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Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions Hardcover – 28 December 2010

by Edward P. Sarafino (Author), Timothy W. Smith (Author)
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    537 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    John Wiley & Sons Inc
  4. Publication date
    28 December 2010
  5. Dimensions
    21.05 x 2.41 x 25.4 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0470646985
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0470646984
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Wiley & Sons Inc; 7th edition (28 December 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 537 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470646985
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470646984
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.05 x 2.41 x 25.4 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Heather
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on 27 January 2014
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I wish I would have purchased this book. I really enjoyed this book and my health psychology course. This shipped a little on the slow side from my recollection, but it came in perfect condition. Thanks!
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Dimpie Dhani
5.0 out of 5 stars Health Psychology Textbook
Reviewed in Canada on 19 February 2012
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This textbook is very clean and was mailed to me in very good condition. It is brand-new condition and I am pleased that I have received such a wonderful knowledge-based textbook with all the vocabulary words in one spot.

Thank you so much.
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Yicheng Jiang
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Reviewed in the United States on 28 January 2019
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Useful for class
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Peter
1.0 out of 5 stars A Tedious and Oversimplified Text
Reviewed in the United States on 29 March 2013
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Had I not been required to read this book for a class, I would have abandoned it on a bus at my earliest opportunity.

The authors mostly just discuss the topics in each chapter by defining words, then defining the words nested in those definitions, and so on ad nauseum. The chapters start to feel repetitive in their construction. First there's a limited consideration of biological factors relating to an issue. Then the psychological factors. Then the social factors. Over and over and over again. The biopsychosocial model can be an ingenious way to consider health, but to Sarafino and Smith it is a tedious parade of subheadings and bolded terms.

But the far worse offense of this book is the way that it treats the topics it considers. The authors take every single opportunity at their disposal to reduce a nuanced and complex issue to a set of trite, oversimplified talking points. Their discussion of substance abuse spends the entire chapter emphasizing that drugs=bad. This assertion is barely even backed up with facts (a single, two paragraph section on the [exclusively bad] health effects of drugs, before 12 pages wondering how we can stop this "problem"). Likewise, their discussion of nutrition spends basically the entire chapter reiterating that fat=bad. The pages read not like scientific discussions of the issues, but like boring pronouncements.

If the authors are aware of a single fact that disagrees with their simplistic view of human health, they seem to have made certain that it didn't grace the pages of this text.
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Reviewed in the United States on 30 January 2016
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As described.
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