Health Psychology, 2nd Edition: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Health

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A truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of health

Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach uses the social ecological perspective to explore the impact of five systems on individual health outcomes: individual, culture/family, social/physical environment, health systems and health policy. In order to provide readers with an understanding of how health affects the individual on a mental and emotional level, the author has taken an interdisciplinary approach, considering the roles of anthropology, biology, economics, environmental studies, medicine, public health, and sociology.

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Deborah Fish Ragin is a Professor of Psychology at Montclair State University. She is a graduate of Vassar College where she earned an A.B. in Psychology and Hispanic Studies in 1978. She continued her studies of psychology at Harvard University where she earned her M.A. in 1984 and her Ph.D. in 1985. Dr. Ragin served on the faculty of Hunter College at the City University of New York, and on the faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine (New York City) where she also holds a position as Adjunct Associate Professor.

Her professional service includes a five-year appointment as an American Psychological Association’s (APA) Representative to the United Nations, President of the APA’s Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (Division 48, Peace Psychology), member of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Divisions and APA Relations, and most recently  member of the Health Research Council of the Health Psychology Division (Division 38) of the American Psychological Association.

In this Section:

1. Brief Table of Contents

2. Full Table of Contents

1. Brief Table of Contents:

Chapter 1:     Images, Ideals, and Myths

Chapter 2:     Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form

Chapter 3:     The Historical Making of Family Diversity

Chapter 4:     Families and the New Economic Realities   

Chapter 5:     Families and Demographic Trends: The New Immigration and the Aging of Society

Chapter 6:     Class, Race, and Gender

Chapter 7:     Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family.

Chapter 8:     The Social Construction of Intimacy

Chapter 9:     Contemporary Marriages

Chapter 10:   Parents and Children

Chapter 11:   Violence in Families  

Chapter 12:   Divorce and Remarriage

Chapter 13:   Emergent Families in the Global Era

Chapter 14:   Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century

2. Full Table of Contents

Chapter 1:     Images, Ideals, and Myths

Images and Ideals   

Images and Reality  

The Mythical U.S. Family     

A New Framework for Understanding Families

Additional Features of This Book    

Chapter 2:     Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form

Myths and Realities  

Family and the New Social History

Family Life in Colonial America

The Emergence of Modern Family Life      

Chapter 3:     The Historical Making of Family Diversity

Myths and Realities  

Industrialization and Family Life     

Immigration and Family Life

Racial Control and Family Life        

The Great Depression and Family Change  

Chapter 4:     Families and the New Economic Realities   

Myths and Realities

The Structural Transformation of the Economy

The Transformation of the Economy and The Great Recession

Chapter 5:     Families and Demographic Trends: The New Immigration and the Aging of Society

Myths and Realities

The New Immigration and the Changing Racial Landscape

The Aging of Society

Chapter 6:     Class, Race, and Gender

Myths and Realities  

Class, Race, and Gender as Structural Inequalities

Class  

Race

Gender

Chapter 7:     Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family

Myths and Realities  

The Changing Work Patterns of Women, Men, and Teens

Integrating Work and Family

Invisible and Unpaid Family Work   

Coping with Work and Family        

Chapter 8:     The Social Construction of Intimacy
Myths and Realities  

Intimacy in Social Context   

Heterosexual Mate Selection and Intimate Partnering

Changing Sexual Behavior   

Differentiated Forms of Intimacy   

Chapter 9:     Contemporary Marriages

Myths and Realities  

Marriage: Private and Public Spheres        

Recent Trends         

Are There Benefits to Marriage?    

Micro Aspects of Marriage   

Reconstructing Gender Roles: Building an Egalitarian Marriage    

The Future of Marriage: Changing or Dying?        

Chapter 10:   Parents and Children

Myths and Realities  

The Social Construction of Parenting         

The Social Construction of Childhood        

Demographic Patterns        

 The Impact of Children on Marriage        

The Impact of Parents on Children and of Children on Parents   

Parents and Children in Dual-Earner Families

Reprise:  The Duality of Parenting

Single Parents and Their Children   

Reprise: The Duality of Parenting   

Chapter 11:   Violence in Families  

Myths and Realities  

Families in a Violent Society 

Intimate Partner Violence    

Child Abuse and Neglect      

Incest

Sibling Abuse 

Macro and Micro Linkages   

Agency

Chapter 12:   Divorce and Remarriage

Myths and Realities  

Divorce Rates

Predicting the Divorce Rate: Up or Down? 

The Consequences of Divorce for Spouses and Children  

Remarriage after Divorce   

The Politics of Divorce

Is Marriage a Failed Institution?     

Chapter 13:   Emergent Families in the Global Era

Myths and Realities  

The Rise in New Family Arrangements

Single Life     

Heterosexual Cohabitation   

Same-Sex Partners and Families

Families Separated by Time and Space     

Chapter 14:   Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century

The Ideological Fault Lines   

The Government’s Limits on the Definition of Marriage    

The Government and Reproductive Rights

Welfare        

Working Parents      

Meeting the Needs of Disadvantaged Children      

Principles to Guide Family Policy: An Immodest Proposal 

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