Interactive Links

Active Learning Exercises

• You First: Health Risk Assessment
  This risk assessment looks at several risk factors that are related to health, stress, exercise, nutrition, drinking habits, emotional state, blood pressure, and weight.
  
  

• Cyber Psychologist: Reality Check
  This is a quick quiz to help you reappraise stressful situations.
  
  

General Health Psychology Links

• Health Psychology and Rehabilitation Web Site
  This web site is designed as an informational and practical tool for health psychologists.
  
  
• Health Psychology Links: University of Miami Richter Library
  Large list of links to health psychology related Web sites.
  
  
• NIH Health Information
  This site is an introduction to some of the many health information resources provided by the National Institutes of Health.
  
  
• Healthfinder
  Healthfinder is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States Government. Healthfinder leads to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, etc. that produce reliable health information for the public.
  
  

• BMI: Body Mass Index
  BMI is related to many different health effects. You can use this calculator to compute your BMI. This site also explains BMI and how it is related to health.
  
  

• Food Finder
  Want to find out how much fat is in your Big Mac? You can use this site to find out the nutritional content of most fast foods.
  

• CNN: Health
  This page, maintained by CNN, has links to many current health and health psychology related topics.
  
  

Chronic Pain

• Chronic Pain
  This site discusses the psychosocial factors that provide clues to chronic pain.   (See also pages 429-431 in Psychology in Action, 5e.)
  
  

Smoking & Cancer

• The Master Anti-Smoking Page
  This page is designed to help people quit smoking, but it has lots of information about smoking and smoking cessation.
  
  
• Nicotine Fact Sheet
  This site contains information on the physiological and behavioral effects of nicotine. In addition, it has information on tobacco and tobacco use.
  
  
• American Cancer Society
  This is the American Cancer Society page for links to information on cancer resources, including tobacco.
  
  
• Joe Chemo
  An ad produced by Adbusters Magazine showing what Joe Camel will look like in a few years. In addition, it has several facts about the Joe Camel advertising campaign.
  
  
• CancerNet
  CancerNet, maintained by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is a source of accurate information on cancer and cancer treatment. From this page you can access PDQ, NCI's comprehensive cancer database and CANCERLIT, NCI's bibliographic database.
  
  

Coping with Stress

(For more information on stress and coping with stress, see pages 438-451 in Psychology in Action, 5e.)

• Profession Jokes: Psychologists and Psychiatrists
  Lots of psychology jokes. Norman Cousins believed that positive emotions, including humor, could help people cope with stress. (See pages 454-455 in Psychology in Action, 5e, for additional resources for effective coping.)  Go here for a light-hearted look at psychology. (Even Psychologists need to laugh at themselves once in a while.)

• Psychology Humor
  Lots more psychology jokes. (See pages 454-455 in Psychology in Action, 5e, for additional resources for effective coping.)
  
  
• Change and Information Overload:   Negative Effects
  This page has a general discussion the negative effects of life changes.  (See pages 438-440 in Psychology in Action, 5e.)
  
  
• Mind Tools: How to Master Stress
  This site gives you access to information on how to understand and manage stress.
  
  
• The Different Kinds of Stress
  This page, maintained by the American Psychological Association, discusses three different types of stress:  Acute stress, episodic acute stress, and chronic stress.
  
  
• Six Myths About Stress
  Six myths surround stress.  This site dispels these myths.
  
  
• Stress: How and When to Get Help
  This APA site helps you tell when to get help when you are too stressed.

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