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Key Concepts in Health Psychology aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the key issues, theories, models, and methods in contemporary health psychology. It allows the reader the opportunity to engage with a full range of approaches and methods in a very diverse field, and importantly to be able to appreciate the relationships between these.
Biological and Physiological Models
Biological and Physiological Models
Biological and Physiological Models
and: biological basis of behaviour
twin, family and adoption studies
molecular genetics
psychoneuroimmunology
psychophysiology
Health psychologists typically use a biopsychosocial model to understand and explain health, illness and disease, and this relies strongly on biological and physiological models to explain certain aspects of behaviour and health. In this chapter we describe many of the approaches which can be taken to understand the biological basis of behaviour and health. Genetic approaches, for example, using both twin and related study designs and, more recently, molecular genetic designs, have consistently indicated a genetic influence on both health (including the risk of illness and disease) and health behaviours (including personality traits related to the risk of particular illnesses). Other approaches, such as psychoneuroimmunology and ...
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