The Health Psychology Reader

by David F. Marks (Editor)

Overview

The Health Psychology Reader is designed to complement and support the recent textbook Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice by David F. Marks, Michael Murray, Brian Evans and Carla Willig (SAGE, 2000). It can also be used as a stand-alone resource given its didactic nature. The Reader explores key topics within the health psychology field with incisive introductions to each section by the Editor and includes a selection of the most important theoretical and empirical published work. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761972716
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/06/2002
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

David F. Marks is a psychologist specializing in Health Psychology, Mental Imagery and Consciousness research.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S DEVELOPMENT, DEFINITION AND CONTEX
Behavioral Health's Challenge to Academic, Scientific and Professional Psychology - Joseph D Matarazzo
Redefining Health Psychology - Mark Mc Dermott
Matarazzo Revisited
The Need for a New Medical Model - George L Engel
A Challenge for Biomedicine
Theoretical Tensions in Biopsychosocial Medicine - David Armstrong
The Rhetoric and Reality of Psychosocial Theories of Health - Jane Ogden
A Challenge to Biomedicine
PART TWO: THEORIES IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Social Foundations of Thought and Action - Albert Bandura
A Social Cognitive Theory
Emotion Narratives - Richard S Lazarus
A Radical New Research Approach
The Role of Theory in HIV Prevention - Martin Fishbein
Unravelling the Mystery of Health - Aaron Antonovsky
How People Manage Stress and Stay Well
Some Observations on Health and Socio-Economic Status - Douglas Carroll, George Davey Smith and Paul Bennett
PART THREE: HEALTH BEHAVIOUR AND EXPERIENCE
Context and Coping - Rudolf H Moos
Toward a Unifying Conceptual Framework
An Ecological Approach to the Obesity Pandemic - Garry Egger and Boyd Swinburn
Moving towards Active Living - Susan Drew
Understanding the Contextual Nature of Barriers to Physical Activity
Conditional Versus Unconditional Risk Behaviour Estimates in Models of AIDS-related Risk Behaviour - Frank W van der Velde, Christa Hoojkaas and Joop van der Pligt
Health and Romance - Paul Flowers et al
Understanding Unprotected Sex in Relationships Between Gay Men
PART FOUR: HEALTH BELIEFS, EXPLANATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, EDUCATION AND PROMOTION
Cultural Diversity in Causal Attributions for Illness - Hope Landrine and Elizabeth A Klonoff
The Role of the Supernatural
Illness Perceptions - John Weinman and Keith J Petrie
A New Paradigm for Psychosomatics?
Consumer/Provider Communication Research - Gary L Kreps
A Personal Plea to Address Issues of Ecological Validity, Relational Development, Message Diversity and Situational Constraints
From Analysis to Synthesis - Jeff French and Lee Adams
Theories of Health Education
A New Evidence Framework for Health Promotion - Gordon Macdonald
PART FIVE: CRITICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Critical Approaches to Health Psychology - Wendy Stainton-Rogers
Theorizing Health and Illness - Henderikus J Stam
Functionalism, Subjectivity and Reflexivity
A Discourse-Dynamic Approach to the Study of Subjectivity in Health Psychology - Carla Willig
Health Psychology, Embodiment and the Question of Vulnerability - Alan Radley
Possible Contributions of a Psychology of Liberation - M Brinton Lykes
Whither Health and Human Rights?

Editorial Reviews

‘This book was an absolute joy to read and offers a comprehensive review of health psychology.... This book should become a classic - necessary reading for students in all branches of health. Nursing students will find it invaluable, but other students - and their teachers - will also find it very useful. SAGE have added a valuable and important text to their already impressive list, and Marks can be complimented on his scholarly organisation of complex topics into an accessible and readable whole. No library should be without it and serious students should invest in a copy of their own' - Health Matters

From the Publisher

A companion to the textbook Health Psychology Theory, Research and Practice (Marks, Murray, and Willig, 2000) reprinting 25 articles from professional journals that discuss theory and research by leading and up-and-coming figures in the field. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR