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This book brings together the most current thinking and research on educator stress and how education systems can support quality teachers and quality education. It adopts an occupational health perspective to examine the problem of educator stress and presents theory-driven intervention strategies to reduce stress load and support educator resilience and healthy school organizations. The book provides an international perspective on key challenges facing educators such as teacher stress, teacher retention, training effective teachers, teacher accountability, cyber-bullying in schools, and developing healthy school systems. Divided into four parts, the book starts out by introducing and defi...
Published by Blackwell in association with the British Psychological Society, Health Psychology in Practice provides a comprehensive overview of the UK professional Stage 2 Qualification in Health Psychology. An essential text for professional training in health psychology, both for trainees and teachers and supervisors contributing to health psychology courses. Published in association with the British Psychological Society. Covers the core competencies necessary for qualification as a health psychologist. Includes sections on professional issues, research, consultancy and interventions, teaching and training and other professional roles. The final chapter contains a series of individual commentaries on health psychology training in a variety of countries, which will be of great interest to an international audience. The editors helped to establish the British Psychological Society’s health psychology professional training programme.
Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.
Includes established theories and cutting-edge developments. Presents the work of an international group of experts. Presents the nature, origin, implications, an future course of major unresolved issues in the area.
The SAGE Handbook of Health Psychology represents a landmark work in the field, gathering together in a single volume contributions from an internationally renowned group of scholars. It provides a definitive, one-stop, authoritative guide to the major themes and debates in health psychology, both past and present, and should in time become a classic reference work for a wide, international readership. Its coverage is comprehensive, both traditional and innovative, and reflects the latest in global health psychology research from a wide perspective. This includes the latest work in epidemiology of health and illness, health-related cognitions, chronic illness, interventions in changing healt...
Caring for the person with Fibromyalgia, written by Ana Maria Canzonieri, brings a multidimensional and humanized view of the people affected by the disease. Those who get sick need understanding, attention and care, as well as proper guidance to regain their self-esteem and find the healing path. The text is easy to understand and can be the light at the end of the tunnel for those seeking hope in the midst of pain..
Como se pode perceber através de uma breve leitura dos artigos que compõem este livro, as temáticas apresentadas são variadas e as possibilidades de reflexão, incontáveis. Acreditando que os estudos possam contribuir para novos e necessários debates no que tange aos aspectos relacionados à violência e ao gênero na sua interlocução com a saúde, convidamos a todos os leitores e as leitoras a se aventurar pelo percurso dos textos aqui apresentados. Esperamos que a leitura seja proveitosa e que as reflexões suscitadas acompanhem a todos e a todas na busca por uma sociedade mais justa, igualitária e menos violenta.