Health psychology the basics
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| Sprache: | English |
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Routledge
2021
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- 1 The development of health psychology
- Introduction
- Historical approaches to health: a biomedical model of health and illness
- Introduction to the biomedical model
- Challenging the biomedical view of health
- What is health?
- What is health psychology?
- Why do we need health psychology?
- Health in the twenty-first century: the role of lifestyle on population health
- Health policy: the role of government action for lifestyle change
- Health psychology today, where are we now?
- Research methods in health psychology
- Qualitative studies
- Quantitative studies
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- Careers in health psychology
- What do health psychologists do and where do they work?
- How to become a health psychologist
- Stage one
- Stage two
- What can you expect to earn as a health psychologist?
- Interested in health psychology, now what?
- Final overview and summary
- References
- 2 A bio/psycho/social approach to health and wellbeing
- Chapter overview
- A biopsychosocial approach to health and wellbeing
- The biopsychosocial approach
- Pain
- Biological factors
- Transduction
- Transmission
- Modulation
- Psychological factors
- The Gate Control Theory (GCT)
- Anxiety
- Learning
- Cognition
- Treatment for pain (see Table 2.2)
- Why does pain relief stop working as well?
- What can health psychologists do to improve pain?
- What about alternative therapies?
- Brief summary of pain
- Diabetes
- What is diabetes?
- The endocrine system
- It is a disease of lifestyle!
- What is the role of the health psychologist in understanding Type 2 diabetes?
- Using a biopsychosocial approach in understanding the aetiology of Type 2 DM
- Examples of biological factors
- Examples of psychological factors
- Evidence
- Why might wholegrains be beneficial?
- Is it just about eating wholegrains?
- What about exercise?
- Can personality influence onset?
- What is conscientiousness?
- What is the relationship between conscientiousness and Type 2 diabetes?
- Social and environmental factors
- The obesogenic environment
- What about culture?
- The digestive system and obesity
- The digestive system
- So why do we need to eat?
- So what is the right amount of food?
- What is a calorie?
- Obesity
- So why do people become obese?
- Biological factors
- So what other biological factors affect eating behaviour?
- Leptin
- Ghrelin
- Neuropetide Y
- Psychological factors
- Conditioning
- Stress and eating behaviour
- Activity
- Social factors
- Summary
- Autoimmune diseases
- The immune system
- Simplified overview of the innate system
- Simplified overview of the specific system
- Genes
- Gender
- Psychological factors
- Social factors
- So what can we conclude?
- Chapter summary
- References