Health Psychology

by Richard O. Straub

Straub’s Health Psychology shows students how psychology and health are interconnected. The text encourages students to make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and their own everyday experience. The text is comprehensive in its approach, includes in engaging real world examples, and thoroughly examines the intersection of diversity and health with regard to gender, ethnicity, age, and orientation.

Health Psychology incorporates the latest research and uses the biopsychosocial perspective as it explores the main ideas of the field and models a scientific way of thinking about those ideas.

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks

485 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 28, 2002

Reviews

[Rikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

From what I read of it--and it wasn't all 700 pages--I really enjoyed this and wish I had had more time to dedicate to a close read of it along with taking notes. Straub addresses sex and race disparities in a way that is not typical of your average white male in the realm of psychology, which was refreshing. I appreciated that he and his colleagues also explained more intricate biomedical concepts accessibly.

[Brian Garber · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh, pretty dry, but I liked the course that went along with this book.

[Tiffany Zwinge Barger · Rating 5 out of 5]

fifth edition

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was very well written for the subject matter. Straub did a good job of progressively giving the information to clearly understand it.

[Wilson Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Livro muito bom e atualizado, que utilizo nas minhas aulas de Psicologia da Saúde. Recomendo.

[Abelito · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read it for a class, very interesting and easy to understand.