Introduction to Health Psychology

Val Morrison is Reader in Health Psychology, and a chartered health psychologist, based at Bangor University. She has taught health psychology since 1992, whilst maintaining a vibrant research group investigating psychosocial predictors of patient and carer outcomes of chronic disease and cancer. Paul Bennett is Research Professor in the Nursing, Health and Social Research Centre at the University of Cardiff. He has published several books on health and clinical psychology as well as over 100 academic papers and chapters.

PART I: BEING AND STAYING HEALTHY

Chapter 1 What is health?
Chapter 2 Health inequalities
Chapter 3 Health-risk behaviour
Chapter 4 Health-protective behaviour
Chapter 5 Explaining health behaviour
Chapter 6 Reducing risk of disease individual approaches
Chapter 7 Population approaches to public health

PART II: BECOMING ILL

Chapter 8 The body in health and illness
Chapter 9 Symptom perception, interpretation and response
Chapter 10 The consultation and beyond
Chapter 11 Stress, health and illness: theory
Chapter 12 Stress and illness moderators
Chapter 13 Managing stress

PART III: BEING ILL

Chapter 14 The impact of illness on quality of life
Chapter 15 The impact of illness on patients and their families
Chapter 16 Pain
Chapter 17 Improving health and quality of life

PART IV: FUTURES

Chapter 18 Futures