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Abstract
Why did critical health psychology emerge? How have categories of social class and gender impacted on social identities? Where can health policy go from here, and how will health psychology inform its development?
With contributions from leading experts in the field, this book deepens our understanding of health psychology at a time where traditional approaches are being rethought. Covering contemporary issues and with a focus on both mainstream and non-traditional areas, including material on social identities and social class, gender, and leadership in the NHS, the book provides cutting edge coverage of theory and research. Crucially, the book considers how theory impacts on practice and how health psychology can ignite change in health policy.
Covering important issues with clear and fresh insight, this is indispensable reading for students, researchers and practitioners of health psychology, health studies and public health.
CHRISTINE HORROCKS is Professor of Applied Social Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
SALLY JOHNSON is Lecturer at the University of Bradford, UK, and a Health Psychologist. She leads the Applied Health and Social Psychology Group based in the Division of Psychology.
This is a strong contribution to the developing field of critical health psychology, and will advance the way that health psychology is understood and practiced. Going well beyond critiques of the field, it highlights how health psychology can (and should) move from theory and research into critical practice and action that offers real possibilities for sustaining and improving health. This text offers valuable reading for health psychologists and other researchers and practitioners in the field of health seeking to understand how critical perspectives can make a tangible difference for health.' - Kerry Chamberlain, Professor of Health Psychology, Massey University, New Zealand
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half-title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Notes on Contributors | vii | ||
| INTRODUCTION | 1 | ||
| How Can We Advance Health Psychology? | 1 | ||
| PART I HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL ACTION | 15 | ||
| 1 Working with the Tensions between Critique and Action in Critical Health Psychology | 17 | ||
| 2 Critical Health Psychology and the Scholar–Activist Tradition | 29 | ||
| 3 Changing Behaviour: Can Critical Psychology Infl uence Policy and Practice? | 44 | ||
| PART II SOCIAL IDENTITIES, INTERSECTIONALITY AND ADVANCING HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY | 59 | ||
| 4 Social Class, Socioeconomic Status and ‘Health-Risk’ Behaviours: A Critical Analysis | 61 | ||
| 5 Men’s Health: Thinking about Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Sensitive Services | 74 | ||
| 6 Working without Sacrifi ce: Discourse, Femininity and Occupational Risk | 89 | ||
| 7 The Emancipatory Potential of Critical Approaches to Promoting Sexual Health: Exploring the Possibilities for Action | 102 | ||
| PART III MODERNISATION AND DEMOCRATISATION IN HEALTHCARE | 115 | ||
| 8 Taking the Lead: Authority and Power in the National Health Service | 117 | ||
| 9 Re-Visiting Pandora’s Box: Primary Healthcare ‘Directive’ and ‘Participatory’ Practices with Women Experiencing Domestic Violence | 137 | ||
| 10 Feminist Health Psychology and Abortion: Towards a Politics of Transversal Relations of Commonality | 153 | ||
| PART IV MAKING A CHANGE: HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND COMMUNITY WELL-BEING | 167 | ||
| 11 Discursive Psychology and Its Potential to Make a Difference | 169 | ||
| 12 ‘I Forget My Problems – The Problems Are in the Soil’: Encountering Nature in Allotment Gardening | 183 | ||
| 13 Being Creative around Health: Participative Methodologies in Critical Community Psychology | 204 | ||
| Glossary | 220 | ||
| Index | 225 |