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Table of Contents:
  1. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY:Health and Wellness Defined
  2. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY:Early Cultures, The Middle Ages
  3. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY:Psychosomatic Medicine
  4. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY:The Background to Biomedical Model
  5. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY:THE LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE
  6. HEALTH RELATED CAREERS:Nurses and Physician Assistants, Physical Therapists
  7. THE FUNCTION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM:Prologue, The Central Nervous System
  8. THE FUNCTION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ENDOCRINE GLANDS:Other Glands
  9. DIGESTIVE AND RENAL SYSTEMS:THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM, Digesting Food
  10. THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM:The Heart and Blood Vessels, Blood Pressure
  11. BLOOD COMPOSITION:Formed Elements, Plasma, THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
  12. SOLDIERS OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM:Less-Than-Optimal Defenses
  13. THE PHENOMENON OF STRESS:Experiencing Stress in our Lives, Primary Appraisal
  14. FACTORS THAT LEAD TO STRESSFUL APPRAISALS:Dimensions of Stress
  15. PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF STRESS:Cognition and Stress, Emotions and Stress
  16. SOURCES OF STRESS:Sources in the Family, An Addition to the Family
  17. MEASURING STRESS:Environmental Stress, Physiological Arousal
  18. PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS THAT CAN MODIFY THE IMPACT OF STRESS ON HEALTH
  19. HOW STRESS AFFECTS HEALTH:Stress, Behavior and Illness, Psychoneuroimmunology
  20. COPING WITH STRESS:Prologue, Functions of Coping, Distancing
  21. REDUCING THE POTENTIAL FOR STRESS:Enhancing Social Support
  22. STRESS MANAGEMENT:Medication, Behavioral and Cognitive Methods
  23. THE PHENOMENON OF PAIN ITS NATURE AND TYPES:Perceiving Pain
  24. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PAIN PERCEPTION:Phantom Limb Pain, Learning and Pain
  25. ASSESSING PAIN:Self-Report Methods, Behavioral Assessment Approaches
  26. DEALING WITH PAIN:Acute Clinical Pain, Chronic Clinical Pain
  27. ADJUSTING TO CHRONIC ILLNESSES:Shock, Encounter, Retreat
  28. THE COPING PROCESS IN PATIENTS OF CHRONIC ILLNESS:Asthma
  29. IMPACT OF DIFFERENT CHRONIC CONDITIONS:Psychosocial Factors in Epilepsy