Handbook of Diversity Issues in Health Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Introduction and Methodology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Diversity Issues in Health Psychology

      • Traci Mann, Pamela M. Kato

      Pages 3-18

   3. Fear of Heterogeneity in the Study of Human Populations and the Statistical Artifacts It Produces

      • Helena Chmura Kraemer

      Pages 19-35

3. Life-Span Issues in Health Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Issues of Age and Health

      • Monisha Pasupathi

      Pages 39-48

   3. Touch Therapies across the Life Span

      • Tiffany M. Field

      Pages 49-67

   4. The Context of Development for Young Children from Cocaine-Abusing Families

      • Linda C. Mayes, Marc H. Bornstein

      Pages 69-95

   5. The Problem of Pediatric Pain

      • Betty R. Kasson, Sandra K. Sentivany, Pamela M. Kato

      Pages 97-116

   6. Healthy Adolescent Development

      • Nancy Leffert, Anne C. Petersen

      Pages 117-140

   7. Reversing Disability in Old Age

      • Becca Levy, Ellen Langer

      Pages 141-159

   8. Functional Impairment, Physical Disease, and Depression in Older Adults

      • Antonette M. Zeiss, Peter M. Lewinsohn, Paul Rohde

      Pages 161-184

4. Gender and Sexual Orientation Issues in Health Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Why Do We Need a Health Psychology of Gender or Sexual Orientation?

      • Traci Mann

      Pages 187-198

   3. Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Women

      • Margaret A. Chesney, Jill B. Nealey

      Pages 199-218

   4. Masculine Gender Role Stress

      • Michael M. Copenhaver, Richard M. Eisler

      Pages 219-235

   5. Psychotherapy with HIV-Infected Gay Men

      • Gary Grossman

      Pages 237-260

   6. Homophobia and the Health Psychology of Lesbians

      • Katherine A. O’Hanlan

      Pages 261-284

5. Issues of Ethnicity in Health Psychology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285

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   2. On Nothing and Everything

      • Pamela M. Kato

      Pages 287-300

The field of health psychology has grown dramatically in the last decade, with exciting new developments in the study of how psychological and psychosocial processes contribute to risk for and disease sequelae for a variety of medical problems. In addition, the quality and effectiveness of many of our treatments, and health promotion and disease prevention efforts, have been significantly enhanced by the contributions of health psychologists (Taylor, 1995). Unfortunately, however, much of the theo­ rizing in health psychology and the empirical research that derives from it continue to reflect the mainstream bias of psychology and medicine, both of which have a primary focus on white, heterosexual, middle-class American men. This bias pervades our thinking despite the demographic heterogeneity of American society (U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1992) and the substantial body of epidemiologic evidence that indicates significant group differences in health status, burden of morbidity and mortality, life expectancy, quality of life, and the risk and protective factors that con­ tribute to these differences in health outcomes (National Center for Health Statistics, 1994; Myers, Kagawa-Singer, Kumanyika, Lex, & M- kides, 1995). There is also substantial evidence that many of the health promotion and disease prevention efforts that have proven effective with more affluent, educated whites, on whom they were developed, may not yield comparable results when used with populations that differ by eth­ nicity, social class, gender, or sexual orientation (Cochran & Mays, 1991; Castro, Coe, Gutierres, & Saenz, this volume; Chesney & Nealey, this volume).

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`[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.'
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