TY - BOOK AU - Sarafino, E.P. TI - Health psychology: biopsychosocial interactions SN - 0-471-16917-X AV - BF 121 .S27 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - John Wiley and Sons KW - Psychology|Psychophysiology|Stress|Life Style|Therapeutics|Diagnosis N1 - 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 ER -