Includes bibliographical references.

Part I Psychology, health and illness -- Section I Psychological aspects of health and illness -- Adolescent lifestyle -- Age and physical functioning -- Age and cognitive functioning -- Ageing and health -- Architecture and health -- Attributions and health -- Childhood influences on health -- Children's perceptions of illness and death -- Coping with bereavement -- Coping with chronic illness -- Coping with chronic pain -- Coping with death and dying -- Coping with stressful medical procedures -- Cultural and ethnic factors in health -- Delay in seeking help -- Diet and health -- Disability -- Emotional expression and health -- Expectations and health -- Gender issues and women's health -- The health belief model -- Health-related behaviours: common factors -- Hospitalization in adults -- Hospitalization in children -- Hostility and Type A behaviour in coronary artery disease -- Lay beliefs about health and illness -- Life events and health -- Men's health -- Noise: effects on health -- Pain: a multidimensional perspective -- Perceived control -- Personality and health -- Physical activity and health -- Placebos -- Psychoneuroimmunology -- Psychosomatics -- Quality of life -- Religion and health -- Risk perception and health behaviour -- Self-efficacy in health functioning -- Sexual risk behaviour -- Sleep and health -- Social support and health -- Socioeconomic status and health -- Stigma -- Stress and health -- Symptom perception -- Theory of planned behaviour -- Transtheoretical model of behaviour change -- Unemployment and health --

Section II Psychological assessment -- Brain imaging and function -- Communication assessment -- Coping assessment -- Diagnostic interviews and clinical practice -- Disability assessment -- Health cognition assessment -- Health status assessment -- Illness cognition assessment -- IQ testing -- Assessment of mood -- Neuropsychological assessment -- Neuropsychological assessment of attention and executive functioning -- Neuropsychological assessment of learning and memory -- Pain assessment -- Patient satisfaction assessment -- Psychoneuroimmunology assessments -- Qualitative assessment -- Quality of life assessment -- Social support assessment -- Stress assessment --

Section III Psychological intervention -- Behaviour therapy -- Biofeedback -- Cognitive behaviour therapy -- Community-based interventions -- Counselling -- Group therapy -- Health promotion -- Hypnosis -- Motivational interviewing -- Neuropsychological rehabilitation -- Pain management -- Physical activity interventions -- Psychodynamic psychotherapy -- Psychosocial care of the elderly -- Relaxation training -- Self-management interventions -- Social support interventions -- Stress management -- Worksite interventions --

Section IV Healthcare practice -- Adherence to treatment -- Attitudes of health professionals -- Breaking bad news -- Burnout in health professionals -- Communicating risk -- Healthcare professional-patient communication -- Healthcare work environments -- Informed consent -- Interprofessional education in essence -- Medical decision-making -- Medical inte -- Part II Medical topics.

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Health psychology is a rapidly expanding discipline at the interface of psychology and clinical medicine. This new edition is fully reworked and revised, offering an entirely up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for clinical psychologists, mental health professionals and specialists in health-related matters. There are two new editors: Susan Ayers from the University of Sussex and Kenneth Wallston from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The prestigious editorial team and their international, interdisciplinary cast of authors have reconceptualised their much-acclaimed handbook. The book is now in two parts: part I covers psychological aspects of health and illness, assessments, interventions and healthcare practice. Part II covers medical matters listed in alphabetical order. Among the many new topics added are: diet and health, ethnicity and health, clinical interviewing, mood assessment, communicating risk, medical interviewing, diagnostic procedures, MMR, HRT, sleep disorders, and skin disorders.

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