Health Psychology: Stress, Behaviour And Disease

by Douglas Carroll University of Glasgow.

Overview

This work, designed for A-Level and undergraduate students, describes how behaviour can interact with stress to produce ill-health and, conversely, how stress can be managed to avoid the dangers of heart disease and other illnesses.  Health psychology has a relatively short history, but the past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in this topic.  It is designed to be accessible to the beginning psychology student but to take that student, or any other interested reader, to a depth sufficient to enable them to feel a sense of satisfaction in being able to co me to grips with the major theoretical and empirical perspectives that are influential in contemporary psychology. Professor Carroll has, himself, a distinguished record of research in health psychology and his own research and writing has substantially influenced the development of this field in Britain..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135386344
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/22/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	138
File size:	453 KB

About the Author

Douglas Carroll, University of Glasgow

Table of Contents

Introduction - stress, behaviour and disease; type A behaviour and coronary heart disease; hypertension and cardiovascular reactions to stress; cancer and the immune system; the challenge of AIDS; stress management - reducing the risk of coronary heart disease; exercise, fitness and health; taking one's medicine - following therapeutic advice; pain and psychological approaches to its management; final comments - gender, race, social class, and health.