Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Part I An Introduction: Basic Issues and Processes Chapter 1 An Overview of Psychology and Health What is Health? An Illness/Wellness Continuum Illness Today and in the Past Viewpoints from History: Physiology, Disease Processes, and the Mind Early Cultures Ancient Greece and Rome The Middle Ages The Renaissance and After Seeing a Need: Psychology's Role in Health Problems in the Health Care System "The Person'' in Health and Illness Assess Yourself: What's Your Lifestyle Like? How the Role of Psychology Emerged Health Psychology: The Profession Clinical Methods and Issues: Behaviorism's Legacy: Progress in Health Psychology's Goals Current Perspectives on Health and Illness The Biopsychosocial Perspective Life-Span and Gender Perspectives Related Scientific Fields: Foundations and Connections for Health Psychology Related Fields Highlight: Related Nonpsychology Careers Health and Psychology across Cultures Research Methods Experiments Correlational Studies Quasi-Experimental Studies Genetics Research Which Research Method Is Best? Chapter 2 The Body's Physical Systems Module 1: The Nervous System How the Nervous System Works The Central Nervous System Clinical Methods and Issues: Biofeedback Treatment for Paralysis The Peripheral Nervous System Module 2: The Endocrine System The Endocrine and Nervous Systems Working Together Adrenal Glands Other Glands Highlight: Our Physiological Individuality Module 3: The Digestive System Food's Journey through Digestive Organs Using Nutrients in Metabolism Assess Yourself: How Many Calories Do You Burn While Resting? Module 4: The Respiratory System The Respiratory Tract Respiratory Function and Disorders Module 5: The Cardiovascular System The Heart and Blood Vessels Blood Pressure Blood Composition Cardiovascular Disorders Module 6: The Immune System Antigens The Organs of the Immune System Soldiers of the Immune System Defending the Body with an Immune Response Highlight: When Immune Functions Are Absent Less-Than-Optimal Defenses Part II Stress, Illness, and Coping Chapter 3 Stress-Its Meaning, Impact, and Sources Experiencing Stress in Our Lives What Is Stress? Appraising Events as Stressful Clinical Methods and Issues: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Dimensions of Stress Biopsychosocial Aspects of Stress Biological Aspects of Stress Psychosocial Aspects of Stress Sources of Stress throughout Life Sources within the Person Sources in the Family Sources in the Community and Society Highlight: Gender Differences in Caregiving? Highlight: Does Environmental Stress Affect Reactivity to New Stressors? Measuring Stress Physiological Arousal Life Events Daily Hassles Chronic Stressors in Specific Domains Can Stress Be Good for You? Assess Yourself: Hassles in Your Life Chapter 4 Stress, Biopsychosocial Factors, and Illness Psychosocial Modifiers of Stress Social Support Assess Yourself: How Much Emotional Support Do You Get? A Sense of Personal Control Clinical Methods and Issues: Social Support, Therapy, and Cognitive Processes Personality Factors in Stress Type A Behavior and Beyond How Stress Affects Health Stress, Behavior, and Illness Stress, Physiology, and Illness Psychoneuroimmunology Highlight: Stress and Wound Healing Psychophysiological Disorders Digestive System Diseases Asthma Recurrent Headache Other Disorders Stress and Cardiovascular Disorders Hypertension Coronary Heart Disease Highlight: Does Acculturation Increase Blood Pressure? Stress and Cancer Chapter 5 Coping with and Reducing Stress Coping with Stress What Is Coping? Functions and Methods of Coping Assess Yourself: Your Focuses in Coping Reducing the Potential for Stress Enhancing Social Support Highlight: Do Religiousness and Spirituality Reduce Stress and Enhance Health? Managing Interpersonal Problems Highlight: The Amish Way of Social Support in Bereavement Improving One's Personal Control Organizing One's World Better Exercising: Links to Stress and Health Preparing for Stressful Events Reducing Stress Reactions: Stress Management Medication Behavioral and Cognitive Methods Clinical Methods and Issues: The Case of "Bear'' Clinical Methods and Issues: Treating Insomnia Massage, Meditation, and Hypnosis Highlight: Can Interventions Curb Adverse Childhood Experiences? Using Stress Management to Reduce Coronary Risk Modifying Type A Behavior Treating Hypertension Part III Lifestyles to Enhance Health and Prevent Illness Chapter 6 Health-Related Behavior and Health Promotion Health and Behavior Lifestyles, Risk Factors, and Health Highlight: Which Health Behaviors Are Beneficial against Breast Cancer? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Preventing Illness Problems in Promoting Wellness What Determines People's Health-Related Behavior? General Factors in Health-Related Behavior The Role of Beliefs and Intentions The Role of Less Rational Processes Developmental, Gender, and Sociocultural Factors in Health Development and Health Gender and Health Sociocultural Factors and Health Programs for Health Promotion Methods for Promoting Health Clinical Methods and Issues: Dialogues to Help People Stop Smoking Promoting Health in Schools and Religious Organizations Worksite and Community-Based Wellness Programs Electronic Interventions for Health Promotion Prevention with Specific Targets: Focusing on AIDS Assess Yourself: Your Knowledge about HIV/AIDS Chapter 7 Substance Use and Abuse Substance Abuse Addiction and Dependence Processes Leading to Dependence Smoking Tobacco Who Smokes, and How Much? Why People Smoke Highlight: Do Curiosity and Susceptibility "Kill the Cat''? Smoking and Health Highlight: Does Someone Else's Smoking Affect Your Health? Alcohol Use and Abuse Who Drinks, and How Much? Assess Yourself: What's True about Drinking? Why People Use and Abuse Alcohol Assess Yourself: Do You Abuse Alcohol? Drinking and Health Highlight: Drinking-Games People Play Drug Use and Abuse Highlight: Types and Effects of Drugs Who Uses Drugs, and Why? Drug Use and Health Reducing Substance Use and Abuse Preventing Substance Use Quitting a Substance without Therapy Treatment Methods to Stop Substance Use and Abuse Highlight: Where Should Treatment Occur, and What Should Be the Goals and Criteria for Success? Clinical Methods and Issues: Behavioral Methods for Treating Substance Abuse Dealing with the Relapse Problem Chapter 8 Nutrition, Weight Control and Diet, Exercise, and Safety Nutrition Components of Food What People Eat Nutrition and Health Weight Control and Diet Desirable and Undesirable Weights Becoming Overly Fat Highlight: Do "Fat-Bugs'' Lead to Overweight? Dieting and Treatments to Lose Weight Highlight: Which "Carbs'' to Avoid Clinical Methods and Issues: Problem-Solving Training to Control Weight Anorexia and Bulimia Assess Yourself: Your Weight Control Patterns Exercise The Health Effects of Physical Activity Highlight: Types and Amounts of Healthful Exercise Who Gets Enough Exercise, Who Does Not-and Why? Reasons for Not Exercising Promoting Exercise Behavior Safety Accidents Environmental Hazards Part IV Becoming Ill and Getting Medical Treatment Chapter 9 Using Health Services Types of Health Services Specialized Functions of Practitioners Office-Based and Inpatient Treatment The American Health Care System Health Care Systems in Other Countries Perceiving and Interpreting Symptoms Perceiving Symptoms Highlight: Symptoms by Suggestion? Interpreting and Responding to Symptoms Using and Misusing Health Services Who Uses Health Services? Why People Use, Don't Use, and Delay Using Health Services Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine Highlight: A New Meaning for ``Diehard'' Sports Fan Problematic Health Service Usage The Patient-Practitioner Relationship Patient Preferences for Participation in Medical Care The Practitioner's Behavior and Style Highlight: Fighting for Your Life The Patient's Behavior and Style Assess Yourself: Do You Know the Meanings of Medical Terms? Compliance: Adhering to Medical Advice Extent of the Nonadherence Problem Why Patients Do and Do Not Adhere to Medical Advice Patient-Practitioner Interactions Increasing Patient Adherence Clinical Methods and Issues: Simple Methods to Promote Adherence Focusing on Prevention Chapter 10 In the Hospital: The Setting, Procedures, and Effects on Patients The Hospital-Its History, Setting, and Procedures How the Hospital Evolved The Organization and Functioning of Hospitals Assess Yourself: Who's Who in Physician Care Roles, Goals, and Communication The Impact of the "Bottom Line'' Being Hospitalized Relations with the Hospital Staff Sick-Role Behavior in the Hospital Emotional Adjustment in the Hospital Coping Processes in Hospital Patients Preparing Patients for Stressful Medical Procedures Highlight: Lamaze Training as a Method of Psychological Preparation for a Medical Procedure When the Hospitalized Patient Is a Child Clinical Methods and Issues: Preparing Children for Impending Hospitalization How Health Psychologists Assist Hospitalized Patients Initial Steps in Helping Tests for Psychological Assessment of Medical Patients Promoting Patients' Health and Adjustment When the Illness is Terminal The Patient's Age Psychosocial Adjustments to Terminal Illness Assess Yourself: Your Living Will Choices Medical and Psychological Care of Dying Patients A Place to Die-Hospital, Home, or Hospice? Clinical Methods and Issues: Saying Good-bye Part V Physical Symptoms: Pain and Discomfort Chapter 11 The Nature and Symptoms of Pain What is Pain? The Qualities and Dimensions of Pain Perceiving Pain Highlight: Acute Pain in Burn Patients Theories of Pain Early Theories of Pain Highlight: Inducing Pain in Laboratory Research The Gate-Control Theory of Pain Biopsychosocial Aspects of Pain Neurochemical Transmission and Inhibition of Pain Personal and Social Experiences and Pain Highlight: Placebos and Pain Emotions, Coping Processes, and Pain Clinical Methods and Issues: Assessing Difficulty Coping with Pain Assessing People's Pain Self-Report Methods Assess Yourself: Describing Your Pain Behavioral Assessment Approaches Psychophysiological Measures Pain in Children Pain and Children's Sensory and Cognitive Development Assessing Pain in Children Chapter 12 Managing and Controlling Clinical Pain Clinical Pain Acute Clinical Pain Chronic Clinical Pain Medical Treatments for Pain Surgical Methods for Treating Pain Chemical Methods for Treating Pain Highlight: Types of Pain-Relieving Chemicals Behavioral and Cognitive Methods for Treating Pain The Operant Approach Fear Reduction, Relaxation, and Biofeedback Cognitive Methods Clinical Methods and Issues: Guiding a Client to Pain Redefinition Hypnosis and Interpersonal Therapy Assess Yourself: Would Behavioral or Cognitive Methods Help Your Pain? Hypnosis as a Treatment for Pain Interpersonal Therapy for Pain Stimulation and Physical Therapies for Pain Stimulation Therapies Physical Therapy Pain Clinics Multidisciplinary Programs Highlight: Physical Activity and Back Pain Evaluating the Success of Pain Clinics Part VI Chronic and Life-Threatening Health Problems Chapter 13 Serious and Disabling Chronic Illnesses: Causes, Management, and Coping Adjusting to a Chronic Illness Initial Reactions to Having a Chronic Condition Influences on Coping with a Health Crisis The Coping Process Impacts of Different Chronic Conditions Asthma Epilepsy Highlight: What to Do for a Seizure Nervous System Injuries Diabetes Assess Yourself: Do You Have Diabetes? Highlight: Self-Managing Diabetes Arthritis Alzheimer's Disease Psychosocial Interventions for People with Chronic Conditions Educational, Social Support, and Behavioral Methods Relaxation and Biofeedback Clinical Methods and Issues: Treating Asthma with Biofeedback and Relaxation Cognitive Methods Interpersonal and Family Therapy Collaborative or Integrated Care Approaches Chapter 14 Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, and AIDS: Causes, Management, and Coping Coping with and Adapting to High-Mortality Illness Adapting While the Prospects Seem Good Adapting in a Recurrence or Relapse Heart Disease Who Is at Risk of Heart Disease, and Why? Highlight: Anatomy of a Heart Attack Assess Yourself: Are You at Risk for Heart Disease? Medical Treatment and Rehabilitation of Cardiac Patients The Psychosocial Impact of Heart Disease Psychosocial Interventions for Heart Disease Stroke Causes, Effects, and Rehabilitation of Stroke Psychosocial Aspects of Stroke Clinical Methods and Issues: Stroke Rehabilitation for Visual Neglect Cancer The Prevalence and Types of Cancer The Sites, Effects, and Causes of Cancer Diagnosing and Treating Cancer The Psychosocial Impact of Cancer Psychosocial Interventions for Cancer Childhood Cancer Highlight: Can Psychosocial Interventions Improve Cancer Survival? AIDS Risk Factors, Effects, and Treatment of AIDS The Psychosocial Impact of AIDS Psychosocial Interventions for AIDS The Survivors: And Life Goes On Physical and Psychosocial Impact Psychosocial Interventions for Bereavement Reaching a Positive Adaptation Part VII Looking to the Future Chapter 15 What's Ahead for Health Psychology? Goals for Health Psychology Enhancing Illness Prevention and Treatment Improving Efforts for Helping Patients Cope Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions and Cost-Benefit Ratios Expanding Psychologists' Roles in Medical Settings Careers and Training in Health Psychology Clinical Methods and Issues: Psychologists in the Primary Care Team Career Opportunities Training Programs Issues and Controversies for the Future Environment, Health, and Psychology Quality of Life Ethical Decisions in Medical Care Future Focuses in Health Psychology Life-Span Health and Illness Assess Yourself: Some Ethical Dilemmas: What Do You Think? Sociocultural Factors in Health Gender Differences and Women's Health Issues Factors Affecting Health Psychology's Future Glossary References Author Index Subject Index EULA