health psychology resources

Books

COMMONLY USED/AVAILABLE TEXTBOOKS

Brannon, L., & Feist (2007). Health Psychology. San Francisco: Wadsworth.
Friedman, H.S. (2002). Health Psychology, 2nd edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Gurung, R. A. R. (2006). Health Psychology: A Cultural Approach. San Francisco: Wadsworth.
Ogden, J. (2007). Health Psychology. Open University Press.
Rice, P.L. (1998). Health Psychology, 1^st Ed. Wadsworth Publishing. (1998).
Sarafino, E. P. (2005). Health psychology: Biopsychosocial interactions (5th Ed.). New York: Wiley.
Sanderson, C. (2003). Health Psychology. Wiley.
Straub, R. (2006). Health Psychology (2nd Ed.). Worth Publishers.
Taylor, S. E. (2005). Health psychology (6th Ed.). Boston: McGraw Hill.

GOOD REFERENCES

Allen, F. Health Psychology: Theory and Practice. Allen & Unwin. (1998).
Baum, A. W., Singer, J.E., & Revensen, T.A. Handbook of Health Psychology. Erlbaum. (2000).
Bennett, P. Introduction to Clinical Health Psychology. Open University Press. (2000).
Bennett, P., Sprugeon, P., & Weinman, J. (1990). Current Developments in Health Psychology. Gordon & Breach Publishing.
Bernard, L.C. & Krupat, E. Health Psychology. Harcourt Brace College. (1997).
Baum, A., Gatchel, R. J., & Krantz, D. (1997). An introduction to health psychology (3rd Ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
Bishop, G. D. (1994). Health psychology: Integrating mind and body. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Brannon, L. & Feist, J. Health Psychology: An Introduction to Behavior and Health. Wadsworth. (2000).
Broome, A.K. & Llewelyn, S. Health Psychology: Process and Application. Chapman & Hall. (1994).
Carroll, D. Health Psychology: Stress, Behavior, and Disease. Taylor & Francis, Inc. (1992).
Crossley, M.L. Rethinking Health Psychology. Open University Press.(2000).
Curtis, A.J. Health Psychology. Routledge. (2000).
DiMatteo, M.R. & Martin, L.R. Health Psychology. Allyn & Bacon. (2001).
Feurstein, M., Labbe, E.E., & Kuczmierczyk, A.R. Health Psychology: A Psychobiological Perspective. Perseus Publishing. (1986).
Forshaw, M. Essential Health Psychology. Oxford University Press. (2002).
Glanz, K., Lewis, F.M., & Rimer, B.K. Health Behavior and Education: Theory, Research, and Practice. Josey-Bass. (1996).
Goreczny, A.J. Handbook of Health and Rehabilitation Psychology. Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers. (1995).
Hardey, M. The Social Context of Health. Open University Press. (1998).
Kaplan, R., Patterson, T.L., & Sallis, J.F. Health and Human Behavior. McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. (1993).
Marks, D.F. Health Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice. Sage Publications, Inc. (2000).
Murray, M. & Chamberlain, K. Qualitative Health Psychology: Theories and Methods. Sage Publications, Inc. (1999).
Penny, G.N., Bennett, P., & Herbert, M. Health Psychology: A Lifespan Perspective. Gordon & Breach. (1994).
Pitts, M. & Phillips, K. The Psychology of Health: An Introduction, 2^nd Ed. Routledge. (1998).
Prokop, C.K. Health Psychology: Clinical Methods and Research. Macmillan Publishing Company. (1991).
Resnick, R., & Rozensky, R. H. (1996). Health Psychology Throught the Life Span.
Sanders, G.S. & Suls, J. (Eds). Social Psychology of Health and Illness. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. (1989).
Schmidt, L.R. Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Health Psychology. Gordon & Breach. (1990).
Sheridan, C.L. & Radmacher, S.A. Health Psychology: Challenging the Biomedical Model. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1991).
Stroebe, W. Social Psychology and Health, 2^nd Ed., Open University Press. (2000).

Sample Syllabi

African American Health Psychology: Clara B. Jones ( Word )
Introduction to Health Psychology: Lynette Bassman, ( Html )
Health Psychology: Howard Friedman (Word)
Health Psychology: Regan A. R. Gurung, ( Word )
Health Psychology: Leslie Martin (Word)
Health Psychology: Linda Sagrestano (PDF)
Health Psychology: Edward Sarafino (Word)
Health Psychology: Alex Zautra (Word)
Graduate Health Psychology: Christyn Dolbier (Word)
Upper Level Health Psych: Christyn Dolbier (Word)
More coming soon.
Check the SBM site here for more

Videos (with updates from Hovanitz, 2005):
Bill Moyer's Healing and the Mind: A great 5 part series demonstrating the mind-body connection, social support, etc. Available from www.publicvideostore.org
Behavioral Health and Health Counseling. APA. Psychotherapy videotape series III
Available from : www.apa.org/videos
Dying to be thin (Nova). Eating disorders Available from: www.channel9store.com
Killing us Softly III. On advertising the image of women (eating disorders).
Available from www.mediaed.org
Living with Dying. Films for the humanities and sciences.
Available from www.films.com
Not so sweet: Living with diabetes. Available from www.fanlight.com/
Pack of Lies. 1992. The advertising of tobacco. Available from www.mediaed.org/videos
Portrait of addiction. 1998 Available from http://www.pbs.org/wnet/closetohome/html/series.html
Scientific American Video on Health Psychology (apparently part of a companion
package from Staub Health Psychology, Worth publishers.
Segment from Return to Me (scene regarding physician/patient communication,
about ¼ into movie).
Supersize me. (regarding obesity, highly recommended by many).
Understanding Eating Disorders.
Available : http://www.communityintervention.org/ShowView/product/303/51
The Making of a Doctor (Nova): This video follows seven medical students through their training, focusing on both technical and psychosocial issues (worksheet);
Wit (available at video rental facilities). This follows a woman through her very personal (and losing) battle with cancer. Because she talks directly to the viewer, this piece is particularly effective (worksheet).

Related Books
Health-Related Disorders in Children & Adolescents/Phelps
Adaptation to Chronic Childhood Illness/Thompson & Gusafson
Heart & Mind: Practice of Cardiac Psychology/Allan & Scheidt
Treating People with Chronic Disease/Goodheart & Lansing
Helping Cancer Patients Cope/Nezu, Nezu, et.al.

Main Organizations

International Health Psychology	American
International Health Psychology ( Berlin ) European ( here ) Canadian ( here ) British ( here )	Society For Behavioral Medicine ( SBM ) Health Psychology ( Web ) American Psychosomatic Society ( APsyS )

Updating when possible, page curator: Regan A. R. Gurung

Sample Syllabi

Lynette Bassman, Ph.D. California School of Professional Psychology - Fresno
Introduction to Health Psychology P405-1

Course Description
This course will serve as a comprehensive introduction to the field of health psychology. We will cover both theoretical and applied aspects of the work of the health psychologist.

Course Objectives
Students will gain:
-familiarity with basic concepts that guide the work of the health psychologist
-knowledge of the kinds of settings in which health psychologists work and the functions they carry out in those settings
-a basic understanding of some of the ways in which social, economic and political factors impact on the work of the health psychologist
-an understanding of the ways that psychological aspects of health concerns and health care interact with gender, ethnicity and culture, spirituality, sexuality and age
-familiarity with the holistic health paradigm

Course Guidelines
It is expected that students will behave in a responsible and professional manner, in keeping with the ethical standards of the APA. In addition, it is expected that students will come to each class on time, prepared to participate fully and enthusiastically, and that students will interact with each other and with the instructor in a respectful way. Failure to meet these expectations may result in a lower or a no-credit grade.

Evaluation
There will be a mini-midterm, a final (both exams mixed short answer and short essay), and a paper analyzing a health behavior change undertaken by the student. Each will count equally toward your grade.

Readings
Required readings for each week are listed below, under the date for which you are to prepare them. All readings are on reserve in the library. Recommended readings are listed below:

APA Practice Directorate (1998). Practicing Psychology in Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities. Washington, DC: APA Books.
Hardey, M. (1998). The Social Context of Health. Levittown, PA: Open Psychology Press.
Kato, P. and Mann, T. (1996). Handbook of Diversity Issues in Health Psychology. Plenum Press.
Resnick, R. and Rozensky, R. (1996). Health Psychology through the Life Span. Washington, D.C.: APA Books.
Shumaker, S., Schron, E., Ockene, J., McBee, W. (1998). The Handbook of Health Behavior Change. NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Stone, G. and Rodin, J. (1997). Health Psychology: A Discipline and a Profession. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Whitman, T., Merluzzi, T., and White, R. (1998). Psychological Aspects of Health and Illness. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Weekly schedule of topics and readings (in bold)

Part I: Health Psychology Foundations

Week 1 (January 28)
Introduction, procedures, etc.
Overview of health psychology settings and functions

Week 2 (February 4)
The effect of the mind on the body: Psychosomatic medicine.
Predisposition to disease.

Cohen S. and Herbert, T.B. (1996). Health psychology: Psychological factors and physical disease from the perspective of human psychoneuroimmunology. Annual Review of Psychology, 47, 113-142.

Week 3 (February 11. Class will end at 10:30 today)
The effect of the body on the mind: Somatopsychic medicine

Bassman, L. (1998). The Whole Mind: The Definitive Guide to Complementary Treatments for Mind, Mood and Emotions. Novato, CA: New World Library. Chapters 16 and 19.

Week 4 (February 18)
Holistic approaches to health: The holistic paradigm, some mind/body healing systems, the role of spirituality in health

Bassman, L. (1998). The Whole Mind: The Definitive Guide to Complementary Treatments for Mind, Mood and Emotions. Novato, CA: New World Library. Chapters 1, 2, 4, plus, read any two of the following: 6, 21, 22, 29, 35.

Week 5 (February 25)
Personality variables and health
Cultural factors in health

Caspi, A.; Begg, D.; Dickson, N.; Harrington, H.; Langley, J.; Moffitt, T.; Silva, T. (1997). Personality Differences Predict Health-Risk Behaviors in Young Adulthood: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73 (5), 1052-1063.
Robinson, L. A. and Klesges, R. C. (1997). Ethnic and gender differences in risk factors for smoking onset. Health Psychology, 16(6), 499-505.

Part II: Health Psychology Applications
Week 6 (March 4)
Facilitating habit change: The Health Belief Model and The Stages of Change Model

Carmel, S., Shani, E. and Rosenberg, L. (1996). Skin cancer protective behaviors among the elderly: Explaining their response to a health education program using the Health Belief Model. Educational Gerontology, 22(7), 651-668.
Perz, C., DiClemente, D., Carbonari, J. (1996). Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time? The Interaction of Stages and Processes of Change in Successful Smoking Cessation. Health Psychology, 15( 6), 462-468.

Week 7 (March 11)
Psychological reactions to medical illness
chronic vs. acute conditions

Phipps, S. and Kumar Srivastava, D. (1997). Repressive adaptation in children with cancer. Health Psychology, 16(6), 521-528.
Schiaffino, K., Shawaryn, M., Blum, D. (1988). Examining the impact of illness representations on psychological adjustment to chronic illnesses. Health Psychology, 17(3), 262-268.

Week 8 (March 18)
Mini-midterm examination
Discussion: students’ choice

Week 9 (March 25)
terminal illness, hospice
AIDS

Sarwer, D. and Crawford, I. (1994). Therapeutic considerations for work with persons with HIV disease. Psychotherapy, 31 (2), 262-269.
Farberman, R. (1997). Terminal illness and hastened death requests. The important role of the mental health professional. Professional Psychology, 28(6), 544-547.

(Spring break)
Week 10 (April 8)
Promoting wellness

Chambers Clark, C. (1996). Wellness Practitioner. New York: Springer Publishing company. Chapters 1, 2, and 10.

Week 11 (April 15)
chronic pain

Bassman, L. and Lebovits, A. (1991). Treating chronic pain patients: The role of the psychologist. Pages 285-294. In Innovations in Clinical Practice: A Source Book. Volume 10. Peter Keller and Steven Heyman, Eds. Sarasota, CA: Professional Resource Exchange, Inc.

Week 12 (April 22)
Patients’ "compliance" with medical advice
Physician/patient relationships

Hall, J., Milburn, M., Roter, D., Daltroy, L. (1988). Why are sicker patients less satisfied with their medical care? Tests of two explanatory models. Health Psychology, 17(1). 70-75.
Martin, M., Miller-Johnson, S., Kitzmann, K., Emery, R. (1988). Parent-child relationships and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Journal of Family Psychology, 12(1) 102-111.

Part III: Professional Practice Issues
Week 13 (April 29)
hospital privileges, prescription privileges
working with a patient care team
Managed care, insurance

Pace, T.M., Chaney, J.M., Mullins, L.L., Olson, R.A. (1995). Psychological consultation with primary care physicians: Obstacles and opportunities in the medical setting. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 26, 123-131.
Freimuth, M. (1996). Combining psychotherapy and psychopharmacology: With or without prescription privileges. Psychotherapy, 33(3), 474-478.

Week 14 (May 6)
The Future of Health Psychology
Ethical issues in Health Psychology

Belar, C. (1997). Clinical health psychology: A specialty for the 21st century. Health Psychology, 16(5), 411-416.

Week 15 (May 13)
Final examination
(discussion: students’ choice)

Experiential project
1. Select a health behavior that you want to change and are willing to work on changing over the next 15 weeks. It should be something that you don’t mind writing about in a paper that the instructor will read.
2. Read the readings for week 10 of the semester on Wellness. The journal-writing guidelines on pages 10-12 of the Chambers Clark book can be used to guide your process.
3. Do a literature search on the best techniques for facilitating the kind of behavior change you have chosen.
4. Plan an intervention for yourself as you might for a client. Carry out the intervention.
5. Keep a journal about this health behavior change attempt. Include the following, plus whatever additional material is useful to you:
a) The results of your literature search, including proper APA format citations
b) what change you plan to make and the reasons you want to make the change
c) How your life will be different when you make the change
d) Anticipated obstacles to the change
e) An analysis of why you have the undesired behavior, and why you have not changed it until now.
f) An analysis of your stage of readiness for change, according to the Prochaska model and/or the health belief model or another stage model if appropriate.
g) Your intervention/treatment plan
h) Your reactions to the change process as it unfolds
I) An analysis of the outcome of your efforts
j) An evaluation of your treatment/intervention plan and how you would do it differently if you could do it over.
6. Hand in the journal, typed, with two inch right hand margins, by April 22. This assignment will be graded by the following criteria:
a) thoroughness of your thought process
b) appropriateness of your intervention plan based on the trends in the literature
c) the depth of the insight gained about how to help people make health behavior changes
d) correctness of your analysis and evaluation

Suggested Books

Pelletier, Kenneth R. Mind as healer, Mind as slayer. New York: Delta, 1977
Cousins, Norman - Anatomy of an illness.
Bakal, D.A. Psychology and health (2nd ed.). New York: Springer, 1992.
Backman, M.E. The psychology of the physically ill patient: A clinician's guide. New York: Plenum, 1989.
Mostowsky, D.I., and Piedmont, R.L. Therapeutic practice in Behavioral medicine. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1985.
Millon, T., Green, C., and Meagher, R. (Eds.). Handbook of Clinical health psychology. New York: Plenum, 1982.
Simons, R.C., and Pardes, H. Understanding human behavior in health and illness (2nd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins, 1981.
Feist, J. and Brannon, L. Health psychology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1988.
Moos, R.H. (Ed.). Coping with physical illness. New York: Plenum, 1984.
Wickramasekera, I.E. Clinical behavioral medicine. New York: Plenum, 1988.
Gentry, W.D. (Ed.). Handbook of behavioral medicine. New York: Guilford, 1984.

Assessment:

Cushman, L.A. & Scherer, M.J. (Eds.). Psychological assessment in medical rehabilitation. Washington, DC: APA, 1995.
Karoly, P. (Ed.). Measurement strategies in health psychology. New York,: Wiley, 1985.