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Theater of Disorder: Patients, Doctors, and the Construction of Illness
: :There are certain phenomena, such as hypnosis, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, recovered memory syndrome, claims of satanic ritual abuse, alien abduction syndrome, and culture-specific disorders that, although common, are difficult to explain completely. The purpose of this volume is to apply a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to provide a different explanation for them. Wenegrat argues that they are socially constructed illness roles or purposive behavior patterns into which patients fall while receiving either unintentional or intentional cues during interactions with caretakers and authority figures. The ...
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Understanding Human Behavior: A Guide For Health Care Providers
: :Understanding Human Behavior: A Guide for Health Care Providers, 6E is a unique book designed to present basic psychological concepts in a format appropriate for all allied health learners. The book provides numerous examples and activities that encourage learners to study their own behavior in light of new teachings with a vocabulary level that is appropriate for students enrolled in health-related programs. It can be used as the primary resource in a course on human relations/personal growth and as a supplementary book for topics presented within other courses such as ...
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The Psychology of Illness: In Sickness and in Health
: :The Psychology of Illness: In Sickness and In Health serves as a guide for therapists working with chronically ill patients. It weaves together theory, clinical experience, case examples, and up-to-date research. The bookÂs flexible approach involves several modalities, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, pharmacological, and family treatments. This book teaches that therapists can help patients cope not only with the illness, but also with the complex relationships they will have with their physicians and the medical establishment. Dr. DrussÂs unique book is divided into two sections. The first section, ÂSickness, focuses on ...
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Psychology of Voice Disorders
: :Presents some fascinating use of patients' drawings to facilitate psychological diagnosis and therapy. Those singers and teachers who have honestly subscribed to an open-minded and multi-disciplinary approach to their students will find that this book will open their minds still further.
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Physical Activity and Behavioral Medicine (Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology)
: :What type, amount, and intensity of physical activity is good for your health? How much exercise is too much? Can avoiding physical activity make you ill or lead to premature death? This crisply written and thought-provoking book examines such issues to give readers the first integrated and consolidated introduction to what is known about the impact of physical activity on health. By selectively highlighting some of the best and most important research in physical activity, the authors synthesize studies and theory from several disciplines. They use a behavioral-epidemiology framework to ...
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Understanding Childhood Eczema
: :As many parents know, eczema amongst children can be a difficult, painful and frustrating condition to cope with for the parent and the child. It frequently causes irritable behaviour in the child and sleep disruption. This can result in parenting difficulties, and may even place the child at increased risk of behavioural and emotional problems. In addition to covering the medical aspects of the condition, Understanding Childhood Eczema focuses on the psychological consequences and how they can be managed, as well as psychological factors in treatment. Revealing the advantages and ...
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Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
: :Why do physicians who’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? Sander L. Gilman explores such questions in Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. Following these themes through an impressive range of historical moments and players, Gilman traces how aesthetic alterations of the body have been used to “cure” dissatisfied states of mind. In ...
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Chronic Illness and the Quality of Life
: :Why do physicians who’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? Sander L. Gilman explores such questions in Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. Following these themes through an impressive range of historical moments and players, Gilman traces how aesthetic alterations of the body have been used to “cure” dissatisfied states of mind. In ...
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Behavioral Medicine Made Ridiculously Simple (MedMaster Series)
: :Montana State University. Text for medical students and residents on practicing medicine humanely and with the appropriate amount of humor and sensitivity to patients' needs. Considers clinical problems that commonly require behavioral intervention and the developmental stages of the human lifespan. Softcover.
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Imagery and Disease: Image-Ca, Image-Sp, Image-Db : A Diagnostic Tool for Behavioral Medicine
: :Montana State University. Text for medical students and residents on practicing medicine humanely and with the appropriate amount of humor and sensitivity to patients' needs. Considers clinical problems that commonly require behavioral intervention and the developmental stages of the human lifespan. Softcover.
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