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Psychology, Health and Health Care

Psychology & Health, 1990
Abstract This article traces the development of the World Health Organization's emphasis on psychological and behavioural factors in health and notes its encouragement of recognition of these factors by member states. The article further outlines the reasons for this increasing recognition and stresses the important role of psychological and ...
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‘Health psychology’ or ‘psychology for health’? A history of psychologists’ engagement with health in South Africa

Journal of Health Psychology, 2017
In contrast to the institutionalization of health psychology in North America and Europe, much psychological work on health issues in South Africa emerged as part of a critical revitalization of South African psychology as a whole, coinciding with the dismantling of Apartheid and global shifts in health discourse.
Jeffery, Yen, Oriana, Vaccarino
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Health Psychology in Context

Journal of Health Psychology, 1996
Over 25 years there has been a remarkable growth of theoretical and empirical studies in health psychology. Its theoretical underpinnings have been largely derivative, its focus primarily clinical, and its subject, the individual. Relatively little attention has been paid to the cultural, sociopolitical and economic conditions which set the context for
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PSYCHOLOGY AND THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN*

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1985
Abstract— Inappropriate behaviour and adverse social circumstances in childhood are responsible for a high proportion of physical morbidity and mortality not only in childhood itself but also in later life. Evidence is provided to support this statement, and the processes whereby social adversity in childhood ...
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Issues for a Psychology of Men’s Health

Journal of Health Psychology, 2002
This article argues for a gendered psychology of men’s health. We argue that capitalism and patriarchy, through their reliance on a restrictive definition of masculinity, limit men’s choices and impact on their health. A psychology of men’s health situates men in their social, cultural and political contexts, addressing the social construction of ...
Lee, C, Owens, RG
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Health psychology

2015
This is an accessible and comprehensive guide to all the major topics of health psychology, including a new chapter on women's health.
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Health Psychology and the Arts

Journal of Health Psychology, 2008
Critical approaches within health psychology continue to explore new methods of working and new theoretical ideas from other disciplines. One area that remains under-explored is the potential links with the arts. This special issue contains a selection of empirical and theoretical reports on the linkages between health psychology and the arts.
Michael, Murray, Ross, Gray
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Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology

2018
Clinical psychology is the area with the greatest number of practitioners, both in the United States and in Western Europe, as well as in Latin America. In more recent decades, health psychology has also become very important. This chapter presents a detailed view of this psychology field.
Héctor Fernández-Alvarez, Claudia Bregman   +1 more
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History of Health Psychology

This chapter gives an overview of the history of health psychology, covering the development of the discipline across a number of countries, including the United States of America (USA), Europe, the United Kingdom (UK), Japan, Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Angel Marie Chater, Francis Quinn, Val Morrison   +2 more
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Health psychology

2022
Meena Hariharan, Meera Padhy, Usha Chivukula   +2 more
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