Health Psychology

Richard Straub's Health Psychology shows students how psychology and health are interconnected. Using real world examples, Straub encourages students to make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and their own everyday experience. The book is comprehensive in its approach and incorporates the latest research as it examines the field's main ideas and models a scientific way of thinking about those ideas. This textbook features: Fully integrated diversity and health coverage with respect to gender, ethnicity, orientation and SES A critical analysis of the underlying biological, psychological, and social factors that affect the onset of a health problem, its course, and outcome Engaging real world case studies connect the world of health psychology to concrete experience. Integration of the life-course perspective throughout the text examining the needs and health challenges of people in every season of life Your Health Assets boxes that give students self-testing opportunities to connect the material to their own experience. The fifth edition includes two new 'Your Health Assets' boxes and 'Interpreting Data' boxes that help students become more comfortable with the crucial quantitative component of research in a health psychology context. End-of-chapter 'Weigh In on Health' features emphasise critical thinking to help students assess their understanding of material, and to make meaningful connections between the course and their own life experience.