The Health Psychology Reader

PART ONE: HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY'S DEVELOPMENT, DEFINITION AND CONTEX Behavioral Health's Challenge to Academic, Scientific and Professional Psychology - Joseph D Matarazzo Redefining Health Psychology - Mark McDermott Matarazzo Revisited The Need for a New Medical Model - George L Engel A Challenge for Biomedicine Theoretical Tensions in Biopsychosocial Medicine - David Armstrong The Rhetoric and Reality of Psychosocial Theories of Health - Jane Ogden A Challenge to Biomedicine PART TWO: THEORIES IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Social Foundations of Thought and Action - Albert Bandura A Social Cognitive Theory Emotion Narratives - Richard S Lazarus A Radical New Research Approach The Role of Theory in HIV Prevention - Martin Fishbein Unravelling the Mystery of Health - Aaron Antonovsky How People Manage Stress and Stay Well Some Observations on Health and Socio-Economic Status - Douglas Carroll, George Davey Smith and Paul Bennett PART THREE: HEALTH BEHAVIOUR AND EXPERIENCE Context and Coping - Rudolf H Moos Toward a Unifying Conceptual Framework An Ecological Approach to the Obesity Pandemic - Garry Egger and Boyd Swinburn Moving towards Active Living - Susan Drew Understanding the Contextual Nature of Barriers to Physical Activity Conditional Versus Unconditional Risk Behaviour Estimates in Models of AIDS-related Risk Behaviour - Frank W van der Velde, Christa Hoojkaas and Joop van der Pligt Health and Romance - Paul Flowers et al Understanding Unprotected Sex in Relationships Between Gay Men PART FOUR: HEALTH BELIEFS, EXPLANATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, EDUCATION AND PROMOTION Cultural Diversity in Causal Attributions for Illness - Hope Landrine and Elizabeth A Klonoff The Role of the Supernatural Illness Perceptions - John Weinman and Keith J Petrie A New Paradigm for Psychosomatics? Consumer/Provider Communication Research - Gary L Kreps A Personal Plea to Address Issues of Ecological Validity, Relational Development, Message Diversity and Situational Constraints From Analysis to Synthesis - Jeff French and Lee Adams Theories of Health Education A New Evidence Framework for Health Promotion - Gordon Macdonald PART FIVE: CRITICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Critical Approaches to Health Psychology - Wendy Stainton-Rogers Theorizing Health and Illness - Henderikus J Stam Functionalism, Subjectivity and Reflexivity A Discourse-Dynamic Approach to the Study of Subjectivity in Health Psychology - Carla Willig Health Psychology, Embodiment and the Question of Vulnerability - Alan Radley Possible Contributions of a Psychology of Liberation - M Brinton Lykes Whither Health and Human Rights?