PSY266 - Abnormal Psychology - Sada

Health psychology is concerned with understanding how biology, behavior, and social context influence health and illness. Recent advances in psychological, medical, and physiological research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness. This book presents topical research gathered from across the globe in the study of health psychology, including leisure and depression in midlife; the benefits of humor on health and pain; hypnosis for the treatment of chronic pain; benefit finding relating to better emotional health in heart patients; blaming parents for their children's weight issues.

Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field that focuses on the science and practice of psychology in promoting and developing workplace health- and safety-related initiatives. This comprehensive text for under-graduate and graduate survey courses is the first to encompass a wide range of key issues in OHP from a North American perspective.

Despite thousands of research studies, the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) remains unknown and is surrounded by controversy. In the following viewpoint Christine Heim says that there is evidence that both biological and psychological factors may contribute to CFS, yet people continue to argue that it is entirely one or the other. Both physical and emotional stress are known to physically affect the central nervous system, the neuroendocrine system, and the immune systems, and research in neuroscience centering on this fact may help to overcome the reluctance to believe that both are involved.