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**ARTICLE TOPIC INDEX**
Cancer & Psychology	Optimism & Health
Chronic Illness	Pain & Chronic Pain
Control Beliefs and Health	Personality, Emotions & Health
Depression & Health	Quality of Life
General Health Psychology	Social Support
Health Behaviors	Treatments & Therapies
Models & Theories	Work & Health

**Cancer & Psychology**
Dying Patients Who Acknowledge Terminal Prognosis Less Depressed, Groundbreaking Study Finds (NCIC Media Release)
Why Women Face Much Greater Lung Cancer Risk

**Chronic Illness**
Colorado Health Site report on Chronic Illness
A Guide to Chronic Illness
The Big B: Balance Critical with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Psychosocial Risks of Chronic Health Conditions in Childhood And Adolescence (American Academy of Pediatrics Policy statement)

**Control Beliefs and Health**

Power, Pessimism and Prevention: The Impact of Locus of Control on Physical Health
Repressive Denial, Locus of Control, and Coping Styles, and their Relationships with Immunosuppression, Cardiovascular Function and Health Outcomes
Health Locus of Control (theory and origins)

**Depression & Health**
Exercise Elevates Mood -- Until And Unless You Stop
Depression in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue States; a re-examination of the data (ME/CFS AREA article; click on article at page bottom)

**General Health Psychology**
Some Adults Believe Illness Can Be "Payback" For Bad Behavior (Science Daily Magazine article about a study on people's beliefs about illness)
Psychological Effects of Health Risk Communication
The Placebo Effect (brief article by Steve Butterworth)
Latest News about the Placebo Response (updated by Howard Brody)
Listening to Prozac but Hearing Placebo: A Meta-Analysis of Antidepressant Medication (controversial article by Kirsch & Sapirstein (1998) on the size of placebo effects)
STD's: Global Burden and Challenges for Control
What is Successful Aging?
Psychosomatic and Physical Disorders
Benefits, Distress And Uncertainty Related to Genetic Testing
Knowledge and Perceived Risk of Major Diseases in Middle-Aged and Older Women
A Critical Survey of Coping Instruments (Schwarzer & Schwarzer, 1996)

**Health Behaviors**
1999 Department of Defense Survey of Health Related Behaviors Among Military Personnel (highlights from an extensive US DoD survey)
Self Efficacy and Health Behaviors (book article)
Health Behviors (from the National Study of Women with Disabilities)
Genetics and Neuroticism Linked to Smoking Behavior (article from UniSci)
Abuse In Childhood Linked To Later Smoking Behavior
Nearly Half Of College Students Smoke: JAMA Report
Totally Automated Telehealth Systems to Deliver Health Behavior Change Interventions (TeleHealth Net report)
An Integrated Theoretical Framework for Individual Responsibility and Institutional Leadership in Preventing Alcohol and Drug Abuse on the College Campus

**Models and Theories**
Biopsychosocial Medicine as a Model for Enablement
Health Belief Model
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL OF PAIN
Review of Models for use of Health care
Transtheoretical/Stages of Change Model of Health Behavior Change
Transtheoretical Model of Health Behaviour Change - detailed overview
Theory of Reasoned Action/Planned Behavior
Social Cognitive Theory and Health Behavior Change
Ecological Models of Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Attribution Theory and Health Behavior Change
Cognitive Consistency Theory and Health Behaviors

**Optimism & Health**
Cultivating Positive Emotions to Optimize Health and Well-Being (Fredrickson, 2000)
Learned Optimism Yields Health Benefits (article from the APA Mind/Body Connection)
Optimism Protects the Immune System from Stress
Optimism is Healthy
Defining Optimism

**Pain & Chronic Pain**
Assess the Person, Not Just the Pain (IASP article)
Chronic Pain: Controlling HA, Neck/Shoulder and Back Pain
Integration of Behavioral and Relaxation Approaches Into the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Insomnia (NIH Technology Assessment Statement)
Effect of Chronic Pain on Quality of Life (table of effects from Medical Information Network)
Fibromyalgia is Not A Mental Illness
Pain, Immune Change, Linked To Later Health Problems
Psychological Interventions Considered For Treatment Of Chronic Headache And Lower Back Pain (APA press release)
Seeking A Better Way To Assess Pain In The Elderly

**Personality, Emotions, & Health**
Procrastination may be bad for your health (Research Works article)
Personality, Emotions, and Health
Personality and Coping: A Reconceptualization (Costa, Somerfield, & McRae)
Personality influences the brain's responses to emotional situations more than thought, according to new research (APA press release)
Losing Your Cool Can be Dangerous to Your Health, New Study Shows (AHA report)
Anger Prone People are More Likely to Have Heart Attacks (AHA report)
Handling Your Anger Before it Handles You
Anger and Health: An Update
Emotions and the Immune System
Psychological Hardiness is a Buffer Against Aging
Insecure People More Likely to Suffer 2nd Heart Attack (CNN article on the Type D personality & health)
Negative Affect is Potent Coronary Risk Factor (brief Medscape report)
Sense of Self (article on the value of self esteem from the National Study of Women with Disabilities)
Self Efficacy in Health Related Behavior Change (from Cornell University)

**Quality Of Life**
How Goal Disturbance, Coping and Chest Pain Relate to Quality of Life: A Study Among Patients Waiting for PTCA (article from Leiden University, Netherlands)
Predictors of Quality of Life in PTCA Patients: Avoiding Stressors Increases Quality of Life (article from Leiden University, Netherlands)
Maintaining and Independence and Well Being in Old Age (National Forum on Health article)
Coping as a Mediator in Recovery From Cardiac Surgery

**Social Support**
Pets beat ACE Inhibitors when Things Get Tense (report on the effects of social support on BP)
Pets can Tame High Blood Pressure (AHA report)
The Role of Perceived Social Support for Cardiac Patients and Their Spouses in Their Dyadic Coping With Bypass Surgery (Oral presentation from the 1998 EHPS conference)
Having The Right Hospital Roommate Can Speed Recovery From Heart Bypass Surgery (APA press release)
Strong Social Support Improves Survival of Depressed Heart Patients (AHA report)
Health of Family Members Caring for Elderly Persons with Dementia
Marriage can affect your health

**Treatments & Therapies**
Testing Cognitive Therapy as a Treatment for IBS (article from UniSci)
Physical Health Following a Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (Buchanan, Gardenswartz, & Seligman, 1999)
The Scientific Rationale for Behavioral Medicine in CFIDS (Health World article)

**Work & Health**
Stress, Job Satisfaction, Coping, and Psychological Distress Among Emergency Medical Technicians
Understanding the Injured Worker: Psychology's Role in Worker's Comp (an interview)
The Health Consequences of Unemployment (National Forum on Health article)

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