Health Psychology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Taylor, Shelley

Psychology & Counseling

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson

The eighth edition of Health Psychology highlights health issues that face the college student and his or her family through both accessible research examples and profiles of interventions. Drawing on current, cutting-edge research, the text highlights health issues relevant to the college student’s immediate and global environment such as coping with stress, maintaining physical health, and making decisions about alcohol and smoking. This edition contains clear descriptions of current research into the prevention, treatment, and causes (social, genetic, and biological) of specific health related disorders.

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Health Psychology presents the depth of the field and the behavioural science behind the findings; including major focuses on improving our health care system, caring for our aging population (boomers), and the behavioural components and risk factors for disease prevention and health promotion. The updated content for this fourth Canadian edition is geared toward the already occurring and anticipated changes in Health Psychology around the world. The content related to advances and theories from health psychology as it has developed since its inception in the early 1980's has been maintained.

Sirois, Fuschia

Molnar, Danielle

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