Interpersonal Relationships and Health Social and Clinical Psychological Mechanisms

Christopher R. Agnew, Susan C. South, "Interpersonal Relationships and Health: Social and Clinical Psychological Mechanisms"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0199936633 | PDF | pages: 304 | 16.3 mb
Gathering leading thinkers in social and clinical psychology, public health, medicine, and sociology, Interpersonal Relationships and Health considers theoretical and empirical issues relevant to understanding the social and clinical psychological mechanisms linking close relationship processes with mental and physical health outcomes. The volume arises out of a recent explosion of interest, across multiple academic and research fields, in the ways that interpersonal relationships affect health and well-being. This volume pulls together a range of scholars who focus on different aspects of relationships and health in order to encourage both collaboration and cross-disciplinary initiatives. This is the first edited volume to pull together noted experts across myriad disciplines whose research is at the intersection of human relationships and health. Topics addressed include key biological processes that influence and, in turn, are influenced by close relationships. Interpersonal