Health psychology : a cultural approach

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Author:

Gurung, Regan A. R.

ISBN:

9780534626402

Personal Author:

Gurung, Regan A. R.

Publication Information:

Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.

Physical Description:

xxi, 487 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Health psychology: setting the stage -- Cultural approaches to health -- Health and human development -- Stress across cultures -- Coping and social support -- Models of behavior change -- Health behaviors: eating, physical activity, smoking, and drinking -- Factors surrounding illness -- Pain -- Chronic illness and death -- Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV -- Culture and cancer -- Culture and cardiovascular disease -- The future of health psychology.

Subject Term:

Clinical health psychology.

Transcultural medical care.

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With a conversational style that conveys the excitement, research base, and real world applications of the field, Regan A. R. Gurung introduces students to health psychology with an integrated cultural perspective. Starting with a description of the biological, psychological, and sociological factors that determine who we are, the text examines cultural differences in major health behaviors, and health, achieving the commendable goal of being comprehensive yet extremely accessible. Gurung focuses on key determinants of behavior, such as family, ethnicity, and religion, which are not always highlighted in health psychology books. Packed with the most up-to-date citations available, this book combines issues 'ripped from the headlines' with the classic issues in the field. A range of vivid examples from different cultural groups provides students with a comprehensive description of the basic theories in Health Psychology as well as an overview of cutting edge research in the field. Special sections highlighting clinical applications of basic theories, strong doses of personality and social psychological theories, and chapters exclusively devoted to variations in cultural beliefs, human development, and different diseases, combine to give readers the best of many worlds.