Psychology and sociology applied to medicine : an illustrated colour text / Edwin Roland van Teijlingen, Gerald Humphris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover; Inside Front Cover; Psychology and Sociology Applied to Medicine; Copyright Page; Table Of Contents; Foreword; Preface to the fourth edition; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Dedication; 1 The life cycle; 1 The biopsychosocial model; 2 Pregnancy and childbirth; The nature of pregnancy and childbirth; Place of delivery; Birth attendant; Breast-feeding; 3 Reproductive issues; Menstruation; Transition to parenthood and mental health; High-risk pregnancies and birth; Menopause; 4 Development in early infancy; Neonatal assessment; Communication in the first year

Infant-carer attachment; Effects of maternal mental health problems; 5 Childhood and child health; Key topics; Child poverty and inequalities in health; Mortality; Childhood obesity; Mental health and well-being; Adolescence and transitions; 6 Adolescence; Health care needs of adolescents; 7 Social aspects of ageing; Ageism; The ageing body and the self; The ageing mind; Dementia and Alzheimer's disease; Ageing and social change; 8 Bereavement; Determinants of grief; The mourning process; Normal grief; Risk factors; Atypical grief; Delayed or absent grief; Chronic grief; Masked grief

Exaggerated grief; Disenfranchised grief; Bereavement care; 2 Development of the person; 9 Personality and health; Big Five Taxonomy of personality; Conscientiousness; Neuroticism; Extraversion; Type D personality; Dispositional optimism; How does personality influence health outcomes?; 10 Understanding learning; Operant conditioning; Classical conditioning; Observational learning; Systematic desensitization; E-learning; Learning factual material; 11 Perception; How should we think about perception?; What are illusions, and what are their causes?; Learning, past experience and context

Perception and attention; Perception and cognition; Relevance of psychology of perception to medicine; 12 Emotions; Emotion as social communication; Processing of emotions in the brain; Autonomic activation; Perceptual and cognitive processing; Controversy -- what comes first: arousal, perception or identification of emotion?; Emotional integration and regulation; Emotions and disease -- negative and positive emotions; Health care professional-patient communications; 13 Memory problems; Stages of memory; How much can we remember?; Helping people to remember better

Memory after traumatic brain injury; Organic amnesia; Brain imaging; 14 How does sexuality develop?; Gender identity; Biological influences; Social and cultural influences; The development of sexual activity; Sexual problems; 15 Intelligence; What do intelligence tests measure?; Is intelligence genetically determined?; Group differences on intelligence scores; Health and intelligence; Are we getting more intelligent?; Does intelligence decline with age?; Can we boost intelligence?; 16 Development of thinking; Does understanding of illness develop through distinct age-related stages?

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