Foundations of health psychology

List of Contributors I HISTORY AND METHODS 1. The History and Background of Health Psychology 2. Measurement in Health Psychology Research 3. Designing and Implementing Interventions to Promote Health and Prevent Illness II CORE CONCEPTS OF THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO HEALTH 4. The Brain, Homeostasis, and Health: Balancing Demands of the Internal and External Milieu 5. Psychoneuroimmunology 6. Stress, Coping and Health 7. Social Support 8. Personality, Disease, and Self-Healing III APPLICATIONS TO HEALTH PROMOTION AND EFFECTIVE TREATMENT 9. Adjustment to Chronic Disease: Progress and Promise in Research 10. Aging and Health 11. Expressive Writing, Emotional Upheavals, and Health 12. Reactions to the Death of a Loved One: Prevailing Assumptions Versus Scientfic Evidenve 13. Physician-Patient Communication 14. Uncertainty, Variability and Resource Allocation in the Healthcare Decision Process