Table of Contents

1: An introduction to health psychology.- 2: Gathering information on health and illness.- 3: Health beliefs and behaviors.- 4: Health-enhancing behaviors.- 5: Health-compromising behaviors.- 6: Understanding stress.- 7: Coping with Stress.- 8. Symptoms and Pain.- 9: Cardiovascular Disorders and Diabetes.- 10: Psychoneuroimmunology and related disorders.- 11: Chronic and terminal illness.- 12: Health services and providers.- 13: Emotional health and well-being.- 14: The future of health psychology

About the Author

Dr. Leslie Frazier is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at Florida International University. She has a PhD in Life Span Developmental Psychology from Syracuse University and an NIH/NIA Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California San Francisco Medical School. A developmental health psychologist, Dr. Frazier is interested in the intersections among psychosocial factors and identity/sense of self within the contexts of health and chronic illness in emerging adulthood and later life.