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This highly important book introduces the realm of organ donation, providing an overview of the current situation, highlighting the challenges, summarizing past research, and providing guidance for future research. The first book to bridge the gap between applied research and the social and behavioral issues surrounding organ donation An impressive collection of contributors from a range of both practitioners and scientists actively working in the field Provides a concrete example of how evidence-based research and theory can be applied with real-world value Explores future directions of organ donation and research including community-based health interventions, ethical considerations, and advancing donor registration The latest publication in the prestigious Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series
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| Title of eBook: Understanding Organ Donation: Applied Behavioral Science Perspectives | |
| Release Date: 12-15-2009 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Understanding Organ Donation: Applied Behavioral Science Perspectives
Chapter One
Applying Psychology to Health Behavior InterventionsNot Last Decade's Approach
Stuart Oskamp
The focus of this volume is on organ donation, an emergent area in health psychology. My goal in this introductory chapter is to provide some historical and disciplinary context for this new field. I had originally considered as a subtitle "Not Your Dad's (or Mom's) Research Approach." However, as I delved into the literature, I soon realized that this field began much more recently than a generation ago-indeed, mostly in the last decade.
As a social psychologist with a strong applied orientation, but not a health psychologist per se, I sought a source that would provide some background on the area of organ donation. Hence, I consulted two classic volumes on health psychology. The first was Shelley Taylor's seminal textbook, Health Psychology (2nd ed.), published in 1991. I found that its index had no listing of organ or of donation. It did list liver and kidney, but only in a brief section that explained how these organs work in the processes of digestion and excretion. However, I reasoned, that book is now over 15 years old, so perhaps a newer volume might give a summary of research on organ donation.
So next I consulted the massive, multivolume series entitled Handbook of Psychology, published by Wiley in 2003-specifically, volume 9, Health Psychology, which is over 660 pages in length (Nezu, Nezu, & Geller, 2003). But again I found that its index did not list either organ or donation. Also, its chapter headings gave no indication that research on organ donation would fit within any of their purviews
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