| Contents |
The intellectual roots of health psychology / Howard S. Friedman and Nancy E. Adler -- A history of the development of health psychology / Wade E. Pickren and Silvia Degni -- Measurement in health psychology research / Timothy W. Smith -- Designing and conducting interventions to enhance physical and mental health outcomes / J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Ravas, and Roxane Cohen Silver -- Uncertainty, variability, and resource allocation in the health care decision process / Robert M. Kaplan -- The brain, homeostasis, and health : balancing demands of the internal and external milieu / John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson -- Psychoneuroimmunology / Margaret E. Kemeny -- Stress, coping, and health / Charles S. Carver and Sara Vargas -- Social support : a review / Shelley E. Taylor -- Personality, disease, and self-healing / Howard S. Friedman -- Adjustment to chronic disease : progress and promise in research / Annette L. Stanton and Tracey A. Revenson -- Social comparison processes : implications for physical health / Jerry Suls -- Health and illness perceptions / Yael Beyamini -- Physician-patient communication / Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter -- Aging and health / Karen S. Rook, Susan Turk Charles, and Jutta Heckhausen -- Chronic pain : closing the gap between evidence and practice / Beverly E. Thorn and Barbara B. Walker -- Coping with cancer / Vanessa L. Malcarne -- Expressive writing : connections to physical and mental health / James W. Pennebaker and Cindy K. Chung -- Beyond myths of coping with loss : prevailing assumptions versus scientific evidence / Camille B. Wortman and Kathrin Boerner -- Family consultation for couples coping with health problems : a social cybernetic approach / Michael J. Rohrbaugh and Varda Shoham -- Childhood health and chronic illness / Barbara J. Tinsley and Mary H. Burleson -- Transplantation / Mary Amanda Dew and Andrea F. DiMartini -- HIV/AIDS / Lydia Temoshok -- Health behavior change / Ralf Schwarzer -- Advancing health behavior theory : the interplay among theories of health behavior, empirical modeling of health behavior, and behavioral interventions / Leona S. Aiken -- The perception of health risks / Britta Renner and Harald Schupp -- Physical activity and health : current research trends and critical issues / Dawn K. Wilson, Nicole Zarrett, and Heather Kitzman-Ulrich -- Alcohol use and alcohol use disorders / Kenneth J. Sher ... [et al.] -- Obesity / Emily L. Van Walleghen, Betsy A. Steeves, and Hollie A. Raynor -- Dispositional optimism, psychophysiology, and health / Suzanne C. Segerstrom -- Community health / Marta Gil Lacruz -- Latino health / John M. Ruiz and Patrick Steffen -- Two decades of social change in Central and Eastern Europe : implications for health / Irina L.G. Todorova -- Asian meditation and health / Yosuke Sakairi, Genji Sugamura, and Masao Suzuki -- Health and social relationships in nonhuman primates : toward a comparative health psychology / John P. Capitanio -- Conclusion : the achievements and promise of health psychology / Howard S. Friedman. |
