My health : an outcomes approach /

Donatelle, Rebecca J., 1950-

My health : an outcomes approach / Rebecca J. Donatelle. - xxi, 382 pages, 47 variously numbered pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Healthy Change -- What Is Health? -- Health in the United States -- What Influences Your Health? -- Models of Behavior Change -- Improving Health Behaviors: Procontemplation and Contemplation -- Skills For Behavior Change Maintain Your Motivation -- Improving Health Behaviors: Preparation -- Improving Health Behaviors: Action -- Skills For Behavior Change Challenge the Thoughts That Sabotage Change -- Behavior Change Contract -- Assess Yourself: How Healthy Are You? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Psychological Health -- What Is Psychological Health? -- Dimensions of Psychological Health -- Factors That Influence Psychological Health -- Skills For Behavior Change Build Your Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem -- Mind-Body Connection -- Skills For Behavior Change Using Positive Psychology to Enhance Your Happiness -- Strategies to Enhance Psychological Health -- What Is Spiritual Health? -- Strategies for Cultivating Spiritual Health -- When Psychological Health Deteriorates -- Anxiety Disorders -- Mood Disorders -- Skills For Behavior Change Dealing with and Defeating Depression -- Other Psychological Disorders -- Psychological Health and Successful Aging -- When Psychological Problems Become Too Much: Suicide -- Seeking Professional Help -- Assess Yourself: How Psychologically Healthy Are You? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Stress -- What Is Stress? -- Your Body's Response to Stress -- Effects of Stress on Your Life -- Stress and Headaches -- Stress and Sleep Problems -- Psychosocial Causes of Stress -- Internal Causes of Stress -- Skills For Behavior Change Overcoming Test-Taking Anxiety -- Stress Management Techniques: Mental and Physical Approaches -- Stress Management Techniques: Managing Emotional Responses -- Stress Management Techniques: Managing Your Time -- Skills For Behavior Change Learn to Say No and Mean It! -- Stress Management Techniques: Managing Your Finances -- Relaxation Techniques for Stress Management -- Assess Yourself: What's Your Stress Level? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Relationships and Sexuality -- Characteristics and Types of Intimate Relationships -- Strategies for Success in Relationships -- Skills for Better Communication: Appropriate Self-Disclosure -- Skills for Better Communication: Understanding Gender Differences -- Skills for Better Communication: Listening and Nonverbal Skills -- Skills For Behavior Change Becoming a Better Listener -- Skills for Better Communication: Managing Conflict -- Skills For Behavior Change Communicating When Emotions Run High -- Committed Relationships -- When Relationships Falter -- Skills For Behavior Change HOW Do YOU End It? -- Your Sexual Identity: More than Biology -- Female Sexual Anatomy and Physiology -- Menstrual Problems and Menopause -- Male Sexual Anatomy and Physiology -- Human Sexual Response and Expression -- Sexual Dysfunction -- Alcohol, Drugs, and Sex -- Responsible and Satisfying Sexual Behavior -- Skills For Behavior Change Taking Steps toward Healthy Sexuality -- Assess Yourself: How Well Do You Communicate? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Reproductive Choices -- Barrier Methods: Male and Female Condoms -- Other Barrier Methods -- Hormonal Methods: Oral Contraceptives -- Hormonal Methods: The Patch, Ring, Injections, and Implants -- Intrauterine Contraceptives -- Emergency Contraception -- Behavioral Methods and Fertility Awareness Methods -- Surgical Methods -- Choosing a Method of Contraception -- Abortion -- Planning a Pregnancy -- Skills For Behavior Change Preparing For Pregnancy -- Process of Pregnancy -- Preconception and Prenatal Care -- Childbirth -- Postpartum Period -- Infertility -- Assess Yourself: Are You Comfortable with Your Contraception? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Addiction and Drug Abuse -- What Is Addiction? -- Addictive Behaviors -- Drug Dynamics -- Using, Misusing, and Abusing Drugs -- Common Drugs of Abuse: Stimulants -- Common Drugs of Abuse: Marijuana -- Skills For Behavior Change Responding to an Offer of Drugs -- Common Drugs of Abuse: Depressants -- Common Drugs of Abuse: Hallucinogens -- Common Drugs of Abuse: Inhalants -- Common Drugs of Abuse: Anabolic Steroids -- Treatment and Recovery -- Addressing Drug Misuse and Abuse in the U.S. -- Assess Yourself: Do You Have a Problem with Drugs? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Alcohol and Tobacco -- Alcohol and College Students -- Skills For Behavior Change Tipsfor Drinking Responsibly -- Alcohol in the Body -- Alcohol and Your Health: Short-Term Effects -- Skills For Behavior Change Dealing with an Alcohol Emergency -- Alcohol and Your Health: Long-Term Effects -- Drinking and Driving -- Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism -- Reducing Alcohol Intake -- Skills For Behavior Change How to Cut Down on Your Drinking -- Treatment and Recovery -- Tobacco Use in the United States -- Tobacco: Its Components and Effects -- Health Hazards of Tobacco Products -- Environmental Tobacco Smoke -- Tobacco Use Prevention Policies -- Quitting the Tobacco Habit -- Skills For Behavior Change Tips for Quitting Smoking -- Assess Yourself: What's Your Risk of Alcohol Abuse? -- Assess Yourself: Are You Nicotine Dependent? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Nutrition -- Understanding Nutrition: Digestion and Caloric Needs -- Essential Nutrients: Water -- Essential Nutrients: Protein -- Essential Nutrients: Carbohydrates -- Skills For Behavior Change Bulk up Your Fiber Intake! -- Essential Nutrients: Fats -- Essential Nutrients: Vitamins -- Essential Nutrients: Minerals -- Planning a Healthy Diet: Dietary Guidelines, 2070 -- Planning a Healthy Diet: Using the Food Label -- Planning a Healthy Diet: The MyPlate Plan -- Eating Well in College -- Skills For Behavior Change Healthy Eating Simplified -- Vegetarianism: A Healthy Diet? -- Is Organic for You? -- Food Technology -- Food Allergies and Intolerances -- Food Safety and Foodborne Illnesses -- Skills For Behavior Change Reduce Your Risk for Foodborne Illness -- Assess Yourself: How Healthy Are Your Eating Habits? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Weight Management and Body Image -- Obesity in the United States -- Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity -- Factors Contributing to Overweight and Obesity: Genetics, Physiology, and the Environment -- Factors Contributing to Overweight and Obesity: Lifestyle -- Skills For Behavior Change Finding the Fun in Healthy Eating and Exercise -- Assessing Body Weight and Body Composition -- Assessing Body Weight and Body Composition: BMI and Other Methods -- Weight Management: Understanding Energy Balance and Improving Eating Habits -- Skills For Behavior Change Tips for Sensible Snacking -- Weight Management: Assessing Diet Books -- Weight Management: In Perspective -- Skills For Behavior Change Keys to Successful Weight Management -- Considering Drastic Weight-Loss Measures -- Trying to Gain Weight -- Skills For Behavior Change Tips for Gaining Weight -- Understanding and Improving Body Image -- Skills For Behavior Change Steps to a Positive Body Image -- What Is Disordered Eating? -- Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa -- Eating Disorders: Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating -- Exercise Disorders -- Assess Yourself: Are You Ready for Weight Loss? -- Assess Yourself: How Sensible Are Your Efforts to Be Thin? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Fitness -- Physical Activity and Fitness: Guidelines and Components -- Health Benefits of Physical Activity -- Getting Motivated for Physical Activity -- Some Popular Fitness Gadgets and Equipment -- Fitness Program Components and the FITT Principle -- FITT Principle for Cardiorespiratory Fitness -- FITT Principle for Muscular Strength and Endurance -- FITT Principle for Flexibility -- Developing Core Strength -- Nutrition and Exercise -- Fitness-Related Injuries: Prevention and Treatment -- Exercising in the Heat and Cold -- Smart Shopping for Fitness -- Activity and Exercise for Special Populations -- Developing and Staying with a Fitness Plan -- Skills For Behavior Change Plan It, Start It, Stick with It! -- Assess Yourself: How Physically Fit Are You? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- CVD, Cancer, and Diabetes -- Understanding the Cardiovascular System -- Cardiovascular Disease: An Epidemiological Overview -- Key Cardiovascular Diseases: Atherosclerosis -- Key Cardiovascular Diseases: Coronary Heart Disease -- Skills For Behavior Change What to Do in the Event of a Heart Attack 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 1.6. 1.7. 1.8. 1.9. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 2.6. 2.7. 2.8. 2.9. 2.10. 2.11. 2.12. 2.13. 2.14. 2.15. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. 3.9. 3.10. 3.11. 3.12. 3.13. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7. 4.8. 4.9. 4.10. 4.11. 4.12. 4.13. 4.14. 4.15. 4.16. 4.17. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 5.6. 5.7. 5.8. 5.9. 5.10. 5.11. 5.12. 5.13. 5.14. 5.15. 5.16. 5.17. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6. 6.7. 6.8. 6.9. 6.10. 6.11. 6.12. 6.13. 7. 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. 7.4. 7.5. 7.6. 7.7. 7.8. 7.9. 7.10. 7.11. 7.12. 7.13. 7.14. 7.15. 7.16. 8. 8.1. 8.2. 8.3. 8.4. 8.5. 8.6. 8.7. 8.8. 8.9. 8.10. 8.11. 8.12. 8.13. 8.14. 8.15. 8.16. 8.17. 9. 9.1. 9.2. 9.3. 9.4. 9.5. 9.6. 9.7. 9.8. 9.9. 9.10. 9.11. 9.12. 9.13. 9.14. 9.15. 9.16. 9.17. 9.18. 10. 10.1. 10.2. 10.3. 10.4. 10.5. 10.6. 10.7. 10.8. 10.9. 10.10. 10.11. 10.12. 10.13. 10.14. 10.15. 10.16. 11. 11.1. 11.2. 11.3. 11.4. Note continued: Key Cardiovascular Diseases: Stroke -- Skills For Behavior Change What to Do in the Event of a Stroke -- Key Cardiovascular Diseases: Hypertension -- Other Cardiovascular Diseases -- Reducing CVD Risk: Metabolic Syndrome -- Reducing CVD Risk: Modifiable Risks -- Reducing CVD Risk: Nonmodifiable Risks -- Diagnosing and Treating CVD -- What Is Cancer? -- Types and Sites of Cancer -- Risk Factors for Cancer -- Lung Cancer -- Colon and Rectal Cancers -- Breast Cancer -- Skin Cancer -- Skills For Behavior Change Tips for Protecting Your Skin in the Sun -- Prostate and Testicular Cancer -- Cancer Screening Guidelines and Other Cancers -- Cancer Detection and Treatment -- What Is Diabetes? -- Diabetes: Risk Factors, Symptoms, and Treatment -- Your Health Inheritance: The Influence of Genetics on Disease -- Assess Yourself: What's Your Personal CVD Risk? -- Assess Yourself: What's Your Personal Risk for Cancer? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Infectious Conditions -- Process of Infection -- Your Immune System -- Skills For Behavior Change Reduce Your Risk of Infectious Disease -- Disease-Causing Pathogens: Bacteria -- Disease-Causing Pathogens: Viruses -- Other Pathogens and Emerging Diseases -- Antibiotic Resistance -- Sexually Transmitted Infections -- Skills For Behavior Change Safe Is Sexy -- Sexually Transmitted Infections: HIV/AIDS -- Sexually Transmitted Infections: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea -- Skills For Behavior Change Communicating about Safer Sex -- Sexually Transmitted Infections: Syphilis -- Sexually Transmitted Infections: Herpes -- Sexually Transmitted Infections: Human Papillomavirus -- Other Sexually Transmitted Infections -- Assess Yourself: STIs: Do You Really Know What You Think You Know? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Violence and Unintentional Injuries -- Crime Rates and Causes of Violence -- Interpersonal Violence -- Violence in the Family -- Sexual Victimization -- Other Forms of Sexual Violence -- Collective Violence -- How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Violence -- Skills For Behavior Change Reducing Your Risk of Dating Violence -- Campus and Community Responses to Violence -- Skills For Behavior Change Stay Safe on All Fronts -- Reducing Your Risk on the Road -- Safe Recreation -- Avoiding Injury from Excessive Noise -- Safety at Home -- Avoiding Workplace Injury -- Assess Yourself: Are You at Risk for Violence or Injury? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Environmental Health -- Overpopulation -- Air Pollution -- Indoor Air Pollution -- Skills For Behavior Change Be Mold Free -- Global Warming and Climate Change -- Pollution in the Water -- SKILLS FOT BEHAVIOR CHANGE Waste Less Water! -- Pollution on Land -- Radiation -- Sustainability on Campus -- Skills For Behavior Change Shopping to Save the Planet -- Assess Yourself: What Are You Doing to Preserve the Environment? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links -- Consumerism and Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Taking Responsibility for Your Health Care -- Skills For Behavior Change Be Proactive in Your Health Care -- Assessing Health Professionals -- Types of Allopathic Health Care Providers -- Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) -- Types of CAM and Alternative Medical Systems -- CAM: Manipulative and Body-Based Practices -- CAM: Energy Medicine -- Other CAM Practices -- Making Choices about CAM Treatments and Over-the-Counter Drugs -- Choosing Health Products: Prescription and OTC Drugs -- Herbal Remedies and Supplements -- Health Insurance -- Issues Facing the Health Care System -- Advocating During a Health Care Crisis -- Assess Yourself: Are You a Smart Health Care Consumer? -- Summary -- Pop Quiz -- Web Links. 11.5. 11.6. 11.7. 11.8. 11.9. 11.10. 11.11. 11.12. 11.13. 11.14. 11.15. 11.16. 11.17. 11.18. 11.19. 11.20. 11.21. 11.22. 11.23. 11.24. 11.25. 11.26. 12. 12.1. 12.2. 12.3. 12.4. 12.5. 12.6. 12.7. 12.8. 12.9. 12.10. 12.11. 12.12. 12.13. 12.14. 13. 13.1. 13.2. 13.3. 13.4. 13.5. 13.6. 13.7. 13.8. 13.9. 13.10. 13.11. 13.12. 13.13. 13.14. 14. 14.1. 14.2. 14.3. 14.4. 14.5. 14.6. 14.7. 14.8. 14.9. 15. 15.1. 15.2. 15.3. 15.4. 15.5. 15.6. 15.7. 15.8. 15.9. 15.10. 15.11. 15.12. 15.13. 15.14. 15.15.

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Health.
Health behavior.
Medicine, Preventive.

RA776 / .D6635 2013

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