The most accessible, current and engaging introduction to health psychology today.

Health Psychology shows students how psychology and health are interconnected. Using real world examples, Straub encourages students to make meaningful connections between the science of health psychology and their own everyday experience. The text is comprehensive in its approach, and incorporates the latest research as it examines the field’s main ideas and models a scientific way of thinking about those i...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the various methods, techniques and imaging models for measuring the activities of the brain, from fMRI to PET and much more.

Packed with learning features, this book helps you get your psychology research off the ground, confidently collect and analyse qualitative data, and write up your project or dissertation.

An interdisciplinary introduction to the biological and medical underpinnings of health psychology from the cell to population level. It uses cross-cultural, real-world examples to create a readable and understandable guide to the biopsychosocial determinants of personal and public health for students of psychology.

'In Real Self-Care, Pooja explores what it really means to take care of ourselves and provides a revolutionary self-care framework that is honest, compassionate, and completely actionable.'

Dr Becky Kennedy, Sunday Times bestselling author of Good Inside

Self-care has become a staple in women's lives. From juice cleanses to yoga workshops to luxury bamboo sheets, we are sold breezy fixes in pastel-coloured packages, and then made to feel at fault when they don't work, like there is something ...

Pre-empt any student anxiety about their maths skills ahead of their forthcoming statistics module with this hands-on workbook. Packed with clear explanations, real-world examples and practical exercises it gives them all the necessary maths skills to tackle statistics with confidence.

Evolutionary psychology is an important and rapidly expanding area in the life, social, and behavioral sciences, and this Handbook represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference text in the field today.

Concerned with the ways humans develop an organised set of characteristics to shape themselves and the world around them, this is a study of how people come to be 'different' and 'similar' to others, on both an individual and a cultural level. This volume focuses on the multiple origins of personality and individual differences, in chapters arranged across three thematic sections.

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Zeg je geregeld ‘ja’ waar je eigenlijk ‘nee’ had willen zeggen, voel je je het veiligst als je geeft, en voel je je verveeld en leeg als niemand je hulp nodig heeft? Grote kans dat je eigenwaarde dan te afhankelijk is van (de zorg voor) anderen, en je worstelt met codependentie. Dit psychologische concept komt in de...

Breuklijnen, ze komen in bijna alle families voor. Ingrijpende gebeurtenissen, sterke meningsverschillen of misverstanden kunnen ertoe leiden dat ouders, kinderen en andere familieleden steeds verder van elkaar af komen te staan of de banden helemaal verbreken. Met verdriet en verwoesting tot gevolg. Vervreemding in de familie is een groot taboe omdat mensen zich schamen dat het ze het niet hebben kunnen voorkomen. Karl Pillemer deed er uitgebreid onderzoek naar en schreef een unieke gids voo...