What factors determine healthy behavior? Health Psychology: Well-Being in a Diverse World answers this question by introducing and regularly applying research to stress, coping, interventions and health behaviors in today’s world. Speaking directly to students, Regan A. R. Gurung’s conversational voice guides learners through the key determinants of behavior, such as family, environment, ethnicity, and religion. Each chapter delves into the biological foundations of health, presents interdisciplinary case studies, and integrates personality and social psychological theories, fostering a comprehensive grasp of the subject. Continually asking readers to think further, to synthesize, to analyze, and to apply to improve their own health outcomes as they learn, Gurung empowers students through connections to personal experience. The Fifth Edition offers contemporary reference updates, an expanded focus on intersectional topics across cultures, test yourself practice, and much more.
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विषयसूची
Chapter 1. What Is Health? Cultural and Historical Roots
Chapter 2. Doing Health Psychology: Research Methods
Chapter 3. Cultural Approaches to Health – Deepti Karkhanis
Chapter 4. Essential Physiology
Chapter 5. Diverse Understandings of Stress – Deepti Karkhanis
Chapter 6. Coping and Social Support – Deepti Karkhanis
Chapter 7. Why Don’t We Do What We Need To? Models of Behavior Change – Amanda El Bassiouny
Chapter 8. Health Behaviors: Eating, Being Active, Smoking, and Drinking – Aurora Sherman
Chapter 9. Illness Cognitions, Adherence, and Patient–Practitioner Interactions – Amanda El Bassiouny
Chapter 10. Diverse Approaches to Pain – Amanda El Bassiouny
Chapter 11. Chronic Illness, Terminal Illness, and Death – Kathleen Bogart
Chapter 12. Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV – Melissa Oxlad
Chapter 13. Cancer: Fundamentals and Cultural Variations – Melissa Oxlad
Chapter 14. Cardiovascular Disease: Fundamentals and Cultural Variations – Melissa Oxlad
Chapter 15. Controversies and the Future of Health Psychology
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Regan A. R. Gurung is professor of psychological sciences at Oregon State University. He was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (UWGB) for 20 years, where he was the Ben J. and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Human Development and Psychology. He received a BA at Carleton College (Minnesota) and a Ph D at the University of Washington. He then spent three years at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals, including Psychological Review and Teaching of Psychology. His textbook, Health Psychology: A Cultural Approach (SAGE, 2023) is in its fifth edition, and he has coauthored/edited 15 other books, including Study Like a Champ (APA, 2023) and Transforming Introductory Psychology (APA, 2023). He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Midwestern Psychological Association. He has won the Founder’s Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as of the Founder’s Award for Scholarship at UWGB, and he was also the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Wisconsin Professor of the Year (2009) and the UW System Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award winner. In August 2017, he received the American Psychological Foundation’s Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award, the highest award given to teachers of psychology in America, and he is the 2024 Oregon State University Margaret and Thomas Meehan Honors College Eminent Mentor. He is past president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and past president of Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology. He is founding coeditor of the APA journal, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. In January 2025, he was named a Psi Chi Distinguished Member, the highest honor bestowed by the international honor society in psychology.
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