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McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Health Psychology
Health Psychology: - exciting and relatively new field devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why people become ill and how they respond when they do get ill
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Advances in science looked to bodily factors rather than the mind as bases for health and illness
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- criticisms:
- methodological problems - conflict and personality not sufficient to produce illness - restricted the range of medical problems caused by psychological and social factors
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Careers in research:
- conduct research in public health, psychology and medicine
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