Critical Issues in Clinical and Health Psychology

1.Introduction: Critical issues in clinical and health psychology 1.1.Locating the field 1.2.Understanding health, illness and disability 1.3.Critical issues in clinical and health psychology 2.Psychosocial and critical models of health, illness and disability 2.1.Introduction 2.2.Health, illness and psychology 2.3.The biopsychosocial model 2.4.Psychological models of mental health 2.5.Sociological critiques of the medical model 2.6.Critical psychology 2.7.Summary 3.Understanding and changing health behaviours 3.1.Introduction 3.2.Cognitive-behavioural models of health behaviours 3.3.Ecological systems theory 3.4.Community and structural interventions 3.5.Summary 4.Culture 4.1.Introduction 4.2.Dimensions of culture 4.3.Culture and illness experience 4.4.Culture and mental health 4.5.Culture, body image and disordered eating 4.6.Culture and disability Contents note continued: 4.7.Health care as cultural 4.8.Summary 5.Socio-economic status 5.1.Introduction 5.2.SES and disease 5.3.SES and mental health 5.4.SES and disability 5.5.Homelessness and health 5.6.Explaining SES health inequalities 5.7.SES and the professional -patient interaction 5.8.Summary 6.Gender 6.1.Introduction 6.2.Gender disparities in health 6.3.Gender and sexual health 6.4.Gender, body image and disordered eating 6.5.Gender and mental health 6.6.Gender and disability 6.7.Summary 7.Sexuality 7.1.Introduction 7.2.Homosexuality and the mental health professions 7.3.Homosexuality, ill-health and health care 7.4.`African sexuality' and HIV/AIDS 7.5.Sexuality and people with disabilities 7.6.Summary 8.Research methods for a critical approach to clinical and health psychology 8.1.Introduction 8.2.Different methods in qualitative research 8.3.Mixed methods Contents note continued: 8.4.Quality in qualitative research 8.5.Summary.