Complete Guide to Family Health Nutrition Fitness or Faith and Health

Complete Guide to Family Health, Nutrition & Fitness

Author: Paul Reisser

The Complete Guide to Family Health, Nutrition, and Fitness will help you take an active role in improving the health and well-being of you and your family by offering authoritative and current medical information in a convenient, easyto-understand format. Taking a balanced, commonsense approach to the issue of health and wellness, this indispensable guide delivers an encouraging perspective with helpful reference sections.

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Faith and Health

Author: Thomas G Plant

This volume reviews and integrates the growing body of contemporary psychological research on the links between religious faith and health outcomes. It presents up-to-date findings from empirical studies of populations ranging from healthy individuals to those with specific clinical problems, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, and psychological disorders. Drawing on multiple perspectives in psychology, the book examines such critical questions as the impact of religious practices on health behaviors and health risks; the role played by faith in adaptation to illness or disability; and possible influences on physiological functioning and mortality. Chapters reflect the close collaboration of the editors and contributing authors, who discuss commonalities and differences in their work, debate key methodological concerns, and outline a cohesive agenda for future research.

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Reviewer: Patricia E. Murphy, PhD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This is an edited book by authors who have been in the forefront of research in religion and health. The chapters provide both a report of the research by topic as well as a chapter on the problems about design and data analysis in religious and health research in general. It also includes a chapter on the ramifications for clinical practice.
Purpose: The book aims to provide an updated assessment of what we know about the relationship of faith and health with a focus on both research and clinical agenda.
Audience: Those interested in the ongoing debate about the research in religion and health will enjoy this work. Clinicians might find some of the suggestions for assessment quite helpful. The researcher will benefit from the explication of some of the pitfalls in research in this field.
Features: In addition to reporting current research, the book also includes some of the public criticism of this area. The chapter pointing to design flaws and issues about statistical analyses has much to offer. The chapter describing instruments used to measure aspects of religion and spirituality will be very useful for the researcher.
Assessment: The book is worthwhile for the interested researcher. The research reviewed comes from a variety of sources, some respected journals and some with less rigorous review processes. The book would have more to offer if it had included the careful kind of analysis of the quality of each study that Koenig provides in Handbook of Religion and Mental Health (Academic Press, 1998).

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3 Stars from Doody