Health and Psychology

The book provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the psychology of health from an Islamic perspective. The contents of the book focus on core areas such as concept of health and the individual stress and coping nutrition and eating exercise and activity addictive behaviours mental health and Jinn possession and health promotion and disease prevention. In addition the book will cover the specific problems and issues regarding cardiovascular disease diabetes smoking hypertension and HIV & AIDS & Blood-Borne Viruses.Wide coverage of the health psychology discipline.Multidisciplinary and International in focus.Responding to the needs of the Muslim patients.It exemplifies the understanding of the relationship between health psychology and cultural and religious factors.Provide activities - enable the readers to undertake reflective practices on the issues an problems faced when managing Muslim patients