Health Psychology is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology. Organized into four sections, the 7th edition is structured with a clear emphasis on theory and evidence throughout.
With renewed focus on thinking critically about health psychology, Ogden’s revised edition maintains its accessible style and broad coverage. Each chapter features rich examples to empower students to expand their understanding of this dynamic psychological sub-discipline.
Health Psychology comes with an Online Learning Centre created to support course delivery. This site boasts:
• Multiple choice questions for knowledge checks
• Suggested essay questions to supplement in-class or homework activities
• PowerPoint presentations to aid with structuring your module
Within the book you will also find a range of pedagogic features designed to engage students including:
• “For Discussion” boxes
• End of Chapter questions
• “Thinking Critically” sections in each chapter
• Suggestions for Further Reading
These features will encourage debate and critical thinking in turn contributing to deeper understanding and improved course outcomes.
Updated to include sections on LGBTQ+ health and to reflect the most recent research studies and their implications for practice, Ogden’s new edition takes a rigorous approach that highlights the role that psychology plays in all aspects of physical health.
Jane Ogden is a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK and has been researching and writing about eating behaviour and weight management for nearly 30 years. Her research interests include obesity management, aspects of women’s health and communication in healthcare.
Author(s): Jane Ogden
Edition: 7
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 600
City: New York
Cover
Health Psychology
Brief table of contents
Detailed table of contents
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Preface to the seventh edition
Guided Tour
Technology to Enhance Learning and Teaching
Acknowledgements
Part One: The context of health psychology
1: Introduction to health psychology: Theories and methods
Case study
The background to health psychology
The twentieth century
What is the biomedical model?
What is health psychology?
What are the aims of health psychology?
Clinical psychology versus health psychology
The focus of health psychology
The biopsychosocial model
Health as a continuum
The relationship between psychology and health
A focus on variability
Key theories
Thinking critically about health psychology
Being critical
Being critical of theory
Being critical of method
Being critical of measurement
Being critical of a discipline
Working in health psychology
The clinical health psychologist
The health psychology practitioner
The community health psychologist
The academic health psychologist
The aims of this book
A complete course in health psychology
Online/hybrid learning
A note on referencing
A note on covid
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
Research methods
Critical health psychology
Part Two: Staying well: Health beliefs, behaviour and behaviour change
2: Health beliefs
Case study
What are health behaviours?
Why study health behaviours?
Behaviour and longevity
Behaviour and mortality
The role of health beliefs
Individual beliefs
Using stage models
The stages of change model (soc)
The health action process approach (hapa)
Using social cognition models
The health belief model
Protection motivation theory (pmt)
Theories of reasoned action and planned behaviour (tra and tpb)
Using integrated models
The com-b
The intentionñbehaviour gap
The role of past behaviour and habit
So how does past behaviour influence future behaviour?
Bridging the intentionñbehaviour gap
Thinking critically about health beliefs
Some critical questions
Some problems with . . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
3: Addictive behaviours
Case study
The health impact of smoking and drinking
Who smokes?
Who drinks?
Smoking and health
Alcohol and health
A brief history of models of addiction
What is an addiction?
The seventeenth century and the moral model of addictions
The nineteenth century and the first disease concept
The twentieth century and the second disease concept
The 1970s and onwards: Social learning theory
Learning an addictive behaviour
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Observational learning/modelling
Cognitive factors
Integrating disease and learning perspectives
The stages of substance use
Stages 1 and 2: Initiating and maintaining an addictive behaviour
Stage 3: Ceasing an addictive behaviour
Stage 4: Relapse
A cross-addiction perspective
Excessive appetites theory
Prime theory
Thinking critically about addictive behaviours
Some critical questions
Some problems with . . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
4: Eating behaviour
Case study
What is a healthy diet?
The impact of diet on health
Diet and illness onset
Diet and treating illness
Who eats a healthy diet?
A cognitive model of eating behaviour
Using health behaviour models
The broader impact of cognition
A developmental model of eating behaviour
Exposure
Social learning
Associative learning
Food and physiological consequences
A weight concern model of eating behaviour
The meaning of food and weight
Body dissatisfaction
Dieting
Thinking critically about eating behaviour
Some critical questions
Some problems with . . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
5: Exercise
Case study
What is exercise?
Developing the contemporary concern with exercise behaviour
Measuring exercise
Current recommendations
Who exercises?
The benefits of exercise
The physical benefits
The psychological benefits
What factors predict exercise?
Demographic determinants
Social determinants
Cognitive and emotional determinants
Improving exercise behaviour
Social and political factors
Behavioural strategies
Exercise adherence
Thinking critically about exercise
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
6: Sex
Case study
A brief history of sex research
Sex as biological, for reproduction
Sex as biological, for pleasure
Sex as a risk to health
Sex and well-being
In summary
Contraception use for pregnancyavoidance
What is contraceptive use?
Who uses contraception?
Predicting contraception use
In summary
Sex in the context of hiv/aids
Do people use condoms?
Predicting condom use
Sex and risk perception
Sex as an interaction
The process of negotiation
Power relations between sexual partners
Social norms of the lgbtq+ community
In summary
Sex education
Sexual health services
Government health education campaigns
School sex education programmes
Thinking critically about sex research
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
7: Changing health behaviours
Case study
The need to change behaviour
Learning and cognitive theory
Learning theory approaches
Adding cognitive theory
Social cognition theory
Social cognition model based interventions
Making plans and implementation intentions
Information-giving
Stage models
Stage-matched interventions
Motivational interviewing (mi)
The role of affect
Using fear appeals
Using affect effectively
Integrated approaches
Creating a science of behaviour change interventions
Modern technologies
The mass media
Understanding sustained behaviour change
Thinking critically about changing health behaviours
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
Part Three: Becoming ill
8: Illness cognitions
Case study
Making sense of health and illness
What does it mean to be healthy?
What does it mean to be ill?
What are illness cognitions?
Evidence for the dimensions of illness cognitions
Measuring illness cognitions
The self-regulatory model
Stage 1: Interpretation
Stage 2: Coping
Stage 3: Appraisal
Why is the model called self-regulatory?
Problems with assessment
Stage 1: Interpretation
Symptom perception
Social messages
Stage 2: Coping
1. Coping with the crisis of illness
2. Adjustment to physical illness and the theory of cognitive adaptation
3. Post-traumatic growth and benefit-finding
In summary
Predicting and changing health outcomes
How do illness cognitions relate to coping?
Predicting adherence to treatment
Predicting illness outcomes
The central role of coherence
Interventions to change illness cognitions
Thinking critically about illness cognitions
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
9: Accessing health care
Case study
A brief history of health care
The role of medical interventions
Environmental factors
In summary
Health care systems
Level 1: Self-care
Level 2: Primary care
Level 3: Secondary care
Help-seeking and delay
A series of thresholds
Symptom perception
Illness cognitions
Social triggers
Costs and benefits of going to the doctor
Delay
In summary
Screening
What is screening?
Guidelines for screening
The predictors of screening uptake
The psychological impact of screening
In summary
The medical consultation
The problem of doctor variability
How doctors make decisions
Health professionalsí health beliefs
Communicating beliefs to patients
The modern consultation
In summary
Adherence
Defining adherence
Measuring adherence
Why is adherence important?
Models of adherence
Predictors of adherence
How can adherence be improved?
In summary
Thinking critically about access tohealth care
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
10: Stress and lllness
Case study
What is stress?
Measuring stress
Early stress models
The transactional model of stress
The role of appraisal
Does appraisal influence the stress response?
Which events are appraised as stressful?
Stress and changes in physiology and behaviour
Changes in physiology
Changes in behaviour
Stress, covid and behaviour change
Does stress cause illness?
How does stress cause illness?
In summary
Physiological moderators of the stressñillness link
Stress reactivity
Stress recovery
Allostatic load
Stress resistance
Psychological moderators of the stressñillness link
Coping
Social support
Personality
Control
Stress as a complex psycho-physiological process
Thinking critically about stress and illness
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
Part Four: Being ill
11: Pain and the placebo effect
Case study
What is pain?
Early pain theories: Pain as a sensation
Including psychology in theories of pain
Measuring pain
Pain as a perception
The gate control theory of pain
A psychosocial model of pain perception
The role of learning
The role of affect
The role of cognition
Behavioural processes
The experience of pain
The role of psychology in pain treatment
Cognitive behavioural therapy
A role for pain acceptance?
In summary
The placebo effect
What is a placebo?
A history of inert treatments
Modern-day placebos
Placebos: To be taken out of an understanding of health?
How do placebos work?
Non-interactive theories
Interactive theories
The central role of patient expectations
Cognitive dissonance theory
The role of placebos in health psychology
Health beliefs
Illness cognitions
Health professionalsí health beliefs
Health-related behaviours
Stress
Chronic illness
Thinking critically about pain and placebo research
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
12: Chronic illness: hiv and cancer
Chapter overview
Case study
Hiv and aids
The history of hiv
What is hiv?
The progression from hiv to aids
The prevalence of hiv and aids
The role of psychology in the study of hiv
Psychology and susceptibility to the hiv virus
Psychology and the progression from hiv to aids
Psychology and longevity with hiv
Psychoneuroimmunology (pni)
PNI and hiv longevity
In summary
Cancer
What is cancer?
The prevalence of cancer
The role of psychology in the study of cancer
Psychology and the initiation and promotion of cancer
Psychological consequences of cancer
Dealing with the symptoms of cancer
Psychology and longevity with cancer
Cognitive responses and longevity
Life stress and disease-free interval
There is no relationship between psychological factors and longevity
In summary
Thinking critically about hiv and cancer research
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
13: Chronic illness: Obesity and coronary heart disease
Chapter overview
Case study
Obesity
What is obesity?
How common is obesity?
The role of psychology in the study of obesity
The consequences of obesity
What causes obesity?
What does all this research mean?
Obesity treatment
Dieting
Medication
Surgery
The success stories
In summary
Coronary heart disease (chd)
What is coronary heart disease? (Chd)
The prevalence of cvd
The role of psychology in the study of chd
Risk factors for chd
Beliefs about chd
The psychological impact of chd
Rehabilitation for patients with chd
Predicting uptake of rehabilitation
Modifying risk factors
Predicting patient health outcomes
In summary
Thinking critically about research into obesity and chd
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
14: Health status and quality of life
Chapter overview
Case study
Health inequalities
Geographical location
Socioeconomic status (ses)
The covid pandemic
In summary
Objective health status
Mortality rates
Morbidity rates
Measures of functioning
Subjective health status
What is quality of life?
How should it be measured?
A shift in perspective
Value
Subjectivity of the subject
Subjectivity of the researcher
Definition of health
Using quality of life in research
Quality of life as an outcome measure
Problems with using quality of life as an outcome measure
Quality of life as a predictor of mortality
The response shift
Thinking critically about health status and quality of life
Some critical questions
Some problems with. . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
15: Gender and health
Chapter overview
Case study
A note on gender
Gender differences in health
Life expectancy
Physical symptoms
Illness
Health of the lgbtq+ community
Why are there differences by gender and sexuality?
Womenís health: Miscarriage and termination of pregnancy
Miscarriage
Quantitative research
Qualitative research
Research in couples
Impact of mode of treatment
In summary
Termination of pregnancy
Deciding to have an abortion
Psychological impact
Longer-term impact
Impact of mode of intervention
In summary
The menopause
Symptoms
Physical changes
The menopause as a transition
Social factors
Psychological effects
Mode of management
In summary
Understanding menís health
Health behaviours
Risk-taking behaviours
Help-seeking behaviours
Explaining menís health-related behaviours and illness profiles
In summary
How being male can impact upon health: Case examples
Case 1: Prostate cancer
Case 2: Suicide
Case 3: CHD
In summary
Lgbtq+ health issues
The prevalence of health conditions
Mechanisms of poorer health status
In summary
Thinking critically about gender and health
Some critical questions
Some problems with . . .
To conclude
Questions
For discussion
Further reading
Methodology glossary
References
Index for health psychology
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