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Rethinking health psychology

Title
Rethinking health psychology / Michele L. Crossley.
Author
Crossley, Michele L., 1969-
Publication
Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2000.

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Description
198 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
Written for undergraduates, this text presents the main theories, methods and applications relevant to the study of health and illness from a psychological perspective. The author argues that modern health psychology needs to be rethought.
Series Statement
Health psychology
Uniform Title
Health psychology
Subject
  • Medicine and psychology
  • Clinical health psychology
  • Clinical psychology
  • Psychology, Clinical
  • Behavioral Medicine
  • Clinical psychology
  • Clinical health psychology
  • Medicine and psychology
  • Medische psychologie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-192) and index.
Contents
Opening thoughts -- Approaches to health psychology -- Health and illness in contemporary society -- Rethinking psychological approaches to health promotion -- Mainstream health psychology's study of pain and disease -- Critically re-formulating the study of pain and disease -- Approaches to mental illness -- 'Managing' illness: relationships between doctors and patients -- Living in the face of death -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9780335204304
  • 0335204309
  • 9780335204311
  • 0335204317
LCCN
00035682
OCLC
  • ocm43729037
  • 43729037
  • SCSB-9717799
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library