The Social Psychology of Health: Essays and ReadingsWilliam D. Marelich, Jeff S. Erger The Social Psychology of Health: Essays and Readings provides an integrative approach to understanding health psychology using social psychological principles. It contains 26 readings grouped into five sections. The first section includes an overview of the multiple disciplines and perspectives that contribute to theory and research in health psychology and behavioral medicine: psychology, sociology, epidemiology, and public health. The remaining four sections cover major topics within the field of health psychology, mirroring the major topical coverage of most introductory health psychology textbooks. This coverage ranges from health attitude change to the health-care setting, stress and coping and social relationships, and health policy. |
Contents
Health and Illness Seen Through Different Lenses | 9 |
A Overviews From Various Fields | 15 |
Themes in Medical Sociology | 31 |
Social Theory Conforming and the Change | 87 |
A Overview of Change Strategies | 95 |
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Do Postcard Reminders Improve Influenza Vaccination | 111 |
A SelfEfficacy Model | 117 |
B Setting Defining the Illness | 191 |
The Process of Stress Coping and Empowerment | 201 |
A Stressful Life Events and the Structure of Coping | 209 |
An Analysis of Coping in a MiddleAged Community Sample | 222 |
B On Social Relationships and Health | 237 |
Personal Responsibility and the Empowered Patient | 247 |
HIVAIDS Patient Involvement in Antiretroviral | 255 |
Health Policy Future Paths and Concerns | 267 |
87 | 120 |
Application of the Theories of Reasoned Action and Planned Behavior | 127 |
HIV Risk Behavior Reduction Following Intervention With | 137 |
B Designing Health Behavior Interventions | 143 |
Health Care Settings and Their Social Dynamics | 163 |
A The PatientProvider Interaction | 169 |
on the Process of Providing Antiretroviral Treatment | 181 |
A Health Policy and Activism | 275 |
AIDS Activism and the Politics of Health | 286 |
Looking to the Future of Health | 306 |
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About the Editors 353 | |
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