen Kandall.

Published November 2010

This proposed book draws on the expertise of 35 experts in the field of Addiction Medicine to provide the reader with a current and comprehensive view of addiction as related to women, pregnancy, newborns, infants and children. The volume begins by placing current attitudes towards addicted women…
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The End of the Obesity Epidemic

• By Michael Gard.

Published November 2010

Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that rising obesity levels would lead to a global health crisis, the crisis has not materialised. In this provocative follow up to his classic work of obesity scepticism, The Obesity…
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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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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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Prediction and Change of Health Behavior

Applying the Reasoned Action Approach

• Edited by Icek Ajzen, Dolores Albarracin and Robert Hornik.

Published March 2007

Prediction and Change of Health Behavior honors the work of Martin Fishbein by illustrating the breadth and depth of the reasoned action approach. Focused on attitudes and their effects on health-related behavior, the book demonstrates the profound impact of Fishbein and Ajzen’s theories of…
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