Handbook of Diversity Issues in Health Psychology - 96 edition

Kato, Pamela M. (Ed.) : Stanford University

Mann, Traci (Ed.) : Stanford University

''[This book] makes a strong case for the need for more systematic research that investigates possible differences in health between and within groups along the dimensions of age, gender, social class, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation....a significant contribution.''

--From the Foreword by Hector F. Myers, University of California, Los Angeles

''An important work for medical students and upper-division undergraduates and graduate nursing students as well as faculty and professionals.''

--Choice

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Web Site, January, 2001

Introduction and Methodology
Introduction: Toward a Health Psychology of Special Populations; T. Mann, P. Kato.

Fear of Heterogeneity in the Study of Human Populations and the Statistical Artifacts It Produces; H.C. Kraemer.
Lifespan Issues in Health Psychology: Issues of Age and Health; M. Pasupathi.
Touch Therapies across the Life Span; T. Field.
The Context of Development for Young Children in Cocaine Abusing Families; L. Mayes, M. Bornstein.
The Problem of Pediatric Pain; B. Kasson, et al.
Healthy Adolescent Development: Risks and Opportunities; N. Leffert, A.C. Petersen.
Reversing Disability in Old Age; B. Levy, E. Langer.
Functional Impairment, Physical Disease, and Depression in Older Adults; A. Zeiss, et al.
Gender and Sexual Orientation Issues in Health Psychology: Why Do We Need a Health Psychology of Gender? T. Mann.
Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Women: Issues for Prevention and Women's Health; M.A. Chesney, J. Nealy.
Masculine Gender Role Stress: A Perspective on Men's Health; M.M. Copenhaver, R.M. Eisler.
Psychotherapy with HIVinfected Gay Men; G. Grossman.
Homophobia and the Health of Psychology of Lesbians; K. O'Hanlan.
Issues of Ethnicity in Health Psychology: On Nothing and Everything: The Relationship between Ethnicity and Health; P.M. Kato.
African-American Health over the Life Course: A Multidimensional Framework; J. Jackson, S.L. Sellers.
Designing Health Promotion Programs for Latinos; F.G. Castro, et al.
Health Care Issues among Asian-American: Implications of Somatization; C.A. Chun, et al.
Behavioral Approaches to Illness Prevention for Native Americans; S. Schinke.
A Biological, Environmental, and Cultural Basis for Ethnic Differences in Treatment; M. Smith, K.M.
Lin. Socioeconomic Status and the Health or Racial Minority Populations; D.R. Williams, T. Rucker.

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