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This fourth edition retains the highly praised approach of previous editions, with each chapter providing an overview of the theory and research before moving on to explore applications and intervention practice.  The primary goals of health psychologists are to describe, predict and then to intervene and this book continues to reflect that process.

Introduction to Health Psychology

• 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