The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology

Edited by Howard S. Friedman

Oxford Library of Psychology

Part of the OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
Chapters authored by finest health psychology scholars in the United States, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, and Spain
Emphasis on the fundamentals, core areas, and insights of health psychology
Exceptionally well-written chapters that go beyond literature reviews to tackle and explain challenging health issues

The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology

Edited by Howard S. Friedman

Description

The flaws in today's healthcare systems and practices are well-documented: millions remain far from optimal health due to a variety of psychological and social factors; large numbers of patients do not fully cooperate with medical advice; errors in medical decision-making -- some stemming from flaws in interpersonal relations -- regularly lead to needless suffering and death. Further, the effects of emotions, personality, and motivation on healing are not well incorporated into traditional medical care.

The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology compiles the most relevant scholarship from psychology, medicine, and public health to offer a thorough and authoritative model of the biopsychosocial approach to health. A collection of international contributors addresses all relevant concepts in this model, including its applications to health promotion, health behavior change, and treatment.

The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology

Edited by Howard S. Friedman

Oxford Library of Psychology

Part One: Background, History, and Methods

1. The Intellectual Roots of Health Psychology
Howard S. Friedman and Nancy E. Adler
2. A History of the Development of Health Psychology
Wade Pickren and Silvia Degni
3. Measurement in Health Psychology Research
Timothy W. Smith
4. Designing and Conducting Interventions to Enhance Physical and Mental Health Outcomes
J. Lee Westmaas, Virginia Gil-Rivas, and Roxane C. Silver
5. Uncertainty, Variability, and Resource Allocation in the Health Care Decision Process
Robert M. Kaplan

Part Two: Core Concepts in Health Psychology

6. The Brain, Homeostasis, and Health: Balancing Demands of the Internal and External Milieu
John T. Cacioppo and Gary G. Berntson
7. Psychoneuroimmunology
Margaret E. Kemeny
8. Stress, Coping, and Health
Charles S. Carver and Sara Vargas
9. Social Support
Shelley E. Taylor
10. Personality, Disease, and Self-healing
Howard S. Friedman
11. Adjustment to Chronic Disease: Progress and Promise in Research
Annette L. Stanton and Tracey A. Revenson
12. Social Comparison Processes: Implications for Physical Health
Jerry Suls
13. Health and Illness Perceptions
Yael Benyamimi

Part Three: Core Issues in Clinical Health

14. Physician-Patient Communication
Judith A. Hall and Debra L. Roter
15. Aging and Health
Karen Rook, Susan Turk Charles, and Jutta Heckhausen
16. Chronic Pain: Closing the Gap between Evidence and Practice
Beverly Thorn
17. Coping with Cancer
Vanessa Malcarne
18. Expressive Writing, Emotional Upheavals, and Health
James W. Pennebaker and Cindy K. Chung
19. Beyond the Myths of Coping with Loss: Prevailing Assumptions versus Scientific Evidence
Camille Wortman and Kathrin Boerner
20. Family Consultation for Couples Coping with Health Problems: A Social Cybernetic Approach
Michael J. Rohrbaugh and Varda Shoham
21. Childhood Health and Chronic Illness
Barbara Tinsley
22. Transplantation
Mary Amanda Dew and Andrea F. DiMartini
23. HIV/AIDS
Lydia Temoshok

Part Four: Health Behaviors and Change

24. Health Behavior Change
Ralf Schwarzer
25. Advancing Health Behavior Theory: The Interplay among Theories of Health Behavior, Empirical Modeling of Health Behavior, and Behavioral Interventions
Leona Aiken
26. The Perception of Health Risks
Britta Renner and Harald Schupp
27. Physical Activity
Dawn Wilson
28. Alcohol Use and Alcohol Use Disorders
Kenneth J. Sher, Amelia Talley, Andrew K. Littlefield, and Julia Martinez
29. Obesity
Emily L. Van Walleghen, Betsy A. Steeves, and Hollie A. Raynor
30. Dispositional Optimism, Psychophysiology, and Health
Suzanne Segerstrom

Part Five: Population and Socio-Cultural Issues

31. Community Health
Marta Gil Lacruz
32. Latino Health
John Ruiz and Patrick Steffen
33. Two Decades of Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for Health
Irina L. G. Todorova
34. Asian Meditation and Health
Yosuke Sakairi, Genji Sugamura, and Masao Suzuki
35. Health Consequences of Social Relationships in Non-human Primates
John P. Capitanio

Part Six: Conclusion

36. Conclusion: The Achievements and Promise of Health Psychology
Howard S. Friedman

The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology

Edited by Howard S. Friedman

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Howard S. Friedman is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Major awards for his health psychology research include the Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association, and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science, its most prestigious award in the field of applied scientific research. Author or editor of a dozen books and 150 scientific articles, Dr. Friedman graduated from Yale and was awarded a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship for his doctoral work at Harvard.

Contributors:

Nancy E. Adler
Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Leona S. Aiken
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Yael Benyamini
Shapell School of Social Work
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel

Gary G. Berntson
Department of Psychology
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Kathrin Boerner
Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Mary H. Burleson
Division of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

John T. Cacioppo
Department of Psychology
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Charles S. Carver
Department of Psychology
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

John P. Capitanio
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA

Susan T. Charles
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

Cindy K. Chung
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Silvia Degni
University of Rome, La Sapienza
Rome, Italy

Mary Amanda Dew
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

Andrea F. DiMartini
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

Howard S. Friedman
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

Virginia Gil-Rivas
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Charlotte, NC

Judith A. Hall
Department of Psychology
Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Jutta Heckhausen
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

Robert M. Kaplan
Department of Health Services
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Margaret E. Kemeny
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Heather Kitzman-Ulrich
Department of Psychology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Marta Gil Lacruz
Department of Psychology
University of North Texas
Denton, TX

Andrew K. Littlefield
Midwest Alcoholism Research Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO

Vanessa L. Malcarne
Department of Psychology
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA

Julia Martinez
Midwest Alcoholism Research Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO

James W. Pennebaker
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Wade E. Pickren
Department of Psychology
Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada

Hollie A. Raynor
Department of Nutrition
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

Britta Renner
Department of Psychology
University of Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany

Tracey A. Revenson
Department of Psychology
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York, NY

Michael J. Rohrbaugh
Departments of Psychology and Family Studies/Human Development
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Karen S. Rook
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

Debra L. Roter
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Yosuke Sakairi
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Japan

Harald Schupp
Department of Psychology
University of Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany

Ralf Schwarzer
Department of Psychology
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Suzanne C. Segerstrom
Department of Psychology
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Kenneth J. Sher
Midwest Alcoholism Research Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO

Varda Shoham
Department of Psychology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Roxane Cohen Silver
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

Timothy W. Smith
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Annette L. Stanton
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Betsy A. Steeves
Department of Nutrition
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

Patrick Steffen
Department of Psychology
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT

Genji Sugamura
Department of Psychology
Kansai University
Osaka, Japan

Jerry Suls
Department of Psychology
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Masao Suzuki
Department of Psychology
Waseda University
Shinjuku, Japan

Amelia Talley
Midwest Alcoholism Research Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO

Shelley E. Taylor
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Lydia Temoshok
Institute of Human Virology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Beverly E. Thorn
Department of Psychology
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL

Barbara J. Tinsley
Division of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Irina L.G. Todorova
Health Psychology Research Center
Sofia, Bulgaria

Emily L. Van Walleghen
Department of Nutrition
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

Sara Vargas
Department of Psychology
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

Barbara B. Walker
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

J. Lee Westmaas
Psychology Department
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY

Dawn K. Wilson
Department of Psychology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Camille B. Wortman
Department of Psychology
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY

Nicole Zarrett
Department of Psychology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology

Edited by Howard S. Friedman

Oxford Library of Psychology

Reviews and Awards

"Howard Friedman has done an outstanding job of assembling the leading voices in health psychology. The chapters are comprehensive, thoughtful, and beautifully written. In its entirety, this handbook is a powerful statement about the breadth and depth of the science that now defines the field of health psychology. This handbook will be a critical resource for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners across the health sciences, and now that health behaviors are recognized as leading causes of death, it also should also be in the hands of all policy makers concerned with the health of the public." --Susan Folkman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco

"The Oxford Handbook of Health Psychology is the most comprehensive review of the major topics in behavioral medicine and the psychology of health on the market today. Howard Friedman has assembled some of the field's most creative investigators to contribute chapters that are comprehensive, cutting edge in their coverage, and yet highly readable. This is a volume that should be on the bookshelf of every investigator, and it would make an excellent text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in psychology and allied health professions. A tour de force!" --Peter Salovey, Ph.D., Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology and University Provost, Yale University

"This handbook is an exceptionally fine specimen of the genre. A prolific writer-researcher, Friedman is also an excellent editor; the contributions herein are focused, well written, and full of current and classic references, but never too long... Highly recommended." -- D. S. Dunn, Moravian College, CHOICE