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1. Health Psychology and Public Health

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Taylor, S.E. (1990) Health psychology: The science and the field. American Psychologist, 45(1), 40-50.

Winett, R.A., King, A.C., & Altman, D.G. (1989). Health Psychology and Public Health: An Integrative Approach. NY: Pergamon Press. Chapter 1 Overview of health psychology and public health.

Case Study: HIV Disease
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2. Mind-Body and Health: I. Conceptual Issues

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Case Study: Women's Health
*Tavris, C.B. (1988). Women and Health Psychology: Biomedical Issues. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Chapter 1: "Sex differences in health status," and Chapter 2 "Feminist criticism and analyses."

3. Mind-Body and Health: II. Pathophysiological Paths

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4. Stress in Disease Etiology: I. Basic Concepts

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Examples: Specific Stressors
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*Shuval, J.T. (1993). Migration and stress. In L. Goldberger and S. Breznitz (Eds.), Handbook of Stress: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects. (2nd Ed., pp. 641-657). NY: The Free Press.

5. Stress in Disease Etiology: II. Expansions of the Stress Concept

Pearlin, L.I. (1993). The Social Context of Stress. In L. Goldberger and S. Breznitz (Eds.), Handbook of Stress: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects. (2nd Ed., pp. 303-315). New York: Free Press.

Barnett, R.C., & Baruch, G.K. (1987). Social roles, gender, and psychological distress, pp. 122-143. In R.C. Barnett, L. Biener, G.K. Baruch (Eds.), Gender and Stress. NY: The Free Press.

Clark, R., Anderson, N.B., Clark, V.R., & Williams, D.R. (1999). Racism as a stressor for African Americans: A biopsychosocial model. American Psychologist, 54, 805-816.

Meyer, I.H. (1995). Minority stress and mental health in gay men. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 36(1), 38-56.

6. Socioeconomic Status and Health

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Navarro, V. (1990). Race or class versus race and class: Mortality differentials in the United States. Lancet, 336, 1238-1240.

Shin, M. (1992). Homelessness: What is a psychologist to do? American J. Com. Psych., 20(1), 1-24.

Sorlie, P., Rogot, E., Anderson, R., Johnson, N.J., & Blacklund, E. (1992). Black-white mortality difference by family income. Lancet, 340, 346-350.

7. Personality in Disease Etiology

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Ouellette Kobasa, S.C. (1990). Lessons from history: How to find the person in health psychology, pp. 14-37. In H.S. Friedman (Ed.), Personality and Disease. NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Wallston, K.A., & Wallston, B.S. (1982). Who is responsible for your health? The construct of health locus of control, pp. 65-95. In G.S. Sanders, and J. Suls (Eds.), Social Psychology of Health and Illness. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

8. Ameliorating Factors: Personality

Antonovsky, A. (1987). Unraveling the Mystery of Health: How People Manage Stress and Stay Well. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. Chapter 1: Toward a new view of health and illness.

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Ouellette, S.C. (1993). Inquiries into hardiness. In L. Goldberger and S. Breznitz (Eds.), Handbook of Stress: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects (2nd Ed., pp. 77-100). NY: The Free Press.

Rutter, M. (1987). Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 57, 316-331.

9. Ameliorating Factors: Coping and Social Support

Berkman, L.F. (1985). The relationships of social networks and social support to morbidity and mortality, pp. 241-262. In S. Cohen and S.L. Syme (Eds.), Social Support and Health. NY: Academic Press.

Cohen, S. (1988). Psychological models of the role of social support in the etiology of physical disease. Health Psychology, 7(3), 269-297.

Lazarus, R.S., & Folkman, S. (1984). The coping process: An alternative to traditional formulations. In Stress, Appraisal, and Coping (pp. 141-180). NY: Springer Publishing Company.

10. Psychology of Illness Processes

Andersen, B.L., Kiecolt-Glaser, J.K., & Glaser, R. (1994). A biobehavioral model of cancer stress and disease course. American Psychologist, 49(5), 389-404.

Anspach, R.R. (1979). From stigma to identity politics: Political activism among the physically disabled and former mental patients. Social Science & Medicine, 13, 765-773.

Fogarty, J.S. (1997). Reactance theory and patient noncompliance. Social Science & Medicine, 45, 1277-1288.

Skelton, J.A., & Pennebaker, J.W. (1982). The psychology of physical symptoms and sensations, pp. 99-128. In G.S. Sanders, and J. Suls (Eds.), Social Psychology of Health and Illness. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Taylor, S.E. (1984). Adjustment to threatening events: A theory of cognitive adaptation. American Psychologist, 38, 1161-1173.

11. Theoretical models of health promotion and disease prevention

Leviton, L.C. (1989). Theoretical foundations of AIDS-prevention programs. In R.O. Valdiserri (Ed.), Preventing AIDS: The Design of Effective Programs. Rutgers University Press.

Prochaska, J.O., DiClemente, C.C., and Norcross, J.C. (1992). In search of how people change: Application to addictive behaviors. American Psychologist, 49, 1102-1114.

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Winett, R.A., King, A.C., & Altman, D.G. (1989). Health Psychology and Public Health: An Integrative Approach. NY: Pergamon Press. Chapter 5 Community Health Promotion.

12. The Intersection of Person and Environment — the Case of Environmental Health

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13. Challenges to Prevention Models: The Case of HIV Prevention

Aspinwall, L.G., Kemeny, M.E., Taylor, S.E., Schneider, S.G., & Dudley, J.P. (1991). Psychosocial predictors of gay men's AIDS risk-reduction behavior. Health Psychology, 10, 432- 444.

Blanton, H. & Gerrard, M. (1997). Effect of sexual motivation on men’s risk perception for sexually transmitted disease: There must be 50 ways to justify a lover. Health Psychology, 16, 374-379.

Folkman, S., Chesney., M.A., Pollack, L., & Phillips, C. (1992). Stress, coping, and high-risk sexual behavior. Health Psychology, 11, 218-222.

Mays, V.M., & Cochran, S.D. (1988). Issues in the perception of AIDS risk and risk reduction activities by Black and Hispanic/Latina women. American Psychologist, 43, 949-957.

Thomas, S.B., and Quin, S.C. (1991). The Tuskegee syphilis study, 1932 to 1972: Implications for HIV education and AIDS risk education programs in the black community. American Journal of Public Health, 81, 1498-1504.

14. Incorporating a Model of Health and Illness

Holtgrave, D.R., Doll, L.S., & Harrison, J. (1997). Influence of behavioral and social science on public health policymaking. American Psychologist, 52, 167-173.

Landrine, H., & Klonoff, E.A. (1992). Culture and health-related schemas: A review and proposal for interdisciplinary integration. Health Psychology, 11(4), 267-276.

Revenson, T.A. (1990). All other things are not equal: An ecological approach to personality and disease, pp. 65-94. In H.S. Friedman (Ed.), Personality and Disease. NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Temoshok, L. (1990). On attempting to articulate the biopsychosocial model: Psychological-psychophysiological homeostasis, pp. 203-225. In H.S. Friedman (Ed.), Personality and Disease. NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Case Study: Women's Health
*Gallant, S.J., Coons, H.L., & Morkoff, P.J. (1994). Psychology and Women's Health: Some reflections and future directions, pp. 315-346. In V.J. Adeso, D.M. Reddy, and R. Fleming (Eds.), Psychological Perspectives on Women's Health. Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis.

* denotes recommended additional reading.

All readings are on reserve at the Health Science Library. Goldberger & Breznitz (1993), and Sontag (1977) are available at the Health Science Campus' Barnes & Noble Bookstore.