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With a conversational style that conveys the excitement, research base, and real world applications of the field, Regan A. R. Gurung introduces students to health psychology with an integrated cultural perspective. Starting with a description of the biological, psychological, and sociological factors that determine who we are, the text examines cultural differences in major health behaviors, and health, achieving the commendable goal of being comprehensive yet extremely accessible. Gurung focuses on key determinants of behavior, such as family, ethnicity, and religion, which are not always highlighted in health psychology books. Packed with the most up-to-date citations available, this book combines issues 'ripped from the headlines' with the classic issues in the field. A range of vivid examples from different cultural groups provides students with a comprehensive description of the basic theories in Health Psychology as well as an overview of cutting edge research in the field. Special sections highlighting clinical applications of basic theories, strong doses of personality and social psychological theories, and chapters exclusively devoted to variations in cultural beliefs, human development, and different diseases, combine to give readers the best of many worlds.

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• 1 Health Psychology: Setting the Stage
• What is Health? Cross-Cultural Definitions of Health
• Common Rubrics for Health
• Why is Culture Important?
• Dimensions of Culture
• Defining Culture
• Context and Level of Analysis
• Two Major ''Cultures''
• Some Important Warnings
• Health Psychology''s Biopsychosocial Approach
• The Evolution of Health Psychology
• What is Health Psychology? Main Areas in Health Psychology
• A Research Primer
• Focus On Current Issues + Profile of A Multicultural America
• Chapter Summary
• Synthesize, Evaluate, Apply
• Key terms, Concepts, & People
• Essential Readings
• Web Resources
• 2 Cultural Approaches to Health
• Varieties of World Medicine
• Western Biomedicine
• Greek Roots
• Technological Innovations Chinese Traditional Medicine
• Sources of Illness
• Treatment
• Ayurveda
• Sources of Illness
• Treatment
• Curanderismo and Spiritualism
• Sources of Illness
• Treatment
• American Indian Medicine
• Sources of Illness
• Treatment
• African American Beliefs
• Are Complementary and Alternative Approaches Valid? FOcus On Applications- Acupuncture
• Chapter Summary
• Synthesize, Evaluate, Apply
• Key terms, Concepts, & People
• Essential Readings
• Web Resources
• 3 Health and Human Development
• The Interaction Between Culture, Development, and Health
• What is Development? Biological Development
• The Prenatal Period
• Infancy and Early Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood and Aging
• Major The ories of Human Development
• Social Development
• Cognitive Development
• Major Social Forces Influencing Development
• The Family
• Parenting Styles
• SES, Development, and Health
• Health Across the Lifespan and Culture
• Ethnic Identity Development
• Acculturation and Health
• Focus On Current Issues + Body Image and the Trials of Adolescence
• Chapter Summary
• Synthesize, Evaluate, Apply
• Key terms, Concepts, & People
• Essential Readings
• Web Resources
• 4 Stress Across Cultures
• What is Stress? Stress over Time
• Critical Physiology: the Nervous System
• The Central Nervous System
• The Peripheral Nervous System
• Main The ories of Stress
• Cannon''s Fight or Flight The ory
• Seyle''s General Adaptation Syndrome
• Lazarus'' Cognitive Appraisal Model
• Factors Influencing Our Appraisals
• Measuring Stress
• Culture-Specific Stressors
• Different Varieties of Stressors
• Relationship stress
• Work stress
• Environmental stress
• What are the Consequences of Stress?FOCUS ON CURRENT ISSUES + TEND-AND-BEFRIEND OR FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT
• Chapter Summary
• Synthesize, Evaluate, Apply
• Key terms, Concepts, & People
• Essential Readings
• Web Resources
• 5 Coping and Social Support
• What is Coping? Mediators and Moderators
• Coping Styles and Strategies
• What is the Best Way to Cope? Who Copes Well? Personality and Coping
• Social Support
• Types of Social Support Cultural Variables in Social Support
• Theories of Social Support Change
• Common Measures of Coping
• Ways of Coping
• The COPE
• Keys to Coping
• Relaxation-Based Approaches
• Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches
• FOCUS ON CURRENT ISSUES: MAY GOD HELP YOU
• Chapter Summary
• Synthesize, Evaluate, Apply
• Key terms, Concepts, & People
• Essential Readings
• Web Resources
• 6 Models of Behavior Change
• What are Healthy Behaviors? Healthy People 2010
• What determines Healthy
• Behaviors?
• Key The ories of Health
• Behavior Change
• The Health Belief Model
• Culture and the HBM
• Theory of Planned Behavior
• Culture and the TPB
• Transtheoretical Model
• Comparing the Models
• Interventions
• Top Ten Prescriptions
• Changing Personal Behavior
• Focus On Applications + Smoking Interventions In College
• Chapter Summary
• Synthesize, Evaluate, Apply
• Key terms, Concepts, & People
• Essential Readings
• Web Resources
• 7 Health Behaviors: Eating, Physical Activity, Smoking, and Drinking
• Eating
• What Should We Be Eating? Development of Food Preferences
• Eating Disorders
• Cultural Variations in Eating Behaviors
• Physical Activity
• Cultural Variations in Physical Activity
• Physical Consequences of Physical Activity
• Psychological Consequences of Physical Activity
• Smoking and Dr