This state-of-the-art handbook provides authoritative, up to date coverage of health psychology topics, offering an excellent, in-depth view of the field. Leading experts provide essential insights into the discipline of health psychology, its roots, future directions, and the networks and organisations involved.
Structured into eight parts, the book starts with defining health psychology including and providing an important historical overview. Subsequent sections examine theories and methodology, health behaviour, interpersonal relations and health, chronic disease and interventions. The concluding sections tackle the important areas of global health psychology and the future of Health Psychology. The editors and auditors include leading experts in the field as well as early career researchers from over 20 countries across the world. Global representation was a key goal in selecting authors.
While familiar areas receive ample attention this book strives to put the field of health psychology in context. As well as examining history this book spotlights global issues and explicitly mentions future developments and opportunities. The role of health psychology in the COVID-19 pandemic is considered and there is discussion more broadly on how health psychology can contribute to addressing societal challenges, including how to move forward sharing knowledge more firmly with policymakers.
This is an essential resource for scholars, PhD students and research master students specialising in the field of Health Psychology.
Section 1: Defining Health Psychology 1. History of Health Psychology 2. Health psychology theories and models of behaviour 3. Health Psychology’s Role within the Biopsychosocial Sciences 4. Professionalisation of Health Psychology 5. Future Directions for the Discipline of Health Psychology Section 2: Theories and Methodology 6. How to work with theories of health behaviour change 7. Illness Perceptions and Culture 8. Research Design: Overview and recommendations 9. Measurement in Health Psychology 10. Personality and health Section 3: Health Behavior 11. Defining and specifying health behaviour 12. A behavioural perspective on health 13. Understanding multiple health behaviours 14. The role of health behaviour in obesity 15. Moving from description to explanation Section 4: Interpersonal Relations & Health 16. Interpersonal Relationships and Health 17. Attachment Insecurity Shapes Physiological and Behavioural Responses to Stress 18. An Overview of the Impact of Chronic Medical Illness on Sexuality 19. Caregiving and Relationships 20. Patient-provider relationships Section 5: Chronic Diseases 21. Introduction to Chronic Diseases 22. Coping with Symptoms and Treatments 23. The Psychosocial Impact of Chronic Disease 24. Self-Management and Adherence in the Context of Chronic Diseases 25. The Role of Technology in Chronic Illness Section 6: Interventions 26. Introduction: Theoretical foundations of health psychology 27. Interventions in chronic disease 28. Community-based interventions 29. Health Behaviour Change Interventions 30. Implementation strategies Section 7: Global Health Psychology 31. An Introduction to ‘Global Health Psychology’ 32. What is the state of Health Psychology in the Global South? 33. Challenges Currently Felt in the Global South 34. Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) 35. Collaboration and Research Ethics in Health Psychology Section 8: Current Challenges and Opportunities - The Future of Health Psychology 36. The future of Health Psychology: Challenges and opportunities in the next decades 37. Well-being across the lifespan 38. Health Psychology in the age of digital health 39. Six ways Health Psychology can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation 40. Policy implications
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