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Compliance: The Dilemma of the Chronically Ill
from: Springer
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Psychological Approach to the Management of Pain
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Understanding Human Behavior in Health and Illness
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Distinguishing Psychological From Organic Disorders: Screening for Psychological Masquerade
: :Psychological symptoms are not always best explained psychologically! This volume is designed to help clinicians assess medical conditions which are 'masquerading' as psychological ones. The author provides essential clues to our understanding of organic disease and shows us how to look for these clues during the clinical interview process. Common clinical pitfalls, simple assessment tests, and over 100 case studies are included. An annotated bibliography to this practical guide make this an essential resource for mental health practitioners. New to this edition: obsessive / compulsive disorders; the 'love delusion'; postictal psychosis; an ...
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Handbook of Psychology and Health. Volume 4: Social Psychological Aspects of Health (Handbook of psychology and health)
from: Lawrence Erlbaum
: :Psychological symptoms are not always best explained psychologically! This volume is designed to help clinicians assess medical conditions which are 'masquerading' as psychological ones. The author provides essential clues to our understanding of organic disease and shows us how to look for these clues during the clinical interview process. Common clinical pitfalls, simple assessment tests, and over 100 case studies are included. An annotated bibliography to this practical guide make this an essential resource for mental health practitioners. New to this edition: obsessive / compulsive disorders; the 'love delusion'; postictal psychosis; an ...
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Infertility and Involuntary Childlessness: Helping Couples Cope (Norton Professional Books)
: :Infertility, which affects millions of people, is a medical, psychological and social problem. This book offers guidance for therapists and doctors working with couples trying - and failing - to have a baby. It shows how to counsel couples during this stressful time, guide them in making decisions about medical choices and help them resolve their grief and decide whether to keep trying for a baby, adopt or remain childless. The author looks at the impact of infertility on the couple, extended family and work and friendship systems.
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Starving Women: A Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa
: :Infertility, which affects millions of people, is a medical, psychological and social problem. This book offers guidance for therapists and doctors working with couples trying - and failing - to have a baby. It shows how to counsel couples during this stressful time, guide them in making decisions about medical choices and help them resolve their grief and decide whether to keep trying for a baby, adopt or remain childless. The author looks at the impact of infertility on the couple, extended family and work and friendship systems.
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Children's Hospital
: :Infertility, which affects millions of people, is a medical, psychological and social problem. This book offers guidance for therapists and doctors working with couples trying - and failing - to have a baby. It shows how to counsel couples during this stressful time, guide them in making decisions about medical choices and help them resolve their grief and decide whether to keep trying for a baby, adopt or remain childless. The author looks at the impact of infertility on the couple, extended family and work and friendship systems.
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Handbook of Health Behavior Research II: Provider Determinants
from: Springer
: :Volume 2 discusses the relationship between patient and caregiver in terms of structural and interactional determinants. The impact of provider characteristics on 'compliance' and 'adherence' is given especially noteworthy treatment. Each volume features extensive supplementary and integrative material prepared by the editor, the detailed index to the entire four-volume set, and a glossary of health behavior terminology.
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Health Psychology: A Discipline and a Profession (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De)
from: University Of Chicago Press
: :In 1976, a small group of psychologists urged that more research be done on aspects of health and health care outside the domain of mental health. Today, health psychology is one of the fastest growing divisions of the American Psychological Association; journals and textbooks in increasing numbers are another signal of rapid growth in this field.
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