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Helping Cardiac Patients (Jossey Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series)
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Hormones, Health and Behaviour: A Socio-ecological and Lifespan Perspective
from: Cambridge University Press
: :As widespread social transformations have been paralleled by gains in health and life expectancy through public health and other improvements, a variety of new obstacles to health have emerged. Lifestyle-related, behaviorally mediated changes in rates of chronic disease are the most prevalent of these new challenges. This book examines the relationship between human biology and human society, and how behavior, hormones, and health intersect. There is both scientific interest and practical urgency behind the ideas and findings presented here, as the need for a socioecological view of function and well-being has become ...
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Human Behaviour in the Caring Context (Gnvq Advanced Options)
: :As widespread social transformations have been paralleled by gains in health and life expectancy through public health and other improvements, a variety of new obstacles to health have emerged. Lifestyle-related, behaviorally mediated changes in rates of chronic disease are the most prevalent of these new challenges. This book examines the relationship between human biology and human society, and how behavior, hormones, and health intersect. There is both scientific interest and practical urgency behind the ideas and findings presented here, as the need for a socioecological view of function and well-being has become ...
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Human Development and Health
: :As widespread social transformations have been paralleled by gains in health and life expectancy through public health and other improvements, a variety of new obstacles to health have emerged. Lifestyle-related, behaviorally mediated changes in rates of chronic disease are the most prevalent of these new challenges. This book examines the relationship between human biology and human society, and how behavior, hormones, and health intersect. There is both scientific interest and practical urgency behind the ideas and findings presented here, as the need for a socioecological view of function and well-being has become ...
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Images of Illness
: :This work confirms that people respond not to their actual illnesses or injuries, but to their images of them, which they create themselves and can therefore change. In this edition, the author includes studies on people older than in the original, as well as those affected by AIDS.
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The Impaired Physician
from: Plenum
: :This work confirms that people respond not to their actual illnesses or injuries, but to their images of them, which they create themselves and can therefore change. In this edition, the author includes studies on people older than in the original, as well as those affected by AIDS.
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Individual Differences, Stress, and Health Psychology (Contributions to Psychology and Medicine)
from: Springer
: :Individual Differences, Stress, and Health Psychology presents recent research on how individual differences lead to the variety of reactions people display to stressors. These reactions are considered particularly in their relation to health and illness. Distinguished international researchers in health psychology speculate on the future of the field and its application to developing treatments or changes in lifestyles that may prevent or alleviate such disorders as cancer, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. The volume makes a significant contribution to the study of the relation between stress and health processes.
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The Influence of Individual Differences in Health and Illness (Behavioral Sciences for Health Care Professionals)
: :Individual Differences, Stress, and Health Psychology presents recent research on how individual differences lead to the variety of reactions people display to stressors. These reactions are considered particularly in their relation to health and illness. Distinguished international researchers in health psychology speculate on the future of the field and its application to developing treatments or changes in lifestyles that may prevent or alleviate such disorders as cancer, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. The volume makes a significant contribution to the study of the relation between stress and health processes.
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Integrated Behavioral Healthcare: A Guide To Effective Intervention
: :Integrated behavioural health care is a health-care service delivery system in which behavioural health care is co-ordinated with primary medical care. Unlike older approaches to patient care in which mental health professionals worked separately from medical professionals, integrated care recognises that many patients present to medical professionals with behavioural problems. For example, diabetics or persons suffering from chronic pain may experience depression. Thus patients often need some combination of both behavioural and medical treatment. Integrated care attempts to overcome the traditional division of care so that a co-ordinated, multidisciplinary approach is taken ...
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International Development of Health Psychology
: :Integrated behavioural health care is a health-care service delivery system in which behavioural health care is co-ordinated with primary medical care. Unlike older approaches to patient care in which mental health professionals worked separately from medical professionals, integrated care recognises that many patients present to medical professionals with behavioural problems. For example, diabetics or persons suffering from chronic pain may experience depression. Thus patients often need some combination of both behavioural and medical treatment. Integrated care attempts to overcome the traditional division of care so that a co-ordinated, multidisciplinary approach is taken ...
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