Foundations of Health Psychology

RON ROBERTS is a Chartered Health Psychologist, a Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. His principal research interests include social inequalities in health and quality of life, and he has published over fifty articles.ANTHONY TOWELL is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Course Leader for MSc Health Psychology at the University of Westminster, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Hospital for Sick children, Great Ormond Street, London. JOHN F GOLDING is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster and Visiting Researcher at the Medical Research Council Human Movement and Balance Unit, London.

• PrefacePART ONE: HISTORY, CONCEPTS AND METHODSHistorical and Conceptual Basis of Health PsychologyAssessing Health and Quality of LifeDoing Research: Questions and MethodsPART TWO: PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF HEALTHBiomedical Science and Health PsychologyMental HealthPsychoneuroimmunologyPART THREE: HEALTH AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGEModelling Change in Health BehaviourExercise, Health and EatingAlcohol Use and AbuseSmokingHIV Infection and Sexual BehaviourHealth Promotion and Behaviour ChangePART FOUR: SOCIETY AND HEALTHSocial Class and HealthGender and HealthDisability, Health and IllnessEthnicity, Culture and HealthSocial RelationshipsDoctors and PatientsPART FIVE: MANAGING CHRONIC ILLNESSCancerDiabetesPsychological Factors in Degenerative Neurological DiseaseIssues in Palliative CarePART SIX: DECONSTRUCTING HEALTH PSYCHOLOGYThe Future of Health PsychologyReferencesGlossarySubject Index.