Health Psychology: A Textbook with Redemption card - Jane Ogden

"This fourth edition incorporates a number of substantive new topics, including a new chapter on women's health, as well as opportunities for the reader to critically examine key conceptual and methodological issues within each chapter. It remains clearly written and highly accessible and still deserves its place as the number one choice of health psychology textbook."
- John Weinman, King's College, London

The market leading textbook in the field, Health Psychology by Jane Ogden is essential reading for all students and researchers of health psychology. It will also be invaluable to students of medicine, nursing and allied health. Retaining the breadth of coverage, clarity and relevance that has made it a favourite with students and lecturers, this fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated.

New Features:

New chapter on women's health issues, exploring recent research into pregnancy, miscarriage, birth, menopause and related areas
New "Problems" boxes analyse health psychology research and identify the shortcomings and limitations of research in the area
Updated "Focus on Research" examples introduce you to contemporary topics and emerging areas for research in health psychology, including exercise, smoking and pain.The new edition includes new data, graphs and further reading plus suggestions about where you can access the most recent publications and other data
Revised end-of-chapter review questionsOnline Learning Centre: www.openup.co.uk/ogden.The OLC hosts web links and multiple choice questions for students, plus supporting teaching resources including teaching tips and PowerPoint presentations for lecturers.

Interested in accessing more research readings? Essential Readings in Health Psychology by Jane Ogden is a new collection of key papers brought together for the first time in one volume which complements Health Psychology: A Textbook 4/e and offers more detailed accounts of the issues covered in this text.

Free Vital Source Digital Textbook included in this package

Utilising the Vital Source platform, McGraw-Hill/Open University Press are making a number of key titles available in a digital format. Using this platform, students are able to truly personalise their book. The student can highlight important sections of the book during the course or in preparation for an exam. Students can also make notes and attach them directly to the book content, they also have the option to share notes with classmates to further improve their understanding.

And that's not all. Instructors will also have access to the digital version which allows them to add their own notes to the book for students to view. Instructors can also set questions for their students at specific points in the book to encourage class discussion or as tutorial assignments. If you would like to know more about the books available in this digital format, or would like to see a demonstration,please contact your local representative.