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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction to Basic Concepts and Methods | |
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| The Field of Health Psychology | |
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| Causes of Death | |
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| The Emotional Context | |
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| The Psychological and Psychophysiological Context | |
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| The Social (Interactional) Context | |
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| The Behavioral Context | |
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| The Institutional Context | |
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| The Societal and Cultural Context | |
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| Medical Ethics | |
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| Methodology | |
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| The Discipline of Health Psychology | |
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| The Organization of This Book | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| The Psychophysiological Basis of Health and Illness | |
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| A Brief History of Psychophysiology | |
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| Autonomic Nervous System | |
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| Endocrine System | |
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| Psychology and the Immune System | |
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| Fitness | |
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| The Traditional Biomedical Model | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| The Social and Cultural Basis of Health and Illness | |
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| Medical Help-Seeking | |
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| What Is Illness? | |
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| Cultural and Demographic Influences | |
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| Social Cognition: Social Perception, Attribution, and Illness | |
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| The Rewards of the Sick Role | |
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| Wellness | |
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| The Biopsychosocial Health Psychology Model | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Psychological Contributors to and Treatments of Illness | |
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| Belief, Pain, and Healing | |
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| Holistic Health | |
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| Belief and Its Function in Health | |
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| Religiosity | |
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| Pain | |
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| Pain Management | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Stress and Illness | |
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| What Is Stress? | |
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| Models of Stress and Illness | |
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| Loss, Life Change, and Illness | |
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| Mastery and Control or Relinquishing Control | |
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| Life Change | |
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| Stress Psychophysiology | |
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| Coping With Stress | |
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| Self-Induced Stress | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Personality and Disease | |
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| Models of Personality and Disease | |
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| The Coronary-Prone Personality | |
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| The Disease-Prone Personality | |
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| Personality and the Immune System | |
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| Implications for Society | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Quality of Life and the Self-Healing Personality | |
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| Healthy Work | |
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| Quality of Life | |
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| Healthy Control | |
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| Commitment | |
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| Challenge | |
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| Healthy Subtypes | |
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| Optimism | |
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| Salutogenesis and Coherence | |
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| The Self-Healing Personality | |
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| Social Ties and Social Integration | |
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| Life-Time Predictors of Longevity | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Adaptation to Chronic Illness | |
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| Adaptation to the Crisis of Illness | |
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| Coping With Chronic Illness | |
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| Social Support and Rehabilitation | |
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| Special Cases of Chronic Illness | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Dying, Death, and Grief | |
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| Reactions to Impending Death | |
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| The Hospice | |
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| Bereavement and Grieving | |
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| The Caregiver's Reaction to Dying Patients | |
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| Children and Death | |
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| Suicide | |
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| Evaluation | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and the Health Care System | |
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| Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Drug Abuse | |
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| Models of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention | |
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| Tobacco | |
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| Alcohol | |
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| Illegal Drug Abuse | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Nutrition, Exercise, and Prophylaxis | |
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| Nutrition and Eating | |
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| Exercise and Physical Activity | |
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| Injury | |
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| Human Sexuality | |
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| Immunizations and Vector Control | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Patient Cooperation (Adherence) | |
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| The Problem of Noncooperation | |
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| Consequences of Noncooperation | |
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| Reasons for Lack of Cooperation | |
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| The Care of the Patient | |
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| Doctor-Patient Relations | |
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| Models of the Practitioner-Patient Relationship | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Communication Between Patients and Practitioners | |
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| The Problem of Practitioner-Patient Communication | |
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| Words and Medical Jargon | |
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| Nonverbal Communication Between Patients and Practitioners | |
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| Interviewing in the Health Care Context | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Health Care Professionals and Hospitals | |
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| Medical Training | |
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| Stress and Its Effects on Practicing Health Care Professionals | |
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| Decision-Making in Health Care | |
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| Women in Medicine | |
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| Hospitals | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Society, Utilization, and the Future | |
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| Medical Ethics and Utilization Issues | |
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| Socio-Medical Ethics | |
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| Health Care and the Poor | |
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| Health Care Utilization | |
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| The Future of Health Psychology | |
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| The Promise of Health Psychology | |
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| Summary and Conclusion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |