Critical issues in clinical and health psychlogy

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Title:

Author:

Rohleder, Poul.

ISBN:

9781849207621

9781849207614

Personal Author:

Rohleder, Poul.

Publication Information:

London : SAGE, 2012.

Physical Description:

226 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Includes index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Critical issues in clinical and health psychology -- 1.1.Locating the field -- 1.2.Understanding health, illness and disability -- 1.3.Critical issues in clinical and health psychology -- 2.Psychosocial and critical models of health, illness and disability -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Health, illness and psychology -- 2.3.The biopsychosocial model -- 2.4.Psychological models of mental health -- 2.5.Sociological critiques of the medical model -- 2.6.Critical psychology -- 2.7.Summary -- 3.Understanding and changing health behaviours -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Cognitive-behavioural models of health behaviours -- 3.3.Ecological systems theory -- 3.4.Community and structural interventions -- 3.5.Summary -- 4.Culture -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Dimensions of culture -- 4.3.Culture and illness experience -- 4.4.Culture and mental health -- 4.5.Culture, body image and disordered eating -- 4.6.Culture and disability --

Contents note continued: 4.7.Health care as cultural -- 4.8.Summary -- 5.Socio-economic status -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.SES and disease -- 5.3.SES and mental health -- 5.4.SES and disability -- 5.5.Homelessness and health -- 5.6.Explaining SES health inequalities -- 5.7.SES and the professional---patient interaction -- 5.8.Summary -- 6.Gender -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Gender disparities in health -- 6.3.Gender and sexual health -- 6.4.Gender, body image and disordered eating -- 6.5.Gender and mental health -- 6.6.Gender and disability -- 6.7.Summary -- 7.Sexuality -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Homosexuality and the mental health professions -- 7.3.Homosexuality, ill-health and health care -- 7.4.`African sexuality' and HIV/AIDS -- 7.5.Sexuality and people with disabilities -- 7.6.Summary -- 8.Research methods for a critical approach to clinical and health psychology -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Different methods in qualitative research -- 8.3.Mixed methods --

Contents note continued: 8.4.Quality in qualitative research -- 8.5.Summary.

Abstract:

Giving a clear and thought-provoking introduction to the critical issues related to health, illness and disability in clinical and health psychology, this book challenges some of the preconceptions of ill health of the biomedical approach and explores how health and illness is often shaped by factors such as culture, poverty, gender and sexuality.

Subject Term:

Clinical health psychology -- Case studies.

Clinical health psychology.

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"This book extends the ongoing discussion on critical approaches within clinical and health psychology. In particular, it emphasises the need to consider the importance of social and cultural factors in understanding health, illness and disability. With detailed examination of a wide range of empirical studies it demonstrates the vibrancy of contemporary critical psychological research." - Michael Murray, Keele University

"Provides an original overview of areas within health and clinical psychology that are frequently overlooked in other textbooks. It is distinctive in three major ways: first, it takes an explicitly critical approach, and therefore locates our current psychological understandings of issues within health and clinical psychology within their broader social and cultural contexts. Second, it considers both physical and mental health simultaneously, which is a major strength. Third, it is unique in its scope and focus. In achieving these distinctive features, this text competently draws on up-to-date research and literature across a range of disciplines and fields in an accessible and engaging manner... I personally think it should be a must-read for all those studying and working within the health psychology field!" - Antonia Lyons, Massey University

This textbook gives a clear and thought-provoking introduction to the critical issues related to health, illness and disability in clinical and health psychology. Challenging some of the preconceptions of ill-health of the biomedical approach, the book explores how health and illness is often shaped by factors such as culture, poverty, gender and sexuality, and examines how these influences impact on the experience and treatment of physical and mental illness as well as disability. Students are introduced to literature from disciplines other than psychology to provide multiple perspectives on these complex issues.

Critical Issues in Clinical and Health Psychology is a key textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in health or clinical psychology, as well as for students from other disciplines related to health and mental health care.