Leslie D. Frazier – författare

The Psychology of Health and Illness is a thoroughly updated version of Leslie Frazier’s previous textbook on health psychology, which provides an engaging and contemporary approach to understanding health psychology from a truly international perspective. Combining both biopsychosocial and lifespan developmental perspectives, the book integrates core theory, research, and practice on global and cross-cultural health issues. It includes thoughtful and deliberately inclusive coverage of marginalized groups, especially BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented groups, designed to raise diversity and racial consciousness in a globally integrative way.Alongside classic health psychology concepts, the author introduces students to cutting-edge scientific and medical topics such as epigenetics, the gut microbiome, and the nonmedical use of prescription drugs. The book also focuses on global public health and health disparities and promotes a strengths-based approach to health, rather than a deficits-based approach. It includes a wide range of pedagogical features including real-world applications, engaging anecdotes and case studies, opportunities for self-reflection, and numerous text boxes.This is essential reading for undergraduate students on Health Psychology courses as well as those in related fields such as nursing and the allied health professions.

The Psychology of Health and Illness is a thoroughly updated version of Leslie Frazier’s previous textbook on health psychology, which provides an engaging and contemporary approach to understanding health psychology from a truly international perspective. Combining both biopsychosocial and lifespan developmental perspectives, the book integrates core theory, research, and practice on global and cross-cultural health issues. It includes thoughtful and deliberately inclusive coverage of marginalized groups, especially BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented groups, designed to raise diversity and racial consciousness in a globally integrative way.Alongside classic health psychology concepts, the author introduces students to cutting-edge scientific and medical topics such as epigenetics, the gut microbiome, and the nonmedical use of prescription drugs. The book also focuses on global public health and health disparities and promotes a strengths-based approach to health, rather than a deficits-based approach. It includes a wide range of pedagogical features including real-world applications, engaging anecdotes and case studies, opportunities for self-reflection, and numerous text boxes.This is essential reading for undergraduate students on Health Psychology courses as well as those in related fields such as nursing and the allied health professions.

Development Across Adulthood: Multicultural Perspectives on Adult Development and Aging provides a novel and comprehensive understanding of development across adulthood.Presenting adult development and aging in a way that applies to student’s lives, the book prepares them as critical consumers and decision-makers as well as culturally competent individuals inspired to pursue related careers. With an emphasis on aging and the end of the lifespan, as well as middle adulthood, the book provides a more balanced presentation of the life changes that occur from emerging adulthood through the end of life. Through an engaging presentation of ideas, scholarship, and pedagogical features that promote active and self-regulated learning and development, the book presents the most recent and exciting theoretical and scientific discoveries of today and incorporates recent and current global issues to help us understand the impact of these events on the development of adults from different cultures.Focusing on diversity in developmental outcomes including age, culture, ethnicity, gender and sexual identity, and the increasingly interconnected global world and its influences on longevity, health, and quality of life, this textbook is core reading for undergraduate students studying adult development and aging courses, as well as other allied health disciplines.The book comes equipped with comprehensive teaching resources, including lecturer slides and instructor manuals for each chapter featuring chapter summaries, discussion questions, class activity ideas, and links to relevant websites, making it an invaluable resource for educators.