About Book

Despite the growth in theoretical understandings of health behaviour and standardized approaches to health interventions, e.g. behaviour change taxonomies, health psychology has got comparatively less attention to the importance of the implementation processes – ‘how to’ rather than ‘what to’ of such interventions. Health psychology is a specialty area that focuses on how biology, psychology, behaviour, and social factors influence health and illness. Other terms including medical psychology and behavioural medicine are sometimes used interchangeably with the term health psychology. Health and illness are influenced by a wide variety of factors. While contagious and hereditary illness are common, many behavioural and psychological factors can impact overall physical well-being and various medical conditions. It addresses individual and population-level issues across four domains: clinical, public, community, and critical (social justice). This book provides comprehensive insights into the field of health psychology. It attempts to understand the multiple branches that fall under this discipline and explains how such concepts have practical applications. It deals with AI applications, psychology of immigration, spectroscopic assessment, developmental psychology, neuromuscular diseases, scientific procedures, clinical psychology, analytical psychology and cultural aspects. The main focus of this book is to develop an understanding of health and prevention of diseases. This book, with its detailed analyses and data, will prove immensely beneficial to professionals and students involved in this area at various levels. Through it, we attempt to further enlighten the readers about the new concepts in this field. Coherent flow of topics, student-friendly language and extensive use of examples make this book an invaluable source of knowledge.

Preface............................................................................................................v

Chapter 1 Functional Brain Imagery and Jungian Analytical Psychology:

An Interesting Dance?...............................................................................1

Abstract...................................................................................................1

1. Introduction............................................................................................2

2. Functional brain imaging methods...................................................3

3. The fMRI of complexes as elicited by the WAT.............................4

4. Implications for psychotherapy..........................................................9

5. QEEG findings in the WAT responses............................................10

6. Conclusion............................................................................................12

Acknowledgements.............................................................................12

Chapter 2 Virtual and Augmented Reality: New Frontiers for Clinical Psychology..................................................................................................15

Abstract.................................................................................................15

1. Introduction..........................................................................................15

2. What is cybertherapy?.......................................................................16

3. The key concepts of virtual and augmented reality for clinical

psychology............................................................................................23

4. The future of cybertherapy...............................................................30

5. Conclusion............................................................................................31

Acknowledgements.............................................................................33

Conflict of interest..............................................................................33

Abbreviations.......................................................................................33

Chapter 3 Innovations in Research and Development of Scientific Procedures

to Reach the Success and the Excellence by Means of Psychology

Applied to the High Performance........................................................40

Abstract.................................................................................................40

1. Introduction..........................................................................................41

2. Hypnosis/self-hypnosis......................................................................42

3. Biofeedback...........................................................................................50

4. EEG: brain recording..........................................................................52

5. Conclusions..........................................................................................61

Chapter 4 Neuromuscular Diseases in the Context of Psychology and

Educational Science ................................................................................64

1. Introduction ........................................................................................64

2. Health-related quality of life in the context of education ........66

3. Health-related quality of life in the context of education ........71

4. Conclusion ...........................................................................................78

5. Summary .............................................................................................80

Chapter 5 Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Assessment of Haemodynamic

Activation in the Cerebral Cortex – A Review in Developmental

Psychology and Child Psychiatry.........................................................88

1. Introduction..........................................................................................88

2. Techniques for assessment of brain function................................89

3. NIRS: Principles and methods in the assessment of the human

cerebral cortex......................................................................................90

4. Applications in developmental psychology .................................91

5. Applications in child psychiatry......................................................96

6. Conclusions..........................................................................................98

Chapter 6 The Psychology of Immigration, Relief or a Burden? Immigrant

Need and Use of Psychiatric Care ....................................................106

1. Introduction........................................................................................106

2. Immigration as relief .......................................................................108

3. Immigration as a burden.................................................................109

4. Understanding illness behaviour in a new culture...................111

5. Who should or could adapt within a new setting.....................116

6. Unreturnable asylum seekers ........................................................117

7. Work as a means of inclusion in the new society ...................118

8. Adaptation to copious social welfare systems............................120

Chapter 7 Ethical and Psychosocial Aspects of HIV/AIDS.............................126

1. Introduction ......................................................................................126

2. Clinical research .............................................................................128

3. Status of affected women, young girls and/or pregnant

women.................................................................................................139

4. Privacy and confidentiality, stigma and discrimination ........143

5. Role of different stakeholders in improving health care and

health information in HIV/AIDS patients....................................150

6. Conclusions .......................................................................................153

Chapter 8 Psychosocial and Cultural Aspects of Epilepsy..............................164

1. Introduction .....................................................................................164

2. Psychological effects of being epileptic .......................................165

3. The social effects of being epileptic .............................................166

4. Culture aspects of epilepsy ...........................................................167

5. Conclusion .......................................................................................173

Chapter 9 AI Applications in Psychology ..........................................................179

1. Introduction........................................................................................179

2. Information technology and psychology......................................180

3. Expert systems in psychology........................................................185

4. Social Information retrieval system...............................................187

5. Conclusions........................................................................................198

Citation......................................................................................................205

Index...........................................................................................................207

About Author

Victor Babiker pursued his Ph.D. in Clinical Health Psychology from Scientific Research University, Charlotte. He serves as a Senior Research Associate at Technical Institute, Alberta. His current researches include applied behavior analysis and health communication. Babiker consistently shares his knowledge with the researcher fraternity by organizing lectures and conferences around the globe. He has authored and edited several texts, which include articles, technical papers and book chapters, in the fields of clinical psychology, public psychology and community psychology.