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“Presents a clear picture of a transformed, panoramic version of clinical health psychology. Clinical health psychology, as described in this book, is a vision of an important discipline, affecting discovery from the lab bench, to the bedside, to the community. The editors recognize a new paradigm in health psychology—the emergence of a new type of health psychology that integrates individual health and population health....Offers information for those wanting an expert introduction to critical topics in health psychology. The text provides an expanded vision of the discipline for those seeking timely information on developments within the field. The text provides a comprehensive and expert introduction to the field and documents the power of psychology to serve as an integrating discipline able to provide an understanding of human functioning as well as a theoretical compass to decipher the interrelationships of health services to the individual and the community.”

—PsycCRITIQUES


“Behavioral factors are key to both disease prevention and recovery. This comprehensive volume examines multiple models of behavior change and applies them to a wide array of health concerns. Detailed and accessible, the book contains invaluable resources for practitioners and researchers across the health disciplines who need to address not only the human body, but also the human spirit within it. It will doubtless become a core resource for those engaged in health-related interventions. I also would recommend this book for students in all the health sciences, from advanced undergraduates to those at the highest levels of professional training.”

—Richard M. Ryan, PhD, Department of Clinical and Social Psychology, University of Rochester


“This handbook is really outstanding. Compared to many other books in the field, it avoids poorly defined constructs, uses clear definitions, and is grounded in empirical psychological research, which makes it an unrivaled contribution. In a heterogeneous and complicated field, the editors have produced a state-of-the-art work. It is a 'must' for all students, trainees, and professionals who want to deepen their knowledge about psychological aspects of medical illnesses and their treatment.”

—Winfried Rief, PhD, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Germany


“These distinguished editors and contributors provide an engaging, comprehensive presentation of the current state of the science; a tutorial in how to think about the overarching issues in this dynamic field; and a guide to applying the research to meet challenges in health care. Advanced students and a wide range of health researchers and professionals will appreciate this cutting-edge review. This forward-looking view of how health psychology fits into the broader agenda of health research, services, and policy will serve the field well for many years.”

—Timothy W. Smith, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Utah


“Suls, Davidson, and Kaplan are leaders in the fields of health psychology and behavioral medicine. Their new handbook features 36 chapters by outstanding contributors who cover every facet of these interrelated disciplines. Each chapter is up to date and highly readable. This is a 'must-have' reference for graduate students and researchers in health psychology, behavioral medicine, and related disciplines, such as medical sociology and nursing science. It would make a terrific text for a one- or two-semester course.”

—Kenneth A. Wallston, PhD, School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University


“I teach health psychology at the doctoral level and have been frustrated with the lack of available texts that reach the level of scholarly presentation I demand for my students. Until now, I 'made do' by assigning many, many articles to read—but this still failed to meet the need for an in-depth overview. This book has made my life much easier and my students' education more thorough. Well done!”

—Suni Petersen, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology

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Table of Contents

I. Health Psychology in the Context of Medicine and Theory

1. The Great Debate on the Contribution of Behavioral Interventions, Robert M. Kaplan and Karina W. Davidson

2. The Biopsychosocial Model and the Use of Theory in Health Psychology, Jerry Suls, Tana Luger, and René Martin

II. Psychological Foundations of Health Psychology

3. Emotions and Stress, William R. Lovallo

4. Cognitive and Affective Influences on Health Decisions, Angela Fagerlin, Ellen Peters, Alan Schwartz, and Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher

5. Specifying the Determinants of People’s Health Beliefs and Health Behavior: How a Social Psychological Perspective Can Inform Initiatives to Promote Health, Marc T. Kiviniemi and Alexander J. Rothman

6. Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology: Toward an Integrated Perspective on Health, Perry M. Nicassio, Melanie A. Greenberg, and Sarosh J. Motivala

7. Contributions of Personality to Health Psychology, Howard S. Friedman and Margaret L. Kern

8. Anger, Anger Expression, and Health, Padmini Iyer, Maya Rom Korin, Laura Higginbotham, and Karina W. Davidson

9. Developmental Influences in Understanding Child and Adolescent Health Behaviors, Dawn K. Wilson, Sara St. George, and Nicole Zarrett

10. Adult Development, Aging, and Gerontology, Ilene C. Siegler, Karen Hooker, Hayden B. Bosworth, Merrill F. Elias, and Avron Spiro

11. Animal Models in Health Psychology Research, Daniel A. Nation, Neil Schneiderman, and Phillip M. McCabe

12. All Roads Lead to Psychoneuroimmunology, Christopher L. Coe

III. Contributions of Other Sciences to Health Psychology

13. Behavioral Epidemiology, Robert M. Kaplan

14. Depression and Illness, Madeline Li and Gary Rodin

15. Self-Direction toward Health: Overriding the Default American Lifestyle, John Mirowsky and Catherine E. Ross

16. How Genetics Will Change Medicine and Health Psychology, Jeanne McCaffery

17. Nursing Science and Psychological Phenomena, Diane Lauver, Rebecca West, and Jean E. Johnson

18. Medical Anthropology, William W. Dressler

19. Health Psychology Meets Health Economics, Yaniv Hanoch and Thomas Rice

20. The Evidence-Based Movement in Health Psychology, Maya Rom Korin, Robert M. Kaplan, and Karina W. Davidson

IV. Health Psychology, Public Health, and Prevention

21. Impacts of Being Uninsured, Dylan Habeeb Roby

22. Health Services Research, Alison Herrmann

23. Primary Care and Prevention, JoEllen Patterson, Joseph E. Scherger, and Ann Marie Smith

24. Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, Gerdi Weidner and Friederike Kendel

25. The Role of Behavior in Cancer Prevention, Deborah Bowen and Ulrike Boehmer

26. Community HIV Preventive Interventions, María Luisa Zúñiga, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Estela Blanco, Jose L. Burgos, and Thomas L. Patterson

27. The Contribution of Health Psychology to the Advancement of Global Health, Brian Oldenburg, Maximilian de Courten, and Emma Frean

V. Health Psychology and the Medical Specialties

28. Cardiology, Manjunath Harlapur, Dennis Abraham, and Daichi Shimbo

29. The Management of Diabetes, Ian M. Kronish and Devin Mann

30. Sleep Medicine, Amy M. Sawyer and Terri E. Weaver

31. Psychosocial Interventions for Patients with Cancer, Michael A Diefenbach, Nihal E. Mohamed, Gina Turner, and Catherine S. Diefenbach

32. Pain and Painful Syndromes (Including Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia), David A. Williams

33. Coping with Chronic Illness, Austin S. Baldwin, Quinn D. Kellerman, and Alan J. Christensen

34. Managing the Obesity Epidemic, Lucy F. Faulconbridge and Thomas A. Wadden

35. Pharmacology and Behavior: The Case of Tobacco Dependence, Kenneth A. Perkins

36. Theory-Based Behavioral Interventions for Smoking Cessation: Efficacy, Processes, and Future Directions, Jonathan B. Bricker

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About the Editors

Jerry M. Suls, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Collegiate Fellow at the University of Iowa and also an affiliate of its College of Public Health. Dr. Suls has published over 150 articles and chapters and edited over 10 volumes. He has also served as Chair of the National Institutes of Health Behavioral Medicine Interventions and Outcomes Study Section and as President of Division 38 (Health Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. His research focuses on psychological risk factors for cardiovascular disease, symptom perception, and social norms about health behaviors.

Karina W. Davidson, PhD, is Vice-Dean and Executive Director of the Center for Behavioral and Cardiovascular Health and Professor of Behavioral Medicine in Medicine and Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is also Chief Academic Officer for NewYork Presbyterian Hospital. She has authored over 250 peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous editorials and book chapters, and has served on multiple scientific journal editorial boards. Dr. Davidson’s research focuses on interventions for, and the biopsychosocial mechanisms implicated in, anger and depression as predictors of worse outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease. She has served as president of multiple professional organizations and was recently appointed to the United States Preventive Services Task Force.

Robert M. Kaplan, PhD, is Regenstrief Distinguished Fellow at Purdue University and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, where he serves as Director of Research at Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center. He has served as Chief Science Officer at the U.S. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health, where he led the behavioral and social sciences programs. He is also Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Health Services and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Kaplan is a past president of several organizations, including Division 38 (Health Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, Section J of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific), the International Society for Quality of Life Research, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Health Psychology and the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. With more than 550 articles, chapters, and books, Dr. Kaplan is one of the most cited authors in his field. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

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Contributors

Dennis Abraham, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Austin S. Baldwin, PhD, Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Estela Blanco, MPH, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

Ulrike Boehmer, PhD, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Hayden B. Bosworth, PhD, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Health Services Research and Development Service, Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Deborah Bowen, PhD, Department of Community Health Science, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Jonathan B. Bricker, PhD, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington

Jose L. Burgos, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

Alan J. Christensen, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Christopher L. Coe, PhD, Harlow Center for Biological Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Karina W. Davidson, PhD, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Division of General Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York

Maximilian de Courten, MD, MPH, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Catherine S. Diefenbach, MD, Clinical Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York

Michael A. Diefenbach, PhD, Departments of Urology and Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

William W. Dressler, PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Merrill F. Elias, PhD, MPH, Department of Psychology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine

Angela Fagerlin, PhD, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, Division of General Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lucy F. Faulconbridge, PhD, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Emma Frean, MPH, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Howard S. Friedman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California

Melanie A. Greenberg, PhD, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, California

Yaniv Hanoch, PhD, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

Manjunath Harlapur, MD, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Division of General Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York

Alison Herrmann, PhD, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Laura Higginbotham, BA, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Karen Hooker, PhD, Center for Healthy Aging Research, School of Human Development and Family Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

Padmini Iyer, BS, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Division of General Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York

Jean E. Johnson, PhD, RN, FAAN, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, and School of Nursing, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Robert M. Kaplan, PhD, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Quinn D. Kellerman, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Friederike Kendel, MD, Institut fí¼r Medizinische Psychologie, Berlin, Germany

Margaret L. Kern, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California

Marc T. Kiviniemi, PhD, Department of Health Behavior, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

Maya Rom Korin, PhD, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Division of General Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York

Ian M. Kronish, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

Diane Lauver, PhD, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Madeline Li, MD, PhD, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

William R. Lovallo, PhD, Behavioral Sciences Labs, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Tana Luger, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Devin Mann, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

René Martin, PhD, RN, Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and College of Nursing,

University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Phillip M. McCabe, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

Jeanne McCaffery, PhD, Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

John Mirowsky, PhD, Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Nihal E. Mohamed, PhD, Department of Urology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

Sarosh J. Motivala, PhD, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Daniel A. Nation, PhD, Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego, California

Perry M. Nicassio, PhD, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Brian Oldenburg, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

JoEllen Patterson, PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy Program, University of San Diego, San Diego, California

Thomas L. Patterson, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

Kenneth A. Perkins, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ellen Peters, PhD, Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon

Thomas Rice, PhD, Vice Chancellor's Office, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Dylan Habeeb Roby, PhD, Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Gary Rodin, MD, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Catherine E. Ross, PhD, Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Alexander J. Rothman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Amy M. Sawyer, PhD, RN, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH, Department of Family Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California

Neil Schneiderman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

Alan Schwartz, PhD, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Daichi Shimbo, MD, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Division of General Medicine, New York, New York

Ilene C. Siegler, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

Ann Marie Smith, MA, Department of Family Medicine, University of San Diego, San Diego, California

Avron Spiro, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Sara St. George, BA, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Steffanie A. Strathdee, PhD, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

Jerry Suls, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Gina Turner, PhD, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Thomas A. Wadden, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Terri E. Weaver, PhD, RN, Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology, Division of Sleep Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Gerdi Weidner, PhD, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, California

Rebecca West, MS, RN, FNP-BC, School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

David A. Williams, PhD, Departments of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, and Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dawn K. Wilson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

Nicole Zarrett, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina

Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

María Luisa Zúñiga, PhD, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

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Audience

Clinical and health psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, counselors, and nurses;public health professionals; researchers and students in these fields.

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Course Use

May serve as a text in graduate-level courses.