Gesundheitspsychologie

What conditions contribute to the development of physical and mental illnesses? What keeps people healthy? What requirements should scientifically based prevention and health promotion meet? This book, now in its third updated edition, provides a systematic introduction to health psychology. The author offers an overview of central theories, current research findings, and application possibilities of health psychology. Starting from the problems of the medical health system, he develops the fundamental questions and concepts of a modern psychology of health. Theoretical models of disease development, salutogenesis, and resilience are used as a framework to describe psychosocial influences on the health and illness process and their significance for the practice of prevention and health promotion.