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Informationen zum Autor Dr Thomas Hadjistavropoulos is a Research Chair in Aging and Health! Professor of Psychology! and a Past-President of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). He is the Director of Centre on Aging and Health and leads the Health Psychology Research Lab at the University of Regina. Moreover! he serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals including Canadian Psychology! Journal of Aging and Health! Ethics & Behavior! BMC Geriatrics! and Assessment. He is internationally recognized as an authority on pain among seniors and on ethical issues in health care. He has been honoured through a long list of prestigious awards and distinctions! including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Investigator Award! Election to the status of Fellow of the CanadianAcademy of the Health Sciences (CAHS)! Election to the status of Fellow of the American Psychological Association as well as of the Canadian Psychological Association! Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Achievement Award!Saskatchewan Health Care Excellence Award and many others.Dr Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos! a professor of psychology and director of clinical training at the University of Regina! holds a PhD in clinical psychology! and is a registered doctoral psychologist in Saskatchewan. Dr Hadjistavropoulos founded the Psychology Training Clinic at the University of Regina! and received a Canada Innovation Foundation grant to develop a state of the art Clinical Health Psychology Area for teaching! research and practice at the University of Regina.She also founded and directs the Online Therapy Unit for Service! Education and Research which is a unit focussed on improving access to evidenced based mental health care. Recent achievements include being elected Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and President (2012) of the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies! and receiving the Award of Excellence in Professional Training from the Canadian Council of Professional Psychology Programs! and the Career Achievement Award from the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation. Klappentext Fundamentals of Health Psychology is a core text intended for students studying health psychology at the third- and fourth-year levels. This contributed volume brings together a highly distinguished! internationally respected team of authors to discuss the sub-fields of health psychology in North America and emphasizes evidence-based approaches to health psychology. Zusammenfassung Fundamentals of Health Psychology is a contributed health psychology text. This exciting volume brings together a highly distinguished! internationally respected team of authors to discuss the sub-fields of health psychology in North America. Written in an engaging and comprehensive style! the text emphasizes evidence-based approaches to health psychology. Split into three parts! Fundamentals of Health Psychology covers a wide range of topics. Part I!"Fundamentals of Health Psychology!" introduces students to general areas of health psychology! such as body systems! healthcare systems! illness prevention! stress and coping! and pain. Chapters in Part II! "Health Conditions!" deal explicitly with serious illness and specific health conditions including cancer!diabetes! HIV! multiple sclerosis! and renal conditions. Part III! "Special Populations!" contains chapters dedicated to special populations-children and the elderly-and cross-cultural issues! a unique and significant offering as studies of issues affecting these populations are increasingly important in our diverse society. Each chapter includes "In Practice" case studies and "In Focus" boxes discussing additional topics of prevention! promotion! research! and treatment! to help studentsunderstand health psychology as it currently exists and its future directions. End-of-chapter "Critical Thought Questions" and recommended readings in...
