Volume Editors

Arthur M. Nezu, Ph.D.
Drexel University

Christine Maguth Nezu, Ph.D.
Drexel University

Pamela A. Geller, Ph.D.
Drexel University

Table of Contents

Part I.    Overview

Chapter 1	Health Psychology: Overview and Professional Issues    David F. Marks, 
Catherine M. Sykes, Jennifer M. McKinley

Part II. 	Causal and Mediating Psychosocial Factors

Chapter 2 	Stressful Life Events    Ralf Schwarzer, Ute Schulz

Chapter 3 	Coping and Social Support    Sharon Manne

Chapter 4 	Psychoneuroimmunology    Jeffrey R. Stowell, Lynanne McGuire, Ted Robles, 
Ronald Glaser, Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

Part III.    Diseases and Disorders

Chapter 5 	Asthma    Karen B. Schmaling, Paul M. Lehrer, Nicholas D. Giardino, 
Jonathan M. Feldman

Chapter 6 	Obesity    Joyce A. Corsica, Michael G. Perri

Chapter 7	Tobacco Dependence    Gary Swan, Karen S. Hudmon, Taline Khroyan

Chapter 8	Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Conditions    Heather M. Burke, Alex J. Zautra, 
Mary C. Davis, Amy S. Schultz, John W. Reich

Chapter 9 	Diabetes Mellitus    Julie Landel-Graham, Susan E. Yount, Susan R. Rudnicki

Chapter 10 	AIDS/HIV    Michael P. Carey, Peter A. Vanable

Chapter 11 	Headaches    Frank Andrasik & Susan E. Walch

Chapter 12 	Psychosocial Oncology    Arthur M. Nezu, Christine Maguth Nezu, 
Stephanie H. Felgoise, Marni L. Zwick

Chapter 13 	Pain Management    Dennis C. Turk, Akiko Okifuji

Chapter 14 	Insomnia    Charles M. Morin, Jos?Savard, Marie-Christine Ouellet, Meagan Daley

Chapter 15 	Coronary Heart Disease and Hypertension    Mark O'Callahan, Amy M. Andrews, 
David S. Krantz

Chapter 16 	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome    Leonard A. Jason & Renee R. Taylor

Chapter 17 	Irritable Bowel Syndrome    Edward B. Blanchard, Laurie Keefer

Chapter 18	Spinal Cord Injury    Timothy R. Elliott, Patricia Rivera

Part IV.    Health Psychology Across the Life Span

Chapter 19	Child Health Psychology    Lamia P. Barakat, Alicia Kunin-Batson, Anne E. Kazak

Chapter 20 	Adolescent Health    Sheridan Phillips

Chapter 21 	Adult Development and Aging    Ilene Siegler, Hayden B. Bosworth, Merrill F. Elias

Part V.    Special Topics

Chapter 22 	Women's Health Psychology    Pamela A. Geller, Maria C. Graf, Faith Dyson-Washington

Chapter 23 	Cultural Aspects of Health Psychology    Keith E. Whitfield, Gerdi Weidner, 
Rodney Clark, Norman B. Anderson

Chapter 24 	Occupational Health Psychology    James Campbell Quick, Lois E. Tetrick, 
Joyce Adkins, Charles Klunder

Chapter 25 	Complementary and Alternative Therapies    Christine Maguth Nezu, Solam Tsang, 
Elizabeth R. Lombardo, Kim Baron
						

Complete List of Contributors

Joyce Adkins, Ph.D. (USAF)
DoD Deployment Health Center
Department of Defense
Washington, DC

Norman B. Anderson, Ph.D.
Department of Health and Social Behavior
Harvard University
Boston, MA

Frank Andrasik, Ph.D. 
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL

Amy M. Andrews, B.S.N., R.N.
Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD

Lamia P. Barakat, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Kim Baron, M.A.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA

Edward B. Blanchard, Ph.D., ABPP
Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders
State University of New York at Albany
Albany, NY

Hayden B. Bosworth, Ph.D.
Health Services Research and Development
Durham Veteran's Administration Medical Center and Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Heather M. Burke, M.A.
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Michael P. Carey, Ph.D.
Center for Health & Behavior
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

Rodney Clark, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Joyce A. Corsica, Ph.D.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Meagan Daley, M.Ps.
?ole de Psychologie
Universit?aval
Qu?c, Canada

Mary C. Davis, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Faith Dyson-Washington, M.Ed.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA

Timothy R. Elliott, Ph.D.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Merrill F. Elias, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Boston University and Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Boston, MA

Jonathan M. Feldman, M.S.
Department of Psychology
Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ

Stephanie H. Felgoise, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
PCOM
Philadelphia, PA

Pamela A. Geller, Ph.D.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA

Nicholas D. Giardino, Ph.D.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 

Ronald Glaser, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, Comprehensive 
Cancer Center, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research 
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Maria Graff, M.A.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA

Karen Suchanek Hudmon, Dr.P.H.
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy
University of California
San Francisco, CA

Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D.
Center for Community Research
DePaul University
Chicago, IL

Anne E. Kazak, Ph.D.
Departments of Pediatrics and Psychology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Laurie Keefer, M.A.
Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders
State University of New York at Albany
Albany, NY

Taline V. Khroyan, Ph.D.
Center for Health Sciences
SRI International
Menlo Park, CA

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
Comprehensive Cancer Center, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Charles Klunder, Ph.D.
Behavioral Analysis Service, 59th Medical Wing (USAF)
Lackland Air Force Base, TX

David S. Krantz, Ph.D.
Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD

Alicia Kunin-Batson, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Julie Landel-Graham, Ph.D.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA

Paul M. Lehrer, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 
Newark, NJ

Elizabeth R. Lombardo, M.A.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA

Sharon Manne, Ph.D.
Division of Population Science and Psychooncology Program
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA

David F. Marks, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
City University 
London, UK

Lynanne McGuire, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Jennifer M. McKinley, MSc
Department of Psychology
City University 
London, UK

Charles M. Morin, Ph.D.
?ole de Psychologie
Universite Laval
Qu?c, Canada

Arthur M. Nezu, Ph.D., ABPP
Center for Behavioral Medicine and 
Departments of Clinical and Health Psychology, Medicine, and Public Health
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA

Christine Maguth Nezu, Ph.D., ABPP
Center for Mind/Body Studies and
Departments of Clinical and Health Psychology and Medicine
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA

Mark O'Callahan, B.S.
Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD

Akiko Okifuji, Ph.D.
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Marie-Christine Ouellet, M.Ps.
?ole de Psychologie
Universit?aval
Queb? Canada

Michael G. Perri, Ph.D., ABPP
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Sheridan Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

James Campbell Quick, Ph.D.
Center for Research on Organizational and Managerial Excellence
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX

John W. Reich, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Patricia Rivera, Ph.D.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Ted Robles, B.S. 
Department of Psychology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Susan R. Rudnicki, Ph.D.
Behavioral Research Center
American Cancer Society
Atlanta, GA

Jos?Savard, Ph.D.
?ole de Psychologie
Universit?aval
Qu?c, Canada

Karen B. Schmaling, Ph.D.
College of Health Sciences
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX

Amy S. Schultz, M.A.
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 

Ute Schulz
Health Psychology
Freie Universitat Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Ralf Schwarzer, Ph.D.
Health Psychology
Freie Universitat Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Ilene Siegler, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Behavioral Medicine research Center and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral 
Sciences Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Jeffrey R. Stowell, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Gary Swan, Ph.D.
Center for Health Sciences
SRI International
Menlo Park, CA 

Catherine Marie Sykes, MSc.
Department of Psychology
City University
London, UK

Renee R. Taylor, Ph.D.
Department of Occupational Therapy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Lois E. Tetrick, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Houston
Houston, TX

Solam Tsang, M.A.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA

Dennis C. Turk, Ph.D.
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Peter A. Vanable, Ph.D.
Center for Health & Behavior
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

Susan E. Walch, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL

Gerdi Weidner, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director of Research, Preventive Medicine Research Institute
Sausalito, CA

Keith E. Whitfield, Ph.D.
Department of Biobehavioral Health
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

Susan E. Yount, Ph.D. 
Center on Outcomes, Research, and Education
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

Alex J. Zautra, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Marni L. Zwick, M.A.
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology
MCP Hahnemann University
Philadelphia, PA