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The textbook provides a holistic understanding of health and well-being through the presentation of multicultural concepts and practices in the field. Understanding the Psychology of Health and Well-being offers theoretical insights and empirical evidence from both Western and Indian perspectives to comprehensively cover various components of and practices in health and well-being. It elucidates the historical framework, nature, theoretical foundations, research progresses and examples to provide a better understanding of psychological impacts on health and well-being. The book emphasizes on the need to develop cultural sensitivity to enhance health and well-being across cultures and how culture offers pathways to understand ill health and developing interventions to deal with health issues appropriately. The use of robust pedagogical features makes this textbook an invaluable companion for students of psychology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It will also serve the requirements of students of other behavioural sciences, nursing, healthcare workers, counsellors, social workers and policymakers across a range of disciplines. Key Features: * Focuses exclusively on the relevance of maintaining health and wellbeing, and how to sustain and promote it * Discussion on each topic complemented by updates on current research findings and latest trends in the field * Each chapter aided by key pedagogical features to support contemporary teaching-learning practices * Uses mini cases, illustrations and 'did you know' vignettes in each chapter to make learning interactive and exemplary

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Meetu Khosla, PhD, is an Professor in the Department of Psychology at Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi, where she has been teaching psychology for the past 25 years. She has been teaching psychology for health and well-being, physiological psychology, counselling psychology, stress management and psychology of living. Her field of specialization includes health psychology, well-being, emotion regulation and indigenous psychology. Her research focuses on the neurocognitive correlates of affect, coping, resilience, health and well-being across cultures. Dr Khosla received the Shastri-Indo Canadian Fellowship (2012) as a visiting professor to Canada, the ICSSR Fellowship (2013) as a visiting professor to France, the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship (2014) as a visiting lecturer to the United States, the Erasmus Mundus Fellowship (2015) as a visiting professor to Poland and a visiting researcher to the University of Warsaw (2016) and the ICSSR Fellowship (2017) as a visiting researcher to France. She has more than 90 research publications in scientific journals nationally and internationally and more than 185 presentations in national/international conferences, seminars, workshops and universities all around the world which include Yale University, Penn State University, Harvard University, University of Connecticut, University of Toronto and Paris Descartes University to name a few. She is on the editorial boards of SAGE and Springer as a reviewer. Her textbook Physiological Psychology was published by SAGE in 2017.

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