Introduction to Health Psychology

Val Morrison is Professor in Health Psychology, and a chartered health psychologist, based at Bangor University.  She has taught health psychology since 1992, whilst maintaining a vibrant research group investigating psychosocial predictors of patient and carer outcomes of chronic disease and cancer.  Paul Bennett is Professor of clinical health psychology at the University of Swansea. He has published several books on health and clinical psychology as well as over 150 academic papers and chapters.

• PART I: BEING AND STAYING HEALTHY Chapter 1 What is health? Chapter 2 Health inequalities Chapter 3 Health-risk behaviour Chapter 4 Health-protective behaviour Chapter 5 Explaining health behaviour Chapter 6 Reducing risk of disease – individual approaches Chapter 7 Population approaches to public health PART II: BECOMING ILL Chapter 8 The body in health and illness Chapter 9 Symptom perception, interpretation and response Chapter 10 The consultation and beyond Chapter 11 Stress, health and illness: theory Chapter 12 Stress and illness moderators Chapter 13 Managing stress PART III: BEING ILL Chapter 14 The impact of illness on quality of life Chapter 15 The impact of illness on patients and their families Chapter 16 Pain Chapter 17 Improving health and quality of life PART IV: FUTURES Chapter 18 Futures