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Health Psychology

A Biopsychosocial ApproachSixth Edition ©2019New Edition Available Richard O. Straub

With Straub’s Health Psychology, students explore the interrelationship of psychological and physical well-being, making meaningful connections between health psychology theory and research and their own everyday experience.  Straub explores the main ideas of the field from a biopsycho...
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Look Inside Look Inside Health Psychology by Richard O. Straub - Sixth Edition, 2019 from Macmillan Student Store

The most accessible, current, and engaging introduction to health psychology today.

With Straub’s Health Psychology, students explore the interrelationship of psychological and physical well-being, making meaningful connections between health psychology theory and research and their own everyday experience.  Straub explores the main ideas of the field from a biopsychosocial perspective, drawing on the latest research, engaging examples, and thorough considerations of diversity issues as they relate to health psychology (gender, ethnicity, age, orientation).

Features

Fully integrated gender and cultural diversity coverage. Promoting understanding of, and respect for, differences among groups of people and how these differences affect health and illness. The Diversity and Healthy Living boxes found throughout the text expand the integrated coverage of gender and multicultural issues by highlighting specific health issues.

Biopsychosocial approach. The book follows the biopsychosocial model as the basic organizing template. Each chapter dealing with a specific health problem—on cardiovascular disease and diabetes, cancer, and substance use/abuse, for example—presents a critical analysis of what we know to be the underlying biological, psychological, and social factors in the onset of the health problem, as well as how these factors affect the course of the disease and the outcome.

An engaging case study or vignette at the beginning of each chapter connects the world of health psychology to some concrete experience and weaves a thread of human interest throughout the chapter. All of these describe real situations.

The life-course perspective. In integrated coverage through the text, students will learn about the special needs and health challenges of people in every season of life.
Coverage of complementary and alternative medicine.. Chapter 15 carefully explores the validity of these high-interest, alternative interventions.
Your Health Assets boxes that give students self-testing opportunities to connect the material to their own experiences.

Interpreting Data boxes that help students become more comfortable with the crucial quantitative component of research in a health psychology context.

End-of-chapter Weigh In on Health features that emphasize critical thinking to help students assess their understanding of material, and to make meaningful connections between the course and their own life experiences
Full supplements package including: LaunchPad solo (Video activities, Critical Thinking Exercises, Web quizzes, PsychSim 6);  Instructor’s Resource Manual, Downloadable Computerized Test Bank in Diploma, Illustration and Lecture Slides, Interactive flashcards .

New to This Edition

Every page of Straub’s new edition has been revised and updated with the latest research and ideas in the field.  Highlights of the latest content include:

  • Thoroughly revised and updated material on stress including: new section Biological Differences in the Stress Response (or Gender and the HPA Axis); New section Prenatal Stress and Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • new section, mHealth,  focused on research investigating the use smartphones and other mobile technologies to promote health and well-being;
  • New research and material on nutrition and weight including on implicit weight bias, food security, and genetics and the risk of developing an eating disorder
  • New material on positive psychology research including thriving, resilience, the neurobiology of spirituality.
  • New material on the rapid increase in the use of prescription and non-prescription opioids
  • New material on women’s health including the effects of historical lack of knowledge surrounding women’s health and differences in treatment of pain by gender.
  • New section Interactions Among Body Systems with coverage of the microbiota-gut-brain axis;

The new Sixth Edition includes new pedagogical elements to enhance the student experience:

  • New Learning Outcomes at the beginning of every chapter
  • Diversity and Healthy Living: Neighborhood Violence, Brain Development, and PTSD
  • Your Health Assets: The Brief Cope-new scale allowing readers to asses their coping style in response to stressful events
  • New full color design with photos and figures in color.

“This book is written at the perfect level for undergraduates...I often turn to it myself when I am looking for a simple explanation of a phenomena”
– Marc Dingman, Pennsylvania State University

“Straub emphasizes the biopsychosocial model and presents critical content in health psychology in a clear way”
– Sasha Karnes, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

“The coverage within each chapter is extensive.  It is well organizes and very easy for students to follow.  There are a number of approaches that really help consolidate the students understand of the material presented within each chapter, including the use of illustrative examples,  and case vignettes”
– Bianca Jardin, Francis Marion University

"The greatest strengths of Straub, Health Psychology are:  “The depth and breadth of the topics covered and the strong biological and physiological foundation—these chapters lay the framework from which all the rest of the biopsychosocial research in health psychology can be interpreted”
– Judith Anderson, University of Toronto – Mississauga

“I really liked the book a lot...I found it to be very well written and at the appropriate level for the students I teach.   I also liked that it was quite well organized, which I am sorry to say I don’t always find with every textbook.  The diagrams and graphics were good-very understandable and well explained. “
– Karen Baker, University of Memphis

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Table of Contents

Preface  

Part 1 Foundations of Health Psychology
Chapter 1 Introducing Health Psychology
Chapter 2 Research in Health Psychology
Chapter 3 Biological Foundations of Health and Illness 

Part 2 Stress and Health
Chapter 4 Stress 
Chapter 5 Coping with Stress  

Part 3 Behavior and Health 
Chapter 6 Staying Healthy: Primary Prevention and Positive Psychology
Chapter 7 Exercise, Sleep, and Injury Control
Chapter 8 Nutrition, Obesity, and Eating Disorders
Chapter 9 Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction 

Part 4 Chronic and Life-Threatening Illnesses
Chapter 10 Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes
Chapter 11 Cancer 
Chapter 12 HIV/AIDS and Other Communicable Diseases 

Part 5 Seeking Treatment 
Chapter 13 The Role of Health Psychology in Seeking and Obtaining Health Care
Chapter 14 Managing Pain 
Chapter 15 Complementary and Alternative Medicine
 
Epilogue Health Psychology Today and Tomorrow  

Glossary G-1
References R-1
Name Index NI-1
Subject Index SI-1

 

Richard O. Straub

Richard O. Straub is professor emeritus of psychology and founding director of the graduate program in health psychology at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. After receiving his PhD in experimental psychology from Columbia University and serving as a National Institute of Mental Health fellow at the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Straub joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1979. Since then, he has focused on research in health psychology, especially mind–body issues in stress, cardiovascular reactivity, and the effects of exercise on physical and psychological health. His research has been published in such journals as Health Psychology, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. A recipient of the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Teaching award and the Alumni Society’s Faculty Member of the Year award, Dr. Straub is extensively involved in undergraduate and graduate medical education. His professional devotion to health psychology dovetails with his personal devotion to fitness and good health. Dr. Straub has completed hundreds of road races and marathons (including multiple Boston Marathons, Ironman Triathlons, and the IRONMAN Hawaii and half-IRONMAN World Championship races).

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