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HPRS 1202 Health and Wellness Promotion (SE)

This guide supports HPRS 1202, which provides an overview of wellness theory and its application throughout the life span.

Below are some recommended ebooks that cover the topics in your course. Please see the How to Search for Ebooks box below to learn how to search for ebooks for your class project. 

Recommended Ebooks

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Handbook of Life Course Health Development

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health.

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Hardwired: How Our Instincts to Be Healthy Are Making Us Sick

With the proliferation of social media, inaccurate or misleading health articles and videos move faster through social media networks than reputable ones. This book is about modern health - or lack of it. The authors make two key arguments: that our deteriorating wellness is rapidly becoming a health emergency, and that these trends are rooted in the way our highly evolved brains and bodies deal with modern social change.

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Health and Wellness: Life and Career Skills Series

This series is designed for high school students who are developing the skills needed to transition successfully in the real world, whether in the context of college, the workplace, or their personal lives.

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Health Psychology

This resource is licensed to be read by three users at a time. This textbook examines five systems that affect individual health outcomes: individual, family/community, social/physical environment, healthcare systems, and health policy.

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How to Facilitate Lifestyle Change: Applying Group Education in Healthcare

Concise, accessible, and easy-to-read, this new title in the popular How To series is designed to support nutritionists, dietitians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to facilitate healthy lifestyle change through group education.

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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Complete Food and Nutrition Guide, 5th Ed

This resource is licensed to be read by one user at a time. This book serves as an indispensable nutrition and healthy eating guide for the public, as well as an important reference for health care professionals. 

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Nutrition and Disease : Prevention and Therapy

This book aims to review the complicated interaction between dietary intake and prevention, development, and treatment of disease. 

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The Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Food Labels

Consumers will benefit from the Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Food Labels, which explains the often confusing (and sometimes contradictory) language and measurements on food labels and in food marketing, and provides information in a more reader-friendly way than an FDA report can.

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Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple

This resource is licensed to by read by one user at a time. This book provides an overview of the science of exercise and how to maximize individual results. 

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The Gale Encyclopedia of Fitness

This second edition is a comprehensive and easy-to-use reference source with a collection of fitness topics ranging from sports, body systems, the body's reaction to physical fitness, and exercise activities to diseases and conditions, treatments, fitness tests, and other health-related issues pertaining to exercise and fitness.

How to Search for Ebooks

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Follow these steps to search for ebooks: 

  1. Go to the TCC Library homepage
  2. Use the TCC Catalog and select Ebooks
  3. Enter search keywords like the subject you're interested in, title, author, etc.

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4. Once you find the book you need, click Available Online to open it.