Perspective on loss: a source book
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TextPublication details: Philadelphia Brunner/Mazel 1998Description: xxvi, 361pISBN: - 0 87630 910 4
- BF 575 .H37 1998
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Presents an overview of health psychology and emphasizes 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, utilizing 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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