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Health Psychology in Australia

Psychology & Health, 1990
Abstract Opportunities are expanding rapidly for health psychologists to work in Australia in a wider range of health-care settings, and on challenging aspects of community disease prevention and public health. Published material in psychological journals in Australia does not suggest that there is a trend towards more health psychology research being ...
Oldenburg, Brian, Owen, Neville
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The Psychological Health of “Joiners”

Psychological Reports, 2001
The current study examined the relationship between scores on social complexity and psychological health. A sample of 202 college students yielded positive correlations for propensity to join and maintain memberships in diverse groups with psychological health, thereby replicating past research.
D L, Wann, C L, Ensor
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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 interventions

British Journal of Health Psychology, 2013
First paragraph: There is now widespread acceptance that behaviour plays a key role in the development of many long-term conditions and that behaviour change is essential for both prevention and treatment (Khaw et al., 2008; Mokdad, Marks, Stroup, & Gerberding, 2004).
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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 ...
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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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Health Psychology in Australia

2017
In today’s diverse society, health professionals require a complete understanding of how physiological, social and psychological factors impact physical wellbeing. Health Psychology in Australia provides a contemporary, relevant perspective on the unique climate in which this increasingly important area of healthcare is practised in Australia.
Dorian, Jill, Thorsteinsson, Einar, Di Benedetto, Mirella, Lane-Krebs, Katrina, Day, Melissa, Hutchinson, Amanda, Sherman, Kerry   +6 more
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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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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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