Part 1 FOUNDATIONS OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Chapter 1 Introducing Health Psychology
Chapter 2 Research in Health Psychology
Chapter 3 Biological Foundations of Health and Illness

Part 2 STRESS AND HEALTH

Chapter 4 Stress
Chapter 5 Coping with Stress

Part 3 BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH

Chapter 6 Staying Healthy: Primary Prevention and
Positive Psychology
Chapter 7 Exercise, Sleep, and Injury Prevention
Chapter 8 Nutrition, Obesity, and Eating Disorders
Chapter 9 Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction

Part 4 CHRONIC AND LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESSES

Chapter 10 Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes
Chapter 11 Cancer
Chapter 12 Sexually Transmitted Infections: HIV/AIDS and
Other Communicable Conditions

Part 5 SEEKING TREATMENT

Chapter 13 The Role of Health Psychology in Seeking and
Obtaining Health Care
Chapter 14 Managing Pain
Chapter 15 Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Epilogue Health Psychology Today and Tomorrow

Health Psychology shows students how psychology and health are interconnected. Using real world examples, Straub encourages students to make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and their own everyday experience. The text is comprehensive in its approach, and incorporates the latest research as it examines the field’s main ideas and models a scientific way of thinking about those ideas.