Health Psychology in Action (eBook)

Mark Forshaw, David Sheffield (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-94217-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A definitive guide to the growing field of health psychology, which showcases contributions from academics and professionals working at the cutting edge of their discipline.

• Explores the field of modern health psychology, its latest developments, and how it fits into the contexts of modern healthcare, industry and academia
• Offers practical, real-world examples and applications for psychological theory in health care settings
• Provides a timely resource to support the new HPC registration of health and other psychologists
• Includes contributions from practitioners in a wide range of health care settings who share their own vivid personal experiences, as well as more general guidance to applying theory in practice

Mark Forshaw is Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Psychology at Staffordshire University and recipient of the 2011 BPS Division of Health Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Health Psychology. He has researched and published widely in health psychology, on subjects as diverse as menopause, complementary therapies, and hand-arm vibration syndrome.

David Sheffield is the Associate Head of the Centre for Psychological Research at the University of Derby. Sheffield's research expertise extends to stress and cardiovascular responses, and he has written interventions to improve wellbeing, pain perception and management, and mathematics anxiety.

Inhalt

About the Editors vii

List of Contributors ix

Preface xv

Acknowledgements xix

1 Applying Health Psychology to Dentistry: 'People, Not Teeth'
1

Sarah Baker

2 Promoting the Application of Health Psychology in Primary
Health Care 17

Amy Baraniak

3 Health Psychology in the NHS: The Long andWinding Road . . .
28

Julian Bath

4 A Journey into Health Psychology and Beyond 40

Sheila Bonas

5 Health Psychology in Cyberspace 50

Neil Coulson

6 Working in Academia: A Different Kind of Practice, but
Practice Nonetheless 58

Lorna Dodd

7 Shared Decision Making 69

Darren Flynn

8 Writing, Training, Teaching, Researching, Consulting, Quality
Assurance and the Kitchen Sink 84

Mark Forshaw

9 What Are the Roles of a Health Psychologist in Clinical
Practice? Defining Knowledge, Skills and Competencies 93

Claire Hallas

10 Health Psychology: The Missing Ingredient from Health and
Safety? 105

Jenny Lunt

11 Keeping Up Appearances in Health Psychology 116

Timothy P. Moss

12 Social and Political Health Psychology in Action 128

Michael Murray

13 Tailoring Behavioural Support and Tailoring Health Psychology
Careers 138

Felix Naughton

14 Working with Chronic Pain 150

Sue Peacock

15 Combining Practice and Academia as a Health Psychologist
161

Karen Rodham

16 Health Psychologists in Action - Working for the
Pharmaceutical Industry 172

Katja R¨udell

17 The Rapid Growth of Health Psychology in Medical Schools and
Clinical Practice 183

Harbinder Sandhu and Shilpa Patel

18 The Lived Experience of a Qualitative Health Psychologist
195

Rachel L. Shaw

19 Health Psychology in Sickle Cell and Other Long-Term
Haematological Conditions 207

Veronica Joan Thomas

20 Afterword 221

Mark Forshaw and David Sheffield

Index 225

Rezensionen

"Overall, these stories are pleasingly positive and the
contributors' pride in their practice is as likely to be as
much an encouragement to prospective practitioners as is the appeal
of the diversity of health psychology itself." (QMIP
Bulletin, 1 October 2012)

Despite widespread recognition of the potential of health
psychologists to contribute to the wellbeing and health of people
and organisations, we are still in the foothills of the journey to
developing clear career paths and structures within the health
services and public health. This volume offers a collection of
personal accounts written by health psychologists who are
contributing positively in a wide variety of contexts, despite the
challenges posed by the lack of these structures. These accounts
make the Stage 2 competencies come alive, and will be an invaluable
illustration to trainee health psychologists that with tenacity,
they too can establish themselves as professionals and can make
significant contributions to health and health care, despite the
shifting sands of the NHS and public health.

?Nichola Rumsey, Co-Director, Centre for
Appearance Research, Dept of Psychology, UWE Bristol

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Schlagworte: contributors • Diversity • FACE • Health • Health & Behavioral Clinical Psychology • Health Psychology • Individual • Klinische Psychologie • Klinische Psychologie / Verhalten • nonmental • Opportunities • overarching • Practice • Principles • Problems • Psychologie • psychologists • Psychology • remarkable • resource • specialties • Stories • Study • theory • Today
• ISBN-10: 1-119-94217-9 / 1119942179
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-94217-7 / 9781119942177