Encyclopedia of Health Psychology

Authors: Alan J Christensen, Renè Martin
Publisher: Wiley
Edition: 1
Publish Year: 2004
ISBN: 9780306483363

- Not only is Health Psychology, a field that focuses on the promotion and maintenance of both physical and mental health, a rapidly growing area of interest, but it is also a field that draws on and contributes to the other varied fields of psychology, medicine, nursing, sociology, anthropology, among others.

- Provides a relatively comprehensive and accesible overview of the central concepts, issues, conditions and terms that comprise the broad discipline of health psychology

- Covers more than 200 contributions by more than 150 of the leading researchers, educators, and practitioners in the field