Health Promotion

Textbooks

Summer 2008 Textbooks

Textbooks for the EDHL, some EDCI, and EDPE prefix courses can be found below. You are welcome to order your textbooks from the University Bookstore (540-231-5991 or www.bookstore.vt.edu)

TEXTBOOKS FOR HEALTH PROMOTION

EDHL 5304 – Principles of Community Health Education

Cottrell, RR. (2006). Principles and Foundations of Health Promotion and
Education.
Boston:Allyn and Bacon ISBN # 0-8053-7878-2

EDHL 5314 – Public Health Administration

Fallon, LF. (2005). Essentials of Public Health Management. Sudbury, MA:
Jones and Bartlett, Inc., ISBN # 0-7637-3153-6

Institute for the Future: Robert Woods Johnson Foundation (2003). Health and Health Care 2010. San Francisco, CA: Josey-Bass. ISBN # 0-7879-5974-x

EDHL 5604 – Program Development and Health Education

McKenzie, J.F., Neiger, B.L., & Smeltzer, J.L. (2005) Planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs: A primer, (4th.ed.) San Francisco, CA: Benjamin Cummings. ISBN # ISBN: 0-8053-6010-7

EDHL 5704 – Health of the Elderly

Haber, D. (2003). Health Promotion and Aging: Practical Applications for
Health Professionals.
Springer Publishing Co. ISBN # 0-8261-8462-6

EDHL 5734 - Health Behavior and Health Education

Glantz, K. (2002). Health Behavior and Health Education (3rd ed).
San Francisco: Josey-Bass ISBN # 0-7879-5715-1

EDCI 5784 – Graduate Seminar: Epidemiology of Substance Abuse

Goldberg, R. (2006) Drugs Across the Spectrum (5th ed). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co. ISBN # 0-495-01345-5

EDCI 5784 - Graduate Seminar: Environmental Health

Morgan, MT (2003). Environmental Health. Belmont, CA: Thompson
ISBN # 0-534-51717-X

EDCI 5784 – Graduate Seminar: Evaluation of Health Promotion Programs

Grembowski, D. (2001). Practice of Health Program Evaluation.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications ISBN # 0-7619-1846-9

EDPE CLASSES (DR STRATTON'S CLASSES)

EDPE 5194 - Motor Skill Learning

Schmidt, Richard A., and Wrisberg, Craig. (2008) Motor Learning & Performance: 4th Edition. Human Kinetics, Pub., ISBN 0-7360-6964-X

EDPE 5254 - Behavioral Aspects of Exercise and Sport

Cox, Richard, (2007) Sport Psychology: Concepts & Applications, 6th Ed., W. C. Brown/McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-0729-7295-5

EDPE 5784 - Grad Seminar: Mental Skills Training

To students, check the syllabus first there are no required books but these three have been ordered and are on the course resource list:

T. Orlick (2008) In Pursuit of Excellence 4th Ed. Human Kinetics, ISBN # 0736067574

S. Halden-Brown (2003) Mistakes Worth Making. Human Kinetics, ISBN # 0736041710

S. Jackson & M. Csikszentmihayli (1999) Flow in Sports. Human Kinetics, ISBN # 0880118768

EDPE 5964 - Field Study: Applied Sport Psychology - No Text Book