Health Psychology

Deborah Fish Ragin is Professor of Psychology at Montclair State University. She served as an Assistant Professor on the faculties of Hunter College, City University of New York, and as Assistant Research Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (now the Icahn School of Medicine) before joining Montclair State. She also served as an American Psychological Association Representative to the United Nations, focusing on the psychosocial impact of HIV/AIDS.

'There is no better health psychology book on the market with an ecological perspective.' —Ellen Langer, Harvard University, USA'Within the pages of Ragin’s Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 3rd edition, the fascinating complexity of human health is depicted through a social ecological framework that seamlessly integrates the many individual, social, institutional, and structural factors influencing the health of individuals and populations, artfully rendered through accessible coverage of judiciously selected research and illuminating real-world examples, including both historical and current events from across the globe. After nearly two decades of teaching health psychology to undergraduate students, the release of this edition may very well displace my longstanding text selection.' —Susan E. Walch, The University of West Florida, USA

• 1. An Interdisciplinary View of Health 2. Research Methods 3. Global Communicable and Chronic Disease 4. Theories and Models of Health Behavior Change 5. Risky Health Behaviors 6. Emotional Health and Well-Being 7. Stress and Coping 8. Psychoneuroimmunology 9. Cardiovascular Disease 10. Chronic Pain Management and Arthritis 11. Cancer 12. Health Care Systems and Health Policy: Effects on Health Outcomes 13. The Health Psychologist’s Role: Research, Application, and Advocacy