The Routledge International Handbook of Health Psychology : Global and Contemporary Issues (Hardcover)

Section 1: Defining Health Psychology? 1. History of Health Psychology 2. Health psychology theories and models of behaviour 3. Health Psychology’s Role within the Biopsychosocial Sciences 4. Professionalisation of Health Psychology 5. Future Directions for the Discipline of Health Psychology? Section 2: Theories and Methodology? 6. How to work with theories of health behaviour change 7. Illness Perceptions and Culture 8. Research Design: Overview and recommendations 9. Measurement in Health Psychology 10. Personality and health? Section 3: Health Behavior? 11. Defining and specifying health behaviour 12. A behavioural perspective on health 13. Understanding multiple health behaviours 14. The role of health behaviour in obesity 15. Moving from description to explanation? Section 4: Interpersonal Relations & Health? 16. Interpersonal Relationships and Health? 17. Attachment Insecurity Shapes Physiological and Behavioural Responses to Stress 18. An Overview of the Impact of Chronic Medical Illness on Sexuality 19. Caregiving and Relationships 20. Patient-provider relationships? Section 5: Chronic Diseases? 21. Introduction to Chronic Diseases 22. Coping with Symptoms and Treatments 23. The Psychosocial Impact of Chronic Disease 24. Self-Management and Adherence in the Context of Chronic Diseases 25. The Role of Technology in Chronic Illness? Section 6: Interventions? 26. Introduction: Theoretical foundations of health psychology 27. Interventions in chronic disease 28. Community-based interventions 29. Health Behaviour Change Interventions 30. Implementation strategies? Section 7: Global Health Psychology? 31. An Introduction to ‘Global Health Psychology’ 32. What is the state of Health Psychology in the Global South? 33. Challenges Currently Felt in the Global South 34. Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) 35. Collaboration and Research Ethics in Health Psychology? Section 8: Current Challenges and Opportunities - The Future of Health Psychology? 36. The future of Health Psychology: Challenges and opportunities in the next decades 37. Well-being across the lifespan 38. Health Psychology in the age of digital health 39. Six ways Health Psychology can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation 40. Policy implications