Until now, researchers and practitioners have lacked a strong theoretical foundation for answering such questions. This ground-breaking book fills this gap by showing how social identity processes are key to understanding and effectively managing a broad range of health-related problems.

Integrating a wealth of evidence that the authors and colleagues around the world have built up over the last decade, The New Psychology of Health provides a powerful framework for reconceptualising the psychological dimensions of a range of conditions – including stress, trauma, ageing, depression, addiction, eating behaviour, brain injury, and pain.

Alongside reviews of current approaches to these various issues, each chapter provides an in-depth analysis of the ways in which theory and practice can be enriched by attention to social identity processes. Here the authors show not only how an array of social and structural factors shape health outcomes through their impact on group life, but also how this analysis can be harnessed to promote the delivery of 'social cures' in a range of fields.

This is a must-have volume for service providers, practitioners, students, and researchers working in a wide range of disciplines and fields, and will also be essential reading for anyone whose goal it is to improve the health and well-being of people and communities in their care.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2018

ISBN

9781317301394

Edition

Topic

Psychology

Subtopic

Clinical Psychology

Index

Psychology

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
The authors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Why do we need a new psychology of health?
2. The social identity approach to health
3. Social status and disadvantage
4. Stigma
5. Stress
6. Trauma and resilience
7. Ageing
8. Depression
9. Addiction
10. Eating behaviour
11. Acquired brain injury
12. Acute pain
13. Chronic mental health conditions
14. Chronic physical health conditions
15. Unlocking the social cure: Groups 4 Health
Appendix: Measures of identity, health, and well-being
References
Author index
Subject index
Hypotheses associated with the social identity approach to health