Part 1: the nature of health and illness
1. Introduction
2. Society and the changing nature of illness and disease
3. Definitions of health
4. Illness behaviour and health behaviour
5.Aging
Part 2: The psychosocial context of health and illness
6. Sex gender and health care
7. The psychology of pain
8. The sociology of pain
9. The psychological development of the child
Part 3: The experience of illness and disability
10. The subjective experience of illness
11. Loss, bereavement and grief
12. Cognitive and perceptual deficits following brain injury
Part 4: Patients and practitioners
13. Professions and professional work
14. Communication
15. Ethics and moral decision making
Part 5: Psychosocial aspects of physiotherapy practice
16. Defining disability: it""s implications for physiotherapy practice
17. Psychological intervention in chronic illness
18. Counselling and the use of counselling skills
19. The attitudes of health professionals towards disabled people
20. Health care and people from ethnic minority groups.
