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The new edition of this award-winning textbook provides a thorough understanding of the importance of applying psychological knowledge to clinical practice. It remains the market-leading resource for all medical and allied healthcare students.
List of contents
1 Psychology and Medicine
Section I: Psychology and Health
2 Motivation, Emotion, and Health
3 Stress and Health
4 Symptoms, Pain, and Illness
5 Health and Behaviour
6 Chronic Illness, Death, and Dying
Section II: Basic Foundations of Psychology
7 The Nervous System, Neurology, and Psychiatry
8 Psychosocial Development across the Lifespan
9 Social Psychology
10 Cognitive Psychology
Section III: Healthcare Practice
11 Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equality in Medicine and Healthcare
12 Evidence-Based Practice
13 Clinical Communication
14 Psychological Intervention
Section IV: Body Systems
15 Immunity and Protection
16 Cardiovascular and Respiratory Health
17 Gastrointestinal Health
18 Reproduction and Endocrinology
19 Genitourinary Medicine
About the author
Dr Richard de Visser has been working in the fields of health psychology and public health for 25 years. He is Reader in Psychology at Brighton & Sussex Medical School and the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, where has received awards for his individual and group teaching. He was co-author of Psychology for Medicine (Sage, 2011) and Psychology for Medicine and Healthcare (Sage, 2017). Richard completed a BSc in psychology at the University of Melbourne, and a PhD at the Australian Research centre in Sex, Health & Society. He then undertook post-doctoral work at Birkbeck College, University of London before moving to Sussex. Richard’s research interests span a broad range of topics in health psychology, including: sexuality and relationships; gender and health; alcohol use; use of health services; and cross-cultural analyses. He has expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods, intervention studies, and mixed-methods designs. He is lead- or co-author on over 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and his work is cited widely.
Susan Ayers
Susan is a psychologist specialising in wellbeing and mental health during pregnancy and after birth. She is a professor at City, University of London in the School of Health Sciences, a chartered health psychologist and cognitive behaviour therapist. Since obtaining her PhD from the University of London, Susan worked at St. George′s Hospital Medical School (London) and Brighton and Sussex Medical School (Sussex) before moving to City, University of London. Susan is co-author of Psychology for Medicine (2011), and Psychology for Medicine and Healthcare (Sage, 2017) and editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (2007, 2019). She has given numerous invited lectures and workshops and was awarded the Annual Lecturer Prize by the Society of Reproductive and Infant Psychology in 2012.
