{"id":3196,"date":"2025-04-11T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psylingual.gr\/health-psychology\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:51:16","slug":"health-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psylingual.gr\/en\/health-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Health Psychology<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n

In 2023, I was commissioned by Tziolas Publications to translate the university textbook Health <\/strong>Psychology: <\/strong>An <\/strong>Introduction <\/strong>to <\/strong>Behavior <\/strong>and <\/strong>Health <\/strong>(10th edition) by Brannon, Updegraff and Feist. The scientific editors were Mr. G. Koulierakis, Associate Professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Western Attica, Ms. A. Paschali, Associate Professor of Health Psychology at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and Ms. Maria Karekla, Associate Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Cyprus. <\/p>\n\n

This 904 page textbook is exceptionally interesting and useful comprising an extensive introduction to Health Psychology, which covers a wide range of topics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the risks of e-cigarettes, the Type D personality as a risk for heart disease, the brain disease model of alcoholism and so on. This book is a comprehensive guide for the field of health psychology and correlates the science of psychology with health and well-being. <\/p>\n\n

Basic topics:<\/h2>\n\n
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  • Introduction to Health Psychology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Conducting Research in Health<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Seeking and Receiving Health Care<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Complying with Healthy Behaviour Patterns<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Stress Definition, Measurement and Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Understanding Stress, Immunity and Diseases<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Understanding and Managing Pain<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Alternative Medicine Approaches<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Behavioural factors and Cardiovascular Diseases<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Cancer and Behavioural factors<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Living with Chronic Disease<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Smoking<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Abuse<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Diet and Weight<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Physical Exercise<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Future Challenges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n

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