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• About the author
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
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• 1 Health psychology described
• Getting there from here
• Dealing with coordinated systems
• Evidence-based practice
• What do we mean when we say ‘health psychology’?
• Psychosomatic illness
• A continuum between wellness and illness
• Vulnerability versus resilience
• Illness comorbidities
• Health psychology globally
• Encouraging behavioral change
• Including biopsychosocial perspectives of illness
• Summary
• 2 Methodological approaches in health psychology
• Linkages to illness
• Research using animal models
• Regression approaches
• Epidemiological approaches
• Program evaluation
• Data synthesis
• Caveats on methodology
• Summary
• 3 Biological systems and functioning
• A genetics primer
• Gene × environment interactions
• The nervous system
• Autonomic nervous system
• Endocrine systems
• Hormones associated with the stress response
• Eating and energy-related hormones
• Sex hormones
• Growth factors
• Immune functioning
• The enteric nervous system and the microbiome
• Summary
• 4 The stress process
• Attributes and dimensions of stressors
• Stressor appraisals
• Characteristics of stressors
• Previous stressor experiences
• Social support
• Stressor effects across the life span
• Collective and transgenerational trauma
• Instruments used to assess stressor experiences, appraisals, and coping
• Summary
• 5 Neurobiological stress responses
• Stressor-provoked neurobiological changes
• Hormonal changes elicited by stressors
• Stress and energy balances
• Sex hormones
• Oxytocin
• Growth factors
• Stress and immunity
• Summary
• 6 Healthy behaviors, unhealthy behaviors, and behavioral change
• Treatment of illness
• Individualized treatment strategies
• Intervention approaches
• Risk factors related to health and disease
• Cultural and ethnic differences
• Sex differences
• Behavioral change means health change
• Changing attitudes, changing behaviors, and barriers to change
• Psychosocial and cognitive perspectives of health behaviors
• Positive Psychology
• Harm reduction programs
• Summary
• 7 Lifestyle factors
• Keeping the motor running
• Nutrition
• Eating-related processes
• Obesity
• Making changes
• Health foods and the expansion of neutraceuticals
• Public health and public policy
• Exercise
• Sleep disorders
• Accidents at work and at home
• Summary
• 8 Cardiovascular illnesses and related disorders
• Getting to know the heart
• Diseases of the heart
• Hypertension
• Coronary artery disease
• Factors that promote heart disease
• Personality factors
• Physiological stress responses in relation to heart disease
• Pharmacological treatments
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Stroke
• Summary
• 9 Diabetes
• The broad health impact of diabetes
• Gestational diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes
• Stressors and type 2 diabetes
• Inflammatory factors in type 2 diabetes
• Gut bacteria and diabetes
• Dealing with diabetes
• Medications
• Summary
• 10 Immune-related disorders
• Allergies
• Infectious diseases
• Sexually transmitted infection
• Lifestyle factors in relation to immune functioning and infection
• Autoimmune disorders
• Summary
• 11 Cancer
• What is cancer and how does it develop?
• Genetic contributions
• Environmental contributions
• Viral factors
• A stress–cancer link
• Eating, nutrition, and cancer
• Exercise and cancer
• Sleep and cancer
• Cancer treatment and psychological factors
• Treatment methods
• Another word on precision medicine
• Summary
• 12 Pain
• Defining pain
• Pain assessments
• Psychological consequences of chronic pain
• Psychological factors related to pain perception
• Psychosomatic (psychogenic) pain
• Neurophysiology of pain processes
• Pain management
• Psychological manipulations to deal with pain perception
• Complementary and alternative medicine
• Summary
• 13 Addiction
• Defining addiction
• A broad view of addiction
• Factors leading to addiction
• Multiple neurochemical components associated with addiction
• Why are addictions as persistent as they are?
• A link between propensity for eating and drug addiction
• Putting things together
• Treatment strategies
• Drug treatments to curb addictions
• Summary
• 14 Major physical illnesses
• Quality of life
• Adjustment to chronic illness
• Appraising and coping with illness
• Iatrogenic illness
• Stigma
• Self-perceptions
• Summary
• 15 Dealing with illness
• Recognizing warnings and health risks
• Illness perceptions and beliefs
• Relation between the patient and the health provider
• Obtaining medical care
• Summary
• 16 Caregiving, death, and grief
• Caregiving
• The dying process
• End-of-life care
• Physician-assisted death
• Loss and grieving
• Summary
• 17 From molecules, to individuals, to communities, to policy
• Translational research
• Instigating policy change
• Summary
• References
• Index