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Health Psychology

Sixth  Edition©2019 Richard O. Straub

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Straub’s Health Psychology shows students how psychology and health are interconnected.  The text encourages students to make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and their own everyday experience.  The text is comprehensive in its approach, includes in engaging real world examples, and thoroughly examines the intersection of diversity and health with regard to gender, ethnicity, age, and orientation.
Health Psychology incorporates the latest research and uses the biopsychosocial perspective as it  explores the main ideas of the field and models a scientific way of thinking about those ideas.

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Table of Contents

Preface  

Part 1 Foundations of Health Psychology
Chapter 1 Introducing Health Psychology
Chapter 2 Research in Health Psychology
Chapter 3 Biological Foundations of Health and Illness 

Part 2 Stress and Health
Chapter 4 Stress 
Chapter 5 Coping with Stress  

Part 3 Behavior and Health 
Chapter 6 Staying Healthy: Primary Prevention and Positive Psychology
Chapter 7 Exercise, Sleep, and Injury Control
Chapter 8 Nutrition, Obesity, and Eating Disorders
Chapter 9 Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction 

Part 4 Chronic and Life-Threatening Illnesses
Chapter 10 Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes
Chapter 11 Cancer 
Chapter 12 HIV/AIDS and Other Communicable Diseases 

Part 5 Seeking Treatment 
Chapter 13 The Role of Health Psychology in Seeking and Obtaining Health Care
Chapter 14 Managing Pain 
Chapter 15 Complementary and Alternative Medicine
 
Epilogue Health Psychology Today and Tomorrow  

Glossary G-1
References R-1
Name Index NI-1
Subject Index SI-1

 

Richard O. Straub

Richard O. Straub is Professor of Psychology and founder of the Graduate Program in Health Psychology at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. After receiving his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Columbia University and serving as a National Institute of Mental Health Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, Straub joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1979. Since then, he has focused on research in health psychology, especially mind-body issues in stress, cardiovascular reactivity, and the effects of exercise on physical and psychological health. Straub’s research has been published in such journals as Health Psychology, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 
A recipient of the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the Alumni Society’s Faculty Member of the Year Award, Straub is extensively involved in undergraduate and graduate medical education. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the Southeast Michigan Consortium for Medical Education and lecturing regularly at area teaching hospitals, Straub has created an online learning management system for medical residency programs and authored a series of web-based modules for teaching core competencies in behavioral medicine.
Straub’s interest in enhancing student learning is further reflected in the study guides, instructor’s manuals, and critical thinking materials he has developed to accompany several leading psychology texts.
Straub’s professional devotion to health psychology dovetails with his personal devotion to fitness and good health. He has completed hundreds of road races and marathons (including multiple Boston marathons, Ironman triathlons,  and the 2009 Ironman-Hawaii World Championship), and is a nationally-ranked, USAT All-American triathlete. With this text Straub combines his teaching vocation with a true passion for health psychology.