TY - BOOK AU - Ogden,Jane TI - Health psychology: a textbook SN - 0335214878 PY - 2004/// CY - Maidenhead PB - Open University Press KW - Clinical health psychology N1 - Bibliography: p. 405-457, and index; TOC; An introduction to health psychology -- Health beliefs -- Illness cognitions -- Doctor-patient communication and the role of health professionals' health beliefs -- Smoking and alcohol use -- Eating behaviour -- Exercise -- Sex -- Screening -- Stress -- Stress and illness -- Pain -- Placebos and the innerrelationship between beliefs, behaviour and health -- HIV and cancer: psychology throughout the course of illness -- Obesity and coronary heart disease: psychology throughout the course of illness -- Measuring health status: from mortality rates to quality of life -- The assumptions of health psychology; DS N2 - Summary:This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including new chapters on stress and eating disorders. It is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology and for students of medicine,nursing and allied health courses UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/health-psychology-a-textbook/oclc/55672369&referer=brief_results UR - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/5197 ER -