Main description:

This third edition of the much acclaimed Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for doctors, health care professionals, mental health care professionals (such as psychologists, counsellors, specialist nurses), academics, researchers, and students specializing in health across all these fields. The new streamlined structure of the book features brief section overviews summarising the state of the art of knowledge on the topic to make the information easier to find. The encyclopaedic aspects of the Handbook have been retained; all the entries, as well as the extensive references, have been updated. Retaining all the virtues of the original, this edition is expanded with a range of new topics, such as the effects of conflict and war on health and wellbeing, advancements in assisted reproduction technology, e-health interventions, patient-reported outcome measures, health behaviour change interventions, and implementing changes into health care practice.

Contents:

1. Developmental influences on health Julie Turner Cobb and Tara J. Cheetham; 2. Lifecourse perspective and health Ilene Siegler and Christin M. Ogle; 3. Disability and health Timothy Elliott and Trey W. Armstrong; 4. Social factors and health Sasha Scambler; 5. Gender and health Richard De Visser; 6. Sexual orientation and health David Frost; 7. Occupation and health Aditya Jain and Stavroula Leka; 8. Environment and health Giyoung Park and Garry Evans; 9. Immigration and health Ana Abraido-Lanza and Adria Armbrister; 10. Socioeconomic status and health Jennifer McGowan and Lion Shahab; 11. Addictive behaviours Robert West and Harveen Ubhi; 12. Eating behaviour Jane Ogden; 13. Models of health behaviour Mark Conner; 14. Physical activity and health Laura McGowan, Angela Devereux-Fitzgerald, Rachael Powell and David French; 15. Risk perception Baruch Fischhoff; 16. Sexual behaviour and health Natalie Edelman, Elaney Youssef, Carrie Llewellyn and Paul Flowers; 17. Help-seeking Suzanne Scott; 18. Medically unexplained symptoms Trudi Chalder and Claire Willis; 19. Pain Dennis Turk and Tasha B. Murphy; 20. Symptom perception Keith Petrie and Elizabeth Broadbent; 21. The placebo effect Irving Kirsch; 22. The nocebo effect Keith Petrie and Kate MacKrill; 23. Adherence to treatment Rob Horne; 24. Beliefs and perceptions of health and illness Yael Benyamini and Howard Leventhal; 25. Coping with chronic illness Keith Petrie and Annie S. K. Jones; 26. Coping Charles Carver; 27. Dyadic coping with illness Tracey A. Revenson and Mariet Hagedoorn; 28. Emotions and health Daryl O'Connor and Nicola Gartland; 29. Personality and health Dietlinde Heilmayr and Howard Friedman; 30. Preparing patients for coping with stressful medical procedures Yael Benyamini; 31. Psychoneuroimmunology Kimberly G. Lockwood, Catherine P. Walsh, Elizabeth A. Bachen and Anna L. Marsland; 32. Social relationships Bert Uchino, Robert G. Kent de Grey, Sierra Cronan and Ryan Trettevik; 33. Stigma Lauren K. O'Connor and Phillip Yanos; 34. Stress Julie Turner-Cobb and Evangelos Katsampouris; 35. Armed conflict and health Bayard Roberts; 36. Domestic and intimate partner violence Lorna O'Doherty; 37. Migration, displacement and health Chesmal Siriwardhana and Kolitha Wickramage; 38. Rape and sexual assault Ibitola Asaolu and Mary P. Koss; 39. Brain imaging and function Hugo Critchley and Natasha Sigala; 40. Diagnostic interviews for assessment of mental disorders in clinical practice Richard Rogers, Margot M. Williams and Peggilee Wupperman; 41. Disability assessment Trey Armstrong and Timothy Elliott; 42. Health and illness cognitions Elizabeth Broadbent; 43. Health status and quality of life assessment Ann Bowling; 44. IQ testing Robert Sternberg; 45. Mood assessment Anne Fritzson, Mija Lieberman and Michele M. Tugade; 46. Neuropsychological assessment Sophie Betka and Hugo Critchley; 47. Pain assessment. Amanda C de C Williams; 48. Patient outcomes monitoring Jose Valderas; 49. Psychoneuroimmunology assessment Catie Walsh, Kimberly G. Lockwood, Elizabeth A. Bachen and Anna L. Marsland; 50. Social support assessment Julie Chronister; 51. Stress and coping assessment Julie Turner-Cobb and Tamsyn Hawken; 52. Behaviour therapy Gerald Davison and Lauren Garcia; 53. Biofeedback Robert Gatchel and Carl Noe; 54. Chronic pain management Whitney Scott and Lance McCracken; 55. Cognitive behaviour therapy Andrew Eagle and Michael Worrell; 56. Cognitive behavioural couple therapy Michael Worrell; 57. Community based interventions Kenneth Heller and Mary F. Wyman; 58. Counselling Robert Bor and Carina Eriksen; 59. Group therapy Peter Hajek; 60. Health behaviour change interventions Sarah Denford, Charles Abraham, Van Beurden, Smith and Morgan-Trimmer; 61. Health promotion Gerjo Kok and Robert A. C. Ruiter; 62. Hypnosis Michael Heap; 63. Mindfulness Jean Kristeller; 64. Motiv