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Health and Behavior: The Interplay of Biological, Behavioral, and Societal Influences
: :Over the past two decades, investigators have learned more about the links between health and behavior. Health and Behavior reviews our improved understanding of the complex interplay among biological, psychological, and social influences and explores findings suggested by recent research. The book covers three main areas: * What do biological, behavioral, and social sciences contribute to our understanding of health-including cardiovascular, immune system and brain functioning, behaviors that influence health, the role of social networks and socioeconomic status, and more. * What can we learn from applied research on interventions to improve ...
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Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search For Meaning
: :The author of Goddesses in Everywoman describes how serious illness can actually be a soul-transforming experience that eliminates neurosis and leads to the essential truths of life. 60,000 first printing. Tour.
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Emotions, Stress, and Health
: :In this volume, Zautra illustrates how experience with difficult or stressful emotional situations can, contrary to popular belief, be beneficial; for example, our ability to adapt to stress can be improved by experiencing difficult moments of emotional intensity. Zautra masterfully integrates research and theory on emotion and stress, identifying a unique and important role for stressful life events. He offers new insights into how stress and emotions can influence health and illness and demonstrates the wide applicability of this perspective across domains of love and marriage, work, aging, and community. By reviewing ...
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The Body Silent
: :Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately take him on an odyssey stranger than any field trip to the Amazon: a tumor of the spinal cord that progressed slowly and irreversibly into quadriplegia. In this gripping account, Murphy explores society's fears, myths, and misunderstandings about disability, and the damage they inflict. He reports how paralysis -- like all disabilities -- assaults people's identity, social standing, and ties with others, while at the same time making ...
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Behavior and Medicine
from: Mosby-Year Book
: :A uniquely beautiful textbook, with a uniquely practical orientation. One of the most popular and highly regarded behavioral science and psychology textbooks, the new, third edition of this well-established resource has been fully updated and revised in response to changes in the health care delivery system and the increased importance of psychology and behavioral science in medical training and practice. Competitively priced compared to many, much less comprehensive, question-and-answer-type course review works, the main features of Danny Wedding's Behavior & Medicine are its: - Practical, clinical emphasis, focusing on the behavioral aspects ...
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Followership: A Practical Guide to Aligning Leaders and Followers
: :Having an impressive title does not make someone a leader. True leaders inspire commitment from executives, managers, physicians, and staff. Without this commitment, you have nothing but a title. What separates a true leader from a titled executive? Leaders have followers. This book takes an honest and refreshing look at what it takes build 'followership' in today's complicated healthcare environment. Learn how to build an organizational culture that eases tensions and motivates staff to meet growing demands. This book will help you assess your leadership skills and the culture of your organization. ...
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Behavioral Sciences: PreTest Self-Assessment and Review
: :Gives medical students 500 questions, answers, and explanations to prepare for the behavioral science section of the USMLE Step 1. The new edition includes many new questions in the two-step clinical format to simulate the USMLE Step 1.
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The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch
: :Explores the extraordinary technique that put authentic healing into the hands of health care providers. • Examines the relationship between expanded levels of consciousness and the healing process. • Contains healing exercises for treating common ailments such as stomachaches and back pain, and practices for managing chronic stress. • Based on transcribed audiotapes of lectures by medical intuitive Dora Kunz (1904-1999), with commentary by Dolores Krieger. Since 1972 Therapeutic Touch has been taught in hospitals and at universities to tens of thousands of health care professionals. The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch ...
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Patient or Pretender: Inside the Strange World of Factitious Disorders
: :A series of case studies are presented which explore the psychological reasons why a patient fakes illness. The aim of the volume is to provide clinical practitioners and other health care professionals with guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of those with factitious disorders.
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The AIDS Book: Creating A Positive Approach
: :Understand the metaphysical causation of aids, and how to create a positive approach to any life-threatening illness.
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