Publisher Description

Health psychology is concerned with understanding how biology, behavior, and social context influence health and illness. Recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness. This book presents topical research gathered from across the globe in the study of health psychology, including leisure and depression in midlife; the benefits of humor on health and pain; hypnosis for the treatment of chronic pain; benefit finding relating to better emotional health in heart patients; blaming parents for their children's weight issues.

Table of Contents

Preface; For the Health of It: A Brief Version of the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (Martin & Lefcourt, 1984); Developments in Cultural Competency Research; The Dynamics of Pain & Affect: Toward a Salient Phenotype for Chronic Pain; Hypnosis as an Adjunct to Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy Intervention for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia; Can Technology Improve the Treatment of Chronic Insomnia? A Review of Best Practices; Leisure & Depression in Midlife: A Taiwanese National Survey of Middle-Aged Adults; Benefit Finding Predicts Improved Emotional Health Following Cardiac Rehabilitation; Negotiating Blame as a Fat Child's Parent: A Case Study; Trust in Health Care: Conceptual Issues & Empirical Research; Improving the Public Health Impact of Internet-Delivered Interventions; Index.

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