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Contemporary Health Psychology

An Inclusive and Culturally-Responsive Approach

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Buch | Softcover
344 Seiten
2026
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032707433 (ISBN)
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This radical new textbook provides readers with a balanced, research-focused, critical understanding of health psychology through an inclusive lens, addressing issues relating to diversity, inclusion and decolonisation of the curriculum. In so doing, it offers a new understanding on established topics in the field of health psychology to create a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of health and illness that reflects the diversity of human experience.

The book explores the importance of biopsychosocial processes in health and illness, through an exploration of socio-cultural factors beyond the restrictive western-centric models of health to include indigenous populations and marginalised groups. Within this book, readers are introduced to the negative health impacts of direct and transgenerational colonialism, racism, restrictions on cultural practices, freedoms and institutionalisation. This includes recognising the impact of systemic oppression on health outcomes and advocating for policies that address health disparities of diverse populations in order to tailor interventions to meet their specific needs. Research studies present examples of how gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, culture and disabilities intersect with health outcomes in the exploration and the perpetuation of health disparities.

Primarily written for undergraduates, the book also provides a firm foundation for graduate students, teachers and practitioners in psychology, nursing and the allied health professions.

Dr Lynn Dunwoody is a Lecturer in Health Psychology in the School of Psychology, Ulster University. She has been engaged in teaching, training and research of health psychology for over 27 years and has developed the health psychology postgraduate curriculum for stages 1 and 2 training in health psychology since 2006. She is an HCPC registered Health Psychologist and a Chartered Psychologist with the BPS. Lynn’s research is health psychology focused in the areas of adversarial growth, CBT and quality of life in relation to cancer; physical activity and rehabilitation, cancer and palliative care, psychosocial interventions and physical activity in community dwelling adults, specifically in the menopause, the psychological and physical benefits of walking and being a volunteer community walk leader.

Chapter 1. Health psychology context setting: Careers, cultures and diversity

Chapter 2. Historical and cross-cultural views of health and the development of health psychology

Chapter 3. Methods and issues in research

Chapter 4. Physiological knowledge for health psychology

Chapter 5. Conceptions of health, disease and illness

Chapter 6. Adherence

Chapter 7. Health theories and models

Chapter 8. Stress and coping

Chapter 9. Chronic Illness

Chapter 10.Pain

Chapter 11. Palliative and end of life care

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.5.2026
Reihe/Serie BPS Core Textbooks Series
Zusatzinfo 50 Line drawings, color; 50 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Pflege Fachpflege Neurologie / Psychiatrie
ISBN-13 9781032707433 / 9781032707433
Zustand Neuware
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