Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine

1. Developmental influences on health Julie Turner Cobb and Tara J. Cheetham 2. Lifecourse perspective and health Ilene Siegler and Christin M. Ogle 3. Disability and health Timothy Elliott and Trey W. Armstrong 4. Social factors and health Sasha Scambler 5. Gender and health Richard De Visser 6. Sexual orientation and health David Frost 7. Occupation and health Aditya Jain and Stavroula Leka 8. Environment and health Giyoung Park and Garry Evans 9. Immigration and health Ana Abraido-Lanza and Adria Armbrister 10. Socioeconomic status and health Jennifer McGowan and Lion Shahab 11. Addictive behaviours Robert West and Harveen Ubhi 12. Eating behaviour Jane Ogden 13. Models of health behaviour Mark Conner 14. Physical activity and health Laura McGowan, Angela Devereux-Fitzgerald, Rachael Powell and David French 15. Risk perception Baruch Fischhoff 16. Sexual behaviour and health Natalie Edelman, Elaney Youssef, Carrie Llewellyn and Paul Flowers 17. Help-seeking Suzanne Scott 18. Medically unexplained symptoms Trudi Chalder and Claire Willis 19. Pain Dennis Turk and Tasha B. Murphy 20. Symptom perception Keith Petrie and Elizabeth Broadbent 21. The placebo effect Irving Kirsch 22. The nocebo effect Keith Petrie and Kate MacKrill 23. Adherence to treatment Rob Horne 24. Beliefs and perceptions of health and illness Yael Benyamini and Howard Leventhal 25. Coping with chronic illness Keith Petrie and Annie S. K. Jones 26. Coping Charles Carver 27. Dyadic coping with illness Tracey A. Revenson and Mariët Hagedoorn 28. Emotions and health Daryl O'Connor and Nicola Gartland 29. Personality and health Dietlinde Heilmayr and Howard Friedman 30. Preparing patients for coping with stressful medical procedures Yael Benyamini 31. Psychoneuroimmunology Kimberly G. Lockwood, Catherine P. Walsh, Elizabeth A. Bachen and Anna L. Marsland 32. Social relationships Bert Uchino, Robert G. Kent de Grey, Sierra Cronan and Ryan Trettevik 33. Stigma Lauren K. O'Connor and Phillip Yanos 34. Stress Julie Turner-Cobb and Evangelos Katsampouris 35. Armed conflict and health Bayard Roberts 36. Domestic and intimate partner violence Lorna O'Doherty 37. Migration, displacement and health Chesmal Siriwardhana and Kolitha Wickramage 38. Rape and sexual assault Ibitola Asaolu and Mary P. Koss 39. Brain imaging and function Hugo Critchley and Natasha Sigala 40. Diagnostic interviews for assessment of mental disorders in clinical practice Richard Rogers, Margot M. Williams and Peggilee Wupperman 41. Disability assessment Trey Armstrong and Timothy Elliott 42. Health and illness cognitions Elizabeth Broadbent 43. Health status and quality of life assessment Ann Bowling 44. IQ testing Robert Sternberg 45. Mood assessment Anne Fritzson, Mija Lieberman and Michele M. Tugade 46. Neuropsychological assessment Sophie Betka and Hugo Critchley 47. Pain assessment. Amanda C de C Williams 48. Patient outcomes monitoring Jose Valderas 49. Psychoneuroimmunology assessment Catie Walsh, Kimberly G. Lockwood, Elizabeth A. Bachen and Anna L. Marsland 50. Social support assessment Julie Chronister 51. Stress and coping assessment Julie Turner-Cobb and Tamsyn Hawken 52. Behaviour therapy Gerald Davison and Lauren Garcia 53. Biofeedback Robert Gatchel and Carl Noe 54. Chronic pain management Whitney Scott and Lance McCracken 55. Cognitive behaviour therapy Andrew Eagle and Michael Worrell 56. Cognitive behavioural couple therapy Michael Worrell 57. Community based interventions Kenneth Heller and Mary F. Wyman 58. Counselling Robert Bor and Carina Eriksen 59. Group therapy Peter Hajek 60. Health behaviour change interventions Sarah Denford, Charles Abraham, Van Beurden, Smith and Morgan-Trimmer 61. Health promotion Gerjo Kok and Robert A. C. Ruiter 62. Hypnosis Michael Heap 63. Mindfulness Jean Kristeller 64. Motiv

This third edition of the much acclaimed Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine offers a fully up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for doctors, health care professionals, mental health care professionals (such as psychologists, counsellors, specialist nurses), academics, researchers, and students specializing in health across all these fields. The new streamlined structure of the book features brief section overviews summarising the state of the art of knowledge on the topic to make the information easier to find. The encyclopaedic aspects of the Handbook have been retained; all the entries, as well as the extensive references, have been updated. Retaining all the virtues of the original, this edition is expanded with a range of new topics, such as the effects of conflict and war on health and wellbeing, advancements in assisted reproduction technology, e-health interventions, patient-reported outcome measures, health behaviour change interventions, and implementing changes into health care practice.

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Carrie Llewellyn, University of Sussex
Carrie D. Llewellyn is Reader in Applied Behavioural Medicine in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex.

Susan Ayers, City, University of London
Susan Ayers is Professor of Maternal and Child Health, at the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research in the School of Health Sciences, City, University of London.

Chris McManus, University College London
Chris McManus is Professor of Psychology and Medical Education, in the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

Stanton Newman, City, University of London
Stanton Newman is Professor of Health Psychology, and Vice-President (International) at City, University of London.

Keith J. Petrie, University of Auckland
Keith J. Petrie is Professor of Health Psychology at Auckland University Medical School, New Zealand.

Tracey A. Revenson, City University of New York
Tracey A. Revenson is Professor in the Department of Psychology, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

John Weinman, King's College London
John Weinman is Professor of Psychology as applied to Medicines, at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London.