Covering child and adolescent health behavior as well as that of adults, this volume is organized into three parts: personality and health outcomes; mechanisms relating personality and health; personality specific prevention and intervention.
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That the placebo effect plays a role in many treatments is abundantly clear: it not only plays a complementary role in various treatments, but it is sometimes the only benefit of treatment. Brain imaging studies over the past decade have shown that placebo-treated patients under…
There is a vast literature on what has often been called the doctor-patient relationship, patient-provider interaction, therapist-patient encounter, and such like. However, it is thanks to recent advances within neuroscience, that we now find ourselves in a much better position …
The psychology of meditation: research and practice
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Explores the practice of meditation and mindfulness, providing accounts of the cognitive and emotional processes elicited in in meditation.
This volume provides various perspectives on how psychosocial parameters - such as interpersonal rapport, historical and contemporary context, corporate memory, expectation, empathy, hope, conditioning, symbolic thinking and suggestion - play a role in forming placebo responses …
When it comes to disease and healing, most of us believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter. We've all heard that people suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a pos…
"Drug abuse is a major societal problem that damages individuals and communities psychologically, physically, socially, and economically. One way to mitigate these consequences is to prevent drug abuse before it starts, and there is good evidence that this can be done effectivel…
"Few would argue about the benefits of prevention. We all receive messages daily about the importance of a maintaining a healthy diet and body weight, getting enough sleep, practicing safe sex, avoiding the dangers of tobacco, and using alcohol responsibly, to list just a few. A…
To understand the human meaning of illness, we must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. This book explores the many dimensions of what illness means to the suffers and to those around them, drawing on depictions of illness in great works of li…
'Topics in Applied Psychology' is a series of integrated texts combining both the academic and professional aspects of applied psychology. Written by a team of high-profile UK academics, this series is ideal for second- and third-year psychology undergraduates.
In The Age of Stress, Mark Jackson explores the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. In particular, he reveals how the science that legitimates and fuels current anxieties about stress has been shaped by a wide range of socio-political and cultural, as we…
