Handbook of Diversity Issues in Health Psychology

Pamela M. Kato, Traci Mann (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

440 Seiten

2013 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4757-8564-7 (ISBN)

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The field of health psychology has grown dramatically in the last decade, with exciting new developments in the study of how psychological and psychosocial processes contribute to risk for and disease sequelae for a variety of medical problems. In addition, the quality and effectiveness of many of our treatments, and health promotion and disease prevention efforts, have been significantly enhanced by the contributions of health psychologists (Taylor, 1995). Unfortunately, however, much of the theo rizing in health psychology and the empirical research that derives from it continue to reflect the mainstream bias of psychology and medicine, both of which have a primary focus on white, heterosexual, middle-class American men. This bias pervades our thinking despite the demographic heterogeneity of American society (U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1992) and the substantial body of epidemiologic evidence that indicates significant group differences in health status, burden of morbidity and mortality, life expectancy, quality of life, and the risk and protective factors that con tribute to these differences in health outcomes (National Center for Health Statistics, 1994; Myers, Kagawa-Singer, Kumanyika, Lex, & M- kides, 1995). There is also substantial evidence that many of the health promotion and disease prevention efforts that have proven effective with more affluent, educated whites, on whom they were developed, may not yield comparable results when used with populations that differ by eth nicity, social class, gender, or sexual orientation (Cochran & Mays, 1991; Castro, Coe, Gutierres, & Saenz, this volume; Chesney & Nealey, this volume).

and Methodology.- Diversity Issues in Health Psychology.- Fear of Heterogeneity in the Study of Human Populations and the Statistical Artifacts It Produces.- Life-Span Issues in Health Psychology.- Issues of Age and Health.- Touch Therapies across the Life Span.- The Context of Development for Young Children from Cocaine-Abusing Families.- The Problem of Pediatric Pain.- Healthy Adolescent Development.- Reversing Disability in Old Age.- Functional Impairment, Physical Disease, and Depression in Older Adults.- Gender and Sexual Orientation Issues in Health Psychology.- Why Do We Need a Health Psychology of Gender or Sexual Orientation?.- Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Women.- Masculine Gender Role Stress.- Psychotherapy with HIV-Infected Gay Men.- Homophobia and the Health Psychology of Lesbians.- Issues of Ethnicity in Health Psychology.- On Nothing and Everything.- African-American Health over the Life Course.- Designing Health Promotion Programs for Latinos.- Health Care Issues among Asian Americans.- Behavioral Approaches to Illness Prevention for Native Americans.- A Biological, Environmental, and Cultural Basis for Ethnic Differences in Treatment.- Socioeconomic Status and the Health of Racial Minority Populations.

Reihe/Serie	The Plenum Series in Culture and Health
Zusatzinfo	XXVIII, 440 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Technik ► Medizintechnik
ISBN-10	1-4757-8564-X / 147578564X
ISBN-13	978-1-4757-8564-7 / 9781475785647
Zustand	Neuware