Health Psychology
A Biopsychosocial Approach
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Beschreibung
Richard Straub's Health Psychology shows students how psychology and health are interconnected. Using real world examples, Straub encourages students to make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and their own everyday experience. The text is comprehensive in its approach, and incorporates the latest research as it examines the field’s main ideas and models a scientific way of thinking about those ideas.
Health Psychology provides the most accessible, current and engaging introduction to health psychology today.
The book can be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which offers innovative media content, curated and organised for easy assignability. LaunchPad's intuitive interface presents quizzing, flashcards, animations and much more to make learning actively engaging.
- The life-course perspective integrated throughout the text examines needs and health challenges of people in every season of life
- Your Health Assets boxes that give students self-testing opportunities to connect the material to their own experience
- Biopsychosocial approach incorporates a critical analysis of the underlying biological, psychological, and social factors that affect the onset of a health problem, its course, and outcome
- Fully integrated diversity and health coverage promotes understand of, and respect for, differences among groups of people and the impact of these differences on health and illness
- New material on topics such as nutrition and health (including updated statistics on obesity, new coverage of binge-eating disorder) and stress (including the stress of emerging adulthood, as well as The Minority Stress Model)
- Expanded coverage of numerous topics, including sleep loss and disorders, gender differences in pain, mind-body therapies, and meditation and ACT therapy as pain management strategies
- New sections on Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases, with coverage of epidemiological transition, antimicrobial resistance, and emerging infectious diseases, and Research Ethics and Scientific Misconduct, with coverage of informed consent and debriefing
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Richard Straub
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