TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marks,David
TI  - Health psychology: theory, research, and practice 
SN  - 9781848606210 (hbk.)
AV  - R726.7 .H438 2011
U1  - 616.0019 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Los Angeles, Calif.
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Clinical health psychology
KW  - Behavioral Medicine
KW  - methods
KW  - Health Behavior
KW  - Health Promotion
KW  - Preventive Medicine
KW  - Risk Factors
KW  - Health behavior
KW  - Health promotion
KW  - Preventive medicine
KW  - Risk factors
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-568) and indexes; Health psychology in context -- Health psychology: an introduction -- Macro-social environment and health -- Social inequalities, social justice and health -- Culture and health -- A-Z of research methods in health psychology -- Health behaviour and experience -- Theories, models and interventions applied to sexual health -- Food, eating and environment -- Alcohol and drinking -- Tobacco and smoking -- Physical activity and exercise -- Health promotion and disease prevention -- Information and communication -- Stress and coping -- Screening and immunization -- Health literacy -- Community approaches within health psychology -- Illness experience and health care -- Lay representations of illness -- Illness and personality -- Medicine taking: adherence and resistance -- Pain -- Cancer and chronic diseases
N2  - This textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised to make it even more essential for course teaching. Retaining the celebrated approach of previous editions in examining critical perspectives in health psychology, the book incorporates research from a fuller range of perspectives including more 'mainstream' health psychology
ER  -