Access to Health
Author: Rebecca J Donatell
The newly revised Access to Health, Tenth Edition features a new reader friendly design. Long known for its currency, research, and strength in behavior change for personal health readers, the Tenth Edition provides a consistent framework for motivating readers to make healthy life choices. The revised edition’s updated coverage includes a revised fitness chapter with greater focus on daily physical activity, updated nutrition chapter using the 2005 dietary guidelines, and increased information on coping with stress. Hot topics include the latest on fad-diets, sleep, and the role spirituality plays in our lives will engage reader interest. Promoting Healthy Behavior Change, Psychosocial Health: Being Mentally, Emotionally, Socially, and Spiritually Well, Managing Stress: Coping With Life's Challenges, Violence and Abuse: Creating Healthy Environments, Healthy Relationships: Communicating Effectively with Friends, Family, and Significant Others, Sexuality: Choices in Sexual Behavior, Reproductive Choices: Making Responsible Decisions, Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health, Managing Your Weight, Personal Fitness: Improving Health Through Exercise, Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness, Drinking Responsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge on Campus, Tobacco and Caffeine: Daily Pleasures, Daily Challenges, Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse, Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Your Risk, Cancer: Reducing Your Risk, Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities, Noninfectious Conditions: The ModernMaladies, Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Process, Dying and Death: The Final Transition, Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: New Choices and Responsibilities for Healthwise Consumers For all readers interested in personal health and making healthy life choices.
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | Promoting Healthy Behavior Change | 2 |
| Ch. 2 | Psychosocial Health: Achieving Mental, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Wellness | 32 |
| Ch. 3 | Managing Stress: Toward Prevention and Control | 60 |
| Ch. 4 | Violence and Abuse: An Epidemic of Fear | 84 |
| Ch. 5 | Communicating Effectively: A Key to Interpersonal Health | 108 |
| Ch. 6 | Healthy Relationships: Friends, Family, and Significant Others | 128 |
| Ch. 7 | Sexuality: Defining Your Sexual Behavior | 154 |
| Ch. 8 | Birth Control, Pregnancy, and Childbirth: Managing Your Fertility | 178 |
| Ch. 9 | Nutrition: Eating for Optimum Health | 214 |
| Ch. 10 | Managing Your Weight: Finding a Healthy Balance | 252 |
| Ch. 11 | Personal Fitness: Improving Your Health Through Exercise | 282 |
| Ch. 12 | Addictions and Addictive Behavior: Threats to Wellness | 310 |
| Ch. 13 | Pharmaceutical Drugs: Safe and Responsible Use | 330 |
| Ch. 14 | Drinking Responsibly: A Lifestyle Challenge | 348 |
| Ch. 15 | Tobacco and Caffeine: Legal Addictions | 372 |
| Ch. 16 | Illicit Drugs: Use, Misuse, and Abuse | 394 |
| Ch. 17 | Cardiovascular Disease: Helping the Beat Go On | 418 |
| Ch. 18 | Cancer: Reducing Your Risks | 440 |
| Ch. 19 | Infectious and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Risks and Responsibilities | 470 |
| Ch. 20 | Noninfectious Conditions: The Modern Maladies | 506 |
| Ch. 21 | Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Process | 528 |
| Ch. 22 | Dying and Death: The Final Transition | 550 |
| Ch. 23 | Environmental Health: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally | 572 |
| Ch. 24 | Consumerism: Selecting Health Care Products and Services | 596 |
Book review: Development as Freedom or Between Two Worlds
Raising an Optimistic Child: A Proven Plan for Depression-Proofing Young Children-For Life
Author: Bob Murray
A program for fostering positive relationship-building habits in children to help alleviate and even prevent childhood depression
Raising an Optimistic Child offers you tools for creating a positive, supportive family atmosphere that helps children who are already depressed and can even prevent this crippling disorder. Steps and additional techniques will help you combat your own depression, tackle parental issues, and enhance learning and coping skills. It also alerts you to circumstances that put a child at risk for depression and suggests ways to ward it off.
Clinical psychologist Bob Murray, Ph.D., and therapist Alicia Fortinberry teach their groundbreaking method at leading universities and multinational corporations. They are coauthors of Creating Optimism.
www.RaisinganOptimisticChild.com
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