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Handbook of Health Psychology
by Andrew Baum, Tracey A. Revenson, Jerome E. Singer. 962 pgs.

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This comprehensive Handbook, the first in a decade, provides an intensive review, integration, and evaluation of the first quarter-century of health psychology research and intervention. Because of research advances in behavioral, psychological, and social aspects of health, health psychology has created a new way of thinking about health and well-being. Working within biobehavioral and sociocultural frameworks, the 51 chapters address basic theories underlying health-behavior relationships while, at the same time, applying those theories to specific disease conditions and the promotion of health. This book is intended for teachers of undergraduate, graduate or professional courses, students in psychology and other applied health fields, health researchers, and health practitioners.

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Preface

International Advisory Board

Introduction

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Handbook of Health Psychology

I: Basic Processes

1: Factors Influencing Behavior and Behavior Change

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2: Representations, Procedures, and Affect in Illness Self-Regulation: a Perceptual-Cognitive Model

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3: Conceptualization and Operationalization of Perceived Control

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4: On Who Gets Sick and Why: the Role of Personality and Stress

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5: Visceral Learning

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6: Biofeedback and Self-Regulation of Physiological Activity: a Major Adjunctive Treatment Modality in Health Psychology

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7: Behavioral Conditioning of the Immune System

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8: Physiological and Psychological Bases of Pain

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9: Personality Traits as Risk Factors for Physical Illness

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10: Personality's Role in the Protection and Enhancement of Health: Where the Research Has Been, Where It is Stuck, How It Might Move

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11: Social Comparison Processes in the Physical Health Domain

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12: Social Networks and Social Support

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13: Self-Efficacy and Health

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14: The Psychobiology of Nicotine Self-Administration

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15: Obesity

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16: Alcohol Use and Misuse

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II: Crosscutting Issues

17: Stress, Health, and Illness

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18: What Are the Health Effects of Disclosure?

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19: Preventive Management of Work Stress: Current Themes and Future Challenges

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20: Environmental Stress and Health

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21: Adjustment to Chronic Illness: Theory and Research

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22: Recall Biases and Cognitive Errors in Retrospective Self-Reports: a Call for Momentary Assessments

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23: Burnout and Health

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24: Sociocultural Influences on Health

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25: The Multiple Contexts of Chronic Illness: Diabetic Adolescents and Community Characteristics

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26: Childhood Health Issues Across the Life Span

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27: Social Influences in Etiology and Prevention of Smoking and Other Health Threatening Behaviors in Children and Adolescents

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28: Health, Behavior, and Aging

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29: Informal Caregiving to Older Adults: Health Effects of Providing and Receiving Care

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30: Stress Processes in Pregnancy and Birth: Psychological, Biological, and Sociocultural Influences

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31: Women's Health Promotion

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32: Male Partner Violence: Relevance to Health Care Providers

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33: Confronting Fertility Problems: Current Research and Future Challenges

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34: Patient Adherence to Treatment Regimen

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35: Rehabilitation

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36: Community Intervention

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37: Citizen Participation and Health: Toward a Psychology of Improving Health Through Individual, Organizational, and Community Involvement

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38: The Effects of Physical Activity on Physical and Psychological Health

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III: Applications to the Study of Disease

39: Hostility (And Other Psychosocial Risk Factors): Effects on Health and the Potential for Successful Behavioral Approaches to Prevention and Treatment

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40: Stress and Silent Ischemia

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41: Stress, Immunity, and Susceptibility to Infectious Disease

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42: Nonpharmacological Treatment of Hypertension

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43: Cancer

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44: Subjective Risk and Health Protective Behavior: Cancer Screening and Cancer Prevention

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45: Stress and Breast Cancer

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46: Behavioral Intervention in Comprehensive Cancer Care

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47: Frontiers in the Behavioral Epidemiology of Hiv/Stds

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48: Hiv Disease in Ethnic Minorities: Implications of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Disease Susceptibility and Drug Dosage Response for Hiv Infection and Treatment

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49: Women and Aids: a Contextual Anaipis

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50: Living with Hiv Disease

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51: Cultural Diversity and Health Psychology

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Health Psychology: What Is an Unhealthy Environment and How Does It Get under the Skin?, in Annual Review of Psychology
by Shelley E. Taylor, Rena L. Repetti, Teresa Seeman. 37 pgs.

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Rethinking Health Psychology
by Michele L. Crossley. 198 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Series Editors' Foreword

Opening Thoughts

1: Approaches to Health Psychology

2: Health and Illness in Contemporary Society

3: Rethinking Psychological Approaches to Health Promotion

4: Mainstream Health Psychology's Study of Pain and Disease

5: Critically Reformulating the Study of Pain and Disease

6: Approaches to Mental Illness

7: 'Managing' Illness: Relationships between Doctors and Patients

8: Living in the Face of Death

Concluding Comments

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Index
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The Psychology of Well Being
by William M. Miley. 259 pgs.

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Along with biological and medical factors, psychological factors must also be considered in health and well being. Stress plays a major role in physical illness, and stress management is therefore critical to establishing good health and well being behavior. William Miley offers a biopsychosocial approach emphasizing the complex interactions between biologoical, psychological, social, and cultural factors. Lifestyles are a fertile ground for psychological intervention to maintain health and well being. This book focuses on contemporary lifestyle patterns offering positive behaviors to initiate and maintain healthy lifestyles and maintain well being.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I History

Chapter 1 The Mind and the Body

PART II Lifestyle

Chapter 2 Exercise

Chapter 3 Obesity and Weight Control

Chapter 4 Unhealthy Behavior

PART III Stress

Chapter 5 Stress Theory

Chapter 6 Coping with Stress

PART IV Chronic Diseases and Behavior

Chapter 7 Diabetes

Chapter 8 Coronary Heart Disease

Chapter 9 Aids

Chapter 10 Cancer

PART V The Future

Chapter 11 The Future of Health and Well Being

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Index

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Health Psychology: A Textbook
by Jane Ogden. 490 pgs.

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Detailed Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Guided Tour

Technology to Enhance Learning and Teaching

Acknowledgements

1: An Introduction to Health Psychology

2: Health Beliefs

3: Illness Cognitions

4: Health Professional- Patient Communication and the Role of Health Beliefs

5: Smoking and Alcohol Use

6: Eating Behaviour

7: Exercise

8: Sex

9: Screening

10: Stress

11: Stress and Illness

12: Pain

13: Placebos and the Interrelationship among Beliefs, Behaviour and Health

14: HIV and Cancer: Psychology throughout the Course of Illness (1)

15: Obesity and Coronary Heart Disease: Psychology throughout the Course of Illness (2)

16: Women's Health Issues

17: Measuring Health Status: From Mortality Rates to Quality of Life

18: The Assumptions of Health Psychology

Methodology Glossary

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Predicting Health Behaviour: Research and Practice with Social Cognition Models
by Mark Conner, Paul Norman. 385 pgs.

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Contributors

Preface

Abbreviations

1: Predicting Health Behaviour: A Social Cognition Approach

2: The Health Belief Model

3: Protection Motivation Theory

4: Social Cognitive Theory

5: Theory of Planned Behaviour and Health Behaviour

6: Stage Theories of Health Behaviour

7: Implementation Intentions and Health Behaviour

8: Predicting and Changing Health Behaviour

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How Children Learn to Be Healthy
by Barbara J. Tinsley. 181 pgs.

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Acknowledgments Page

Introduction

1: Mechanisms and Consequences of Socializing Children to Be Healthy

2: Children's Health Understanding and Behavior

3: Parents' Health Beliefs

4: Parents' Promotion of Their Children's Health

5: Parents' Promotion of Their Children's Sexual Health

6: Peers, Schools, and Children's Health

7: How Television Viewing and Other Media Use Affect Children's Health

8: The Social Ecology of Children's Health Socialization

9: Summary and Conclusions

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Health, Coping, and Well-Being: Perspectives from Social Comparison Theory (includes "Health Images and Their Effects on Health Behavior")
by Bram P. Buunk, Frederick X. Gibbons. 450 pgs.

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Chapter 1 Social Comparison in Health and Illness: A Historical Overview

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Chapter 2 Social Comparison and Unrealistic Optimism About Personal Risk

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Chapter 3 Health Images and Their Effects on Health Behavior

Chapter 4 Social Comparison Processes and Aids Risk and Aids Preventive Behavior

Chapter 5 Future-Oriented Aspects of Social Comparisons: A Framework for Studying Health-Related Comparison Activity

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Chapter 6 Modes and Families of Coping: An Analysis of Downward Comparison in the Structure of Other Cognitive and Behavioral Mechanisms

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Chapter 7 Social Comparison, Lay Referral, and the Decision to Seek Medical Care

Chapter 8 Social Comparison, Affiliation, and Coping With Acute Medical Threats

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Chapter 9 Social Comparison as a Coping Process: A Critical Review and Application to Chronic Pain Disorders

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Chapter 10 Social Comparisons Among Cancer Patients: Under What Conditions are Comparisons Upward and Downward?

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Chapter 11 Social Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being

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Chapter 12 Social Comparisons and Occupational Stress: The Identification-Contrast

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CHAPTER 13 Social Comparison Processes in Depression

Chapter 14 Social Comparison and Health: A Process Model

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Women and Health Psychology: Mental Health Issues
by Cheryl Brown Travis. 282 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: The Psychology Of Gender: Mental Health Implications

Summary and Conclusions

2: Gender and Mental Health Status

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3: Introduction To Psychotropic Drugs

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4: Psychotropic Drugs: Treatment Issues

Summary and Comment

5: Epidemiology Of Alcoholism

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6: Etiology And Treatment Of Alcoholism Among Women

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7: Overview Of Eating Disorders

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8: Eating Disorders: Etiology And Treatment

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9: Issues In Therapy

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10: Feminist Alternatives

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Subject Index
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Child Health Psychology
by Barbara G. Melamed, Karen A. Matthews, Donald K. Routh, Brian Stabler, Neil Schneiderman. 348 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

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I: I PREVENTION AND LIFE STYLE IN CHILD HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

1: Rewarding Elementary Schoolchildren for Their Use of Safety Belts

2: An Experimental Study of the Physical And Psychological Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Schoolchildren

3: Cognitive, Motivational, Social, and Environmental Influences on Children's Food Choices

4: The Effect of Family Variables on Child Weight Change

II: PERSONALITY AND EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR

5: Relationship Between Mood and Blood Pressure in the Natural Environment: An Adolescent Population

6: Stress and Coping in Early Adolescence: Relationships to Substance Use in Urban School Samples

7: Type A Behavior in Children: Demographic, Behavioral, and Physiological Correlates

8: Family Characteristics and School Achievements of Type A Children

III: DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS OF ILLNESS PERCEPTION

9: Children's Concepts of Physical Illness: A Review and Critique of the CognitiveDevelopmental Literature

IV: PERSPECTIVES ON ACUTE ILLNESS IN CHILDREN

10: Coping Skills Training for Children: Effects on Distress Before, During, and After Hospitalization for Surgery

11: Preparing Children for Medical Examinations: The Importance of Previous Medical Experience

12: Mother-Child Patterns of Coping With Anticipatory Medical Stress

13: An Information Seeking Disposition in Child Surgery Patients

V: PERSPECTIVES ON CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS

14: Children With Recently Diagnosed Diabetes: Interactions Within Their Families

15: Perceived Stress and Diabetes Control in Adolescents

16: Assessing Daily Management in Childhood Diabetes

17: Behavioral Interventions for Childhood Nocturnal Enuresis: The Differential Effect of Bladder Capacity on Treatment Progress and Outcome

18: Predicting Medical Compliance Among Adolescents With Cystic Fibrosis

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Behavior, Health, and Aging (includes "Psychological Factors, Health, and Disease: The Impact of Aging and the Life Cycle")
by Stephen B. Manuck, Richard Jennings, Bruce S. Rabin, Andrew Baum. 265 pgs.

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A dramatic shift in the average age of the U.S. population and the increasing number of elderly Americans has introduced new and challenging healthcare dilemmas. This book addresses these issues with contributed chapters by the leading authorities in the field of behavioral medicine. It deals with health and healthcare needs of the elderly by considering basic changes that result from aging and some of the more specific problems that accompany it. Content highlights include a review of the basic tenets of genetics and molecular biology including some of the methods of looking at heritable differences in health and well-being. Quality of life concerns are addressed, including the differences between men and women, as well as other gender issues. Several chapters deal with the effects of aging on immunity. The latter part of the book emphasizes the psychosocial implications of aging on cardiovascular disease. Chronic illness among the elderly is also addressed.

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Preface

1: Genetics and Aging

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2: Quality Adjusted Life Expectancy for Men and Women in the United States

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3: Aging Women, Getting Older, Getting Better?

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4: Menopause as a Turning Point in Midlife

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5: Changes in the Immune System during Aging

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6: Effects of Chronic Stress on Immune Function and Health in the Elderly

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7: Neuroimmune Interactions: Implications for Aging and Immunosenescence -- Rodent Models

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8: Immune Functions, Their Psychological Correlates, and Health

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9: Negative Affect and the Disablement Process in Late Life: a Life-Span Control Theory Approach

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10: Psychological Factors, Health, and Disease: the Impact of Aging and the Life Cycle

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11: Coping with Chronic Illness among the Elderly: Maintaining Self-Esteem

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12: Sex, Psychosocial Stress, and Atherosclerosis: a Monkey Model

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13: Comparative Effects of Age and Blood Pressure on Neuropsychological Test Performance: the Framingham Study

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14: Uncertain Health Effects of Cholesterol Reduction in the Elderly

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Subject Index
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Reframing Health Behavior Change with Behavioral Economics
by Warren K. Bickel, Rudy E. Vuchinich. 426 pgs.

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Behavioral economics is a rapidly developing area of psychological science that has synergistically merged microeconomic concepts with behavioral research methods. A driving force behind the growth of behavioral economics has been its recent application to behaviors that significantly affect health. The book examines the latest behavioral economic research on smoking, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity, gambling, and other poor health habits, and explores the implications for individual and community interventions and policy directions. This innovative book describes new concepts and methods developed in behavioral economics and applies them to understanding health behavior change. The richness of behavioral economic concepts provides novel methods and measures that lend to an understanding of health behavior that is different from previous work in the field. Featuring contributions from experimental and clinical psychologists and economists, this book will be of interest to a broad range of students and professionals concerned with health behavior, including researchers, clinicians, and policymakers, as well as psychologists, educators, and all those who work with people who are currently attempting to make positive health and lifestyle changes.

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Foreword

REFERENCES

Preface

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PART ONE BEHAVIORAL ECONOMIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS

CHAPTER ONE: A Behavioral Economics Primer

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter Two: Behavioral Economic Concepts and Methods for Studying Health Behavior1

PART TWO PRICE AND CONSUMPTION

Chapter Three A Behavioral Economic Analysis Of The Reinforcing Effects of Drugs: Transition States of Addiction

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Chapter Four: Economics and Antihealth Behavior: The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse

PART THREE SUBSTITUTABILITY RELATIONS BETWEEN ACTIVITIES

CHAPTER FIVE: Economic Substitutability: Some Implications for Health Behavior

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Chapter Six The Lonely Addict

PART FOUR HEALTH BEHAVIOR AS INTERTEMPORAL CHOICE

Chapter Seven Seff-Control and Health Behavior

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter Eight Temporal Changes in The Value of Objects of Choice: Discounting, Behavior Patterns, And Health Behavior

PART FIVE SPECIFIC HEALTH BEHAVIORS: HELP-SEEKING, SMOKING, EATING, EXERCISE, AND GAMBLING

CHAPTER NINE: Waiting to See the Doctor: The Role of Time Constraints in the Utilization of Health and Behavioral Health Services

Chapter Ten Behavioral Economics Of Tobacco Smoking

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Chapter Eleven Behavioral Economics of Obesity: Food Intake and Energy Expenditure

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Chapter Twelve: Gambling in Socioeconomic Perspective

PART SIX THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Tyranny of Small Decisions: Origins, Outcomes, and Proposed Solutions

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Subject Index
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Control and the Psychology of Health: Theory, Measurement, and Applications
by Jan Walker. 257 pgs.

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Series Editors' Foreword

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Acknowledgements

1: Summary of Control Concepts

2: Perceived or Personal Control

3: Locus of Control

4: Self-Efficacy

5: Learned Helplessness

6: Social Support

7: Emotional States

8: A Unifying Theory of Control

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Psychosocial Treatment for Medical Conditions: Principles and Techniques
by Harold S. Bernard, Philip R. Muskin, Leon A. Schein, Henry I. Spitz. 456 pgs.

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Mental Health and Physical Health are undeniably connected. One cannot recover physically, if there is still mental suffering, and vice versa. The essays collected here examine the relationship between mental and physical health, and how that relationship flourishes or suffers in a managed care environment. Understanding more about how the psychological aftereffects of an illness, and the best ways to respond to them, will ultimately enhance the care offered to patients. The contributors offer a wide range of examples of linked physical and mental illnesses, with advice on how best to responsibly address and treat both.Clinicians and practitioners will welcome this guide to navigating a managed care system and working with patients to heal both their mental and physical maladies equally.

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Foreword Mind Matters

Preface

Section I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Significance of Psychosocial Factors to Health and Disease

Chapter 2: Psychosocial Factors Affecting Medical Conditions

Section II: Medical Conditions

Chapter 3: Psychosocial Sequelae of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Chapter 4: Psychosocial Considerations in Essential Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, and End-Stage Renal Disease

Chapter 5: Psychosocial Dimensions of Gastrointestinal Disorders

Chapter 6: Endocrine Disorders

Chapter 7: Neurological Illnesses

Chapter 8: Infectious Diseases

Chapter 9: Women's Health

Section III: Treatment

Chapter 10: The Impact of Stress and the Objectives of Psychosocial Interventions

Chapter 11: Treatment

Section IV: Summary

Chapter 12: Summary and Future Directions

Index
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Behavioral Factors Associated with Disease, Injury, and Death among Men: Evidence and Implications for Prevention, in The Journal of Men's Studies
by Will H. Courtenay. 61 pgs.

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