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Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 1, 94-96, March 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999

Resource Reviews

Psychology and Health Promotion

Paul Bennett and Simon Murphy (eds) Health Psychology Series. Open University Press, Bucks (UK) 1997, £14.99 paperback. isbn 0335 197655; £45.00 hardback. isbn 0335 197665.

Jerry Kennard

Faculty of Social Sciences and Health Studies, University College of Ripon and York St John, York, UK This is a welcome and useful text. It provides a lively outline of the relationship between psychology and health promotion, and moves a step beyond the well established introductory level market. Clearly, targeted towards an insightful audience (advanced undergraduates, health promotion specialists, etc.) its approach is economic but accomplished, and provides a relevant synthesis of policy, theory and practice.

The development of the biopsychosocial model in psychology has refined our understanding of the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of human behaviour. Health and illness can . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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