Health psychology: biopsychosocial interactions
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TextPublication details: New York John Wiley and Sons 1997Edition: 3rd edDescription: xx, 579pISBN: - 0-471-16917-X
- BF 121 .S27 1997
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Presents an overview of health psychology and emphasises health maintenance and illness prevention, describing complicated physiological processes, which include stress, illness and coping; lifestyles to enhance health and prevent illness; getting medical treatment; physical symptoms of pain and discomfort as well as chronic and life-threatening health problems. It integrates contemporary research in biology, psychology, anthropology and sociology, utilising the biopsychosocial model as the basic explanatory theme for health and health care. Includes numerous case vignettes, illustrations and discussions of important studies and conceptual models.
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