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Jane Ogden (Author)
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Publication Date: Jun 1 2007 | ISBN-10: 0335222633 | ISBN-13: 978-0335222636 | Edition: 4
“This fourth edition incorporates a number of substantive new topics, including a new chapter on women's health, as well as opportunities for the reader to critically examine key conceptual and methodological issues within each chapter. It remains clearly written and highly accessible and still deserves its place as the number one choice of health psychology textbook.”
– John Weinman, King’s College, London

The market leading textbook in the field, Health Psychology by Jane Ogden is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology. It will also be invaluable to students of medicine, nursing and allied health. Retaining the breadth of coverage, clarity and relevance that has made it a favourite with students and lecturers, this fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated.

New Features:

  • New chapter on women's health issues, exploring recent research into pregnancy, miscarriage, birth, menopause and related areas
  • New "Problems" boxes analyse health psychology research and identify the shortcomings and limitations of research in the area
  • Updated "Focus on Research" examples introduce you to contemporary topics and emerging areas for research in health psychology, including exercise, smoking and pain.
  • The new edition includes new data, graphs and further reading plus suggestions about where you can access the most recent publications and other data
  • Revised end-of-chapter review questions
Online Learning Centre: www.openup.co.uk/ogden.

The OLC hosts web links and multiple choice questions for students, plus supporting teaching resources including teaching tips and PowerPoint presentations for lecturers.

Interested in accessing more research readings? Essential Readings in Health Psychology by Jane Ogden is a new collection of key papers brought together for the first time in one volume which complements Health Psychology: A Textbook 4/e and offers more detailed accounts of the issues covered in this text.

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"...a comprehensive overview of psychological knowledge inrelation to health and illness. I particularly liked the book's emphasis on theoretical explanations of health behaviour. The clear and accessible style of writing and the way theory is applied through illustrative examples make this book very useful for teaching purposes." - Ad Kaptein, Editor Psychology and Health "Jane Ogden has succeeded in producing a very clear, readable and up-to-datecritical overview of health psychology with a refreshing European focus." - John Weinman, UMDS Guy's and St Thomas's "Jane Ogden has produced a superb source-book of information for nurses and other health professionals...Although this is a textbook, I found it easy to become engrossed in it as an interesting book in its own right...The book is extremely well produced and attractively packaged. It is also priced at a level that is likely to make it popular with, and accessible to, a wide range of readers...If you are looking for a good way into the topic of health psychology, you need look no further."- Nursing Times "...a great achievement..an excellent textbook. It should be recommended to all who are interested in an up-to-date overview of health psychology." - Journal of Health Psychology "...a welcome addition...It is highly recommended for anyone organising courses on health psychology."- De Psycholoog "...works particularly well as a textbook as it is clearly laid out, incorporates chapter overviews, provides questions and discussion points, and draws on extensive research from around the world." - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Care "...a comprehensive and well written introduction to general health psychology." - Journal of Advanced Nursing "...now that Jane Ogden's book has been published I feel that health psychology has finally come of age." - Psychology Teaching Review. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Jane Ogden is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research interests include eating behaviours, obesity, health communication and women’s health.
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This chapter examines the background against which health psychology developed in terms of (1) the traditional biomedical model of health and illness that emerged in the nineteenth century, and (2) changes in perspectives of health and illness over the twentieth century. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars I use this book Sep 5 1999
By kmkelly@rci.rutgers.edu - Published on Amazon.com
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I have used this book for the past 2 years in my Health Psychology course. I chose it after reviewing other psychology books (about 5) and find that it gives students a good background in Health Psychology without making many of the mistakes of other Health Psychology books. Plus, it's much less expensive and more readable than other texts. I expect that my students will not only purchase it but also read it!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant to read yet somewhat one-sided May 13 1999
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Ogden's work offers an accessible introduction to health psychology. In comparison to many a dry textbook it certainly is a pleasure to read. In my view, however, the author could have paid more attention to other than psychological aspects of health - I thought she got carried away with ascribing about everything to psychology. I do realize that this work IS on psychology but that still doesn't mean psychology has all the answers. More medical information on mind-body interactions would have been useful. Also, I wouldn't have found the repetitions of study descriptions at different places necessary.

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