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020			_a9780415645188
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a616.0019 _bH349
245			_aHealth psychology [4 volume set] _bcritical concepts in psychology _cedited by Daryl B. O'Connor and Rory C. O'Connor
260			_bRoutledge _c2018 _aOxon
300			_axxvii, 543p
440			_aCritical concepts in psychology
505			_aContents: v.1 -- Contexts and perspectives in health psychology v.2 -- Physiological and psychosomatic disease process v.3 -- Motivation and behaviour v.4 -- Research methods and new applications
520			_aIn today’s sick world, the application of psychological research and methods to issues about and around health could not be more important. Health psychologists pursue ambitious goals, including: the promotion and maintenance of health; the prevention and management of illness; the improvement of healthcare systems; and the formulation of rational health policies. And they seek to understand dizzyingly difficult questions, such as: how do people adapt to chronic illness? What factors influence healthy eating? How is stress linked to heart disease? And, why do so many patients ignore medical advice and prescriptions? As research in and around health psychology burgeons as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledge’s acclaimed Critical Concepts in Psychology series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by two leading scholars, the collection gathers foundational and canonical work, together with innovative and cutting-edge applications and interventions. With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Health Psychology will be particularly useful as a one-stop database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar―and sometimes overlooked―texts. For researchers and advanced students, it is a vital one-stop research and reference resource.
650			_aClinical health psychology
700			_aO'Connor, Daryl B. [ed.]
700			_aO'Connor, Rory C. [ed.]
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